How To Write A Reaction Paper About 9/11

I have been fortunate enough to have never experienced a disaster, but I would like to think I would react in a calm and effective manner if I ever did. I hope I never get the chance to find out. I loved how the documentary didn’t just address normal (for lack of a better word) disasters, such as housefires, tornados, hurricanes, and earthquakes, but mainly focuses on terrorist or human-caused disasters. There were several segments that really sparked my interest. The first thing that struck me during the documentary was how the people involved in 9/11 didn’t responded the way they were expected to respond to a plane hitting the tower. They responded as if it were a house fire. It really exemplified how people have ordinary reactions to extraordinary events. During the 9/11 segment of the documentary is talked about the stages of survival, which I found interesting because I can relate to it on a small scale. Things don’t always go as planned, and sometimes they really don’t. I can recall several times in the past when something has gone awry and I’ve gone through a small-scale version of the stages of survival myself. We saw the first 2 stages during the Witness: Tornado Swarm 2011 documentary. We saw the “denial” or people trying to make the situation make sense, like the guy freaking out about

It’s so important to be prepared and so many people don’t even try. I liked how they put disasters into perspective. People always hear the statistic and don’t think about how many people are being affected by that statistic. We hear “one in a million chance” but we don’t stop to think about the fact that there’s 7.6 billion people on the planet. I also appreciated the advice to teach about preparedness and not the hazards. People can write off the hazards by thinking it won’t happen to them, but it’s hard to just disregard the rationality of preparedness. How can you argue for not having a flashlight available and