3. The book “No Easy Day” was written in 2011 4. Early in the morning on September 11‚ 2001 the Twin Towers in New York City were deliberately attacked by plane hijackers. The attacks were coordinated by the terrorist group Al-Qaeda. Following these attacks the U.S. invaded Afghanistan to dismantle Al-Qaeda and remove the Taliban from power. The U.S. was aided by the UK who helped up through the entire war. President George W. Bush demanded that the Taliban hand over Bin Laden but they would
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The United States is under attack by Al-Qaeda terrorists and they don’t know when the next major attack is going to be. All they can do is wait and let the unimaginable happen until Scot Harvath gets to the bottom of it. In the Foreign Influence‚ a bombing takes place on a bus full of art students and a hit-and-run occurs in Chicago and the CIA thinks that the two incidents are somehow affiliated with each other. The Terrorist group of Al-Qaeda is behind these two incidents and won’t stop until the
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One of the worst days in modern American history is September 11‚2001. That day was a horrific day of events. On that day the leader of Al-Qaeda Osama Bin Laden ordered the attack on the Twin Towers in downtown Manhattan. This attack was the worst attack in history. When the towers came down it killed almost 3 thousand people. Ever since I was young I have always had a great deal of respect for our service men and women. I come from a military background. Both of my grandpas were in the military
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Girls and boys sleepily hit their alarm clocks. Adults walked or drove to work. Tourists planned out their day. A few hours later‚ everyone’s life would take a drastic turn. Four hijacked commercial planes crashed in 3 different places in the northeast. The US reacted and invaded Afghanistan‚ disrupting and destroying the government. When did this‚ they created a never ending civil war in several countries that devastated millions. On September 11‚ 2001‚ 4 hijacked planes crashed. 2 planes bursted
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Zero Dark Thirty is a movie about the manhunt for Osama bin Laden that lasted almost 10 years beginning after the September 11‚ 2001 terror attacks on the United States and finally ending on May 2‚ 2011 when Osama bin Laden was killed. The film bounces around in different locations around the Middle East and the United States as the CIA is on the hunt for bin Laden. Pakistan is the primary focus‚ however. The film takes the viewer to different locations of Black Sites. Black Sites were places of
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Zero Dark Thirty Zero Dark Thirty was real was released in 2012 directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. The movie followed the decade-long manhunt for Osama bin Laden‚ who was the leader for al Qaeda and responsible for the September 11‚ 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States‚ ending with the military raid and his death in May of 2011. Zero Dark Thirty has been labeled as “the story of history’s greatest manhunt for the world’s most dangerous man. Zero Dark Thirty was nominated
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How does the natural and human environment impact on conflict and how does conflict impact on people and their environment? Where is the Afghan War located? It is situated below the Brandt line (running through the middle of the earth) in south central Asia. It is bordered by Iran on the west‚ by Pakistan on the east and south‚ and by Turkmenistan‚ Uzbekistan‚ and Tajikistan on the north. The war is fought in Kandahar and also in the south. How has the environment / physical geography of Afghanistan
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Certain emotions shape our modern world today. They cause conflicts‚ improvements and realizations. Fear is one of those emotions. Fear today shapes the modern world. It is easy to tell this when thinking about it. There is some type of fear that causes every conflict. In particularly‚ the fear of bombs is the reason for the Cuban Missile Crisis. the Fear of Communism and capitalism has started two conflicts called the Anatomy of Invasion which consisted of two wars (Afghan-Soviet and the Vietnam-US
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The advantages and disadvantages of conformity. The New Zealand Oxford dictionary defines conformity as accordance with established practise and agreement suitability. Conformity comes with many advantages and disadvantages. Conformity exists so people don’t feel left out. It also comes with many dangers such as losing your logic and forgetting whether what you’re doing is good or bad. An advantage of conformity is feeling that you’re not alone. You feel accepted and a part of a group where will
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“Down to Tartarus.” The first person I would talk to is Chris Kyle the reason I would talk to him is because‚ when I was little my uncle was in the army and talked all about the navy seal sniper Chris Kyle‚ so I looked up to him in many ways when I was a kid‚ my uncle was an army lieutenant and new a lot about Chris Kyle and his work. Chris Kyle is a Navy seal from team 3‚ and is one of the best snipers to live taking down 160 enemies. When he died‚ I was sad‚ I would ask him what inspired him
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