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    SOCIOLOGICAL CRITICAL THINKING By Seth Owen The Beltway sniper attacks were a string of killings that occurred between October 2, 2002 and October 22, 2002 in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. The perpetrators, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, claimed ten victims and wounded seven others during the attacks. Their criminal activity began in February, 2002 with a series of murders and robberies in eight different states which left seven dead and seven wounded. The shootings were…

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    Attack on Pearl Harbor On December 8,1941 President Roosevelt said his famous quote “ this date which will forever live in infamy.” This was a day before the Japanese attacked the U.S. naval base, Pearl Harbor. I am doing this specific war in history because I feel like this more popular event in time misinterpreted because a majority of the people of this generation only know about this date because of a movie. In this I’m going to discuss not only what happened during the attack, but also…

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    The Japanese Admiral Yamamoto made a very important foreshadowing statement after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.” He meant that the Japanese had poked the U.S. awake and the Japanese were about to be swallowed. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed the United States Naval fleet at Pearl Harbor. There was a lot of infrastructure damage and human lives lost as a result.…

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    he was speaking to Congress on the attack on Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Hawaii was attacked by the over 350 Japanese planes in a surprise attack staged by the empire of Japan. Although the United States was not yet involved in World War II, their naval forces posed a threat to the Japanese’s push for expansion in the South Pacific. This propelled the Japanese Empire to attack the US. Amongst many other things, most importantly, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor prompted the…

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    has officially joined the war after a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor early Sunday morning. This plan, known as Operation Z, was created by Isoroku Yamamoto, a Japanese Marshal Admiral. Just before 8:00a.m. on December 7, a fleet of Japanese war planes approached the Hawaiian island of Oahu and bombed the U.S. naval base, Pearl Harbor. A total of over three hundred Japanese fighter and bomber planes were sent in two waves to carry out the attack. Radars located at Pearl Harbor picked up a…

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    then he takes me to watching TV . 9:37 Suddenly I walk outside and here that the pentagon got hit. I run down there and see everything going down i look at the pentagon and say oh my goodness. i look at a news lady and she says it was a terrorist attack. I look at myself I have dirt all over me and blood from a piece of glass.suddenly i look up and see another plane i look at where it's going and i suddenly heard the lady say the planes hit a field in Pennsylvania. I suddenly I look at the…

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    sad realization. It was December 7, 1941, and she was on the USS Oakaholma when a huge explosion threw her off the ship. Dana, who was floating in the cool water, realized what was going on because of the book she read in history class. It was the attack on Pearl Harbor. Dana was so in shock that she could not swim to shore and saw everything, the ships getting destroyed, and the hundreds of people being killed by the fire. She saw the biggest boat the USS Arizona, get destroyed with one giant…

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    interest in the introductory paragraphs. Yes, the author clearly state in any introductory paragraphs what she is going to argue in the Unit 4 Research Paper. The argumentative claim is that Americans view Muslim as a treat because of the 9/11 terrorist attack many citizens are concern with there safety. Congress then passed laws to protect it 's citizen. Yes, I personally think the argumentative claim is interesting and different from what’s already been argued before. Since, this topic is so…

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    . December 7, 1941 Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor with bombs and torpedos .First i'm going to be giving a background of both of these attacks. The attack on 9/11 was planned on 1996 by Osama Bin Laden along with 19 other men who were from Saudi Arabia. Osama bin laden had a training camp for the 19 men so they could prepare for the attack . The cost of this attack was approximately $400000 to $500000 the 19 men already included.They spent most on traveling to different parts of the world ,…

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    setting that it took place at, which was a concert, was a place that people went to with the intent of having a good time. It only shows that terrorist attacks can happen anywhere and that they can affect people no matter what the situation is. My second reason is that many of the victims of this attack were around my age, which proves that terrorist attacks can affect people of all ages. My third and final reason is that I found the response not only from the police interesting, but the…

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