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    Precarious Life This paper aims to discuss about the problem of the rhetoric of Judith Butler’s “Violence, Mourning, Politics” of Precarious Life (2004) by comparing with Douglas Crimp’s “Mourning and Militancy” (1989). Immediately after the September 11 attacks (9/11) in 2001, the majority of US nations supported the United States governments conducts that they launched air raids on Afghanistan and Iraq and detained indefinitely people of Arabic origin in Guantanamo Bay. Butler attempts to the…

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    Many of these deaths came from the attacks of 9/11. On September 11, 2001, 19 Al Qaeda members carried out suicide attacks that would eventually become the biggest Terrorist attack on America ever. These 19 members hijacked four planes and executed attacks across the east coast. Two of the these planes were…

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    Al-Qaeda terrorist hijackers. The day when pain and panic took over the US, about 3,000 innocent people died including New York residents, people in Tower 2, firefighters, police officers, the passengers in the planes, and paramedics (“How Many”). September 11, 2001 the day the Pentagon Building was crashed into and World Trade Center Twin Towers collapsed. The Al-Qaeda group, hijacked planes flying to Los Angeles and San Francisco after they took off from Washington and Boston (“How Many”).…

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    they do exactly that they help to insure the safety of the community and do not expect any thanks in return. As a result, the community is safe and the people are happy. First, we are going to talk about our fire fighters are brave for an example 9/11. One of the worst…

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    Not a television in the country was turned off; the stench of neglected cooking fills the air as families across the United States stop what they are doing to watch the unimaginable. On September 11, 2001 Al Qaeda leads a hijacking of commercial airline planes, driving it into the twin towers. Terrorism was the word on everyone’s lips, however the bitter taste of the Taliban in America could not compare to the brutality in its origins, Afghanistan. Through Khaled Hosseini’s historical fiction…

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    Ethnic vs Behavioral Profiling Rough Draft On September 11th, the President proclaimed that the security of the airline industry needs to be augmented and all security efforts need to be accelerated. He invoked the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Office of Transportation, Central Intelligence Agency, and other federal organizations to oversee this operation. Surprisingly, this speech was given thirty years prior to 9/11 by then President Richard Nixon. His speech was given in response to…

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    a total of 168 deaths, 19 were children that were in the day-care center that the building had, and more than 500 people were injured. The bomb was made with ammonium nitrate and fuel oil. This was the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil until September 11, 2001. When the bombing happened it affected other buildings around. The explosion destroyed more than 300 other buildings around the immediate area. The event happened in Oklahoma City and nowhere else because the building was right against…

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    15 Years ago now on September 11, 2001 at 08:46 EST the United States and the world was forever changed. After these attacks the world would see an increase in Security, surveillance, and military action. Terrorism is now the most talked about problem in society today, terrorist acts cause political, economic, and social problems for the area or country that these extremist groups attack or target. Terrorist events have major effects on society such as economic, political and social problems in…

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    No Room for First Responders September 11th 2001, two-thousand nine hundred and ninety six people lost their lives. Three hundred and forty three of them were firefighters. Michael Burke, a Wall Street Journalist who is a brother and a son to a firemen, is furious and offended that the families of the first responders were not invited to the 10th anniversary remembrance. By writing this, Burke’s goal is to put pressure on the New York City Mayor, Mike Bloomberg. Also, Burke wanted to leverage…

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    Al Qaeda Ideology

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    Al Qaeda is a terror group with a deep religious ideology, which it uses to justify their actions. Al Qaeda has a Salafi-Jihadi ideology, a dogma that has found its beginnings with Jamal al Din al Afghani. Four main terms that formulate this ideology are Salifism, Jihad, Hijra, and Jahiliyya. Al Qaeda engages in what is called a lesser jihad, meaning creating a better community, expanding it or defending it through terror attacks or war. Greater Jihad includes betterment of the community and the…

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