...A memorial is a structure that honors a person or several people. When people think about the World Trade Center and the Twin Towers they think about September 11, 2001. There is much more history to the World Trade Center than this. Most people do not know that there was another attack on the towers before September 11. The 9/11 memorial honors all people lost in the terror attacks of 1993 and 2001. The World Trade Center consists of seven buildings. The main buildings were the Twin Towers. The Twin Towers construction started in 1966 and was completed in 1973 although tenants started to arrive in 1970. The antenna started being used in 1980. The North Tower was 1,730 feet high with a multi purpose antenna on top of it, the south tower was 1,362 feet high each with 110 floors. On a good day when you were...
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...Al-Qaeda is an international Islamist extremist terrorist network founded in the late 1980s by Osama bin Laden, who was killed in a U.S. military operation on May 1, 2011, and others who were involved in the war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Their aim has been to overthrow governments in the Middle East, and elsewhere in the Muslim world, which do not strictly enforce a religiously sanctioned political and social order. Attacks against the United States were intended to reduce American support for many of these governments; U.S. support was viewed by al-Qaeda as a major obstacle to creating a global order under Islamic authority. The hijacked Flight 11 was crashed into floors 93 to 99 of the North Tower at 8:46 a.m. The hijacked Flight 175 struck floors 77 to 85 of the South Tower17 minutes later at 9:03 a.m. When the towers were struck, between 16,400 and 18,000 people were in the WTC complex. Of those, the vast majority evacuated safely. As they rushed out, first responders rushed in trying to save those still trapped or injured. The fires from the impacts were intensified by the planes’ burning jet fuel. They weakened the steel support trusses, which attached each of the floors to the buildings’ exterior walls. Along with the initial damage to the buildings’ structural columns, this ultimately caused both towers to collapse. The five other buildings in the WTC complex were also destroyed because of damage sustained when the Twin Towers fell. The collapse of...
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...The year is 1965, a pivotal moment in US history. This year, the law reshaped the nation’s moral and legal landscape. On February 1, 1865, Abraham Lincoln signed the thirteenth amendment, effectively abolishing the legal practice of slavery in the United States. Just two months after came the union’s victory in the Civil War on April 9, 1865, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee signed their surrender at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. This war has devastated the south, despite draining the nation’s resources and heavily dividing the nation’s people; the war also concluded with the hope of unity and restoration for the future. President Lincoln’s victory came to a quick end, though. Just six days after the end of the war, an event...
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...Both President George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair delivered speeches after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon. It was during this time that the United States desperately needed support and direction in terms of how it was going to deal with the most detrimental terrorist attack in history. The attack took America by surprise, and many people were in constant fear for their lives and their country. Because of this state of trauma that the nation was in, both Bush and Blair took action and delivered emotional speeches that utilized several rhetorical techniques to adequately minimized public fears as well as persuaded America to take collective action. On September 20, 2001, President George Bush...
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...Michael Bloomberg’s address on religious tolerance in New York immediately began changing the views of his citizens on religious tolerance. Most people of New York were not comfortable with a muslim mosque being built just a few blocks away from the 9/11 memorial, because the attack was carried out by Muslim extremists. Bloomberg understands why people do not like the idea of a mosque being built, but he realizes that the Muslims of New York along with the majority of the Muslim population are very peaceful people and mean no harm. Bloomberg understand that the muslim community is no different than anyone else in New York and mean no harm. They are only trying to follow their peaceful religion, bringing no harm to others. Bloomberg uses the...
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...Luther King Jr. speech. For other uses, see I Have a Dream (disambiguation). Martin Luther King, Jr. delivering "I Have a Dream" at the 1963 Washington D.C. Civil Rights March. | "I Have a Dream"30-second sample from "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. | Problems listening to this file? See media help. | "I Have a Dream" is a public speech by American activist Martin Luther King, Jr.. It was delivered by King on August 28, 1963, in which he called for an end to racism in the United States. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the speech was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement.[1] Beginning with a reference to the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed millions of slaves in 1863,[2] King examines that: "one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free".[3] At the end of the speech, King departed from his prepared text for a partly improvised peroration on the theme of "I have a dream", possibly prompted by Mahalia Jackson's cry: "Tell them about the dream, Martin!"[4] In this part of the speech, which most excited the listeners and has now become the most famous, King described his dreams of freedom and equality arising from a land of slavery and hatred.[5] The speech was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address.[6] Contents [hide] * 1 Background * 1.1 Speech title and the...
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...and other public places where they weren’t allowed or where segregation was present. 1963 Martin Luther king Jr he began to lead many campaigns against discrimination using large gatherings to protest it. The campaigns where stop by police and their dogs. Has well in 1963 he organized a march in Washington DC called the March on Washington. They did this march so that Kennedy who had created a bill could get congress to pass the bill that he created. Many people like whites and black gathered on the base of Lincoln memorial. Where Martin Luther King Jr gave his famous speech called I have a dream. “I have a dream,” he declared, “that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.’ … I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” (Staff, 2011)The speech defined the moral basis of the civil right movements. By 1964 they had a victory in congress which they pass the civil rights bill that Kennedy had created. The civil rights act was created to stop racial discrimination in public places. In 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. "Voting is the foundation stone for political action," announced Dr. Martin Luther...
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...composition course or the assignment of a writing project in any class. Contributors:Ethan Sproat, Dana Lynn Driscoll, Allen Brizee Last Edited: 2012-04-27 10:46:02 Example 1: “I Have a Dream” Speech A lot of what was covered above may still seem abstract and complicated. To illustrate how diverse kinds of texts have their own rhetorical situations, consider the following examples. First, consider Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Because this speech is famous, it should be very easy to identify the basic elements of its particular rhetorical situation. Text The text in question is a 17-minute speech written and delivered by Dr. King. The basic medium of the text was an oral speech that was broadcast by both loudspeakers at the event and over radio and television. Dr. King drew on years of training as a minister and public speaker to deliver the speech. He also drew on his extensive education and the tumultuous history of racial prejudices and civil rights in the US. Audiences at the time either heard his speech in person or over radio or television broadcasts. Part of the speech near the end was improvised around the repeated phrase “I have a dream.” Author http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/625/08/ Page 1 of 9 Purdue OWL: The Rhetorical Situation 9/11/13 7:53 PM Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the most iconic leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. He was an African-American Baptist minister and prominent civil...
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...Martin Luther King I have a Dream On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" Speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King was one of the leading roles in the Civil Rights Movement. He was working on getting the black people the same rights as the white people; he wanted them to be equal, but ad that time there were still laws against the black people. That made it possible for white people to treat them the way they wanted to without it being “wrong”. Laws were separating them ad restaurants, hotels and schools. 1. Find some of the most powerful examples of Martin Luther King's use of imagery. The King uses imagery in his speech to make people understand and relate to his ideas. He especially uses time and landscape as imagery’s. By using images and symbols in the speech, he connects to more people then he would have with big rhetoric woods. He wants the African American people to face and push for more freedom: “Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood” (page 12, line 12-14). A valley symbolizes a low point there is difficult to escape from. The sun symbolizes a brighter future were all people are equal and the quicksand symbolizes a trap there is difficult to get out of. When he says “solid rock of brotherhood” it symbolizes a stable people there...
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...It felt like it was a normal day in New York ,September 11,2001.It was sunny people were going to work.It seemed like any other day.But Everything changed in less than a second.Four planes were hijacked by a group al-qaeda. Which killed almost more than one thousand people. One day in New York there was an airplane that crashed but it wasn’t a regular plane crash.It was a terrorist attack.First one plane crashed in New York at 8:46am. The plane was traveling from Boston to Los Angeles.That plane crashed in high North Tower. In the second attack it was in the same place but in the South tower of the World Trade Center.That attack happened at 9:03. That plane was from Boston to Los Angeles.These two attacks killed almost 2,996 and 6,000 people were hurt. The plane that crashed that tower was American...
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...Has 9/11 put an impact on you? Do you think the U.S government has lied about the events of 9/11? 9/11 is a day that can never be forgotten. What happened at 9/11 was that there was two hijacked plane crashing into the twin tower at New York. Also the pentagon was also attacked at the time. The citizens of the U.S are being lied to by the U.S government about the events of 9/11, because the U.S government has been hiding information about 9/11 and they will not released it to public. What happened during 9/11 has shocked the world. Those who were impacted by 9/11 has lost their loved ones and faith in the U.S government. There are those who believed the U.S has lied to its citizens about what really happened at 9/11. On December 15, 2001 a press conference was held at the White House. President George W. Bush was asked an unexpected question about 9/11. President Bush delayed his answer to the question and everyone...
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... Their real desire was to become something that depicts pride and honor, an American. Being an American means much more than living in the United States. Along with the name come a number of different benefits such as, freedom of speech to express your own opinion, freedom of religion, and equality for all, including different sexes, races, religions and status. As Americans, we should be very proud of the privileges we have because many other countries are not fortunate enough to have all these freedoms. Our freedoms are what set Americans apart from other citizens and countries. Americans have the opportunity to acquire a good education and receive a satisfying career. Apart from some countries, American people of all different races and religions can live and work together because everyone is allowed an equal opportunity. As a people Americans are united with a sense of pride for our country. All Americans should be proud of what the United States has accomplished. Our country has become a major influence to other countries. It is rising to be one of the most developed, wealthy, and most advanced in the world. Another quality that unites all Americans is its unforgettable and monumental past. Monuments, like the Lincoln Memorial, federal holidays such as the 4th of July, and historical landmarks, like war battlefields, are just some locations of a time or place that all Americans can share. These places and memories remind Americans of the struggle our country...
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...“Yay, the Pope is coming to America!” On September 22-27, Pope Francis came to the United States of America because of the 2015 World Meeting of Families. In fact, he spent time in Washington D.C., New York, and Philadelphia to attend to various events. This was one of the most special week for the pope to show his enthusiasm for America. First, Pope Francis stopped at Washington D.C., and there he met, President Barack Obama, at the White House. At the White House, he talked to the Senate and House Representatives his speech. After his meet at the White House, he had lunch with the homeless. This was a really thoughtful idea for pope to take this opportunity for the homeless because he was able to experience the life of the homeless, and...
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...On Tuesday September 11, 2001, there was a three-game series beginning to play in the World Series. None of those games were played because it was the same morning four airplanes were hijacked by terrorists. Two of those planes crashed into the Twin Towers in New York. The United States was in shock and grief. No games were continued until September 17 , it was Cardinals against Brewers. Before the game started Hall of Fame announcer, Jack Buck, went to the microphone and read a powerful speech. “I don't know about you, but as for me the question has already been answered: Should we be here? Yes!” (Jack Buck,Busch Stadium,2001) Buck spoke as a patriot and sent a powerful message to the U.S. and everybody in the MLB. He wanted everyone to know that even though the United States was going through a difficult time, we can come to solidarity. This was one of Buck’s final appearances before he died of lung cancer and Parkinson's...
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...New York City The first native New Yorkers were the Lenape, an Algonquin people who hunted, fished and farmed in the area between the Delaware and Hudson rivers. Europeans began to explore the region at the beginning of the 16th century--among the first was Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian who sailed up and down the Atlantic coast in search of a route to Asia--but none settled there until 1624. That year, the Dutch West India Company sent some 30 families to live and work in a tiny settlement on “Nutten Island” (today’s Governors Island) that they called New Amsterdam. In 1626, the settlement’s governor general, Peter Minuit, purchased the much larger Manhattan Island from the natives for 60 guilders in trade goods such as tools, farming equipment, cloth and wampum (shell beads). Fewer than 300 people lived in New Amsterdam when the settlement moved to Manhattan. But it grew quickly, and in 1760 the city (now called New York City; population 18,000) surpassed Boston to become the second-largest city in the American colonies. Fifty years later, with a population 202,589, it became the largest city in the Western hemisphere. Today, more than 8 million people live in the city’s five boroughs. New York City in the 18th Century In 1664, the British seized New Amsterdam from the Dutch and gave it a new name: New York City. For the next century, the population of New York City grew larger and more diverse: It included immigrants from the Netherlands, England, France and Germany;...
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