My September 11, was spent in the sun on Florida, my family barely ever goes far for vacation but at that time we were in Florida. I remember I was the first one awake and I was talking on my mom's cellphone on the balcony. We were good acquaintances with the older couple that were residing next to us. I remember I saw them crying and it made me sad. I was in fourth grade and I had no idea what was happening. Until my friend on the cell phone told me. I woke up my family, my mom of course didn't know what was happening and she put on the news. My sister and I had no idea what those towers even were. We were scared and we didnt know wheather to go home or not, out plane was schedualed to leave the next day. We wanted to get home as soon as possible. We spent the rest of that day sitting by the pool, me just wondering if we were all going to be okay. That night we packed all of our belongings and my mom decided to rent a SUV and drive home.
I know today what happened of course. Thousands of people dieing in three airplane planned accidents, to attempt to ruin our nation. That's my Septmember 11, 2001 story.
Did the terrorists that sacraficed themselves live their life to the fullest? Grizzly Mandid in my opinion he lived to his life dream. Most of the suicide bombers die for thier religion and believe that they will have paradise in the afterlife. If their life on Earth sucks so bad, then it's their life dream to die for their their religion. Either way I think that whatever you are inspired to do with your life should only concern you and should cause no harm to anybody else.
In class the other day, we watched a movie called "Grizzly Man." The movie is about this man, Timothy Tredwell, who believes that bears are simply misunderstood and goes out every year to Alaska to live with them. On his thirteenth year however, a bear killed him and his girlfriend. Is it okay to say that of course he died, he got what he deserved? Think about someone that did something amazing with a story to tell, when you hear their story do you think they deserved to die, or do you think that what they did was admirable? The documentary interviewed with a pilot who made it quite clear that Timothy got what he deserved and did more harm then good when living with the bears. You could however, turn it around coming from a pilot and say that if he died in a horrible crash he deserved what he got.
I think that what happened to Timothy was unfortunate, he said he wouldn't mind if he was killed by a bear, but he hoped that never had to happen. I think that he lived to his full potential and life dream. Unlike Chris McCandless, he was older and it was a dream for him, the bears helped him stop drinking and he tried to help them not be hunted.
Is it okay to die from old age and be on your couch for the rest of your life, rather than die a bit younger doing something you love?
White Trash
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This image does not come from a post-Katrina Gulf-scape. No, it is instead
a shot from the annual "spring cleaning" event on the North Shore.
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