...On September 11th, 2001, a tragic day bestowed upon the United States of America. Even though al-Qaeda attacked our country, we are united stronger and more unified because of it. Throughout U.S. history, many people and enemies have tried to ruin our country, but time after time again, we always prevail. The most prominent reason why al-Qaeda attacked the United States of America on 9/11 was to weaken the United States power by trying to ruin their economy so they couldn’t support and help al-Qaeda’s enemies. To start off, radical Islam's have a point to their destruction, and their main goal was to ruin our economy. The reason for this is because of the wealth of America, and how we were affecting al-Qaeda’s plans. An Islamic extremist is...
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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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...How did 9/11 change America? On the 11th of September, 2001, the United States of America suffered the worst terrorist attack in US history. Four planes were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists, where two of the planes, American airlines flight 11 and United airlines flight 175, were intentionally crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York. The third plane, American airlines flight 77, was crashed into the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, commonly referred to as the Pentagon, in Arlington County in Virginia, and the fourth and final plane, United airlines flight 93, was headed for Washington D.C however; it crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania instead, because the passengers tried to overpower the hijackers. 2996 people, including the hijackers, died as a direct result of the attack, thousand more were injured and the entire nation was in...
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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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...2016 Attacks on 9/11 - Annotated Bibliography "9/11 Attacks." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 01 Jan. 2010. Web. 11 Apr. 2016. In this article, the authors explain all of the events that took place on September 11, 2001. The authors explain how 19 militants associated with the Islamic group al-Qaeda hijacked four planes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. The Authors explain how two massive Boeing 767 planes flew into both world trade centers leaving gaping holes in each tower which led to both buildings collapsing and killing over 3,000 civilians, and over 300 firefighters. This article states that the attackers were financed by Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist organization, and they attacked because they were acting in retaliation for America’s support of Israel, America’s involvement in the Persian Gulf war, and America’s continued military presence in the middle east. Around 9:45 another aircraft slammed into the pentagon military headquarters killing 125 people on the ground, and then another 64 that were on the plane. The authors describe United flight 93, the plane that was hijacked, but stopped by the passengers in the plane. The authors explain how if it wasn’t for the heroic actions of the passengers on the flight, the plane could have crashed somewhere important, but instead the plane crashed onto a rural field in western Pennsylvania at 10:10am. Bazˇant, Zdeneˇk P., et al. "What Did And Did Not Cause Collapse...
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...denouncing of Muslim assaults is made to seem so prevalent in America when most are not even traced back to Middle Easterners. Many Americans assume Middle Easterners are related to terrorist attacks due to the media's profound influence in creating Islamophobia in political news coverage. Violent assaults in recent years made by those who believe that all Middle Easterners are the Muslim terrorist have impacted the lives of innocent people. Reading “Crazy Horse Malt Liquor,” by Michael Dorris led to my interest in further investigating this issue, as it is still a concerning issue. The problem...
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...we are reminded of just how that event shattered our nation and how much life has probably changed forever. On that day nearly 3,000 people lost their lives. I do not think any American who watched this unfold will ever forget and those who did not witness it will never realize just how much freedom we have really lost. September 11, 2001 has brought about many changes to the way the United States handles illegal immigrates and those people who wish to migrate to the United States. Security at airports as also been heightened. In this paper I will discuss some issue before September 11, 2001 and after. Changes made in Airports. Before September 11, 2001 no one in the United States had heard of Osama Bin Laden, the airports were a place that people went for happier times either to greet someone returning from a trip or coming to visit. It was a place where people were excited about going on vacations. If you sat back and watched people coming and going you would see smiles you would witnesses hugs and tears of joy. People that were too young to remember those times would find it hard to image the airport being anything but a nightmare. We our the last generation that will remember crossing the border as if it was a toll booth or throwing a pocketknife in your carry-on because you thought you might need it. Days like that are long gone since terrorists decided to fly planes into buildings packed full of people. Many things have changed since 09/11 but it is certainly most...
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...On September 11, 2001, a day that will be forever in our minds, the United States was targeted. Where two towers once stood, there lay only rubble. Our nation’s defense building, the Pentagon was left in a state of destruction and mayhem. A field in Pennsylvania held the twisted metal corpse of the fourth and final plane, brought down by the brave passengers on board. 2,996 men, women and children died that day. Yet like a phoenix, we rose from the ashes of destruction and fought. Joining with country’s all around the world to show that we, the United States of America, will not be pushed around. Before 9/11, President Bush’s administration was focusing its foreign policy on China and Russia. Along with trying to determine if a Middle East peace agreement would work and contemplating how to deal with rogue...
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...we are reminded of just how that event shattered our nation and how much life has probably changed forever. On that day nearly 3,000 people lost their lives. I do not think any American who watched this unfold will ever forget and those who did not witness it will never realize just how much freedom we have really lost. September 11, 2001 has brought about many changes to the way the United States handles illegal immigrates and those people who wish to migrate to the United States. Security at airports as also been heightened. In this paper I will discuss some issue before September 11, 2001 and after. Changes made in Airports. Before September 11, 2001 no one in the United States had heard of Osama Bin Laden, the airports were a place that people went for happier times either to greet someone returning from a trip or coming to visit. It was a place where people were excited about going on vacations. If you sat back and watched people coming and going you would see smiles you would witnesses hugs and tears of joy. People that were too young to remember those times would find it hard to image the airport being anything but a nightmare. We our the last generation that will remember crossing the border as if it was a toll booth or throwing a pocketknife in your carry-on because you thought you might need it. Days like that are long gone since terrorists decided to fly planes into buildings packed full of people. Many things have changed since 09/11 but it is certainly most...
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...years ago and is still controversial today; it’s health care for all Americans. It was brought to congress by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton during President Clintons first term. They didn’t like the idea then and the republicans still dislike the ideas now. Today we have made process they have approved the Affordable Health Care Act, or as most people call it “Obama Care”. This is making our American society change for the better today. In 1981 AIDS was detected in the United States, politicians were slow to respond to the AIDS epidemic because they felt that people that were affected by AIDS were mainly homosexual men. The government and President felt they could ignore the issue, because it was a gay problem in their eyes. President Reagan was reluctant to bring AIDS into the spotlight and even ordered his Surgeon General no to discuss this crisis. Reagan felt that it was a gay disease however; it did not take very long for the disease to spread beyond the gay community and affect the lives of many Americans (Shultz, 2012). On June 5th, 1081 the first official documentation of the diseases were...
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...America Before And After 9/11 Last month NEWSWEEK put out a special issue about our “new” new world. The editorialist says: “TV is now reality-TV, eating rats and bungee jumping doesn’t seems so compelling anymore; with real news to cover, the media gives an added bonus: Enron. Yes but we will never forgot 09/11. As we count the time from Jesus birth, BC – before Christ, and AD, Anno Domini (lat), a new line is now written on the history scroll: 9/11. And the media confirm this new kind of accounting: before 9/11 and after 9/11. Two different edges. In the same issue, NEWSWEEK give us a 22 year-old Rachel Newman confession. She came to New York three years ago to be “a guitar musician in rebellion” against the establishment, like her mother, a ’69 Woodstock veteran. She had herself tattooed, crying: “I would have told you I was a musician, a poet, an artist,… a woman, a lesbian, and a Jew”. That morning, stepped out of the shower in her Brooklyn apartment to watch the second plane barrel into the South Tower. She confess: “In that moment, the world as I had known it was redefined. Weeks ago all I could think of was how to write a good rap… Now is the time to talk with God about my soul and find the meaning of the life because everything has changed. Yes, everything has changed. This refrain has become as common in the post 9/11 world as the Dow Jones level for a broker. For decades, Americans have been paralyzed by intellectual, moral, and religious relativism...
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...America Before And After 9/11 Last month NEWSWEEK put out a special issue about our “new” new world. The editorialist says: “TV is now reality-TV, eating rats and bungee jumping doesn’t seems so compelling anymore; with real news to cover, the media gives an added bonus: Enron. Yes but we will never forgot 09/11. As we count the time from Jesus birth, BC – before Christ, and AD, Anno Domini (lat), a new line is now written on the history scroll: 9/11. And the media confirm this new kind of accounting: before 9/11 and after 9/11. Two different edges. In the same issue, NEWSWEEK give us a 22 year-old Rachel Newman confession. She came to New York three years ago to be “a guitar musician in rebellion” against the establishment, like her mother, a ’69 Woodstock veteran. She had herself tattooed, crying: “I would have told you I was a musician, a poet, an artist,… a woman, a lesbian, and a Jew”. That morning, stepped out of the shower in her Brooklyn apartment to watch the second plane barrel into the South Tower. She confess: “In that moment, the world as I had known it was redefined. Weeks ago all I could think of was how to write a good rap… Now is the time to talk with God about my soul and find the meaning of the life because everything has changed. Yes, everything has changed. This refrain has become as common in the post 9/11 world as the Dow Jones level for a broker. For decades, Americans have been paralyzed by intellectual, moral, and religious relativism...
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...Smith, Natalie. What Happened on 9/11? http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3756477 This article focuses on what happened during the 9/11, who attacked us, how did America respond to 9/11, how America changed after 9/11. The person that led this attack was a man Osama bin Laden. 9/11 Attacks. E Networks, 2010. http://www.history.com/topics/9-11-attacks This article focuses on how many people were killed, how many police officers and firefighters that were on duty, how victims and firefighters, police men reacted to the situation. On 9/11 there were 400 firefighters and policemen on duty. Goldstein, Sasha. Osama Bin Laden Shooter Rob O’Neill Inspired to Speak out after Emotional Visit with 9/11 Families. New York: Friday, November 14, 2014, 1:10 PM, 2014. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/rob-o-neill-inspired-9-11-families-speak-article-1.2011126 This article focuses on the views of the victims and how it affected them physically, mentally, emotionally. How this man Robert O’Neill gives closure to the families of victims of 9/11 because he was the person to kill Osama bin Laden. Raskin, Molly. The First Victim of Sept. 11. 2014. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/history/2013/09/danny_lewin_the_first_victim_on_9_11_and_an_architect_of_the_internet.html This article focuses on the first victim of 9/11 Danny Lewin. How he was trying to stop the hijacking for Flight 11 became the first victim of 9/11. Grann, David. The Heartbreaking...
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...The attack on the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001 had a profound effect on the economy in both an immediate and lasting way. While the economy prior to 9/11 was not an ideal one, it cannot be compared to how horribly it was hurt immediately following 9/11. 9/11 immediately and effectively crippled the economy in a massive way. The effects of 9/11 on the economy can, in fact, still be felt today. 9/11 turned an already declining economy into an economy that was utterly crippled and affected the economy on such a scale that its effects remain to this day. Prior to the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. economy was already weakening and declining. According to wiki.dickinson.edu, the American economy was doing very well from the mid-1900 to the early 2000’s. The GDP began declining during the first quarter of 2001. During this time, the growth of the GDP slowed. In addition, production fell, unemployment increased, inflation rose, stock prices decreased, and, as a result, America saw a strong decrease in consumer spending. Because of the decreasing economy, American companies saw a decrease in profits and had to downsized, which increased unemployment even more and led to unemployment reached...
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...that occurred on September 11, 2001. Abu-Lughod, a professor of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Columbia University...
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