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Home Away From Home - College Essay

Home Away From Home

Bryant K. Williams
ENG 101
Wed, June 15, 2011
Essay 1 Rough Draft

Home Away From Home

American society has suffered a lot from tragedy. Tragedies like 9/11 Hurricane Katrina affected a lot of Americans in many different ways. We just didn't think these events would ever occur on our land. When these catastrophes took place they changed the way we handle certain things forever. We started the tightening of security, discrimination toward foreign nationals, and converting to using other types of fuels to curb our dependency on crude oil.
After 9/11 the security in America became very tight. In order for you to get on airplanes you were searched about three times and your luggage ...

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the rest - as sacrosanct"(481). In post 9/11 those same civil liberties that were so holy are no more. With the tightening of security Americans just don't feel the same.
Although American civil liberties are being hurt, our views of foreign nationals are deteriorating also. In America we have many races living amongst each other and if our views of other nationals become distorted then we Americans will no longer be standing united. Posner asserts that "in hindsight we know that interning Japanese Americans did not shorten World War II" (482). Well In saying that, I guess interning Arabic Americans wouldn't help shorten the Iraq war huh? The views of many Americans are becoming distorted because of 9/11 and other terrorist acts committed upon the United States of America.
So the government of the U.S. believes curbing our dependency on crude oil will not only make our country more energy efficient, but it will also cut funding to terrorist networks in some of the countries we ...

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Added: 4/8/2012 04:50:57 PM
Submitted By: gnius87
Category: American History
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