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1. Put yourself in place of one of the boys who escaped the crash but was forced to watch "helplessly as Rob died". What is going through your head? How do you feel physically and mentally ?How do you think that you will feel tomorrow?

1. If I were forced to watched helplessly as Rob died, I would feel really bad and mad. I would feel depressed, and very upset. I would feel horrible the next day because I would think that there was a way that I could have saved Rob. Also, I'd feel like people would be mad at me. I'd think that it was my fault that he died.

2. When you hear or read of a car accident that involved teenagers, what do you tend to assume was the cause of the accident? What about if you hear about an accident involving the elderly? Explain your answers.

If I read or heard about a car accident involving teenagers I would think it is because of drinking alcohol or texting while driving. I think this is because many of the car accidents involving teenagers that I hear about are because of those two reasons. If i heard about a car accident involving the elderly, I would think it is because of poor driving. I think that because a lot of the accidents with the elderly that I hear about is because they would make simple driving mistakes.

4. In a paragraph rich with sensory detail, write about your own most frightening moment.

My most frightening moment was one time I had a lot of knifes open on a tray. Later I forgot that they were there, and I was laying on the ground and I was rocking the table back and fourth. Then the tray fell over and all of the knives fell on me. But luckily, none of them cut me besides I got a small cut on my arm. That was probably my most frightening moment.

5. Although many people did cry, Rhonda did not cry after the accident occured; she was angry. When or if a public tragedy occurs and it is not someone in your immediate family (9/11/01), how do you respond? Explain.

When a public tragedy occurs and it is not someone in my immediate family, I get kind of mad. I'm mad because I'm mad at the people who did it. I'm not sad because I don't know whoever got injured personally. Thats why I feel the way I do.

7. In his homework assignment, Gerald writes that he would rid the world of 3 things. What 3 things would you rid the world of? Stick to concrete items, and back up your choices with personal reasons why you are eliminating them.

If I could get rid of three things it would be rain, computer errors, and traffic. I would get rid of rain because I like to go outside and you can't really do anything outside if it's raining. Computer errors because it's really irritating when nothing is loading. Traffic because it's really annoying when you're trying to get somewhere but you have to wait in traffic for a long time. Those are the three things that I would get rid of and why.

10. Andy mentions that some kids at school haven't looked him in the face since the acident;one even taped a mean note to is locker. How would you treat Andy now? Elaborate.

I would treat Andy not much different. I wouldn't because there would be tons of stories going on about what happened. Some may say the he did it. But nobody really knows what happened unless you were there. So I wouldn't really be mad or anything. That's how I would treat him and why.