War on Terrorism

On March 25, 1911, a Saturday afternoon, as the workday was coming to an end the Triangle Shirtwaist Companies factory in New York City burned, killing 145 workers. The factory was located on the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors of the Asch Building in a neighborhood of Manhattan. The floor the employees were working on had a number of exits, including a freight elevator, a fire escape (that crumbled), and stairways; however, rapidly increasing flames quickly prevented workers from using those…

How do you remember the date: 9/11/1? Certain dates may stand out to some individuals, but one particular date will persistently stand out to the entire country of the United States of America, and that date is 9/11. Adam Goodheart states “Each a honeycomb that traps us side by side with strangers” (242). Goodheart is saying that each of the items: a skyscraper, and an airplane and how the enclose us with strangers. Goodheart also states “Each a rig that suspends us far above the ground,…

bout 80 years ago a very tragic disaster happened. The Hindenburg disaster. A lot of people lost their friends, family, and local people in their city. This was a big event happening on May 6, 1937. The Length of the Hindenburg was about 245m/803.8 feet. The diameter was 41.2m/135.1 feet. The gas capacity was 200,00 cubic meters/ 7,062,000 cubic feet. It traveled at about 135 km/h and 84 mph. It’s made out of gelatin on top of a sheet of cotton. This disaster was famous because it was the…

Today the conspiracy theories are prevalent however what conspiracy theories are? Conspiracy theories are statements that make peculiar interpretations of historical or contemporary events, often implying an open analysis of events as deliberate deception. Conspiracy theories usually lack evidence, and absurd logic is the basis of many rumors. So conspiracy theories were created by suspicion. In the mode world, conspiracy theories are everywhere for instance on September 11, 2001, when…

Tuesday, September,11,2001 for many this was a normal old Tuesday. But this wasn't any old Tuesday this was marked as one of the worst tragedy on American soil since the attacks on Peral Harbor. This day also shaped the way on how American respond to terrorist attacks by creating two new organizations Homeland Security an also the creation of the TSA and also this marked the day that American Troops being sent to Afghanistan an Iraq. On this Day a group of Al-Qade terrorists hijacked four planes…

People think of heroism and bravery differently. In all three passages both heroism and bravery are shown ; each in a different way than the other. In all three stories “ Flight 93”, “Memories from Normandy”, and “The Man in the Water” there are groups of people showing heroism and bravery. Unlike the “American Dream” there is still heroism and bravery in the world. In the story “Flight 93”; refusing to give in without a fight” a group of people aboard a plane showed heroism and bravery to the…

Anytime a tragedy like a train crash occurs the government, company executives, and pundits attempt to discover what went awry. In the case of the Metrolink in 2008, Robert Sanchez was emotionally distraught, traveling at a high rate of speed, and distracted by a text message crashed his train into a Union Pacific train. Sanchez along with twenty-three passengers died because of the collision (Steiner, 2012, p. 342). Sanchez had a history of minor violations and had a lengthy history of…

To start, a series of wars began to conjure up that are still ongoing to this very day. Immigration and deportation have been problems simply out of fear. Many citizens stereotype that all people who are from the Middle East are terrorists. As a solution, those immigrants are…

In 1956, there was a mid-air collision in Grand Canyon. A Douglas DC-7 (United Airlines) collide with a Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation (Trans World Airlines) resulting in killing every single person in those two airplanes, which were 128 people total. When the Civil Aeronautics Board investigated this tragedy, they found out that ground controller in the Salt Lake City knew about that those two airplanes were on a crash course. However, since those two airplanes were in the uncontrolled…

Are you afraid of flying in planes? More than 20 million people are afraid of going on planes and unfortunately I’m one of them. My mom, dad, and sister Harman boarded the plane at MCI. We were off to Las Vegas. I know that Las Vegas is a weird place to go with your family but we went anyways. Las vegas wasn’t the only place we were going, but it was where the adventure began. We had arrived at Las Vegas. As soon as we stepped outside we were sweating. It was 114 degrees! It felt like the sun…