Production Post 1

This post helped me start my paper and get some momentum in completing the project. It was good to produce some actual content from my outline. 

Outline Item 

• An opening section

-        In this section of my paper I plan to grab the reader emotionally. I want to point out some terrorist attacks that have happened in the past and point out that they could have been prevented if the NSA was able to collect certain data. 

Adaption of Outline Item

It’s a cool fall morning in New York City. People are walking to work in between the towering buildings above them. Birds are chirping and flying in between trees. A kid runs past the commuters to catch up to his mother who has gotten ahead of him after a squirrel caught his attention. The day in September 11, 2001. Everything seemed normal that day, until American Airlines Flight 11 struck the northern World Trade Center tower. On that day, everything about America changed. On that day, the American citizen started to think differently about the world. We were no longer the invincible country that everyone feared. We were no longer the country that every other country in the world strived to be like. We were not the country that we used to be.

               After that fateful morning, the government made a change. They decided to fight back against those that the leaders of our nation felt attacked us. Our government wanted to stand up for everything that our country believed in and to send a message that we were still the powerhouse that we used to be. The American people, for the most part, were supportive of this move toward war and believed it would be a swift victory for the mighty United States of America against the lowly country of Iraq. This is not what happened. It took eight years for the war to be officially over in Iraq.

During these years, the government planned to stop the threat of any attacks similar to the most tragic day in American history, September 11, 2001. The Patriot Act, created in response to the attacks on September 11, was enacted 45 days following the attacks on October 26. Over the course of nearly 15 years, there have been many controversies surrounding this act and the Agency that enforces it the most, the National Security Agency. Many Americans believe that the Patriot Act still applies to America today is necessary to keep themselves and their fellow citizens safe throughout their daily lives. Many people do not support the act and believe that it should not exist because it impedes on their fourth amendment rights. While Americans have historically enjoyed full freedom of privacy protected by the fourth amendment, modern struggles require Americans to relinquish some of this right to privacy in order to ensure the security of the country. There is a balance to strike, however, between security and this principle right in the United States of America.