When I hear the date "9/11" I rapidly drown in the saddest kind of nostalgic thoughts and emotions. Although many years have gone by since the devastating events of 9/11‚ its memory and the feelings it evokes remains immortal. In retrospect‚ I was five years old during the time of the attacks and I wasn’t even living in the United States. Nevertheless‚ as I was too young to fully understand the magnitude of the attacks‚ seeing how an event that took place thousands of miles away from me had the ability
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to the attacks on the world trade center by expanding presidential power through the aspect of national security. George W. Bush was questioned from the day he became president‚ but the response he gave after the attacks proved his legitimacy. After 9/11‚ Bush’s leadership became a rallying point for the nation (Gregg). President Bush portrayed a new standing on foreign policy in response to the attacks taking place on September 11th‚ 2001: "Our war on terror begins with Al-Qaeda‚ but it does not end
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September 11‚ 2001‚ will be in history‚ "a day of infamy." (Sirs Research) Nothing like this has ever happened before on American soil and nothing would ever be the same again. "It was an unprecedented terrorist attack on America‚ a plot to kill as many Americans as humanly possible. Ultimately‚ it was the downing of United American Flight 11 and United FLight Airlines 175 into the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center on September 11‚ 2001‚ that brought the two buildings down into massive clouds
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September 11‚ crash into the beautiful twin towers in NYC. Many years before this terrorist attack‚ in December of 1941‚ a similar but as well different attack occurred. Planes struck the navy base on Pearl Harbor. Streets are full‚ people working and a plane strikes a tower in the center of New York City. Working on a navy base and planes come out unexpected with terrorists planning to destroy everything. The bombing of Pearl Harbor was definitely unexpected‚ as was the plane wrecks on 9/11; many can
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turning them into cynics at very early age sapping their energies for constructive thinking and actions would dismiss this exercise as a figment of imagination or at best a fantasy. To them‚ all the economic gains have accrued due to the windfall of 9/11 and Pakistan’s support to the US in the war against terror. When confronted with the stark fact that Pakistan was one of the few countries that grew by 6 percent annually between 1960 and 1990 and reduced the incidence of poverty to as low as 18 percent
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I don’t think any American can forget where they were when 9/11 happened. I was going into my history class when I learned about it. My teacher had the T.V. on even though the administration asked the teachers to turn the TV’s off. We watched it and discussed what was going on for the entire hour and a half that we were in the class. My teacher was very emotional and crying and so were some of the students. Some of the students were in shock and others were oblivious to what this meant for our country
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yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own‚and you know what you know.”What was it like before 9/11 that’s different from now and the future? When will America become a home‚ or how will America become superior? Who will change America? Why should America change? Back before 9/11‚ many people didn’t care about race‚religion‚etc. We were like one big family‚ but after 9/11‚ more people became more guarded and cantankerous. People became more judgmental amongst others. Then people
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Does Bush use Ethos ‚ pathos ‚ and logos in his address to the Nation on 9/11/01? He does more than you might think He uses ethos when he is trying to convince you he is a trustworthy person . He uses pathos to make you to start feeling and stop thinking. He uses logos to appeal to your logical side. In the opening paragraph of Bush’s address he uses pathos the most and he does very effectively. A great example is when he put together the words “victims”‚”moms and dads”‚ and “friends and neighbors”
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September 11‚ 2001 was a devastating time in history. No one knew exactly what was going on whenever the news of the plane crashing into the north tower reached them‚ but the leader behind the attack‚ Osama bin Laden‚ did. This wasn’t bin Laden’s first attack‚ but it was his biggest. He’d been involved in many things before. For example‚ he was involved in the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 and the attempted assassination of the Egyptian president in 1995. However‚ those didn’t stop him
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CIA Agent behind the Manhunt “I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States...Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women‚ children and other people‚” (“Hard Facts Hard Truth -Bin Laden ‘Confession Tapes”). This quote is spoken by Osama Bin Laden himself the day after the September 11‚ 2001 attacks on both Twin Towers‚ the Pentagon‚ and attempt to reach the White House although failed and crashed in Shanksville‚ Pennsylvania. Osama Bin Laden
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