9/11 On September 11‚ 2001‚ Islamic terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners and used them as bombs to attack the World Trade Centers in New York City‚ the Pentagon in Washington‚ D.C. and the fourth plane‚ meant to be used against the White House‚ crashed in Pennsylvania. Much of this destruction was witnessed live on television throughout the United States and around the world. Many Americans were forced to face for the first time in their lives‚ feelings of insecurity and of being vulnerable
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Essay Some people say astronauts landed on the moon. Some people say it was a big fat lie. In 1969 a rocket ship from NASA “Apollo 11” supposedly went to the moon‚ took some pictures‚ videos and some pieces of the actual moon. Then the astronauts flew back to Earth. But did they really go to the moon‚ or was it just a big myth. The world may never know.
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understand what was going on.” For most people I know‚ that seems to be the case. Since we were too young to understand what was going on at the time‚ I believe that is what makes it so important for us to learn and study what happened on September 11‚ just as it is with any other event in American history. The next person that I interviewed my mom‚ who is one generation older than me. She can remember what took place that day much more clearly than I. “I had just taken you to school. I came home
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Over 2‚000 people died from the attack of 9/11 but our country United States of America still had faith and managed to raise up the American Flag.Danny McWilliams FDNY lieutenant in Brooklyn was in the tragedy of 9/11.A close worker of Danny‚ Bill Eisengrein was also present during 9/11.The day of 9/11 Bill was watching tv and saw what happened and immediately headed to the scene.As he headed to the scene‚ he saw McWilliams holding the American Flag with other significant and knew they were up to
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In the article How Democratic Is America?‚ Howard Zinn‚ an idealist and liberal‚ spars against Sidney Hook‚ a pragmatic conservative about the current system of democracy set up in the United States. From the first concept of standards for America’s democracy‚ Zinn and Hook hold conflicting viewpoints. While Zinn believes that we should “measure our democracy against an ideal (if admittedly unachievable) standard”‚ Hook believes that “the only sensible procedure in determining the absence or presence
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9/11 essay This article was about how the al-Qaeda group had attacked the world trade center on September 11‚ 2001. It also talked about how they took control of 4 planes and 2 crashed into the world trade center and 1 crashed into the pentagon. There were more than 2600 people had died and how it was a tragedy for everyone in the United States. This article was also about how the 9/ 11 attacks were a shock and how they think that they should have had not came as a surprise. It was also about how
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throughout the world. Al-Qaeda did. Most Americans didn’t secretly support McV like Muslims secretly support terrorism. There were many Muslims that were happy we were attacked. Most of us were sad so many people died at 9/11. All in all‚ I know that this event will never be forgotten. 9/11 was a
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Cost of terrorism – Effect of the September 11 attacks on tourism industry: 1The total economic impact of 9/11 is realistically immeasurable; however the world travel and tourism council has estimated the decrease of the travel and tourism demand world wide to be 10%. 2Job loss of 8.8 million people globally including airlines‚ hotels‚ tour operators‚ car rental and credit card companies‚ creating a 1.7% decrease of total GDP for the world economy. Terrorism is an inhuman act which is
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Pennsylvania after passengers fought back against the terrorists to try and regain control of the plane. This is the story the government wanted its people to believe. However‚ the truths about the attacks on 9/11 are much more frightening. First‚ at 8:46 a.m.‚ American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Center’s North Tower in New York City‚ between floors 93 and 99 going 466 mph. This attack was followed by United Airlines Flight 175‚ which hit the South Tower at 9:03 a.m. between
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“The Use and Abuse of History.” Zinn in this chapter discusses how history is used and abused. Many in society today only tell “impartial history‚” meaning we leave parts of history out to make a certain group or event stick out. History in the United States of America is swayed always to make us look like the good ones. We are a biased country and the government will do anything to censor out the exact truth. Through all of these chapters it is obvious that Howard Zinn is not objective‚ but very much
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