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If there is one day I dread most upon its arrival, it would be 9/11. Sure there was an immense amount of strength as a nation represented, following the terrorists attacks, but it also brought a great amount of grief and sorrow. I remember watching videos of innocent people jumping from windows in the twin towers hoping to escape the terror. These people believed there was no one to help and no one to help them. They lost hope. In “Remembering a Hero, 15 Years After 9/11” written by Peggy Noonan, published in The Wall Street Journal on September 11th 2016, Alison Crowther—Welles Crowther’s mom—recalls the courageous actions to save the lives of others, made by her son on this horrific day. Noonan utilizes pathos, ethos, asyndeton, and

September 11, 2001 is a day that shook the United States to its core. Millions of Americans felt the pain, the loss, and the anger that came with the attack on their nation. It was a day of mourning, and when it comes to days of mourning it is difficult putting one’s pain into words. However, Leonard Pitts Jr. was able to move past the emotion. He put into his words, not only his own feelings, but the feelings of an entire nation. Pitts conveys the emotion felt after the terror attacks in his essay “Sept. 12, 2001: We’ll go forward from this moment” through his mournful, angry, and righteous tone.

On the morning of September 11, 2001 millions of people were in shock the moment they received news that the World Trade Center was hit. The images from this horrific day flooded the media’s television screens and newspaper articles. Perhaps the most gruesome images shown were those of people jumping out of the building as they were collapsing. Tom Junod, a writer for the Esquire magazine, illustrates his perspective of this shocking incident through pictures, media coverage, and depicting people’s reactions in his article The Falling Man. Tom Junod’s article should be read by anyone who believes they have felt all there is to feel from the 9/11 attack. He will prove otherwise that there is indeed still much emotion to

The first article, “The Real New York Giants” by Rick Reilly is writing to readers that are worrying about the Giants’ next season. Only being six months after the 9/11 catastrophe, Reilley uses pathos to convey his message. He plays heavily on the reader’s emotions, his entire article about the lost heroes in the collapse of the twin towers with a tone of remorse and melancholy. First, he starts off with establishing the determination of the firemen. “We'll have a team if we only have 10 guys. We're playing,” was a quote from Mike Heffernan who had lost his brother on 9/11. Then he goes into vivid detail, describing the men who “ have a nasty case of the WTC cough” from “ inhaling dust, smoke, glass particles, asbestos and, indeed, microscopic remains of their fallen comrades.” He is referring to the many firemen that had to clean up the 9/11 wreckage, which took a lot longer than a couple of days.

Just like every Tuesday, Jane got up and ready for work. She got up at her usual time, about six AM, had a cup of coffee before she got her kids up and ready for school. As she’s helping her three year old daughter brush her teeth, Jane’s husband came in and said his final goodbyes to his wife. Sadly, neither Jane nor her husband knew that though. After about 7:45 AM Jane had her kids dropped off at school or preschool and was now on her way to work at The World Trade Center. September 11th use to be just a normal day in September until terrible events happened; these events changed America’s homeland security, started a war, and a memorial in New York.

In conclusion, both Quindlen and Sitton show both sides of tragic events. The imagery used in the articles sets a realistic tone, emphasizing the great emotion that came with both of these tragedies. Innocent lives were taken, four little girls and other countless blacks in the civil rights era and innocent lives in the collapse of the twin towers of 2011. Both changing a nation, shaping it and bringing the people together. Unbelievable events of sorrow still impact America to this day, as the nation honor the lives to the people that sacrificed for all we have, for America. In the articles, both authors use vivid imagery of American disasters and the loss of innocent lives to emphasize its effect on the people that rise as nation through the debris of hate.

The narrator through out most of the short story comes of as a pretty shallow character. Besides his stereotyping tendencies he comes of as callous and un-imaginative. He shows his lack of

New York City is and forever will be the place to be, we are literally the most visited state besides California, Florida, Texas, and, Nevada. But even after the tragedies New York is still able to look beautiful with theses nice big buildings, Theaters,and etc, even though that's true New York City can't really be the same again after 9/11. The readings of “The Colossus of New York” by Colson Whitehead and “The Dead Of September 11” by Toni Morrison they both speak on the event of 9/11 , but Morrison’s poem is more heartfelt and sad because she uses a more direct approach to get the audience's attention.

When you hear the word "lottery" you automatically think money or a prize, maybe even both. We don't assume it's anything bad, however in the story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson the author's use of text structure such as situational irony and foreshadwing help convey the theme that not everything is as it seems. To begin with, the author's use of text structure, situational irony, help convey the theme that not everything is at it seems. As stated in the story lines 25-26 "Soon men began to gather, surveying their own children, speaking of planting and rain, tractors and taxes". This shows that the author's text structure in these lines is ironic because these men are talking about everyday activites when they're actually murderes.

The author writes the story in a very interesting way. The way that there are only a few descriptions scattered about and that it focuses on dialogue is what allows us to figure out what the characters are speaking about and to find the intentions behind their words. The subject of this short narrative stands out boldly. Though it was written in

Marsh’s use of interviews and testimonies in Man on Wire makes the audience feel as if they are a part of the breathtaking adventures that Petit conquers. Petit introduces his unimaginable dream by explaining, “My story is a fairy tale.. One day those towers will be built. When they are they will be the highest in the world. Now I need to have that.” This reveals the beginning of Petit’s obsession with the twin towers. Showing the audience how important making this dream a reality is to him. To Petit, each building he strung his wire and roamed across was a form of criminal artistry. This beautiful crime was his way of conquering the world, one building at a time, as if they were made especially for him. The connection that Petit felt with all the buildings, that seemed to be made for him, was like a magnetic force that he could not deny. While going to walk across the twin towers Petit says

In the first paragraph, the setting is described as a beautiful sunny day that is during the summer. Everything is in bloom and the grass is green. Basically, during this first paragraph, the author describes it as a “perfect” day which shows how nice it is and making the reader not realize what the townspeople are actually going to do, which is the opposite of how this day really is.

London begins the story with "Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and exceedingly gray". A gloomy and dark atmosphere is created by the words "cold" and "gray", ultimately constructing the story's dismal atmosphere that will exist through to the end. In both

I enjoy when stories are on the shorter side because then there isn’t as much information and details to hang on to. I also found it really interesting that the main character has a very different outlook on life and death than most stories I’ve read. This makes the story good because it isn’t like others that have been written. The way the author starts off the story with the main character declaring that she did not care that no one she loved saw her die, to her remembering people she loved in her life, then to at the end the main character realizing her life was a joke, really shows character development in a different way than most. Instead of the main character changing her views on life at the end, she kept the same view just with more rationale behind it.

The thing interesting about this story is the plot. The author focused on the characters but at the sametime kept the plot fresh in our minds. Something I think only good author can do is keep you on your toes she nailed that aspect of the author’s craft. In this story the characters having a bit of a temper and sarcasm keeps the story humorous. I loved the author’s craft in this