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    Massachusetts destine for Los Angeles, California, a Boeing 767 loaded with ninety two passengers which included the five hijackers and the flight crew of eleven as well as twenty thousand gallons of jet fuel barreled into the north tower of the World Trade Center located in New York City. The hit left a burning hole the size a commercial jet, in the building near the 80th floor of the one hundred and ten story skyscraper. This instantly killed hundreds of people and trapped hundreds more in the…

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    9/11 Tragic Events

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    world. September 11, 2001 is a day that will be remembered for thousands of years. It is known as the day were 2,977 innocent American lives were lost to the bloody hands of 19 Arabian hijackers in the cowardly terrorist attack of the two World Trade Centers. There is a clear distinction between life in the City before, during, and after the tragic event occurred. Between mourning for the dead and thousands having to find new jobs, the event sent the city into turmoil. Before the attack, the…

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    I Am Legend Response

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    The United States was changed forever on the morning of September 11, 2001; the day that foreign Iranian terrorists planned and executed the first major domestic attack on the United States homeland. The planes that attacked New York City, the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania (that was possibly en route to the White House or U.S. Capitol building) did more than just demolish infrastructure across the United States, kill nearly 3,000 Americans, and injure 6,000 more; it damaged the entire nation by…

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    Our country faces multiple problems that are all at different levels. Some are more important than others and affect everyone differently. One of the problems in our country is youth incarceration. Youth Incarceration needs to be reconfigured into a positive changing experience for troubled teens instead of a horrible time that effects the reason of their lives in a negative way. Youth incarceration is when a young adult younger than eighteen is sentenced to serve a certain amount of time in a…

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    9/11 Disasters

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    varying results. The most relevant attack that the United States has endured is the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. This series of collapses among the World Trade Center sparked a nationwide hatred and fear for terrorist groups in the Middle East that called for a war. At the time it was believed that…

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    The study on suicide ideation and suicide attempt, which was the thesis of this article focused on the consequences of multiple adverse life experiences, included male and female adolescents at an urban juvenile detention facility in Ohio (Bhatta, Jefferis, Kavadas, Alemagno & Shaffer-King, 2014). The four adverse life events which were the primary focus of the study are: (1) sexual abuse, (2) homelessness, (3) running away, and (4) substance abuse in the family. The authors believe that an…

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    September 11 Pros And Cons

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    The terrorists hijacked four planes total and three of them were crashed into America’s most prominent buildings of the World Trade Center in New York named the Twin Towers. Moreover, the Pentagon located in Washington was also attacked and all of that was done within the 60 minute span. To this day, that unbearable 60 minutes is still very unforgettable for America. According to…

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    Life Sentences For juveniles. I am a pro in this situation of teens being charged as adults. Juveniles are being charged as adults now a days more and more cause to the crimes they are committing. Teens are doing these crimes and are not realizing the consequences to these crimes. They have that mindset that if they do something they won’t face serious charges due to their age. There is 1st degree 2nd degree third degree and involuntary manslaughter. I am a pro because I believe that if an…

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    't remember much about the 911 terrorist attacks or simply were too young to witness the catastrophe that happened. The book I read was American Ground: Unbuilding The World Trade Center by William Langewiesche. The author William Langewiesche is a well-known award winning journalist who covered the World Trade Center clean-up as well as the Iraq War and modern ocean piracy but before the writing career started he was a professional pilot (Langewiesche 1). It provided me great information and…

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    September 11th 2001, left a huge impact on people’s lives all over the country. Michael Burke, a wall street journalist, talks about 9/11 in the article, “No Firemen at Ground Zero This 9/11?”. He explains how brave the firemen were on the attack of 9/11. On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the firemen were not invited to ground zero to watch the remembrance ceremony, they were told they could watch it at another area on tvs. They were told there wasn’t enough room at ground zero for them, but…

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