On September 11th, 2001, it was a Tuesday morning in the state of New York. At 8:45, an American Airlines plane flew directly into the north tower of the World Trade Center. The crash left a giant burning hole in the building by the 80th floor of the 110 story building. Hundreds of people instantly died, while hundreds were still trapped on upper floors. 18 minutes later, a second plane hit near the 60th floor of the south tower. This crash caused debris to rain all over people and buildings nearby. People instantly knew America was under attack.…
The most practical impact we saw from 9/11 today is the way security and passengers are handled at airports. Today we see many restrictions when it comes to traveling. For instance, liquids and toiletries are required to be a certain size and must be placed in clear, sealed bags. Food and bottled water is not permitted through security. Passengers must put their carry on bags onto a conveyer belt that shows what they are carrying. This process makes sure nothing that is not permitted is carried onto the flight. As for passengers themselves, they are required to walk through a metal detector and once they have done so they are chosen randomly to for more intense screenings. Over the time span of 10 years, airport security has tried many different…
The September 11 attacks were a series of suicide attacks by Al-Qaeda upon the United States. On the morning of the attacks 19 of Al-Qaeda’s terrorists hijacked four jet airliners. The hijackers then crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, killing everyone on board and many of those who were working in the buildings. Both of the buildings collapsed within two hours of the collisions. Because of the collapse nearby buildings were damaged, even destroyed. The hijackers crashed the third airplane into the Pentagon which is located in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth plane was crashed into a field near Shanksville in Pennsylvania after some of its passengers attempted to retake control of the plane. Unfortunately…
Introduction: Hard workers up in the towers minding their own business, when all of a sudden a crash arises. Two planes less than 5 minutes, on the morning of September 11, crash into the beautiful twin towers in NYC. Many years before this terrorist attack, in December of 1941, a similar but as well different attack occurred. Planes struck the navy base on Pearl Harbor. Streets are full, people working and a plane strikes a tower in the center of New York City. Working on a navy base and planes come out unexpected with terrorists planning to destroy everything. The bombing of Pearl Harbor was definitely unexpected, as was the plane wrecks on 9/11; many can believe Pearl Harbor did not hit as many emotions because it was not terrorists just people from Japan with hate. September 11th was a terrorist attack…
New York City had to pay for a variety of damages after these attacks. In an article that analyzes the cost of 9/11, by David B. Yerger, different economists study the costs in different aspects. It is stated in this article that the costs sum up to an approximate $171 billion, which divides into 4 different areas: “$27 billion in property damage and rebuilding, $11 billion in rescue and related cleanup, $21-$24 billion, and $109 billion in economic output.”, as written by David B. Yerger. These numbers represent an unexpected use of money from the government. Along with these numbers, the government started receiving less taxes from companies, as they started producing less at the moment; this is the loss of economic output.…
This drastically effected and seriously damaged the economy of the Lower Manhattan area, but it actually impacted the whole United States economy and the other trade markets in the world. People lost their jobs after this incident and about $2.8 billion of wages was also lost. As a result, the stock changes were closed from September 11 until September 17.…
On September 11, 2001, 19 al-qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings. Both buildings collapsed within two hours, destroying at least two nearby buildings and damaging others. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon and a fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville Pennsylvania after the passengers and flight crew fought back.…
Both buildings collapsed and severely damaged about 5 other buildings in the World Trade Center complex. The pile of ruins stretched seventeen…
What do you think it was like for Islamic Americans after the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001? How did the Muslim community as a whole get stereotyped after this incident? Compare this to the absence of stereotyping after Timothy McVeigh, a white middle-aged man, detonated a truck bomb in front of the Oklahoma City federal building on April 19, 1995.…
The September 11th attacks on the World Trade center not only affected New York but also affected the entire country in a way that no other event has. The attacks shook the way of life of many people including those in the classrooms around Nebraska. After the attacks George W. Bush said, “Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts.” It was just that the way of life of citizens was threatened across the nation. The 9/11 attacks affected the country in a number of ways professional baseball did not play their games as well as college and professional football did not play that weekend in the wake of the attacks and even some parents showed up to schools to get their kids out of the classroom for that day and the next. September 11th 2001 was the deadliest attack on United States soil and was an event that will forever be remembered in history.…
The world did stop for a moment as Aisha Hinds said, “I'm a New Yorker. I was there during 9/11, and I saw how, not only New York City stopped for a moment, we all took an inhale and exhale at the same time - the world united at that time, and it changed my life. I think millions of people were forever changed.” She’s right it did change people’s lives forever along with destroying their livelihood, but it also changed things in different ways too. The effects of 9/11 did not only affect the United States of America (U.S.A) and New York but the whole world. In this discussion of 9/11 this paper will further peoples understanding of how these attacks did change the world.…
The most significant temporary effect of 9/11 would certainly be the impact of the security as it affected Arabs and Muslims in the country, attempting to gain citizenship. Though the security measures found out thousands of illegal Arabs and Muslims, only 11 were related to terrorist associations. The other hundreds of thousands legally in the country with a visa were then required to register with the authorities through a program called the National Entry/Exit System (NEERS). However, this program aroused several complaints. For citizens such as Mohammed G. Azam, a 26 Bangladeshi native who came to the U.S. when he was 9 years old, even with the termination of the long-term and ineffective program, he is still affected (Dolnick). His case outlasted the program, and even though he should legally be a citizen under the authority’s rules, he is given much trouble. His father gained residency and technically his children, if of age, would be residents too, but because of the length of his case, he has grown out of childhood. He is one of thousands in this situation, spending a large portion of his money on hearings and trial work. He should not be given so much trouble for something he has the right to. This entire program was a sort of “knee-jerk” reaction (Dolnick). Understandably, the country took as many safety precautions and security increases as possible, including the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (Lerner), the head of the NEERS program, but while some measures of security permanent in airports made sense, the NEERS program was only a hindrance, interrupting and corrupting lives of many well-meaning people, like Azam. Azam will not be attending his sister’s wedding, and also says, “One-third of my life has gone to this immigration process…I grew up her. This is my country”(Dolnick). The program has been terminated as of 2011, but that temporary measure, a reaction that should not have…
There have been many events in the course of history that had changed and shaped America to make it what it is today. The Revolutionary War freed us from Great Britain, with World War II there came the creation of the atomic bomb, and the Great Depression made banking regulations more strict. Point in being is that there have been many events that shaped the U.S.. I believe that one of the most significant events in U.S. History is 9/11, which largely influenced our society because it caused us to go to war with Afghanistan for 11 years, huge economy impacts, and the U.S. no longer feels invulnerable because of it.…
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How did 9/11 change the world economically? After 9/11 the economy definitely dropped. Money spent on manufacturing goods and services now have to be spent to make the distribution stations protected from terrorism. Because the United States is such a large trading partner in the world, all economies will tolerate the cost of refining security. This makes transportation of people, products and services more expensive to produce. The attacks on 9/11 threatened the core of the US financial system situated in the area of the attacks and caused the closing of the New York Stock Exchange.…