September 11‚ 2001 was a devastating time in history. No one knew exactly what was going on whenever the news of the plane crashing into the north tower reached them‚ but the leader behind the attack‚ Osama bin Laden‚ did. This wasn’t bin Laden’s first attack‚ but it was his biggest. He’d been involved in many things before. For example‚ he was involved in the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 and the attempted assassination of the Egyptian president in 1995. However‚ those didn’t stop him
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against terrorist groups post-9/11. Focusing on the phrase used by the former Secretary of State Colin Powell‚ I would like to first focus on the way the US government described the fight against al Qaeda and the actions they took in response and my reaction‚ followed by my thoughts on the fight against terrorist groups in Afghanistan and in general. Like others before him‚ Howard argues that former Secretary of State Powell committed a grave mistake when he stated that the US is “at war” post 9/11.
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For this exercise I took around ninety photos over the course of an hour and a half‚ attempting to portray some of the happenings and elements at the 9/11 Memorial. Out of all these photos I took‚ I chose these four because they display how expansive the memorial is‚ in terms of meaning and significance. Some of my other photos are interesting and portray many of the elements I am interested in‚ such as people touching the memorial‚ however‚ these few stuck out and seemed unique from the rest.
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official account of 9-11 does not give a sound explanation of where any extremely hot material in the WTC collapse piles could have come from‚ nor does it give a sound explanation for the unusually persistent heat at Ground Zero. Numerous misleading and misinforming statements are disseminated to conceal this dilemma of the official account. In Part I several sources are compiled relating to the exceptionally high temperatures‚ and/or to the persistent heat at Ground Zero. Most of these sources
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chair‚ closed my eyes‚ and calmly sipped on my caramel latte. Suddenly‚ I heard a vast crashing noise‚ followed by the whole building beginning to shake. I immediately hopped out of my chair and ran into the office lobby to see what was going on. I saw most of my co-workers running for the door‚ screaming and panicking. Glass covered the entire office floor. There were massive holes in the walls from where the windows used to be. The secretary of the office looked up at me bawling. She cried saying that
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Without falling into jingoism or being over-sentimental‚ Robert Pinsky’s poem "9/11" generates a commendable ode to the spirit that drives this country‚ in addition to revealing the American culture for what it truly is enthusiastic and frivolous‚ courageous and fallible‚ petty and resilient. For most Americans‚ September 10th is Before‚ and everything since is After. Citizens from every state across the U.S. responded immediately to the attacks by giving blood and donating much-needed items
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Documentary and fictional aspects of the film Fahrenheit 9/11 “In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.”(web quotes) This quote by Alfred Hitchcock contains some truth‚ but in past decades the documentary genre has become more than just factual information about real people and places. It has become a mode for opinion and bias. In Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11‚ the “creative use of actuality” (film ed. Grierson) in its editing‚ style and source information
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How 9/11 Changed the United States Americans have faced many changes since the terrorist attacks on September 11‚ 2001. The images we witnessed on the news over and over again still haunt us today. The families that received phone calls from loved ones who were going to die are still recovering. Our attitudes and concerns about safety are not as lax as they once were. Lives were lost‚ the economy took a nose dive‚ and the way we live has changed forever. The direct cost of the September 11th attacks
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Looking at the perspective of a child growing up into the horrors of world rings true to probably many of us in class especially to recent attacks in Paris. When 9/11 occur most kids did not realize what was happening and didn’t learn until they were older the effects it has had on many American lives. However‚ now that we are older we can see the severity of what had happen and can come to the realization that something
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Globalization‚ Terrorism‚ and Democracy: 9/11 and its Aftermath1 Douglas Kellner Globalization has been one of the most hotly contested phenomena of the past two decades. It has been a primary attractor of books‚ articles‚ and heated debate‚ just as postmodernism was the most fashionable and debated topic of the 1980s. A wide and diverse range of social theorists have argued that today ’s world is organized by accelerating globalization‚ which is strengthening the dominance of a world capitalist
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