...Pearl Harbor and 9/11 was both two tragedy terrorist attacks. Pearl Harbor was a attacked planned by the Japanese and carried most of the attack out while United states were unprepared. With 9/11, the attack was planned by Arab -Muslim hijackers. 9/ 11 was carried out by 2 planes crashing into the trade center and killing thousands of people. Pearl Harbor was carried out by Japanese going to the American base and throwing bombs , and shooting missiles from their airplanes. With the Japanese, their long term goals was to deliver a knockout blowout to the U.S Pacific fleet with a surprise attack on Pearl attack which would give Japan power , and would help the japanese enough resources they need. The Japanese sent a surprise attack to Pearl attack early morning on December 7 , and the Japanese sunk 4 American battleships , , caused the last to go underground, while the damaging three other ships and over three hundred aircraft. Although the attack devastatingly successful , It was not the knock out Japanese planners Intended. The fight with Japanses on Pearl Harbor actually helped strangle the Japanses economy in the final years of the war. The long term goals of the 9/11 attack was to make Americans...
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...9/11 Essay Terrorism has been a very influential problem in American history and has had an enormous effect on U.S. From Pearl Harbor, First World Trading Center, Truck Bombing of Federal Building, and last but not least September 11, 2001. September 11th was a very devastating event in the history of America. This was a huge problem and caused depression, mourning, and paranoid many people. Of course, this affected many people and to this day still does. What do you think caused 9/11?.... Let's find out. September 11, 2001 was a very tragic day in American history. It all started when 19 terrorists boarded multiple airplanes, hijacked them, and crashed them into different targets. The terrorists focus was at the Pentagon and World...
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... Jezreel (God’s Sows) was the place of God’s judgment on the house of Ahab ((II Kings 9-10) EOTS pg 372). Lo-Ruhamah (“not pitied”), meant that the Lord would not show mercy as He punished Israel for its sins, Lo-Amni (“not my people”), indicated that Yahweh would sever His relationship with Israel as punishment for their covenant unfaithfulness. (EOTS pg.373). The scenes that we see today in America resembles what the prophets foretold of Israel in the Old Testament. What will be our Waterloo? Will we open ours eyes in time before destruction comes? This nation is heading for a fall and I pray that the Children of God will be spared. There are a lot of similarities between the prophet Joel and Jeremiah. To read Joel is like reading the Book of Lamentations. Joel is giving the warning to their coming captivity but apparently Israel does not want to listen. One bright outlook for Israel is Joel does prophesy that Israel will be redeemed. Joel gives Israel hope for the future, he gives the church the same hope of the return of our Lord to set up His millennial reign here on earth. Amos gives a warning to Israel for their rebellion against God. ● lack of food (Amos 4:6) ● Drought, (Amos 4:7) ● Blight and mildew of their crops (Amos 4:9) ● Locust invasions that destroyed their crops (Amos 4:9) ● Pestilence and disease (Amos 4:10) ● Military defeat and exile (Amos 4:10-11). Why were these warnings given? Because of Israel’s...
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...Sept 11 At 8:45am a hijacked plane crashed into the World Trade Centre, 9:03am a second hijacked plane crashed into the World Trade Centre. Again at 9:43am another hijacked plane crashed into the Pentagon, and one other hijacked plane was shot down at 10:10am as it was going towards Camp David. On September 11th 2001 at 8:45am the first hijacked plane crashed into the World Trade Centre. American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston, Massachusetts was the first out of four planes to be hijacked that day. As people looked on they saw how many people lost their lives in that short second. Many people looked on in shock and amazement at the same time. As they were looking at the first hijacked plane in the World trade Centre they saw a second hijacked plane Airlines Flight 175 from Boston, crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center and explodes at around 9:03am. The south tower of the World Trade Center collapses, plummeting into the streets below, and a massive cloud of dust formed and slowly drifted away from the buildings at 10:05am. As many people ran for cover the second World trade Centre collapsed at10:28. At 9:43. American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon, sending up a huge plume of smoke Three minutes later the Whitehouse was evacuated. People in Washington are now feeling the same disbelief that New York was feeling. They are shocked, and some people might not have understood what was going on. Some people did not want to believe that...
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... young generations often fantasize the lavish lifestyle of Beyoncé and Justin Timberlake while declaring it their American dream. The origin of the term dates back to 1931, where it was first coined in James Truslow Adams’ The Epic of America. Adams claims that the egalitarian nature of this dream began to take shape when the early Puritan colonists settled in America with the hopes of living in freedom from governmental persecution. Like the Puritans, millions of immigrants leave their country every year with the hopes of building a better life. Because of different generations’ perspective and individual values, it is difficult to assign a certain definition to the American dream. For example, to some people, the dream is often associated with success, while to others, it corresponds to future family stability. Whatever the version may be, America’s countless prospects guarantee every American the opportunity to achieve their dream through hard work and dedication. While every American has heard the phrase, “American Dream” at least once in their lifetime, every non-American has heard it at least a 100 times. The opportunity to live in America was, and still is, a privilege that most American-born people take for granted. After all, America introduced modern democracy and its education system provides a variety of opportunities that are unavailable in many other countries. Of the 1,062,040 people that applied for residency in the U.S in 2011, these two factors, among many...
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...things is how these three firemen all helped each other to put up an american flag iIn the photo. The flag functions as a symbol for the idea that america will not be defeated....
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...purpose and rhetoric? The purpose of the speech is of course to define himself as a worthwhile candidate who is able to win the election for the Republican Party and lead the USA to better times. By natural selection this of course make President Obama and the Democratic Party their enemy. Mitt Romney has to present himself as a leader and born Alpha Male. In order to do that he must elevate himself, his family and put down and ridicule President Obama and his work. Mitt Romney’s speech is composed in such a way that he welcomes and thanks his hosts. From lines 11 – 30 establishes a link between himself as a speaker “I” and the audience “We”. In this introduction he also links with the past history of America and its “belief in liberty and equality” (l. 26). He points out that America has no monarchy, aristocracy or dynasties with the quote from Red Sox to the New York Yankees “There are no dynasties in America” (l. 29 – 30) in a humorous tone. The second part of his speech is opened by a...
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...hate them all because of the tragedy of 9/11. When 9/11 occurred I was sitting in my sixth grade math class, and I still to this day believe I saw an airplane flying low. I was devastated because I thought all Americans’ were going to perish that day. I went home and cried to my mom continuously repeating “I want to live; I am only a child”. She didn’t have a response to give me because she didn’t know the possible outcome. As a child growing up that was the worst day of my life, and from that day forward I despised anyone who resembled the Muslim religion. I just wanted them all to drop dead, so we as Americans could feel safe again because no matter where I went I felt as though there would be another attack. As I began to grow up I realized I couldn’t think that way about all Muslims because not every single one of them was a part of the violence. Shouting Across the Divide broadcast opened up my eyes even more about what Muslims actually have to go through living in America. Listening to this story made me feel gloomy and partially guilty. I believe I was guilty because I was once among those who frowned upon Muslims. I say this because yes at one point I hated all Muslims after 9/11, but I never would approach them or make them feel less of a human being by degrading their religion. This family thought coming to America would help better their lives with more opportunity to succeed. Everything was going great for them until 9/11 and then their lives became a living hell...
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...Surveillance in Society "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment... It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized." –George Orwell, 1984 Social control is a prevalent method in multiple societies in order to influence the way people behave and think. In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, he describes a fictional, dystopian, society, Oceania; a society built upon a totalitarian government with constant control of its citizens. Much like Oceania, present day American society is falling to the powers of this authority. A form of social control in both Oceania and present day America is surveillance. In 1984, Oceania and its people are under constant watch. With the use of their societal surveillance, telescreens and microphones, the Party and Thought Police (much like the WWII Gestapo), were able to watch and closely observe every move made by the citizens. Telescreens were used as machines that relay information and broadcast almost like a radio, while simultaneously allowing Thought Police and Party to tap into the wire at any given time to watch over and listen in on the citizens. Though one may think to just shut off such a ridiculous gadget, the citizens had no capability...
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...charge of decide who can come into our country and who cannot? “The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is the main agency charged with administering and enforcing immigration laws. INS is part of the U.S. Department of Justice.”(Oladeinde) Andreza Sleik a now citizen who had moved from her home country of Japan after her naval husband had left for war, so that their son could be a citizen. Andreza was originally from Brazil, but would move with her husband everywhere he was deployed. She left from Japan to the United States alone, and if that was not scary enough she moved her shortly after 9/11. “It was harder to come into the country after 9/11 because of the threat of terrorist.” (Sleik) When her husband deployed for the war she decided it was time to move to America to be with his family because she was with child. She wanted her child to be a citizen, so she came to America on a...
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...September 11th was a gruesome day in the history of this country. Schools saw it. Businesses saw it. The world saw it. The world saw the dawn of a new war, a war waged against terrorism. On september 11th, 2001, two commercial airliners crashed into the World Trade center, one into the Pentagon, another into a Pennsylvania field. The planes had been hijacked by members of Al-Qaeda, a muslim terrorist group. They did this to protest America, to get us to change our ways. In the photo, the flag functions as a symbol for the idea that America will not be defeated. The symbolism of the firefighters raising the flag on the rubble of the World Trade center made me feel proud of my country with a bit of anger directed at the terrorists. I felt...
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...problem too. Both of the presidents had foreign policy issues with Cuba. For example, “foreign policy novice the tycoon will face far graver international question” travel issues with Cuba go back to the war that John Kennedy almost started. This ties in with my book because it shows that Cuba has hated America for a long time. Like in the start of President Kennedy's term Russia is still expanding. “Russia juggles a shrinking economy, an...
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...Unit I: Essay Exam: Reconstruction & Rise of Industry US History Since 1877 Professor Valdenia Winn February 14, 2013 According to Dictionary.com, radical means: 1. Of or going to the root or origin; fundamental: a radical difference. 2. Thoroughgoing or extreme, especially as regards change from accepted or traditional forms. Historians identified Congressional Reconstruction as “radical” because of how the South tried to elude the Thirteenth Amendment. Because of these extreme circumstances the federal government had to intervene, which at that point made it radical to most historians. The root of the problem was slavery and the problem solver was the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The Thirteenth Amendment prohibited slavery. The Fourteenth Amendment established national citizenship for persons born or naturalized in the United States. It also prohibited the states from depriving citizens of their civil rights or equal protection under the law as well as reduced state representation in the House of Representatives by the percentage of adult male citizens denied the vote. The Fifteenth Amendment forbade states to deny citizens the right to vote on the grounds of race, color, or “previous condition of servitude”. Another problem solver was the establishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau, which was there to aid former slaves get on their feet and supervise “all relief and educational activities relating to refugees and...
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...that immigrants may have had about leaving where they came from, compared to America. As well as, what they initially saw and felt as they arrived in America. The first line of the poem “Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame”(Lazarus 1) shows a difference between the Colossus of Rhodes and the Statue of Liberty. The Colossus of Rhodes was a statue that is debated between welcoming people to the trading harbor, or separates the island keeping invaders from entering the Greek island of Rhodes. Where as, the Statue of Liberty...
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...the day the United States stood still. A day that will never be forgotten by America was September 11, 2001. The day that terrorist struck the Twin Towers in Manhattan (World Trade Center), the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and a fourth plane that was set to San Francisco, California that crashed in Pennsylvania. In George W. Bush’s Excerpt, he reminds the American people of, “that terrible morning, nineteen evil men... [attacked on U.S. soil and] the beginning of the end of America” (Ehrenberg 176). The attitudes and policies of the American government had changed drastically. Through this strategic impact of 9/11, Hussein demonstrated that he can use his WMD at any given moment and location, internally and externally; Iraq funded Palestine suicide bombers and used chemical weapons against Israel (Ballard 103). The immediate response at hope was drastic overnight. In the 9/11 Commission Report: Chapter 10 shows the reader what immediate affects were taken place after the attacks. “Beginning on September 11, immigrants and Naturalization Service’s agents working in cooperation with the FBI began arresting individuals for immigrant violations while following up the leads in the 9/1 attack” (9/11 Commission Report 327). This system of arrest was set in place so that the country wouldn’t be attacked from the inside again. There was also the questioning of Saudi Nationalist flight screenings: “1.Did any flight of Saudi nationalist take place before national airspace reopened on...
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