Electronic Discourse Samples
Rob: Subject heading: World in terror/economy in despair I rose
this
morning the same as I always do grabbed my towel and headed down the hall
for a reviving shower. While in the shower I overheard some of the guys
talking about a plane crash and the world trade center. Then I raced down
the hall still dripping wet looking into rooms on the way down the hall. I
saw quick images of what looked to me like smoke stacks of an industrial
area. I opened up my room and turned straight to CNN and there stood one
gigantic blazing inferno. Then no sooner did I witness the second plane
crash into and through the other world trade center. I could only think,
is this a movie? These sort of things don't happen in the USA. Well, I
just hope we are all awake because this did happen. Now the question is
how will we proceed from here. We could easily tear apart the first person
we give blame to. But, would that be the right thing to do? I feel we must
give indisputable evidence and blame to the correct party and then put
these bastards to death. Send them to the fires of hell where they belong.
They have destroyed some and dented all of our major financial
institutions. Partially all of the worlds money comes through the world
trade center. Now after this bombing you have to wonder are we headed to
another great depression. If you ask me, you're darn right we are. The
sudden jump in the price of gas may only be a momentary thing or it could
just be the beginning of a trend.
Either way I think we should prepare for economic hardships. I suggest
prayer.
Cheers,
Rob
Sully: As I sit back and watch how easy it is to point fingers and
hate
others, it scares me. It scares me that at times of tragedy like this it
shows how some people can be so inhumane. I will never forget yesterday
for the rest of my life. I remember finding out about this great tragedy
yesterday at about 10 a.m. when I walked into the Union and watched the
t.v. with about 300 other onlooking students. The news didn't really have
a true affect on me until a girl walked right in front of me with her tray
of food. She looked at the t.v., immediately dropped her tray and started
crying. Shortly after that, she called her father on her cell phone and
asked why this was happening and if her mom was alright. Just from hearing
her conversation, I was guessing that her mother was working in one of
those buildings, my heart went out to her and I felt horrible, and I tried
putting myself in her situation and how I would have reacted as well. The
main thing that makes me mad is the unappreciation of life. Thanx, Sully
2nd Set of Student Responses Jim: Where
I am from gas is up to 5 dollars a
gallon already!! Thats nuts. But I will say this if we go to war I will
sign up without thinking twice...pending I am guaranteed some action.
Nobody bombs our country and gets away with it! I say kill them all. Who
saw those bastards on TV celebrating in the streets because of what
happened? I did and it pissed me off.
Heather: Jim, I'm not sure if we will go to war. We do have reason
to go to war (the estimated death toll is 10,000) but I'm not sure if our
economy can handle the expenses of a war. We are already in a recession
and we have to at least rebuild the pentagon and that will take a great
deal of money. It looks as though we may go to war over this because I
don't see any other alternative.
Paul: I think we should start blowing stuff up. We can't take this
terrorist attack sitting down. When the world trade centers were bombed a
few years ago we did not do much about it. Now they came back and bombed
us again, if we don't do anything about this then they will do it again. I
think we should send a full-out attack of the Middle East. We don't know
exactly who did it but we know they are somewhere from the Middle East. So
we should take all them out to be sure we get the people responsible for
the attack. Also it would probably lower the gas prices if we took over
the Middle East.
Jim: That may be the dumbest thing I have ever read! I'm all for
war, but until we know for sure who did it we CAN NOT just start blowing
shit up! America has a reputation that it must keep. We are supposed to be
the good guy. Good guys don't kill innocent people. If we look like the
bad guy that's not good in many ways and for many reasons.
Jim: They now believe that the planes were hijacked by
knife-wielding terrorists. Does no one have any balls any more? OK I can
see being afraid of a gun but honestly a knife? The people on those planes
by far out numbered the hijackers. So a few might get stabbed. Second, if
the people on the plane knew that they were going to die they should have
tried to crash the plane before it crashed into the World Trade Towers! At
least die heros instead of just people being hijacked.
Andrew: Talk about stupid e-mails! You honestly think that there is
always some Bruce Willis on every plane in America that is going to take
down a man hijacking a plane at knife point! Lets see what kind of balls
you have when you have a huge ass knife pointed at you. Those people on
the planes had to have been unbelievably scared. And you expect them to
forget all that and just attack the terrorist. That is the dumbest thing I
ever heard.
