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Fear And Loathing In The Battle Of The World Trade Center

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You read an article and a short story for this week’s reading. Which did you like better? This week’s assignment had me conflicted, I want to say I liked the short story better, the colorful narrative and explosive details started out to be more interesting than the statistic type of data, listing the postponed sporting events. However, as the short story progressed, I became aware of facts that were in error, and the author used a qualifier to discount his responsibility to accuracy. Thompson wrote “The Battle of the World Trade Center lasted about 99 minutes and cost 20,000 lives in two hours (according to unofficial estimates as of midnight Tuesday)” (p.2). We know this number of lives lost to be grossly exaggerated, with the accurate number to be 2977 people, that is the 2,753 people at the World Trade Towers, including the 300 firemen, the 40 people on United Airlines Flight 93, and the 184 people at the Pentagon (Karimi & Hanna, 2015). Thompson then went on to attack America’s missile defense system, and finally tossing childish insults at the President of the Untied States, George Bush. America …show more content…

This story takes me down a road of genuine anger and futility, I can’t get angry at anyone, since there are no villains named, only guesses as to who it may be, with Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, or a combination of the three being listed (Thompson, 2009). I want to attack the bad guys, make them suffer for being terrorists, this story has done what it was written for, incited me into an unrelenting rage, making me want to get involved. In contrast, the article about the sporting events called off or postponed, had me dreading reading the next event cancelled, the monotonous way it was written had me beyond bored, the only reason I finished it was due to the reading

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