September 11, 2001, will go down in history as a day of infamy. The day started as any other day with the Twin Towers standing in the New York skyline. At 8:45 a.m. on that Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 that had been hijacked by Islamic terrorists crashed into the North Tower. Eighteen minutes after the first crash, a United Airlines plane took a sharp turn and crashed into the South Tower. At 9:45 a.m. as everyone was watching the events unfold in New York, American Airlines…
The Remembrance of 9/11 Imagine you’re having an incredibly relaxing day walking through New York City in the cool, crisp weather. Suddenly, a plane crashes into the North building of the Twin Towers. Your heart begins to break as innocent people are jumping off the South building, committing suicide, right in front of you. This perspective shows the agonizing pain of someone just walking by the Twin Towers at the time of the incident. The attacks on September 11, 2001 were so tragic and…
9/11 was a catastrophic incident on the early morning of September 11, 2001. It was an organized attack carried out by four terrorist attacks by Al-Qaeda, an Islamic group, in total. The attackers hijacked airplanes (with passengers in them) and flown them into multiple locations such as, World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York, Pentagon in Washington, and a field in Pennsylvania. The terrorists also had bombs and weapons. An enormous amount of people were killed and injured; about 2,996…
The day of September 11th was a devastating day for The United States of America as the attacks killed 2,983 total people! Wow! Thats is a big attack! One thing I did not know is that there was something that happened in 1993 to lead up to 2001. The thing that happened was the attack on the World Trade Center that involved a bomb in the parking structure. I did not know that that happened and then I didn’t know that they said they would strike back and that this was the reason they attacked on…
Unbreakable: How Artists Influence American Values After 9/11 September 11, 2001. Even fifteen years later the very mentioning of that date conjures deeply buried emotions in Americans. Clearly, America has not forgotten the events of 9/11, but neither have its artists of all mediums. Photographers use their camera to arouse these guarded emotions by employing rhetorical devices to create arguments. An image, capturing but a single moment in history, can communicate a profound argument and evoke…
September 11th, 2001 was the day of a drastic terrorist attack in New York City. It remains to be the deadliest attack in the United States, although the death of so many innocent people could have been completely avoided. At exactly 8:46 am, flight 11 struck floors 93-99 of the north tower. At 9:03 am, the south tower was struck by flight 175. More people were injured than perished in the end of this devastating event. Many people feel as if both of the World Trade Center buildings were built…
This paper will focus on the response and alternatives to the London Transit Bombing on July 7th, 2005. It will focus on the response of the British Government to the attacks, as well as on any new laws or policies that came after the attacks had occurred. It will also analyze the impact that the government had in its response, as well as any alternatives that could have been used after the attacks. It will also discuss how other countries were impacted by the British Governments response to…
On September 11, 2001 around three thousand people were killed and around six thousand were injured when terrorists hijacked four planes and ran them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It was a devastating event that shocked the country. In March of 2006 construction started on a memorial to honor all of the people that were killed. They inscribed every victims name into bronze panels, that sit on the edge of the Memorial pools. Then it was finally opened on September 11, 2011. The…
Life, Death, and Effects of 9/11 September 11th, 2001. The 9/11 suicide bombings led to a series of changes throughout history. The bombings targeted symbolic U.S trade marks, the North and South twin towers. 19 Al-Qaeda members hijacked a plane, within 42 minutes, two 110 story buildings were demolished. There are many short term, and long term effects to this catastrophic attack such as: Tourism, airport security, and worst of all, ongoing wars. An example of a short term effect would be…
The incident that occurred on September 11, 2001 has proposed many theories and ideas to what exactly happened. The video we watched introduced many different theories of the people who studied the event in depth and of some people who actually endured and experienced the event first hand. The ethos in the video are the theories and credibility given to them produced by the Italian directors or the people who studied the attack and what they think actually caused certain things that occurred…