TWA Flight 800

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    1. What is your reaction to Ansary's famous post 9-11 email? Use quotations from the email to explain. After the attack on the World Trade Center Tamim Ansary sent out an email. Which quickly spread like wildfire. Fueled by emotions he sent out an email discussing that his home Afghanistan was not part of the attack. Within three days of this email Tamim was receiving calls from news networks, because of it. When hearing of Tamim’s experiences as he witnessed and heard people saying that all Muslims must pay as well as America should bomb Afghanistan to the dark ages. To the people of America, they didn’t know that that has already happened “Make the afghans suffer?...Level their houses? Done. Turn their schools into piles of rubble? Done. Eradicate their hospitals? Done. Destroy their infrastructure? Cut them off from medicine and heath care? Too late. Someone already did all that.” (Ansary 291). This email showed that people in America got too much blood lust, and were just looking to kill their enemy’s. As a student stand point I believe the email was something fantastically written, and heart felt, but American still went to Afghanistan. 2. Both Tamim and Malala view Islam and their countries and traditions much differently than the Taliban. Explain. For both Tamim and Malala they view Islam as their religion that is being transformed by these maniacs called the Taliban. For Tamim he seen that the practices the extremists were preaching somehow find their way to his…

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    Flight 800 Case Study

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    What Really Happened to Flight 800? When flying on a plane many might be scared for there life when soaring through the sky at such a high height, but with the chance of losing your life being only at one in a 11 million it is unlikely anything would happen (curiosity.com). Tragically this one in a 11 million chance happened to everyone on TWA Flight 800, with odds in their favor this became a national mystery for the cause of this intentional or unintentional mishap. The aircraft and the…

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    Flight 800 Research Paper

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    Flight 800, Pure Tragic The odds of someone getting in an airplane crash and dying are one in eleven-million. The one plane crash that has been talked about the most the past 22 years is Flight 800 better known as “TWA Flight 800”. This was unluckily one of those one in eleven-millions. However, did the plane just crash? Or was it apart of something or someone´s plan. Was there really a missle that hit the midsection of the plane that caused it to explode. Or a short circuit that ignited a…

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    it is interesting when reporting the crimes of the government, whistleblowers are labeled as criminals by those who are committing the actual crimes. If I were President (POTUS), hypothetically, how would I handle the situation of a commercial airliner with 331 passengers, which has been hijacked by a terrorist with a bomb; in addition to, whose target is Yankee Stadium (seating capacity 50, 287) where the third game of the World Series is underway (New York Yankees, 2016)? Naturally, the…

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    how people died. At the body farm, she is shown cadavers at different stages of the composition being worked on by various bugs, chemicals, and microorganisms. Roach also describes the process of decomposition ranging from the newly deceased, fresh stage to the last stage, purification. Later, she talks about the process of embalming. She first witnessed embalming at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science. Going into detail, Roach describes that embalming makes use of the circulatory…

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    Airways resulted in The American Airlines Group (AMR) forming the largest airline in the world. AMR operates over 6,700 flights daily to over 350 destinations in 50 countries and recently set new records for both traffic and capacity in February, 2016 (AA, 2015, 2016). AA earned many successes and even more challenges over the decades. This paper will briefly highlight a few of the major events in American Airlines history including how the airline was created, important mergers and related…

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    Ebola Society Vulnerable

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    treated fairly if he perceives the ratio of his inputs to his outcomes to be equivalent to those around him”. The poor would compare their income and others’ income so as to be discontented to society. Thus, the increasing poverty and inequality would establish social unrest, undermine social stability, and amplify social vulnerability. At the same time, burgeoning information technology also makes society vulnerable. When information technology brings great convenience to our life, it is also a…

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    for democratic politics, even leading to acts of violence.” This quote with the examples above shows the degree of effect that can occur when fake news prevails. Also, it shows society that news media reform in necessary for now and the future. Although, many argued that social media is the problem, I believe that social media is only that amplifier to the underlying problem. Throughout the years of society, fakes news circulates with no credible sources behind it with or without the…

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    Working Out Kinks as Its First Birthday Arrives,” USA Today (February 28, 1996), p. 4b. 2Fred Renville, United Airlines employee quoted in “Denver Still Working Out Kinks as Its First Birthday Arrives,” USA Today (February 28, 1996), p. 4b. Assistant Professor Ramiro Montealegre and Research Associate H. James Nelson of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Research Associate Carin Isabel Knoop, and Professor Lynda M. Applegate prepared this case as the basis for class discussion rather than…

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