Shock, disbelief, and devastation were just a few of the emotions that people around the world were experiencing on September 11th, 2001. On what seemed like a normal day in Manhattan, New York, little did everyone know it was the beginning of a huge unthinkable disaster. 8:46 a.m. was when the first highjacked plane had hit Tower One. Not too long after, the second tower was hit. Dozens of fire crews responded as soon as they heard the news. The issues that were recognized in the outcome of this terrorist act were social, psychological, and economical.…
At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a 5,000-pound bomb, hidden inside a Ryder truck, exploded just outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The explosion caused massive damage to the building and killed 168 people, 19 of whom were children (Rosenburg, 2011). On April 23, four days after the bombing, President Bill Clinton addressed the public and gave an effective, excellent speech.…
During the peaceful public meeting at Haystack, a bomb was went sailing towards a group of police monitoring the rally. In return, the police attacked the crowd without any knowledge of who did the crime. After the riot, 8 men were put on trial for the bombing. Although…
It is not uncommon that many students are taught that the colony of New Amsterdam had a short-lived non revolutionary life before the British takeover in 1664, but Russell Shorto contradicts that with recently unearthed Dutch records and his book The Island at the Center of the World. This story focuses on the New Netherlands Dutch colony and its influence on the city and state of New York, which Shorto states when saying “It is a distinctly European tale, but also a vital piece of America’s beginning.” (Shorto 1).…
On April 19th, 1995 a horrific terrorist attack on U.S. soil took place in the heartland of Oklahoma. The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was targeted and was completely blown to pieces by one gigantic homemade bomb. The unimaginable had happened at the starting of a typical day at work. This day would be forever commemorated for the rest of America's history, unlike any other day until 9/11, as a prominent attack on the government of the United States.…
According to the article” The Statue of Liberty ” The author gives us a brief of The Statue of Liberty history. First of all, France gives it to American. It was like an entrance for immigrants. Also, It is an important symbol of freedom. In addition, every part in it represent thing. It really had a lot of meaning. The Statue of Liberty closed for eight years because it was too old and some parts needed rebuilding.…
Other than the shapes that I have previously analyzed in the Statue of Liberty, the method of screen printing has created some sections of unpainted linen. These sections are seen especially in the top row of the prints in which nearly a ninety-degree right triangle forms along the right side of the statue. Another section is seen in the third row as well; an organic or unidentifiable shape is seen (one could interpret it as a rough mountain range). Within each rectangle, the light illuminates the ocean and the statue, exemplifying the work’s three dimensions. The values of colors within the repeated print varies among each rectangle, being very foggy in some shapes and incredibly distinct in others.…
On Sunday the 15th of September, a white man was seen getting out of a white and turquoise Chevrolet car, placing a box under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. This box was later found to have contained 19 sticks of dynamite. Inside the church, the Sunday School was were preparing for their annual Youth Sunday service. Several hundred adults, and Father John Cross, whose own house had been bombed three times, were also in attendance.…
In the early afternoon of April 15th during the 117th Annual Boston Marathon, two bombs were detonated and exploded, killing 3 people and injuring 183 others. The bombs had been placed near the finish line, along Boylston Street. The bombs, which were pressure cooker devices detonated at 2:49 p.m, 13 seconds apart. No warnings had been given, and no one has been arrested or claimed responsibility for the bombing.(Bacon)…
Before September 11th the first terrorist attack attempt of the World Trade Center was at 12:18 PM on February 26,1993 a tourist bomb explodes in the parking garage of the world trade center in New York City. An attempted to knocking down the tower failed. This explosion created a crater of 60 feet wide and collapse of several steel reinforced concrete floors from the bomb. Even though the attempt failed this did leave six people killed and more than 1,000 were injured. This bombing created more than 500 million in damage to the parking lot. Authorities evacuated 50,000 people from both of the two buildings. Many people were suffering from smoke inhalation. (“World Trade Center Bombed”)…
Much has been written in recent years about terrorist attacks and weapons of mass destruction. Explosives are the weapon of choice for many terrorists as reported by the media on a routine basis. The bombing of the Pan Am Flight 103 that occurred on December 21, 1988 over Lockerbie and Galloway was no different. This bombing became the largest criminal investigation that was led by the smallest police force. (CIA)…
The Oklahoma City Bombing claimed the lives of 168 people and caused hundreds of injuries (“From Decorated Veteran to Mass Murderer” 1). But who did it, and more importantly why? The attack happened during a time when most Americans thought terrorism was an overseas problem and served as a wake-up call; no one expected that an act of terrorism would be carried out on US soil, let alone done by American citizens. The bombing left the country stunned and has caused various social and political changes in the US; Oklahoma City was not the only place impacted, the whole nation was.…
April 19th, 1995, will be a date forever etched into the minds of the American people. The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City - left 168 people dead and over 600 injured. Timothy McVeigh, the man at the center of the attack, is known for his anti-government militant views. The hatred of one domestic extremist, shocked the nation and changed the way many Americans viewed safety in this…
On September 11th, 2001, it was a day as Franklin Delano Roosevelt said about the attack on Pearl Harbor, “A Date that will live in infamy”, in that America had suffered the worst attack since Pearl Harbor. It was attacked by terrorists from al-Qaeda, which was planned by their leader, Osama Bin Laden. 19 terrorists hijacked 4 airplanes and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and in a farm in Pennsylvania. Close to 3,000 innocent people lost their lives to these heinous attacks. There were people who had recollection of where were they during this event and remembered the heartbreak and the horror of this attack.…
On April 15, 2013, during the Boston Marathon, homemade explosions were detonated near the finish line taking the life of 3 Americans and injuring more than 260. The explosive devices were determined to be two pressure cookers strategically set to detonate 210 yards apart at 13 second intervals. The investigation lead was taken over by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who released photographs and surveillance footage of two particular suspects on April 18. The two individuals were categorized as Chechen brother named Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Once these photos were released to the public, the two brothers took the life of an MIT police officer, carjacked a sport utility vehicle and exchanged gun fire with the Watertown police. The shoot out resulted in a second officer being critically injured while one of the suspects Tamerlan Tsarnaev was determined dead at the scene, younger brother Dzhokhar escaped with injuries. A Watertown manhunt followed the April 19 event with thousands of law enforcement personnel converging on a cordoned 20 block search area. Throughout the day long search, Watertown and nearby residents were warned to stay indoors with many public establishments closed. Later that day, the “shelter in place” advisory was lifted for the Watertown area. Shortly after these statements, a Watertown resident found the alleged suspect hiding in his back yard inside the family boat. Police forces converged on the area and arrested Dzhokhar. He was transported to the hospital with serious injuries. At the hospital, an initial questioning took place. Dzhokhar claimed his brother was the brains behind the incident and they were personally motivated because of the Afghan and Iraqi wars. They were indoctrinated with extremist Islamic beliefs and proclaimed as self-radicalized and had no outsourced connections to any terror groups around the globe. The brothers…