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Question 1: How was your topic affected by 9/11? Post 9/11 survivors turned from average Americans into victims of the attack, even though they weren't in the World Trade Center at the time, they still suffer some of the consequences of the people who were. Witnesses of the devastation relive it everyday just as somebody who experienced it all first hand. For example. "In the safety of her therapist's office... Dr. Margaret Dessau made a tape reliving what it was like to look out her living room window after she heard the boom of a hijacked plane eight blocks away" (Anemona Hartocollis, 1). This fateful day is long from being forgotten in the minds of the people who witnessed it, and must work past it everyday.

Thousands." //New York Times// 9 Aug. 2011: D1. //NYTimes.com//. Web. 2 Sept. 2011. . ||
 * < Hartocollis, Anemona. "10 Years and a Diagnosis Later, 9/11 Demons Haunt

Question 2: Explain the scope (extent), intensity (depth), and nature of the affect of 9/11 on you topic. The trauma and psychological damage created on September 11th 10 years ago has permanently changed the life of the average American. The effects of 9/11 seem to go even further than those 3,000 who were killed, it spread to those who witnessed it or simply saw it live on television. "In interviews over the last several months, Dr. Dessau and others revealed...They cannot sleep. They replay the disaster in their minds, or in their nightmares" (Anemona Hartocollis, 2). The effects of 9/11 really did leave a lifelong scar on the American people.

Hartocollis, Anemona. "10 Years and a Diagnosis Later, 9/11 Demons Haunt Thousands." //New York Times// 9 Aug. 2011: D1. //NYTimes.com//. Web. 2 Sept. 2011. .

Question 3: How has debate on this issue made our country stronger? In the long run, 9/11 really hasn't made our country "stronger" but it has helped bring people together and made them more accepting. A very large amount of people have been effected psychologically by 9/11, making seeing counselours or psychiatrists nothing out of the ordinary to talk about. Before 9/11, if you mentioned you were visiting a psychologist, you would be looked at as if you were a crazy person, but now it's not that big of a deal- On the front page of the New York Times back in August, a woman named Dr Dessau spoke openly about how she went to a therapist after seeing the attacks happen on 9/11. Now people can relate and not have to hold back from sharing their problems with eachother because they know that they aren't the only ones going recovering from 9/11.

Hartocollis, Anemona. "10 Years and a Diagnosis Later, 9/11 Demons Haunt Thousands." //New York Times// 9 Aug. 2011: D1. //NYTimes.com//. Web. 2 Sept. 2011. .

RUBRIC for Responses
 * A strong topic sentence that clearly addresses and answers the question
 * Evidence that clearly supports the topic sentence
 * Correct use of internal citations and a properly formatted MLA citation for your articles (put this citation at the end of paragraph one)
 * Strict adherence to the Power Paragraph format
 * Mechanics are clean and do not detract from meaning