Students must respond to the two pieces of literature. I have picked an article and a poem with a similar theme. You are asked to specifically give an accurate recurring theme in the form of a thesis statement. (Theme is the meaning, moral or message about life or human nature that is communicated by a literary work. In many cases readers must infer what the theme is to examine the lesson learned by the character and to apply it to all people.) (Recurring theme must be the same theme but it must be present in to different works)
If your response does not have a thesis statement, your response will receive no credit. Students must give an accurate example from The Police Investigate Times Square Blast that supports a recurring theme. Students must also give an accurate interpretation/explanation of how that example supports a recurring theme. Next students are asked to create an accurate example from 911 that supports a recurring theme. Students must also give an accurate interpretation/explanation of how that example supports a recurring theme.
After completing the above task students are then asked to write an essay. In this writing assignment, you will write a multi-paragraph essay response to two works. You will need to plan, write, and proof read your essay prior to turning it in to me during our next class meeting for credit.
Your writing will be scored on how well you:
Identify and analyze a recurring theme across a traditional and contemporary works
Demonstrate a thoughtful, comprehensive grasp of the texts
Accurately and coherently provide specific textual details and examples to support the thesis and main ideas
Use correct and varied sentence types
Use correct grammar, spelling and punctuation, and capitalization
Writing Task
Write a well-organized essay that identifies and analyzes a recurring them across the two works Police Investigate Times Square and the poem "911". Provide specific examples and details from both works to support your thesis.
This assignment is worth 150 points not late work will be accepted. It is due 3/6-3/11.
Police investigate Times Square blast By DEREK ROSE, Associated Press Writer
30 minutes ago
NEW YORK - A small bomb caused minor damage to an empty military recruiting station in Times Square early Thursday, shaking guests in hotel rooms high above "the crossroads of the world."
The blast, which happened around 3:45 a.m., left a gaping hole in the front window and shattered a glass door, twisting and blackening its metal frame. No one was hurt. But Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the device, though unsophisticated, could have caused "injury and even death."
A witness saw a person on a bicycle wearing a backpack and a hood and acting suspiciously, but no one saw the device being placed in front of the recruiting center, authorities said at a news conference.
"If it is something that's directed toward American troops then it's something that's taken very seriously and is pretty unfortunate," said Army Capt. Charlie Jaquillard, who is the commander of Army recruiting in Manhattan.
He said no one was inside the station, where the Marines, Air Force and Navy also recruit.
Witnesses staying at a Marriott hotel four blocks away said they could feel the building shake with the blast.
"I was up on the 44th floor and I could feel it. It was a big bang," said Darla Peck, 25, of Portland, Ore.
"It shook the building. I thought it could have been thunder, but I looked down and there was a massive plume of smoke so I knew it was an explosion," said Terry Leighton, 48, of London, who was staying on the 21st floor of the Marriott.
The military's 1,600 recruiting stations nationwide were alerted to the New York incident and advised to use extra caution, said Douglas Smith, spokesman for the Army recruiting command.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said no official higher state of alert had been issued. "We do get occasional vandals at our recruiting stations," Whitman said. "It's unfortunate but it happens from time to time."
New York recruiters will work out of their Union Square office for now, he said.
Members of the police department's bomb squad and fire officials gathered outside the station in the early morning darkness, and police cars and yellow tape blocked drivers — most of them behind the wheels of taxicabs — from entering one of the world's busiest crossroads. Police began allowing some traffic through around the start of rush hour.
Authorities were still trying to determine exactly what kind of device was used. When investigators went through the evidence, they found a metal ammunition box that is believed to have contained the explosive. It was being sent for testing. Kelly said the box was readily available in Army-Navy surplus stores.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the act "insults every one of our brave men and women in uniform stationed around the world."
"Whoever the coward was that committed this disgraceful act on our city will be found and prosecuted to the full extent of the law," said Bloomberg. "We will not tolerate such attacks."
Though subway cars passed through the Times Square station without stopping in the early hours of the investigation, normal service was soon restored, with some delays.
The recruiting station, located on a traffic island surrounded by Broadway theaters and chain restaurants, has occasionally been the site of anti-war demonstrations, ranging from silent vigils to loud rallies.
In October 2005, a group of activists who call themselves the Granny Peace Brigade rallied there against the Iraq war. Eighteen activists, most of them grandmothers with several in their 80s and 90s, were later acquitted of disorderly conduct.
The recruiting station was renovated in 1999 to better fit into the flashy ambiance of Times Square, using neon tubing to give the glass and steel office a patriotic American flag motif. For a half century, the station was the armed forces' busiest recruiting center. It has set national records for enlistment, averaging about 10,000 volunteers a year.
Police said it was too early to say if the blast may have been related to two other minor explosions in the city.
In October, two small explosive devices were tossed over a fence at the Mexican consulate, shattering three windows but causing no injuries. No threats had been made against the consulate, and no one took responsibility for the explosion, police said.
At the time, police said they were investigating whether it was connected to a similar incident at the British consulate on May 5, 2005.
In that incident, the explosions took place in the early morning hours, when Britons were going to the polls in an election that returned Prime Minister Tony Blair to power.
In both cases, the instruments were fake grenades sometimes sold as novelty items. They were packed with black powder and detonated with fuses, but incapable of causing serious harm, police said.
911
by Ken Adams aka Dudley Appleton
i close my eyes doomed to ingest
all the paper, all the dust
all your melted steel plunging to earth
i hear the sirens, taste the cement
sucking to my lungs your powdery masts
running in suit and tie
untrained legs no match for the colossus of hail
devouring lampposts, shelling windows
reviving with shards cries of Armageddon
i feel your rumble razor past
dust and documents lashing my breath
with the ghosts of Pearl Harbor
phantoms on deck, choking
jumping
like surreal cremate sprouting from your neck
cashing in jet fuel for waterless sea
i run past the weeping, hands to wetted heads
as pillar two sinks to its death
extracting in its molt the last of morning sun
impaling forever yesterday's assurances
as i close my eyes and tumbleweed
down the sidewalks of Nagasaki
replaying newsreels shamelessly displayed
©2002, Ken Adams aka Dudley Appleton
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