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How do you remember the date: 9/11/1? Certain dates may stand out to some individuals, but one particular date will persistently stand out to the entire country of the United States of America, and that date is 9/11. Adam Goodheart states “Each a honeycomb that traps us side by side with strangers” (242). Goodheart is saying that each of the items: a skyscraper, and an airplane and how the enclose us with strangers. Goodheart also states “Each a rig that suspends us far above the ground,…

September 11, 2001 was undoubtedly a tragic and unforgettable day in the history of the United States. Almost 3,000 deaths, 6,000+ injuries, and infrastructure damages were the unfortunate results of this act of terror. The government and media made statements that these four coordinated attacks were committed by al-Qaeda, an Islamic terrorist group. Shortly after, the United States declared war and launched its attacks and weapons in Afghanistan, also known as the War on Terror. Osama bin Laden…

Breaking News! On March 25 at 4:40 PM 159 people were working when a fire broke out in the Asch Building which is located in the heart of New York City. Workers were on the top three floors working overtime to produce shirtwaists when the building became enflamed. 146 people died, and most of them were young women; some were under the age of fifteen. There were 13 survivors; all of them were women. 54 people, in an effort to survive, leaped out of the windows of the ten story building.…

Have you ever heard about the 9/11 attacks in the New York City? This tragic incident happened on 11 September 2011 where four planes were hijacked by 19 men, collided into the NYC World Trade Centre and led to the deaths of roughly 3,000 people. Before the 9/11 attacks, there was another deadliest act of terrorism happened in the United States on the 19 of April 1995 claimed the lives of 168 people including children and 800 more wounded (Josef, 2014). This deadliest attacks also caused damaged…

The weather and setting of Roger Rosenblatt’s essay, “The Man in the Water,” had a prodigious effect on one particular man as well as everyone else who was involved in the catastrophic January 13, 1982 crash of Air Florida Flight 90. Due to the winter season and the weather conditions, the water in the Potomac River where passengers landed was frigid. One courageous man stepped forward and began to save as many of the horrified and dying people as he could. Since the water was so cold, it…

armed with crude, sharp objects that had gone undetected by security systems on the ground ”(Pritchard). Americans were destroyed when the towers went down thousand killed and injured, as well as the fact that every thing went through the world trade center. As a nation we become closed off from the rest of the world and we became more strict. “The September 11 attacks immersed the United states into new era of international relations in which the conventional rules of diplomacy and military…

Al Qaeda, which is Arabic for “the base”, is an Islamic terrorist group whose ultimate goal is to establish its version of Islamic rule all across any Muslim territory. 9/11, as well as other terrorist attacks, were some of the many attacks in the past decade conducted by Al Qaeda. On September 11, 2001, Al Qaeda hijacked 4 American passenger planes. Then, they flew those planes, conducting a suicide mission as they flew those hijacked planes into both Twin Towers and the Pentagon. The 4th plane…

of the faces of those who died in the World Trade Center destruction are assembled in one place, it will be possible to trace in the skin color, the shape of the eyes and the noses, and texture of the hair, a map of the world.” This is saying that the bad things to happen in America, didn’t just happen to one culture. The ones who think they’re better than everyone else weren’t the only ones who were victimized. The attack on the World Trade Center was an attack on parts of the whole world. In…

bout 80 years ago a very tragic disaster happened. The Hindenburg disaster. A lot of people lost their friends, family, and local people in their city. This was a big event happening on May 6, 1937. The Length of the Hindenburg was about 245m/803.8 feet. The diameter was 41.2m/135.1 feet. The gas capacity was 200,00 cubic meters/ 7,062,000 cubic feet. It traveled at about 135 km/h and 84 mph. It’s made out of gelatin on top of a sheet of cotton. This disaster was famous because it was the…

out of the station the world trade center is on fire! “Oh no oh no oh no” I thought desperately “ can our hoses even reach that high up?” I was so scared, there was people just standing there watching the towers burn *ALL UNITS REPORT TO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER* the loudspeaker screeched that was my cue I had to go as fast as I could, sirens on and engine screaming I was off.After ten minutes of driving through the streets I finally made it to the world trade centers I started to spray the…