In his documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11”, the film maker Michael Moor explains his recognition to revealing the various deceptions made by George W Bush. Resulting from the 9/11 attack, George W. Bush used this event for his own personal gain, and advantage in foriegn affairs. As a result of the 9/11 attack, George W. Bush abuses this major event for the scam of money, power, and war.…
Enough Conspiracy Theories, Already The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 By David Ray Griffin. Second edition. Olive Branch Press. 254 pages. $15.…
The day of September 11th, 2001 the world witnessed with disbelief as the World Trade Center in New York City came crashing down. The shock the attacks generated and the some 3,000 or more people it killed made it one of the brutal attacks in history. One may only wonder how such a grand scaled attack could be carried through. Although controversial, evidence suggests that the September 11th attacks in 2001 were an inside job and the statements of the Bush administration following them were a fabricated truth that many people believed. Unfortunately the tragic event has scarred the lives of many people globally and changed the course of the near future.[1]…
* Ray Griffin, D. (2006, 5). The 9/11 Truth Movement - 911truth.org. 9/11: The Myth and the Reality - 911truth.org. Retrieved March 1, 2013, from http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20060405112622982…
On September 11, 2001, It was just an ordinary day for everyone living in New York City and Washington D.C, doing their usual routine, but those were about to change in a single beat. Two big towers were completely destroyed, 4 huge commercial airplanes were crashed, one hit the field of Pennsylvania, and the pentagon were almost demolished in a flashed of an eye, a horrible experienced that caused a dramatic reaction not only to the people who saw it but to the people who were in contact of 9/11. After all the attacked, this is something that the Americans will never forget. “This wasn't al Qaeda's first terrorist attack, but it was the deadliest”.(Ojalvo,1)…
Enter Charles Krauthammer, the author of, “The 9/11 “Overreaction”? Nonsense.” This charming essay on his version of the after effects of 9/11 in the US and his take on it was originally published in the Washington Post on September 8th, 2011, 3 days before the 10th anniversary of the fall of American communal trust. In it, he claims that the event was an eye opener, the act revealing to the general public that we, in terms of military and preparedness, were not prepared enough as a nation. It unleased “the massive and unrelenting American war on terror, a systematic worldwide campaign carried…
This chapter focuses on how the recent War on Terror has affected the lives of who is assumed to be responsible for September 11th even when they are innocent. A strong connection between the chapter and the documentary is the obstacles immigrant youth have had to overcome, “…all of them have had to grapple with…
Reading about 9/11 has been very insightful, because we have considered the historical significance of it. The article “Security vs. Freedom” shows a lot of the historical aspect of 9/11. It explains…
For generations, people have been astonished and affected by events that have transpired into influential elements of their time and times to come. The 20th and 21st Centuries are filled with many historic and controversial people and events which have drastically shaped and changed the way people live their everyday life in today’s world. Important people and events that contributed to and are responsible for the unfavorable change of the mid-20th Century are Charles Starkweather and the Bay of Pigs Invasion, becoming the first of their kinds. Each separately and significantly impacted the generation’s society of the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. Even though the 21st Century is in progress, the events and key people of earlier generations still impact the generations of today’s society with the addition of many comparable and contrastable people and events of modern times. Opposition of the video game surge has targeted the “Grand Theft Auto” series as being violent and destructive to children’s development and behavior, while the “D.C. Sniper” has instilled fear of homegrown terror in the United States. Unfortunately, the American people must live in insecurity and over cautiousness because as history describes today’s society, anything can and will happen.…
In the late 18th and early 20th century, European nations with vast wealth and power saw opportunities in increasing their sphere of influence by exploiting weaker or smaller nations of Africa for their resources. In Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”, the political principle of imperialism is depicted by Conrad to show the mechanisms and attitudes of the world along with his views.…
More than a decade after the September 11 terrorist attack, it took a lengthy period for the United States to get over the shock of such a bitter blow, and healed from it. Whereas this week's readings have associations for that catastrophe, and tells the facts of the case.…
The United states all changed that day, that one day made us rethink our whole nation, our security, even making us wonder if we really had freedom. We never knew this attack was planned for days, months, even years. We didn’t take that February, 1996 attack serious and the declaration of war on us from Osama Bin Laden.Five years later that mistake killed thousands, injured hundreds, but impacted millions. That day was nine eleven.…
Ronald Reagan gave a speech in Orlando, Florida on March 8, 1983 called, “The Evil Empire.” This speech was intended for the ears of all Americans and is one of the best known presidential speeches ever given. In his speech, Reagan uses multiple rhetorical strategies such as; metaphors, allusions, rhetorical questions, tone, pathos, and uses references from the bible. He talks about all the main points of abortion, teenage sex, drugs, the Soviet Union, and the practice of praying and God in our public schools. His speech was very well written, moving, and extremely influential. This speech shows the president’s belief that the morals and welfare of all of the American citizens has changed and also shows that Reagan is willing to do whatever he can to change not only our country but, the world.…
Good vs. evil is a classic theme often found in literature. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by O’Connor and “Young Goodman Brown” by Hawthorne, the authors focus on this theme to unravel their plots. O’Connor uses the grandmother and a thief, The Misfit, to compare and contrast the good and evil in people. On the other hand, Hawthorne’s, “Young Goodman Brown,” uses the main character, Young Goodman Brown, and his journey from being a respected man to being summoned by the devil. Both authors use their main characters as a comparison of what being good means, however the evil of the story is presented differently.…
In his article titled “the frivolity of evil,” Dr Dalrymple defines evil as,” the elevation of passing pleasure for oneself over the long-term misery of others to whom one owes a duty.” Dr. Dalrymple describes how his community and the people who live there are stuck in a cycle of evil. He believes that this cycle is a side effect of Great Brittan’s transformation in to a welfare state along with our culture of entitlement. The many years of dedicated study and extensive observations, has granted Dr Dalrymple unique perspective and a deep insight regarding the human condition and their social concerns. Using examples from his work in a prison psychiatrist hospital, we see how easily this type of evil spreads through a community…