National September 11 Memorial & Museum

(MIP-2) Najmah's voice is of a girl who has had her life ruined by the Taliban, a real, radical Islamic terrorist group, and we can hear her voice through her struggles and encounters with this terrorist group. (SIP-A) Her voice can be heard through her exposure to the Taliban, a fundamentalist Islam terrorist group. (STEWE-1) Najmah’s first encounter with the Taliban is when they take her father and brother away. The talibs were accusing Baba-jan of helping their enemies. They took all the…

During the Revolutionary War, gaining the upper hand was imperative to defeat the British. George Washington wanted to know every detail on what was occurring, in all 13 colonies, especially involving anything that dealt with the British. Washington understood the importance of espionage and therefore creating a spy group called “The Culper Ring”. Washington made Benjamin Tallmadge as the as director of military intelligence. Tallmadge charged a spy ring in New York City, the site of British…

Al-Shabab’s ideology is typically described as a brand of Salafism and Wahhabism that supports takfir, the excommunication of apostates or unbelievers. Though it has stated many goals in the past, the group fights first and foremost to create a fundamentalist Islamic state in the Horn of Africa that would include not only Somalia but also Djibouti, Kenya, and Ethiopia. Islamism and Salafism served to express commonalities and build alliances against shared enemies who happened to be world…

Technology is everywhere- a world without the internet, smartphones, computers and many more technologies that make our life easier seem to be impossible. It has and will always change our life- warfare is not an exception. One of the most important changes in warfare within the last decades is the development of unmanned aerial vehicles-better known as drones. As the name already explains itself, drones are aerial vehicles, air crafts, without human pilots in them. They come in different…

enemy fighters opened fire on the bomb squadron without an escort from ally fighter jets. He may have committed this amazing feat, but he is known for many other things as well. I chose this topic because he is my family and he is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Louis T. Seith had important roles, many accomplishments, and a strong character. Louis had many significant roles. During World War II, Louis fought for the U.S. in the Air Force. He was the commander of the 483rd Bomb Group.…

Humans were created to do good and given the ability to reason right from wrong. The gift of our conscience is a beautiful thing. It is unfortunate that in our world many humans fail to love and fall victim to the many evils of this life. I believe that humans are bad because they are motivated by power and thus they become blood thirsty to acquire and retain it. William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies shows that humans are malicious through the murder of Simon (pg. 202). Simon was the…

Conspiracy theories have become almost a big trend in American culture. Many of these conspiracy theories relate back to the American government, and usually not in a good way. One of the most well known conspiracies is the Malcolm X assassination. Malcolm X was a prominent civil rights figure during the 1950s and 1960s. He fought for equality amongst White Americans and African Americans, which was seen as a threat by many White Americans. Although many believe Malcolm X was killed by his own…

In the article, “An Afghan American Speaks” by Tamim Ansary, he talks about how it was for him after 9/11 happened. How Americans were raged by the fact of how could someone want to kill so many people. Many Americans wanted to take all of their anger out by, “bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age” as Ansary says in his article. Ansary uses Pathos a lot throughout his article. Some ways that he uses Pathos in his article is at the beginning when Ansary states how he heard on the radio that…

around 2500 innocent Americans died, from a surprise attack, which was an attempt for Japan to become a major world power after leaving economical isolation. Another attempt to undermine the powers of America took place in the early 21st century on September…

D.B. Cooper: The Unsolved Hijacking “Miss. You’d better look at that note. I have a bomb,”. This quote from Cooper is what began the infamous hijacking in 1971 (Gray). There is still plenty of debate about whether or not he survived the jump that enabled him to get away on that night. This debate stems from the plethora of facts that can back up either side of the story. Who knows how it has been over forty years with the case still open and still unsolved. Although it may never be proven…