Comparison/Contrast Essay Pre and Post 9-11 How drastically has our world changed following the tragic events that our country faced on September 11th.? If you believe the pundits that espouse their timely, invaluable opinions twenty-four hours a day on cable news then you would have be able to come to no other conclusion than that the world will never be the same. The news anchors will tell you nightly that not one of us will ever be safe again. Somehow any slight deviance from normal day to day activities is the direct or indirect result of the dreaded ?9-11?. If there is a car accident, the shady character driving the offending vehicle is silently suspected of being an agent of terror. When snarled traffic keeps you from getting to work on time, couldn?t that just be the work of radical fundamentalists trying to cripple our evil capitalist system? Or maybe something even more frightening is afoot.
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English: Frame grab from the Osama bin Laden video...It almost seems sacrilegious to say but, maybe the world post 9-11 is not so different from the one we lived in pre 9-11.
In the past year anything and everything was found to have a link to the September 11 attacks, no matter how tenuous. When Major League Baseball threatened a work stoppage, it was no surprise. For decades ownership and the players have had countless disagreements and numerous stoppages and strikes. However, this time millionaire players and billionaire owners alike were lambasted for their audacity to halt the national pastime in the aftermath of 9-11. How dare employees and employers disagree over compensation during such a trying time? Then when the strike was averted it was assumed that post 9-11 sentiments played an integral role in the decision. The main factor was more likely, as it always is and will be, cold...