World Trade Center

The Costs of Terrorist Attacks on 9/11 On September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda Islamic terrorists hijacked four airplanes and crashed two of them into the World Trade Center in New York City, the third into the Pentagon in Virginia, and the fourth into a field in Pennsylvania. President George W. Bush was reading to a group of kids in a middle school when he was told the news, and soon later stepped out. He responded by giving a speech to the nation and implementing the Government’s emergency response…

When considering its significant impact on the world the history of terrorism is relatively brief. That being said, as it propagates across the globe its brevity is shrinking and it continues to find its way into news headlines and into the history books. It’s a safe notion to associate the beginning of radical terrorism to the 1980s. The 1980s was a time period where terrorist adopted many of their tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) that are still used today. 1983 was a particularly…

On Tuesday , September 11, 2001, nineteen members of the isismic terrorist group crashed planes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, killing thousands. After the events of 9/11 our security was increased and our military was immedialty activated. On September 11 ,2001 at 8:48am a plane crashed into the North tower in New York's World Trade Center. At 9:03am an other plane had hit the Twin tower. There were two other planes that were under attack. One didnt make it but…

Tower and the museum began. “By laying this magnificent cornerstone of hope, we are sending a message to the people around the world that freedom will always prevail” (Reyes 28). “Symbols help us make sense of the world” (Townsend N.P.). The Freedom tower is a symbol of freedom because it stands in the same place as the twin towers saying we are not afraid of you to the world. The freedom tower built was bilt to be a simbal that…

next; but, it is too late. Seconds later, flight 11 struck around the 90th floor of the North Tower in the World Trade Center.…

September 11, 2001, at 8:45 a.m. on an unmistakable Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 stacked with 20,000 gallons of stream fuel collided with the north pinnacle of the World Trade Center in New York City. The effect left a vast, consuming gap close to the 80th floor of the 110-story high rise, immediately slaughtering several individuals and catching hundreds more in higher floors. As the clearing of the pinnacle and its twin got in progress, TV cameras communicated live…

The twin towers other words known as building one and two of the seven building world trade center in New York. Building one and two were built in 1972. The construction of the North tower beginning in August of 1968, and construction of the South Tower starting in January 1969. Standing at 1368 feet being made out of steel a they were designed to be the tallest buildings in the world at the time. The World Trade Center was designed with the the concept of having and using 10 million square…

and crewmembers are immediately killed. One hundred two minutes after being struck by Flight 11, the World Trade Center’s North Tower falls straight to the ground, going floor by floor, at 10:28 am. Lower Manhattan is covered in ash, smoke, paper, and even body parts. At 11:00 am, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani enforces an evacuation on Lower Manhattan. After burning for hours, the Seven World Trade Centers collapses at 5:20 pm. For the rest of the day and much longer after that, people continue to…

About 14 years, 14 days, and 2 minutes ago there was a U.S disaster. A man named Steven Smith who worked in the North tower of the World Trade Center on the 88th floor. Steven was on the elevator and was coming down the elevator to the 26th floor, as he looked down to check his phone it was 8:46 he felt a shake like an earthquake. ”OOO WHAT WAS THAT” Steven said. That’s when his whole day changed. As Steven began to ask people questions he wondered what it was he looked outside and saw a…

accident. The terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers and other locations on September 11, 2001 was planned by the government of the United States. Four planes were hijacked on September 11, 2001. The planes were flown into three buildings. One building was the Pentagon. The Pentagon is where the headquarters of defense is for the United States. The Pentagon was hit on the western side of the building. The other buildings were the World Trade Centers. The World Trade…