February 22nd, 2020 
In your first essay you will answer the following question: How did the Twin Towers and Building 7 come down at free-fall speed? The answer is of course controversial. Your answer will necessarily be an argument. But frame it less as provocation than persuasion. Present your case as if you were a lawyer in court wanting to keep the jury with you. Do not make them afraid or put them on the defensive. Begin with what we all agree on. Lead them by degrees to see the event as you do.
So in your first paragraph revisit the day, honor its victims, and present what the world witnessed. Represent the tragedy in factual detail: the buildings, the planes, the collapses, and the number of victims. Bring the event into sharp focus. End your first paragraph with your modestly presented claim about how the buildings came down so fast. Do not merely assert. Give us a strong reason to believe you, a reason your essay will prove.
In your second paragraph, give us background: stipulate in greater detail the height of the buildings, their construction and structure, the times of the crashes, of the collapses, and of associated events. And consider the physical aftermath at the World Trade Centerthe pulverized debris, the molten metal.
Then, in the body of your essay, make your case. Set up the body of your essaythe third paragraph onto be sections under a series of headings. Compose those headings to be a sequence that progresses toward understanding. Make each heading the signpost to a substantive discussion. Each heading represents your title to a sub-story of the big story. Compose the headings to be like chapter titles. Their sequence, however, will be primarily logical rather than chronological. Think of the headings as points you need to make to convince the jury. Play with the sequence until it seems persuasive. Make each section necessary and substantive.
Close by bringing us into the present. What is the relevance of September 11, 2001, now, more than eighteen years on? Why does that date matter? How is it still in the news, still in our lives? Do not merely recap and do not use the phrase In conclusion Instead, give us something new and factual that makes clear the relevance now of what you have proved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddz2mw2vaEg…watch video to do the essay…also you can use articles to help…please cite work and need work cited page. 12 font double space
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