Keara Curry Keara 1 Mrs. Wells Period 1 October 3, 2017 Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address “You have lost too much, but you have not everything.” President Clinton gave the Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address after a terrorist attack on April 19, 1995 in a federal building in Oklahoma. In his speech, he used religious language and advice to comfort those who lost family members, making the speech effective. To begin with, Clinton used religious language.…
George W. Bush was the 43rd president of the U.S and served through 2001 and 2009. We could say that Bush’s term was arguably one of the hardest and darkest times of this nation, not because of his measures as a president but due to the external factors that affected the economy and its citizens (George W. Bush Biography. n.d). Eight months after Bush was elected, al-Qaeda extremist Islamic group executed the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which claimed the lives of more than three thousand Americans and had economic costs of approximately $3 trillion (9/11 Attacks. n.d.), (The Cost of September 11. 2004). In response to these terrorist attacks Bush launched the “War on Terror” which took security and military spending to historic levels ($600-$800…
9/11/01 will forever be remembered as one of the saddest, terrifying days in American history. This date will forever be imprinted on the minds of Americans who lost their loved ones, saw their city turn to chaos and their country in high distress and despair. The terrorist organization “al Qaeda” was responsible for this terror attacks hitting the world trade center and the pentagon, a couple of our most prized monuments. However, this could not bring the greatest land in the world to it’s feet, America is fiercer than that. In George Bush’s speech, addressed just 12 hours after the attack he lit a fire in the belly of Americans, he encourages strength and bravery in the people of the freedom land.…
What does the government really tell me? Is Area 51 real? Was 9/11 planned by the government? What’s the mandela effect? How does it happen?…
On Monday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited two of the United States most suffering war zones. He talks to Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi of Iraq and President Ashraf Gandi of Afghanistan about political matters. Tillerson talks to al-Abadi about healing a Kurdish fight with Iraq’s central government. Also he believed accelerating reconstruction projects in post-Islamic states would improve people’s life in those damaged towns and cities.…
George Walker Bush 43rd president U.S Governor for texas Born July 6, 1946 (age 70) New Haven Connecticut Went to Yale, Phillips Academy, Harvard Business School, The Kinkaid School He was President while the 9/11 attacks happened His election for presidency was one of the closest elections in history Oldest and has 5 other siblings George Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush Family has been in politics and Business for a long time…
Rumi said: “Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come” (Rumi) One thing I've always believed in is that you have the power to change your story.…
Bush’s speech comforted the devastated nation by telling us acts of heroism and by telling us that we were going to get the men who did it. He wanted to comfort the nation because we were all affected by the tragedy of September 11th. He knew that we were confused about who did this and why anyone would ever do this. He comforted us by saying that the world was with us, supporting us and that we would never forget our nation’s national anthem playing at places such as Buckingham Palace, the streets of Paris and Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate. Knowing that the world’s prayers and support was with us reminded us that the entire world felt for us in the face of this tragedy.…
BURLINGTON - While Donald Trump’s supporters create a record number of voters, it could potentially cause a split in the Republican party, leaving the party in turmoil. In an attempt to limit this split, the Alamance Republican Party Convention, hosted by chairman Ben York, took place Saturday at 10 a.m., at Smith Elementary School. The purpose of the convention was to elect delegates to the state convention and to secure the votes of Alamance County.…
On September 20, 2001, President George Bush addressed the Nation and the Congress, in the midst of the terror attacks upon America on September 11, 2001. The people of the United States needed support and direction on how they were going to deal with this hard to believe attack. The American people insisted that the President address the Nation after the attacks. Nine days later, the President did just that. Over the next several days, emotions ran high in the country.…
George W. Bush became president in the US January 2001; Bush first foreign policy in the Middle East was how to contain the Saddam regime in regards to weapon of mass destruction. The Bush administration and UN work together to put sanctions on Iraq and keep the regime on check. However, the Bush government claimed the UN sanction on Iraq was weak and ineffective therefore, the Secretary of State Colin Powell initiated a new proposal known as “ smart sanctions” as economic sanction that will limit exports to Iraq (Duelfer, 2016). In Bush eight months of presidency in the US, the nation faced with a shocking terrorist attack on 11 September 2001.…
Donald Trump’s campaign is denying any similarities between Melania Trump’s speech during the Republican convention and Michelle Obama’s speech during the Democratic convention is 2008, and instead blaming it on Hillary Clinton. Campaign manager Paul Manafort not only denied the accusations (he called them “crazy” on CNN Tuesday morning) but he suggested that the reaction was because Hillary Clinton felt “threatened.” “There’s no cribbing of Michelle Obama's speech. These were common words and values that she cares about her family and things like that,” Manafort said. “I mean, she was speaking in front of 35 million people last night, she knew that.…
“Terrorist attacks can shake the foundation of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve” (Bush). Before I was born the world faced one tragedy after another. These events not only effected the countries they happened in , but also many places all around the world. On September 11, 2001 a tragedy struck closer to home.…
George W. Bush’s “9/11 Address to the Nation” was a speech, which was given after the catastrophic event that occurred on September 11, 2001. Two airplanes were hijacked and were crashed into the Twin Towers in New York City on this day, shocking the whole world. He addressed this speech to the people of America on the night of the disastrous event, highlighting how America’s freedom was attacked. Thousands of innocent people died while thousands of people were wounded. After the event, President Bush sent out special forces to investigate who was responsible for this, so they can give them the punishment they deserve.…
Bush had the huge responsibility of providing a message of unity to America after something so traumatic shook the roots of the nation. The country had been under attack by terrorists, and the president needed to show that it could make the citizens come together, instead of breaking the nation apart. “Today, our nation saw evil -- the very worst of human nature -- and we responded with the best of America. With the daring of our rescue workers, with the caring for strangers and neighbors who came to give blood and help in any way they could”(Bush). Evil is no match for unity.…