Al-Qaeda

Sixteen years ago on September 11, the United States experienced a terrorist attack that ended the lives of 3,000 Americans. Four airplanes were hijacked, two were used to crash into the World Trade Center, one was used to crash into the Pentagon, and the last one failed and crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania. On Native Soil is a documentary about the 9/11 Commission that investigated the flaws that allowed 9/11 to occur. After watching the movie it is clear that there were some major…

Life, Liberty and the Dispute of Happiness "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" (Lazarus, lines 10-14) This excerpt is from Emma Lazarus’ “The New Colossus” which is on a bronze plaque inside the Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island. The Statue of Liberty represents the welcoming of tens of thousands of immigrants from around…

Summary – Week 22 Chapter 23: This chapter addresses the threat of terrorism and the concept of globalization. *Both terrorism and globalization are difficult to define as they contain such a broad range of ideas, for example terrorists use grudges to fight against one another for resources. *However, terrorism begins with violence. *Terrorism has been apportioned from criminal acts due to their…

“You never know what 's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you 've climbed a mountain.” ― Tom Hiddleston. This relates to Kathryn Bigelow’s 2012 film Zero Dark Thirty because the characters in the film are determined, in the end they look back at their decisions and realizing what they have been through. The main character Maya played by Jessica Chastain is a fiercely driven,…

The organization that lately re-titled itself “the Islamic State” has existed under several names and forms since the 1990s. Its legend is an epic of how modern terrorism progressed, from a religious and political ideal into an obliterating-cult. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a properly-armed group that is a threat to the global security. ISIS, whose merciless members delight in murdering innocent people, must be destroyed before its fanatical followers carry out further…

Unfortunately, this event was a wake-up call for America, we are no longer untouchable thanks to the internet connecting to the entire world. According to John Muller, an American television journalist at ABC News, we were given false information that Al-Qaeda was a small organization at the time. In fact, it was actually few thousand members who pledged loyalty, now it has become a virus ( “Terrorism” 1). The fact that the American people were given false information and that we could have…

attack one of the most devastating days in America. The day it happened on a Tuesday of September, 2001. The United States we hurt badly during the 9/11 terrorist attack. First, I will be talking about the causes of 9/11. There was a group called al- Qaeda that was made in America and they were angry at America. So the terrorist were seeking revenge for Americans support in Israel. The terrorist group were unhappy with the U.S. being involved in the Persian Gulf war. Another cause for 9/11 was…

In 1994, a religious group known as the Taliban tried to impose their conservative beliefs amongst Central Asia, but did you know that the United States was a factor in creating the Taliban? Did you know that the United States even provided them with Military information too? The Taliban tried to impose their religion upon the people of Pakistan and Afghanistan. However, they were successful, but they later have been convicted of being responsible for multiple suicide bombings and other attacks.…

crashed into the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. It was the first time a multitude of people had ever seen a direct attack on the United States. This act of terror was planned by Osama Bin Laden and his terrorist group, Al-Qaeda. “Terrorism can be defined as the use of violence against civilians in order to achieve political goals,” (Woolf, pg.4). In this case,…

“American lexicon was one of the things that changed drastically in the months and years after the attack… phrases (9/11 being one of them) that entered everyday language: al-Qaeda, Taliban, ground zero, radicalism, extremism… usage dramatically increased and soon became part of Americans’ everyday lives” (Villemez 2). For example al-Qaeda can almost be considered a “household name,” along with Osama bin Laden as well. One of the most recognizable changes in the American lexicon post 9/11 is the…