9/11 Roundtable Report September 26, 2011 The Effects of 9/11 on the Las Vegas strip In the article "Fear and Managing in Las Vegas" the authors analyze the effects of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 on the gaming industry on the Las Vegas Strip. Coin-in slot machines were used to determine the effects of this downturn in economy because they are the purest gaming volume indicator. Immediately following the 9/11 attacks casino managers made rash decisions, laying off thousands of workers
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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
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defending their identities, ancestries, cultures or traditions. Since Sept. 11, Arab Americans have been beneficiaries of what it feels like to be a member of the African American community. Although it is wrong to treat Arab Americans like criminals, we should not be surprised that they are treated in these ways. September 11 is a day that no one will ever forget. Everyone can remember where they were eleven years ago when terrorist attacked the twin towers of the World Trade Center. As a result, some
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mass surveillance program in the years after the 9/11 attacks. Designed to pick up bits of intelligence that could be used in order to thwart future 9/11 attacks, critics of the program argued that not only was it unconstitutional given the lack of warrants obtained prior to engaging in the program, but that it was ineffective at stopping any kind of real terrorism. Supporters pushed back that the program was an essential tool for fighting terrorists who had become more advanced digitally, often using
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Although terrorism is a forefront issue in today’s world, it is in many ways indefinable. There are many reasons as to why it is extremely difficult to define terrorism, but the biggest is the wide variety of tactics and motives of so called terrorist attacks. Because of this variety, it is difficult to assign one definition to a word. The idea that the word “terrorism” is essentially indefinable makes it alarming that the word is used so often in outlets such as politics and the media. It is such
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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
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against the innocent. The motive to carry out terror often varies; sometimes it is done to effect political, religious, or ideological change, and other times it is done out of pure spite or hatred. Regardless of motive, the consequences of terrorist attacks can be horrific. The images of September 11th, 2001 are seared into the mind of every American. This day radically changed the way the United States approached antiterrorism policy. The Department of Homeland Security was formed, billions of
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September 11, 2001 marked the biggest terrorist act ever committed on U.S. soil, where international terrorist hijacked four commercial airliners. Two of the hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center while the world watched. The other two planes commandeered by terrorists, hit the Pentagon and the one crashed in a field in rural field in Pennsylvania after the crew and passengers fought back. In total 2,977 people died, and America and the world changed. As America grieved, the U.S. economy was
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A Rhetorical Analysis of President George W. Bush’s “9/11 Address to the Nation” On September 11, 2001 the United States was tragically struck by a series of terrorist attacks that left many people dead and many fearful of the future. The President of the United States at the time, George W. Bush, addressed the nation shortly after the attacks in his “9/11 Address to the Nation,” which was aired across the country to ease any fears amongst citizens and to assure that he was qualified to handle such
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the traditional end of the summer travel and vacation season, and the beginning of American football season, school and thoughts of autumn. On September 11, 2001, there was a horrible tragedy that happened in New York, 19 militants were associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States the twin towers, and also in the Pentagon. This disaster started about eight forty-five A.M. this started on a clear
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