...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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... 14 A list of pictures of the occurences on CD 9 Bibliography 15 9.1 Quotes 15 1 Introduction It was September, 11th 2001, and I was preparing myself for lunch, when the telephone rang. It was one of my friends. He wanted me to switch on the TV, so I asked him which channel he meant and he just said “It makes no difference, just switch it on! You can see it on every channel . It’s unbelievable!“, and then he rang off. I switched on the TV and got to see those horrible pictures on every channel(p.40). One tower of the World Trade Center in New York was in flames. Before I could realize what was happening I got to see a shocking picture...
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...same airport, or with the option to continue to Burbank California. At dusk, the pilot and passengers load the aircraft and departed the airport. The flight departed under visual flight rules and visual meteorological conditions. The weather was reported at 2 miles in lowering clouds and 900 feet overcast and deteriorating. After takeoff, the aircraft rotated and entered the lowering mist. Approximately 5 miles past the end of the runway, the aircraft was seen exiting the clouds in a steep left rolling bank, trailing smoke. On scene actions Upon arrival at the accident scene, a preliminary visual inspection was done. Following the preliminary inspection, specific areas of responsibility were delegated to the rest of the investigating party. On Scene Observations The aircraft first struck the top of a 100 foot communication tower. After the initial impact with the tower, the aircraft began a roll to the left and impacted the ground 400 feet from the base of the tower. This was determined by the discovery of the red tip light. With the discovery of the green tip light that was found 100 feet from the first ground scar, it was determined that after the first impact, the aircraft began to cart wheel and impacted the ground with the right wing. The aircraft fuselage separated from the wings and came to rest 50 feet from the last ground scar, and burned. There were no survivors....
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...well as during the time of the 9/11 attacks. September 10, 2001 one day before the attacks. Secretary...
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...Kristy Evans Explaining the significance of September 11 , 2001 events CRJU 2110 Assignment #1 Explaining the significance of September 11 , 2001 events CRJU 2110 Assignment #1 Introduction: When I hearing or thinking about September 11, 2001, I get a flash back of me sitting in my sixth grade classroom watching the Arab bombing the United States Twin Towers, at that time I really did not understand what was going on. Until our teacher was explaining it to us and she pulled up a video and showed us. I felt sad and horrified for all the people who were losing their lies. I had never heard of terrorists before so I was also really nervous. I was terrified at the thought that there were people out there who despised our country so much that they wanted to kill us. So in my paper I will be talking about the short term and the long term effects that it had on us. Topic I: Short Term Effects A. Military Operations (Iraq War) B. Domestic Response: Hate Crimes against Muslims C. American Reactions (created groups to help those injured) Topic II: Long Term Effects A. Economy Decline (Stocks and unemployment rate ) B. Health Effects (toxins spread to residential areas in NYC) C. Government Policies (More security, airport security, anti-terrorism acts) I. Short Term Effect A. Military Operations In the meantime dealing the attack on 9/ 11 our government has been financing war related tasks in Iraq and with the Global War on Terror...
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...a fire fighter, and became a junior member of the Empire Hook and Ladder Company. Welles attended Boston College. He graduated in 1999 with a degree in economics. After college Welles worked as an equities trader for Sandler O’Neill and partners. September 11th (9/11) was a one of the most tragic events. On September 11th there were 4 terrorist attacks in New York, Washington D.C, and the metropolitan area. These 4 attacks were launched by the Islamic terrorists Al – Qaeda....
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...Book Report on The Reluctant Fundamentalist This book report based on the Novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist is written to Mile. I’m quite interested into this novel, in which the hero, Changez, pursue his American dream as a Pakistani man. He works as hard as the Americans and is employed by one of the prestigious countries in America. While with the outbreak of 9/11 event, people in Islamic world are labelled as terrorists. There is no exception to Changez. He is deeply depressed by such kind of treatment, as well as disappointment from his girlfriend, Erica. His American dream breaks after his returning back to Pakistan. Through the viewpoint of the first person, this novel shows the struggling of Changez, a person from the Islamic state, that they ordinary people are not terrorists. This book report aims at ascertaining the collapsing of his dream. In a series of flashback, Changez tells us his experiences in pursuing his dream and love in America. At the very beginning of his story, he says “I’m a lover of America”. And when it comes to Princeton, he says that “Princeton inspired in me the feeling that my life was a film in which I was the star and everything was possible”. He is, at that time, a typical pursuer of American dream. He could find himself “free, disappear and free of doubts and limits, and free to focus on nothing but the game”. While the rule-dominated country and the indifferent people fail to “make me forget such things as how much I enjoy the tea in the...
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...------------------------------------------------- 9/11 Memorial & Museum gift shop controversy ------------------------------------------------- 9/11 Memorial & Museum gift shop controversy David C. Bolden David C. Bolden September 11 Memorial & Museum commemorating the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 where around as well as the bombings back in 1993. September 11 Memorial & Museum located in the center of where the Twin Towers once stood. Michael Arad was the architect that designed the building. The Memorial has two square twin reflecting pools that are the largest man-made waterfalls in the United States. There are also names of the victims who lost their lives from both 2001 and 1993 attacks, where their names inscribed in bronze. "This museum gift shop is a tribute to American marketing ingenuity; the same way a record company would promote "boy band.""(The Wall Street Journal 2014). Museum's gift shop offers memorabilia for all interest. Not only do they offer the standard memorial rubber bracelets, Tower of Light coffee mugs, and NYPD T-shirt but the museum has created unique gift collections each pondering different 9/11 references. For dog lovers there are World Trade Center neckwear line, a Darkness collection of Gothic individuals, Patriots have the traditional, American Flags. Museum's gift shops can create a tremendous source of revenue. Metropolitan Museum of Art's gift store brought in about $70 million. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)...
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...OSAMA BIN LADEN – American’s Most WANTED Osama Bin Laden: Early Life Osama bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1957 or 1958. He was the 17th of 52 children born to Mohammed bin Laden, a Yemeni immigrant who owned the largest construction company in the Saudi kingdom. Young Osama had a privileged, cosseted upbringing. His siblings were educated in the West and went to work for his father’s company, but Osama bin Laden stayed close to home. He went to school in Jiddah, married young and, like many Saudi men, joined the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. Osama bin Laden is a terrorist extremist who claimed for the attacks on the World Trade Center in Sep 11th 2001 and is intent on driving Western influence from the Muslim world. Osama Bin Laden: The Pan-Islamist Idea For Bin Laden, Islam is more than just a region: it shaped his political beliefs and influenced every decision he made. While he was at college at the late 1970’s, he became a follower of the radical Pan-Islamist scholar Abdullah Azzam, who believed that all Muslims should rise up in jihad, or holy war, to create a single Islamic state. This idea appealed to the young bin Laden, who resented what he saw as a growing Western influence on Middle Eastern life. In 1979, Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan; soon afterward, Azzam and bin Laden traveled to Peshawar, a Pakistani city on the border with Afghanistan, to join the resistance. They did not become fighters themselves, but they used their extensive...
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...2001 2 Abstract Due to the devastating acts on September 11, 2001, a bill was passed after. The Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act of 2001 was an aid to help the airlines industries in their decline in sales, loss of profit and intimate bankruptcy. The act provides assistance to U.S. passenger and cargo airlines through $5 billion in grants, up to $10 billion in federal credit assistance, extended deadlines for tax payments, and reimbursements for certain increases in insurance premiums. The act was a huge bailout relief for these airline companies. Although it made the commercial airline industry happy, it may not have been so for many others. In an already declining economy this bailout increased the countries debt as well as cost money for the American taxpayers. Maybe there could have been a better way to deal with this situation, however it could have been the best thing to do, all in all only time will tell. THE AIR TRANSPORTATION STABILIZATION ACT OF 2001 3 On September 11, 2001 at 8:46 a.m., five hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the World Trade Center's North Tower and at 9:03 a.m., another five hijackers crashed United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower. At 9:40 a.m., the FAA grounded all aircraft within the United States and aircraft already in flight were told to land immediately. ...
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...in a three storey townhouse in Alexandria, Virginia with his two twin daughters While not much is known about his early life, it is known that shortly after his parents died when he was a child, he moved to neighbouring Norfolk and was raised by his mother's sister (Aunt) Kelly and her husband (Uncle) Peter a former Navy Seal Master Chief Petty Officer, but after a fight at high school Lawrence was sent away to attend a military style boarding school. He received a B.S. in Economics & Political Science from the University of Virginia and graduated summa cum laude, and received his postgraduate Master of Business Administration/Juris Doctorate degree from Harvard before joining the United States Naval Academy, where he later rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander while serving in the Navy as Naval Intelligence Officer and Naval Aviator before joining the Navy's BUD/S programme, where he passed with Class 304 and joined Seal Team 2. At some point during the 1980s, Lawrence was stationed at the NATO Air Force base in Ragusa in Sicily, where he met and later married Megan (nee Tannenbaum) in 1984, while allegedly he was working as a "Diplomatic Security Advisor" to a Sicilian Judge investigating the Sicilian Mafia. In 1985, Megan gave birth to their two twin daughters whom they named Stephanie & Jennifer born (May 31), however Megan sadly died whilst on-board American Airlines Flight 11 when it hit the first tower of the World Trade Centre when both Stephanie & Jennifer were...
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...Falling man The “Falling man” follows Keith, a few-and-thirty-year-old New Yorker who works in a real estate company in the World Trade Center. He also works in the World Trade Center when the attack happens the 11th September - but he is lucky and gets out of the first tower before it collapses. Hurt and confused he goes home to Lianne, Keith’s exwife and wants to get back together with her. They resume their in disjointed fragments, a form of cohabitation. The novel is, especially in a non-US context, an interesting description and interpretation of what the terrorist attacks meant for the New Yorker’s self-understanding. The terrorist attack splits, like the kind of catastrophic events tend to make the world into a before and an after. “It was no longer a street, but a world, a time and space of falling ash and near night. (...) The roar was still in the air, the fall along curved rumbling. This was the world now. ..” The downfall, the catastrophic dust chaos, is in the novel structure also a new beginning, and Keith's appearance in Liannes doorway is a violent return from the dead: "When he stood in the doorway, it was not possible, a man come out of an ash storm, nothing but blood and slag, which stank of something burnt, with pinpoint glimpses of shattered glass in his face." Keith's return after the terrorist attacks becomes a crucial event that puts the protagonists' lives upside down. But unlike the traditional magazine layout of such experiences where they bring...
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...consisted in a group of nineteen terrorists, members of a red named: Al-Qaeda. They took possession over four American aircrafts with the only objective of exploiting them into buildings in the city and the Pentagon. After 30 minutes of the first explosion into the World Trade Center Twin Towers, flight number 77 of American Airlines was leaving from Dulles International Airport and was on its way straight to the Pentagon, in Virginia, ready for the next sabotage. This flight had 58 passengers, 4 flight attendants and 2 pilots on board. Many lives were...
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...world crisis that happened in September 11, 2001 when terrorist invaded the United States of America and hijacked a couple of planes for the purpose to crash them in important places where they would get as many people as possible. One being the Twin towers or also known as the World Trade Center and also the pentagon which was not achieved due that some heroic civilians in the plane that decided to fight for their lives and the lives of others. Four passenger airliners were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists so they could be flown into buildings in suicide attacks. Two of those planes,American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the North and South towers, respectively, of the World Trade Center Complex in New York City. Within two hours, both towers collapsed with debris and the resulting fires causing partial or complete collapse of all other buildings in the WTC complex, as well as significant damage to ten other large surrounding structures. A third plane, American Airlines Flight 77, was crashed into the Pentagon leading to a partial collapse in its western side. The fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, was targeted at Washington, D.C. but crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after its passengers tried to overcome the hijackers. In total, almost 3,000 people died in the attacks, including the 227 civilians and 19 hijackers aboard the four planes. It also was the deadliest incident for firefighters in the history of the United...
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...1.0. Introduction TGV Cinemas Sdn Bhd, formerly known as Tanjong Golden Village Sdn Bhd. TGV Cinema was incorporated in Malaysia on 28 June 1994 under the Act as a private company limited by shares under the name Tanjong Golden Village Sdn Bhd. It uses its current name on 1 December 2004. TGV Cinemas Sdn Bhd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tanjong Public Limited Company. TGV is the second largest cinema chain in Malaysia after Golden Screen Cinema (GSC). These are the two main cinematic giants in Malaysia. To date, TGV has 14 multiplexes, 109 screens and some 22,000 seats in its fold and is set to broaden its reach into new untapped and underserved markets. The biggest TGV cinema is situated in Sunway Pyramid, Petaling Jaya. It houses in it with 12 screens and over 2598 seats. It had been undergoing renovations and now has an additional 2 screens, up from the previous amount of 10. The second largest TGV cinema is located at Suria KLCC, Petronas Twin Tower, Kuala Lumpur with 12 Screens and over 2400 seats. It was previously the largest TGV cinema in Malaysia, before being surpassed by the one in Sunway Pyramid. TGV's principal activity is to exhibit the film whereby it owns and operates thirteen multiplexes located in Kuala Lumpur and states of Selangor, Perak, Negeri Sembilan, Johor and Penang in Malaysia. Tanjong Golden Village Sdn. Bhd. revolutionized the movie-going experience by being the first to introduce the multiplex concept. The concept behind the Cineplex is to...
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