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    Government Oversight Formation 1971 Founder Adm. Gene La Rocque, Adm. Eugene Carroll Extinction 2012 Location Washington, D.C. In 2005, CDI expanded by creating the Straus Military Reform Project [3] for the purpose of promoting military reform in the Pentagon and Congress. Winslow T. Wheeler, a former Capitol Hill staffer and General Accounting Office assistant director,…

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    Hollywood Film Analysis

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    military and Hollywood films shows that there is long history of cooperation between the Pentagon and Hollywood. Both take advantage of each other. For example, the Pentagon allows filmmakers the use of advanced military equipment for filming. In return, the filmmakers producing war movies give their transcripts to the Department of Defense (DOD) for approval (Gregory 1). For example…

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    subordinate roles. More women took on leadership roles and also influenced organizing models, styles, and content. Women became leaders in the human rights, environmental, women’s and gay liberation movements, as illustrated in the 1980 Women’s Pentagon Action in Washington DC. The purpose of the movement was to give awareness to and transform public dialogue. The women were fighting for…

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    together and help each other when disasters strike. It is nice to know we live in a country that cares about one another because when the World Trade Center the Pentagon and Hurricane Katrina strike, and many cities and families where affected. In September 11, 2001 four troops hijacked four airlines and strike the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. People that day risked their life’s to help people evacuate the buildings that had bine strike. Police Departments helped people try and find family…

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    opens up painting a scene of the morning of the September 2001 Terror Attacks. It mentions how terrorists coordinated various hijackings of aircraft across the country and used it to attack various landmarks such as the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon. As it continued it mentioned how investigators attempted to connect the various pieces together to determine what caused these attacks to occurs and who performed them. It was found that if various departments had communicated more…

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    going to happen, but I can tell you about my favorite moments in life like that one time I got my first dog that wasn’t real, and when my best friend and I went a whole day telling people we were sisters, oh and I can 't forget the time I went to the Pentagon for the first time! All of these are their own adventures. These are some of the moments that define who I am, the places I’ve been, and the people I’ve seen. Now let me tell you about them. “ Mom I want a dog.” No. “ Please mom, I really…

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    9/11 Consequences

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    The most significant event that took place on September 11 was when two hijacked planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, crashed into the North and South towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. At 8:46am, American Airlines Flight 11 was crashed into the North tower, and at 9:03am, United Airlines Flight 175 was crashed into the South tower of the World Trade Center complex. The South tower collapsed at 9:59am after burning for 56 minutes and the North tower…

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    The tragic events of September 11, 2001 at the New York City, Pentagon and Shanksville, PA Flight 93 site locations was a defining day in the history of the United States and the contemporary world. The three September 11, 2001 sites, referred to as 9/11 sites, were selected for the Hit the Field assignment because these 9/11 memorial sites are at the nexus of passionate interests, career experience and global relevance, as further described below and shown in Figure 1. First, the 9/11 sites…

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    11, 2001, was the most terrifying day of my life. Nineteen radicals linked with the Islamic terrorist alliance al-Qaeda skyjacked four aircrafts and made suicide attacks against national landmarks in the United States. One plane smashed into the Pentagon not too far from Washington, D.C., and the second aircraft collided in an arena in the middle of Pennsylvania. The last two aircrafts soared into the towers of the World Trade Center located in New York City, this terrorist act caused both…

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    The White House and Pentagon was both victim of a “groupthink” as they tussled to reach a conclusive decision to launch a mission. Unknowingly to both party, each group has their own criteria on how they are going to launch the mission, and as well, both group view the success…

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