1. Describe Amir’s injuries Amir’s spleen had ruptured. He had a delayed rupture because he has signs of hemorrhage in his abdominal cavity. Amir also has several broken ribs. One of his broken ribs caused a pneumothorax.…
The day the Murrah Federal building was bombed was a traumatic day here in Oklahoma. Not just for the people personally affected but everyone as a community. Timothy McVeigh tookover 100 innocent lives that day because he was angry at the government. However, he quicklybecame a perfect example as to how strong our country truly is and how justice will be served. At 9:02am, on April 19, 1995, people’s lives changed forever (history.com staff).…
Fellow citizens and grieving relatives succumbed to sorrow and malice following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. During WWII, Germany’s ally, Japan, sought to neutralize the U.S. Pacific fleet drawing their involvement into the war, effecting foreign affairs and racial relationships in the country. Rumors of disloyalty and sabotage by Japanese Americans spread quickly, thus promoting racial prejudice and distrust in society. In result, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the Executive Order of 9066 on February 19, 1942 authorizing an exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast in the occurrence of the recent events. Many families were forced out of their homes, losing many of their possessions and livelihood.…
On March 5, 1770, the city of Boston bore witness to a massacre of the vilest kind. A squad of British soldiers fired on an unarmed group of Bostonians and murdered five people. I know some people have the belief that the British are not to blame in this situation and that they were only acting in self-defense. In reality, the opposite is true. So let us review the events of that fateful day.…
The Boston Marathon Bombing occurred April 15, 2013. It was a terrorist attack upon the United States. The Boston Bombing was a double bombing that killed 3 people and profoundly injured “at least 264” (Boston Marathon Terror Attack, 2013). The bombing occurred at the finish line of the marathon. The bombing led to “an intense manhunt that shut down the Boston area.…
The idea of a narrative is to tell a story, the events occurring on the day of September 11, 2001 will provide an opportunity to relay my feelings, moving beyond the initial pure and basic anger at those responsible for such a desperate act. The image shows two emergency responders in the cloud of debris left by the collapse of the Trade Centers and what drew me to this picture is what they must have been talking about. The questions and issues I initially considered included: the loss of life; the tremendous devastation; and are there more survivors, where these possibilities could only be confirmed by talking to the individuals in the picture. Instead, I decided that the picture will be used as a metaphor to relay my awareness of the incident,…
Heroic First Responders On the tenth anniversary of the attacks on September 11, the most important people were not invited to the ceremony. The first responders that were present on 9/11 were not invited. Days before the ceremony, “No Firemen at Ground Zero This 9/11” by Michael Burke was published discussing the importance of the first responders, how much they should be respected and how they need be invited to the anniversary ceremony. He felt as if that they needed more recognition than the politicians that were being invited to the ceremony.…
Equipping homeland security with community policing is known to be effective (Pelfrey, 2005), since it promotes the community to be involved and can increase police legitimacy and procedural justice (Weisburd, & Zamir, 2011). After the terror attacks on September 11th there was improved support in America for the police (Fridell, & Wycoff, 2004), and an increase in community policing, particularly in Arab communities (Ortiz, Hendrick, Sugie, 2007). Terrorism prevention was included in Neighborhood-Watch to educate and train citizens (Flint, C., & Brennan, 2006). When the public is prepared to respond to a terrorist attack they could help prevent terrorist attacks from happening. Richard Reid also known as the “shoe bomber” , was unsuccessful in his terrorist attack because he was stopped by a passenger who took control of the situation (Doyle, 2010).…
The United States has not had a change in pace with domestic terrorims in regards to events occuring. However, the steps taken to make the preventative measures has increased. You can see that through the amount of military personnel being shipped out. I do not believe the United States is in a better position than before The Homeland Security Bill was created, or now. Heres why, starting back in 1978-1995 Ted Kaczynki, (unabomber) is known for the mail bombings that killed 3 people.…
Oklahoma City Bombing: April 19, 1995 The morning of April 19th, 1995 changed the United States forever. On that morning, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was attacked and destroyed by a homegrown terrorist. This event shook the US and forced the country to start thinking in terms of potential terror events, specifically ones carried out by US citizens. Two years earlier the World Trade Center was attacked by outsiders and caused America to begin to think about foreign threats.…
“Is it going to happen again?” “Am I safe to leave my home?” many wondered. Everywhere throughout the Nation, airlines stopped their service, the New York Stock Exchange was temporarily halted, and every TV station around the world was reporting on these horrendous attacks.…
There are many similar and different factors that drive people to face challenges and reach their goals such as Rikki-tikki-tavi, Farah Ahmedi, and Muhammad Ali. Rikki-tikki from “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,” is willing to face extreme challenges that could risk his life in order to maintain his mongoose family’s reputation and in order to fave his human family’s lives. The great cobra, Nag, sneaked into the bathroom and was going to kill the family in the morning. Rikki was determined to fight him and prevent this. “As he held he closed his jaws tighter and tighter, for he made sure he would be banged to death, and, for the honor of his family, he preferred to be found with his teeth locked.”…
In his autobiographical writing, The Deliverance From Error, Al-Ghazali tells his audience about the reason for his leaving his prestigious teaching position in Baghdad while also addressing numerous theological, philosophical, and practical problems facing Islam in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. A sizeable chunk of Al-Ghazali’s writing is aimed at tackling the topic of prophethood as a possibility, an actuality, and its specific realization by the prophet Muhammad. Within his discussion and defense of the Muslim conception of prophethood, he is primarily occupied with the philosophical problems that the philosophers of his day had presented him with, and their erroneous views about prophethood that resulted from their misunderstandings.…
Convicted of 1st degree murder, Adnan Syed has been spent half of his life in prison, since February 28th, 1999 for the death of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. Serial Podcast have tried to unveil whether Adnan Syed is guilty or innocence. Many members of Serial, such as Sarah Koenig have tried to unfold this tremendously difficult case. To this date, many investigators are still trying to unfold this case and are still unsure if Adnan Syed was truly the murder. If you would like to listen to the full podcast of Serial, click here.…
Statistics show how on the day of the attack more than 3,000 people were killed, and more than 400 were police officers and firefighters. But it wasn’t just lives lost that day that scared the country, it was the attack against the nation that now over fourteen years, the country is still left facing and has continued to cause the lives of many. On that same day of the attack former President Bush gave notice that the groups known as the Al-Qaeda were the ones associated with the attacks.…