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The Attacks on September 11, 2001 On the morning of September 11, 2001 a series of terrorist attacks occurred in the United States and Washington, D.C. The purpose was to weaken the United States’ economy by hurting it’s most important centers of income and power. The plan of the terrorists were to hit Wall Street, the Pentagon, and the White House. In the end, the planes attacking the Pentagon and Wall Street were successful for the attackers, but devastating for America. The total number…

9/11 has greatly affected the whole United States and not just the people and families involved in the actual event. Since 9/11 the number of terrorist attacks have more than doubled. 2007 was the highest year for attacks but it has decreased since than ("Terrorist Attacks Have More than Quadrupled since 2001"). Because of this it has almost forced the government to 1 create the travel over planes far more advanced in security and 2 to now place security cameras almost everywhere. Not only has…

Boston Marathon Bombing On April 15th 2013, during the running of the 117th Boston Marathon, the city of Boston experienced a tragic event. Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, brothers from the former Soviet Republic are the alleged suspects who perpetrated this tragedy. After a massive search, they were both identified. Tamerlan was killed while being shot by the police and Dzhokhar was captured and is awaiting trial. They allegedly used homemade explosives containing BB like pellets and nails…

Blaire Beavers Discussion Questions 3 & 4 3. In The Reluctant Fundamentalist, how did Changez’s idea of the American Dream change after 9/11? Did his desires change from when he originally came to America? Changez comes to America in search of a successful life, specifically with his career. After the terrorists’ attacks in 2001, Changez sees the real price of the American Dream. You may think you’re an American, but that doesn’t mean America accepts you. Changez comes to the conclusion that…

through the collapsing Twin Towers. Disbelief and shock flood over you as you realize that thousands of people just took their last breath. This is how you may have felt if you were there on September 11, 2001, when terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center and the Pentagon after hijacking four commercial airplanes. The attacks had an immense effect on America because of the amount of destruction that occurred, both of structures and lives. The events of 9/11 affected America primarily in…

changed the lives of millions of people forever. September 11th was the day that 19 militants who were trained by al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial airline planes that contained fuel to do a cross country flight. Two of those planes targeted the World Trade Towers in New York City. The third plane hit the Pentagon which is located outside of Washington D.C. A fourth plane went down in a field in western Pennsylvania. There are theories that the fourth plane was targeted for the White House,…

Many people wonder why there is so many memorials or monuments around the world for specific things. For every memorial there is a meaning behind it and there is value in the monument to the people. Something had happened to change the life of someone or something big enough would change something around the world. In this essay I will explain to you why memorials and monuments are meaningful to people and to everyone in the world. The monument I picked out was the Jefferson National Expansion…

was talking about. Jimmy required verbal scaffolding, in order to provide an ending. The following is a transcription of Jimmy’s narrative production: Okay there was this family where they lived in a house … they moved to California and then the world where they were XXX started shaking so then…

Part one Introduction How did crashing two planes into the worlds trade center, and one into the pentagon, one into a field in Pennsylvania cause the severe economic decline over the next several years? And how did this event effect the economy on a Macroeconomic level? To describe the mechanism on how the Economy took a downward spiral, how it is still affecting the economy today. Part two 9/11 impacted airports with longer lines and body scans and pat downs making it more difficult to go…

Pan Am Flight 103, a flight from Frankfurt to Detroit, left London Heathrow Airport on 21 December 1988 almost an hour late. About half an hour later, it was destroyed by a bomb, killing 270 people. In 1997, Abolghasem Mesbahi, a former senior Iranian intelligence official who switched alliances to Germany, claimed Iran contracted the bombing to Ahmed Jibril, leader of the terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP-GC). In a 2001 sworn deposition controlled by United…