9/11 Research Paper

”If you see something, say something” (R. Green, 61). Americans had devised the catch phrase when they had approached a new level of vulnerability after the 9/11 offense. This quote resembles the immense impact that the 9/11 had in the United States.The new catch phrase resembles the shift in the way Americans lived their lives and how they saw things, promoting awareness. On September 11, 2001, Americans had experienced a devastating attack. The attack had started with two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Centers located in Lower Manhattan New York. Followed later by a third plane crashed into the Pentagon based in Washington D.C., however, the fourth plane had an unsuccessful strike because the passengers crashed the plane into a field in Pennsylvania. It had caused an extensive amount of death, damage and panic. The September 11 attack had significant economic consequences on future security precautions and rebuilding costs and politically influencing Americans public opinion by affecting minorities, creating calls for increasing the limits on immigration and the declaration of war on terror.
Confronted by the numerous rising adversities to deal with at the time, the United States economy had been imprinted by the attacks that took place on September …show more content…
With the economy having such a grand downturn, it became vulnerable to any economic surprises, such a decrease in stocks, or increases in prices. To rebuild after the attack, businesses reduced their spendings, spendings were dropped, markedly the building of new constructions of factories dropped (Leonhardt). The 2001 recession was one of the outcomes of the economy’s downturn. In those months, where the recession continued, the United States economy had shrunk, consumerism had gone