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9/11 Assignment

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Written Assignment Unit #5 3/6/2018 September 11 September 11th 2001 will always be remembered as a tragic day for the American people. It was a day where thousands of people died because others believed that the freedom that Americans had was sinful and wrong in the eyes of their G-d. But the American people would carry on from this tragedy and prosper for many years to come. One of the things we do not associate much with the attacks is sports. Sporting events were in fact affected by the attacks. Personally, it was not in my mind when I watched those towers fall. One of the things we do forget, is that sporting events bring happiness and comfort to a damaged country. Frank Linsky and Lena Williams wrote an article called Many Sporting Events Called off or Postposed which was about all the …show more content…

Coleman’s (2017) article reminded me that ‘As time wore on, however, a fear-fatigued nation began looking not for an escape—there was no escape—but a distraction” This should be pretty obvious. People don’t want to mourn, they want to enjoy life especially after seeing life be snubbed out so quickly. Linsky’s and William’s article gives a run down of those sporting events that were canceled because of the attacks whereas Bentley’s article tells us the events that occured after the attacks which lead to some much needed healing. WHere Linsky’s and William’s articles were dry and simple stating facts like (Linsky and Williams. 2011) “Last night, 15 major league baseball games, including the Chicago White Sox at the Yankees and the Mets against the Pirates in Pittsburgh, were postponed”, Bentley’s article gave us (Bentley 2017)“If Hollywood wrote this script—in which an emblem of NFL futility dubbed the Patriots makes a surreal run to their first championship in the months following a devastating American disaster”. Bentley gave us heart whereas Linsky and Williams gave us

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