Boston Marathon

On Presidents day, April 15th of 2013, the Boston Marathon was the focus of a terror attack. The people behind this attack were brothers Tamerlan Tsarnaev,26 years old and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev 19 years old. They had been United States residents for nearly a decade before they carried out the attack. As a result of the events, three spectators and one police officer were killed. In addition, more than 250 people were wounded from two bombs placed near the finish line. Sixteen of the wounded required…

this case, but because of the public opinion of the criminals who committed the crime. As said in The Economist, “There was little doubt of Mr Tsarnaev’s guilt. “It was him,”(The Economist) The living Boston Bomber is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who has since been sentenced to death by a jury in Boston. Tsarnaev is a Muslim and he committed a disgusting act of terror. In the public's opinion that has happened to many times in this country to call the act an isolated incident. With Islamic terror…

On the morning of April 15, 2013 the 117th running of the Boston Marathon was scheduled to start at 0932 hours with the top women runners starting first and then followed by the top men runners and the first wave of thousands of other runners to start the race at 1000 hours. Then at 1020 hours and 1040 hours the remaining waves of runners would start their attempt at this 26.2 mile marathon. Later that afternoon at approximately 1429 hours the first of two pressure cookers bombs detonated with…

Conditions Or Events What kept us together through 9/11? What pushed Aron Ralston to move forward after he was trapped? What did people rely on after the Boston marathon bombing? The answer is hope. Hope is what brought us together after the events of 9/11, and hope is what Aron ralston used to push through the conditions he was in. The victims of the Boston bombing hoped for the recovery of the wounded and the capture of the terrorist. Hope is one of many ways to survive through these…

April 15, 2013; an explosion occurred during the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring several hundred. This was the date when I decided to change my field of study from an important but broadly insignificant focus in mechanical engineering to one in political science. It was in the wake of this devastating blow to America’s security that I realized the important role I could play in shaping foreign policy and security initiatives should I devote my life to the study of international…

themselves look more important such as the lies told by Rosie Ruiz, Diane Downs, and Steve Rannazzisi. Rosie Ruiz lied to many people starting with “running” a marathon…

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. Sometime after the bombing, police captured one of the bombing suspects, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose older brother and…

How Visual Evidence Influenced the Boston Marathon Case It’s April 15th, 2013, the 117th running of the Boston Marathon. The runners line up at the start, with thousands of fans along the sidelines, all eagerly waiting to see who the next Boston Marathon winner will be. At 2:49 pm, the event went from cheerful to tragic. Within 12 seconds, two bombs go off 100 yards away from each other, killing three people, including an 8 year old boy. In today’s trial cases, lawyers are itching for any type…

Primack (2013) led a study that shows the effects of warming temperatures on winning times in the Boston Marathon. He and his three co-authors, Dr. Abe Miller Rushing, Dr. Nathan Phillips and Dr. Robert Kaufmann, examined the timing of the Boston Marathon runners from the years 1933 to 2004. They found that when warmer temperatures and headwinds occurred the day of the race, the runners were indeed slowed down. The reasoning for this research was to further their focus on climate change from…

It took only an instant for what should have been a moment of joy and hope to become a time of distress and chaos. People lost and hurt, lives shattered and bruised; the 2013 Boston marathon bombing transformed the runners and spectators, the people of Boston, and all the family and friends. The May 2013 issue of Boston magazine was only a few days out from publishing, and yet the team had to put away what they had and start from scratch. With an event on this scale, they understood the…