...Table of contents 1 Introduction 2 2 September, 11th 2001: What happened 3 2.1 The chronology of the attacks 4 2.2 Manhattan covered with dust 5 3 The reactions worldwide 7 The consequences and reactions 8 in New York 5 The consequences for the economy 9 6 background 10 6.1 Why they attacked 10 6.1.2 A list of attacks aiming at the USA 10 6.2 Why they attacked the World Trade Center 11 7 My conclusions and results 13 8 Appendix 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...
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...In the minds of most ordinary citizens, drug trafficking is not typically associated with terror groups; however, it has long been a profitable way to fund the activities of terror networks. With the presence of Islamic terror groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the availability to the poppy plant is plentiful and readily available making it an optimal source of revenue. As Clarke and Newman note, “Many terror groups carry out ordinary crimes such as bank robbery, drug trafficking, identity theft and money laundering to support their terrorist activities” (Clarke & Newman, 2010, Chapter 2). With the availability of the poppy plant, terror groups are able to manufacture opiates, such as heroin, and import those drugs into the United States and Europe. On the surface, drug trafficking can be extremely profitable financially for a terror organization. The money raised from drug sales can be spent to spread the group’s ideology, as well as fund attacks against anyone they deem a threat. With the addiction that comes from heroin use, it is almost a guaranteed constant sustained supply of incoming cash for the group. However, the threat that drug trafficking poses to our nation’s homeland security runs...
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...motivations. They are not a nation State in the way that we typically recognize; they are a grouping, an organization, a movement, and they draw their support accordingly. By getting involved in this we are putting our own people and country at stake. Isis adherents can turn up anywhere in the world. Islamic State is a repository of the dispossessed, the marginalized, the fanatical, the extreme, and, yes, the evil, but it is not a conventional enemy and the circumstances in which we are being asked to fight it or train others to fight it in Iraq are not conventional. We are told we are sending troops to train the Iraqi army. The Prime Minister says they will be behind the wire but we know they will not be. They cannot stick there; they cannot stay there, that is not all they will do. They will not just be behind the wire; they will be exposed to the much wider conflict. What is it that our troops will do that will succeed where others have failed? After 10 years of training of the Iraqi army by the US army, after $25 billion of assistance to the Iraqi army, what impact will we have, what can we hope to achieve? The failure of the Iraqi army—an army that is demoralized, that is poorly led, poorly organized, riven with corruption, and it has been like that for 10 years – yet we think that by sending a very modest force as part of a multinational group we are going to achieve what the US army has not been able...
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...them […] then the wire glowed. But terror struck the men of the council […] ‘you shall be burned at the stake.”’ (Rand, 72). The council was outraged that Equality 7-2521 would commit such an infamy as to think of oneself before their brothers. In order to have technological advancement in a community, open-mindedness, a willing society, and educated people are required. All of those listed are forbidden or abnormalities to the citizens of Equality 7-2521’s society. The harshly controlled society wants everyone to think in a certain way and that way only. To support that point, while Rand’s protagonist, Equality 7-2521 was in high school or the equivalent to modern-day middle school, he was too smart and quick, recognized early in life that, “This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick […] the Teachers told us so.” (21). With very specific morals and ideas drilled into the citizens’ head, it is hard to find open-mindedness and understanding towards those who think and act differently. A common tactic in totalitarianism is that there is fear instilled into the hearts and brains of the citizens as early as childhood, so they do not have the urge to overthrow the government or change the ideas they had set. According to Orwell, “Totalitarianism governments do not tolerate activities by individuals or groups […] totalitarianism regimes maintain themselves in power through the elimination of open criticism of the regime and using terror tactics.” (Totalitarianism)...
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...imaginations save them from the tortures and terrors of a world in distress, keeping their innocence for as long as they can. An interesting thing about the story is that it is a fairy tale that provides any type of reprieve from real world problems and then replaces the realistic issues with archetypes. This story is filled with so many great symbolic moments. At the start of the story the author creates a very vague statement that interest the reader: “Penny and Primrose, saw or believed they saw a thing in the forest.”(Byatt 324). Although this statement is vague, it keeps the reader wanting to know more. A form of symbolism used is that the narrator makes a distinction between a child’s mind and an adult’s mind. How would you say to your child, “I am sending you away, because enemy bombs are falling out of the sky, but I myself am staying here…” When the two girls are...
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...The wall crumbles under the might of the shiny, glamorous metal head. Built with expert craftsmanship with only the best material. Incredibly strong, durable metals and exotic and stylish woods make up the powerhouse: the sledgehammer. Railroad spikes, driven down into rails, rendering them immovable. It can pound walls into a powder. It withholds unbeatable power. The sledgehammer is a symbol of power and devastation, while also a symbol of hard work and labor. The tool can potentially be a destructive force, but can also be used for constructive purposes. On the devastation side of the line, the sledgehammer used, for example, if a wall or two must fall. It will tear through anything with ease. Its iron skull always primed and ready. The...
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...no “longer meet it’s mounting requirements”. Everyone had something to do with it, the Navy, Medical people, the U.S. Army, the dental people and the Air Force. The tri-service had two “Army Nurse Corps officers” and it lasted three year. The women who were in Vietnam went through a lot. The women who served were exposed to a different culture, “sex, trauma and death”. The American nurses who served moved to a Vietnamese hospital, and they had to train the Vietnamese nurses. They tried to train them “in a better way” and tried to learn the Vietnamese language of the Vietnamese nurses. There were nurses who were making all kinds of money, not from the services they would normally give either. Some of the nurses ended up coming home pregnant, and some, came home rich with many being pregnant plus rich. Many nurses that would come back to United States were considered sluts just for being friendly and many were more then, just friendly. The nurses that finally took care of our soldiers would listen to the many stories told by our soldiers “about the girl back home,” they would put on makeup and put ribbons in their hair, just to get the soldiers minds away from the terror of war and themselves. As the years passed and the nurses became involved in the wars they were coming home from Vietnam psychologically traumatized because as one nurse stated, a mortar “hitting...
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...21, 2013 Habeas Corpus and Civil Liberties Imagine living life without the rights and liberties that Americans have always enjoyed. There are people all over the world that do not enjoy those rights that were cherished by the Framers of the United States Constitution. Some even say there are people under the jurisdiction of the United States that do not enjoy those rights. The War on Terror has brought a new debate to the forefront of American public discussion; what do we do with detained terrorists? Can the United States prove that they are terrorists? Are detainees afforded the same rights as American citizens and what role does the writ of habeas corpus play? The Supreme Court has decided on a few cases and has answered a few questions, but the debate still rages. Under the precedent set by Ex Parte Quirin and the Military Commissions Act of 2006, combatants captured in the War on Terror are unlawful combatants against the United States and therefore do not have the right of habeas corpus. To begin the argument on how habeas corpus and civil liberties relates to the War on Terror, we must first look at the history and the meaning of habeas corpus. Very simply defined, many people view the writ of habeas corpus, “as the ‘writ of liberty’ which ensured that no person could be detained in prison without being put to trial by a jury of his peers,” (Lobban & Paul, 2010, p.257). This simply means that a person had the right to defend their personal liberty by appearing...
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...communist nation led by the Soviet Union was in control of East Berlin. While West Berlin was controlled by a democratic nation led by the United States (Epler, 1992). The Berlin Wall known as Berliner Mauer in German (Rosenberg, 2016). It was a symbol of the Cold War. Trying to cross the Wall meant risking one’s life. One side of the Wall people were free to do all the normal things. While the other side of the wall people’s freedom was being taken away. Imagine that your best friend lives a mile away. You have been pals since first grade. You do everything together: school, soccer games, sleepovers. One day, men come and put up a barbed-wire fence between your house and your buddy’s house. Later, they replace it with a very long, very tall concrete wall. Each slab weighs 6,000 pounds, and many of them are topped with sharp wire. When they finish, you stare at the giant wall that has split your home town in two. On your side the wall is ugly but not too scary. On the other side, rattling tanks, soldiers with machine guns and growling dogs keep people from trying to cross the barrier. The wall stands 12 feet high. Your friend lives on the other side. You can’t see him. And you won’t … for the next 28 years. Welcome to Berlin, Germany. The year is 1961 (Tousignant, 2014). The Berlin Wall stood from 1961 to 1989 separating Berlin into east and west (Berlin Wall Fast Facts, 2015). While there were many elaborate and dangerous borderlines separating nations around...
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...U.S. Patriot Act Damian Coles AJS/552 June 14, 2012 Drew Christensen U.S. Patriot Act A discussion will be made to consider the advantages, and disadvantages of making the USA Patriot Act otherwise known as the patriot act a mandatory statue. As of now some of the patriot act has expired while other parts have been voted on and extended. To fully grasp why or why not the patriot act should become a permanent statue in American law. In order to fully understand the patriot act the reason for its existence and definition of what it is must be understood. It came into place after the horrific actions of a terrorist group on September 11, 2001. On that day countless amounts of Americans lives would be changed forever. Terrorist apprehended and attempted to crash planes into high value targets all at the same time. They were successful with one of the attacks being thwarted by the inhabitants of the airplane. It was an attack spearheaded by the terrorist organization Al Qaeda. The leader at the time of the attacks was an Osama Bin Laden, and he ordered the attacks. After these attacks on American soil the people and the government wanted affirmative action to be taken. The perpetrators of this heinous crime needed to be apprehended and an attack like this needs to be avoided. So the patriot act was created by congress and signed by former President George W. Bush and made a law on October 26, 2001. The law was unanimously voted into action by the House of Representatives...
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...Much like other agencies of the United States Government, the Intelligence Community was very big, stretching across several departments and agencies with similar or conflicting responsibilities. And some of the agencies operated entirely independent of others with no intelligence collaboration and sharing. After being dealt a huge blow on September 11, 2001, those in the government felt that is was necessary to reorganize the various agencies tasted with intelligence gathering. According to the 9-11 Commission Report: the sorrow, loss, anger, and resolve so evident immediately following the September 11, 2001, attacks have been combined in an effort to help assure that our country will never again be caught unprepared. As the 9/11 Commission notes, we are safer today but we are not safe, and much work remains. Although in today's world we can never be 100 percent secure, and we can never do everything everywhere, we concur with the Commission's conclusion that the American people should expect their government to do its very best. GAO's mission is to help the Congress improve the performance and ensure the accountability of the federal government for the benefit of the American people. GAO has been actively involved in improving government's performance in the critically important homeland security area both before and after the September 11 attacks. In its request, the House Committee on Government Reform has asked the GAO to address two issues: the lack of effective information...
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...The course of American history changed forever on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 at 8:46 am, when Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center (Bergen). Today, Americans are still experiencing the repercussions of this dark day through the new laws and regulations passed in response to these attacks, like the USA PATRIOT Act. The name of the act also serves as an acronym which stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (“Highlights of the...” ). President George W. Bush signed this act into effect on October 26, 2001 to facilitate information sharing, detection, and punishment of terrorism (Duignan). Up until the September 11 attacks, the worst...
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...1. Night by Elie Wiesel Chapter 2 2. People Madam Schächter: her son. Two eldest and husband deported. Probably dead. Responsible and strong. But gone mad People in the wagon: They begin to show immoral actions. They used violence to quiet down Madam Schächter. The German soldiers: Begins to treat the Jews as if they were not human beings. Eliezer: continues to narrate the story. 3. New Words Hermetic(ally): of being very tightly sealed so that no air can get in or out. Pious: to be very religious and moral. Copulate: to engage in sexual intercourses. 4. Summary Packed into cattle wagons, the Jews suffer by nearly unbearable conditions. There is almost no air to breathe nor any space, there’s the heat, hunger, and thirst. Soon, the Jews begin to lose their sense of public decorum. Some men and women begin to engage in an openly on the train, and others try to pretend as if they do not notice. After several days of traveling in the inhuman conditions, the train arrives at the Czechoslovakian border. This is the point when they realize that they are not just being moved to a new place. A German officer announces that he takes official charge of the car, and threatens to shoot any Jew who refuses to hand in his or her valuables and everybody in the car if anybody escapes. The doors to the cars are then nailed shut. There is Madame Schächter, a middle-aged woman with her ten-year-old son. On the third night in the car, she...
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...feeling like being held down or experiencing a weight pushing down on the chest and throat, hearing strange noises such as buzzing, pounding heart, experiencing fear and terror, out of body experience, seeing weird creatures and difficulty in breathing....
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...Augustina Asiafor Hayley Esther Hedgpeth English 1102 4 February 2014 A Paradoxical Relationship Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy” emphasizes the ill-fated relationship between a woman and her deceased father. The speaker conveys her paradoxical feelings for the one man who she worshipped during her young years, but feared his malicious influence and domination after his death. Throughout the poem, Plath use of tone changes with the progression of German inferences in order to escape the oppression of her father while attempting to preserve the idealistic mirror of him. The poem begins with a childlike tone, misleading the reader on the upcoming subject matter. The first line echoes a nursery rhyme, feeling like a charm against some brooding curse: “You do not do, you do not do/ anymore black shoe” (lines 1-2). Metaphorically, the shoe is a trap, smothering the foot. The adjective “black” suggests the idea of death, thus it can relate to a coffin. The speaker feels a submissiveness and entrapment by her father. In an attempt to rid herself of the restriction in her own life, she must destroy the memory of her father. “Daddy, I have to kill you” (3). However, the description of the father as “marble-heavy” (8) and “ghastly statue” ( 9) reveals the ambivalence of her attitude. The speaker reacts with hate to her father who had made her suffer by dying when she was young, but she is still affectionate towards him. The tone becomes more realistic and is composed of less...
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