Directions: Read through all of your 5 resources and pick the four main topics/claims

that you want to discuss in your essay. Write those topics in the main topic boxes
numbered 1-4. Then pull details (ethos, pathos, logos) for each of your paragraphs.
Remember only include pertinent information to your topic.

Thesis statement generator

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Essay topic: 9/11

Thesis: While, 9/11 was orchestrated by the U.S

government to justify an invasion of Iraq and
afghanistan. because witnesses describe hearing
explosions in the lower parts of the tower. U.S air
defense was ordered to stand down, and the attack
allowed for more government control.

Main topics for each paragraph

Topic 1 Topic 2 Topic 3 Topic 4
The buildings were The patriot act War in the middle east No military interventions
demolished with
explosives

Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 Paragraph 4

Claim 1 Claim 2 Claim 3 Claim 4
Explosions in the lower 9/11 was an excuse to pass 9/11 was used as an There was no military
parts of the buildings are the patriot act allowing the excuse to invade intervention on 9/11 or
the reason for their government to spy on Afghanistan and Iraq. planes shot down
collapse. americans.

Evidence 1 Evidence 1 Evidence 1 Evidence 1

Assistant fire On May 26, 2011, Senator
commissioner Stephen Ron Wyden, said, "I want to
Gregory claimed he saw deliver a warning … when
flashes at the lower level the American people find out
of the building. how their government has
secretly interpreted the
Patriot Act, they will be
stunned and they will be
angry."
Even though Al-Qaeda is On 9/11 a lot of military
based in Afghanistan, The personnel were doing
19 hijackers are not military exercises. Some
Afghan nationals. An speculate they were
Egyptian led the group purposely distracted to
and fifteen of them were allow the attack to
from Saudi arabia. happen.
Evidence 2 Evidence 2
William Rodriguez, a Between 2003 and 2005, the
maintenance worker who FBI made 53 reported
was at the north tower, criminal referrals to
claimed hearing huge prosecutors as a result of
explosions when he was in 143,074 national security
the sub basement. letters. Out of the 53 criminal
referrals zero were related to
terrosism.
Evidence 2
The US needed an
excuse to invade
Afghanistan because of
the amount of oil in the
region.
Evidence 2
NORAD did not launch
fighters even when it
became apparent that
multiple suicude hijacking
had taken place.

Evidence 3 Evidence 3 Evidence 3 Evidence 3

Steven E. Jones claims The patriot act allows federal The US invaded Iraq two Air force jets were taking
the fire in the buildings law enforcement to delay years later under the off from bases without
caused by jet fuel could notice of when they conduct pretext of weapons of weapons. If they would
only reach 1000 degrees secret searches of homes. Of mass destruction in the intercept the jets they
celsius. That does not 3,970 sneak and peeks in country. Many believe it needed weapons and one
produce enough heat to 2010 only 1% were related to was an excuse to have a had them. Some believe
melt steel. Steel melts at terrorism. foothold for its military in they might not have even
1550-1990 degrees the region. intercepted the flights.
celsius.