A Research Background On Social Network Services

On April 21 authorities charged Timothy McVeigh. The authorities had only come to find out that he was already in jail after being arrested for unlawfully carrying a gun shortly after the bombing. Before McVeigh was released from jail, he was charged as a prime suspect in the bombing. Also on April 21, Terry Nichols who was a partner of McVeigh’s, surrendered in Herington Kansas. Both McVeigh and Nichols were in a group based out of Michigan which was the radical right-wing survivalist group. Just days later, both men were charged with murder and unlawful use of explosives.

I learned quite a bit about the psychological impact of the Boston Marathon Bombing. After researching the effects, I realized how much trauma these innocent people went through during a moment that was supposed to be joyous. People that were healthy and filled with life were either severely injured or had there life taken away by a senseless act. Some of the injured victims will never be able to walk again, others, never able to see their loved ones again. Martin Richard, an 8-year old boy whose life was taken during the attack, will never get to see his family one more time. The amount of grief the Tsarnev brothers caused can never be taken back and it has left a psychological effect on the viewers and the victims – runners, adults and children.

April 15, 2013 hundreds of innocent Americans were traumatized forever. The 117th annual Boston Marathon was hit with an act of terrorism. Two-hundred-sixty people lost their legs while three people lost their lives. On this day Americans realized how important security is. One thousand federal, state, and local law enforcement personnel sat down and watched surveillance footage for hours tracking the terrorist that caused the Boston Bombing to occur. April 18, 2013 the FBI released footage and images of suspects whose identity was once unknown to gain more knowledge. Due to security footage the men who committed the monstrous act were brought to justice. Without the public surveillance these terrorist would have never been found. (Boston Marathon Bombings.History.com Staff.History.com.2014.Boston Marathon Bombings.)

The sentiment for anti-Islamic feeling has persisted since the attack on the world trade Center and has never fully dissipating (Gray, 2013). A Saudi student that was injured in the blast was tackled by another bystander and labeled by the New York Post as the suspect for the blasts (Gray, 2013). A former Republican Rep. Joe Walsh even recommended that the U.S. begins profiling “our enemy… young Muslim men” (Gray, 2013). The hashtag #Muslims trended on Twitter on the day of the bombing because so many people were immediately blaming the Muslim population (Gray, 2013). A poll that Western New England University released found that 73% of Massachusetts residents believe that the terrorist attack changed the city of Boston in a lasting way (Tuthill, 2014). 62% said that the change in Boston was for the better (Tuthill, 2014). Many people in the city of Boston have agreed that the people have felt a surge in civic pride and a feeling of unity within the city (Tuthill, 2014). The protection for the 2014 Boston Marathon had more than double last year’s number of police officers at 3,500 (Tuthill, 2014). The 2014 Boston Marathon also had restrictions on the types of bags that spectators and runners could bring

Within seconds of the clock striking 2:49 p.m, a bomb goes off in front of Marathon Sports store near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing one and wounding a number of others, both runners and spectators. Less than a minute later, another bomb lets off in front of the Forum restaurant, killing two more and injuring many more(CNN). As chaos began to erupt, Boston PD sprang into action immediately. Despite their efforts, the bomber who was at the time unknown, had already escaped the scene. Within minutes of the explosion, the event is now being acknowledged at the national level, suspected of being the first act of foreign terrorism since the 9/11 attacks on the Twin

However, while the siege was over, it was not forgotten. On April 19, 1995, two years after the fire that killed so many people, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols planted a bomb that killed 168 people, injured more than 680 people, and whose blast destroyed or damaged 324 buildings within a sixteen block radius of Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Motivated by his hatred of the government and the outrage he felt about the Waco Siege in 1993, McVeigh decided to time his attack for the second anniversary of the deadly fire. Forensic evidence linked both men to the attack. On June 11, 2001, McVeigh was executed by lethal injection and Nichols was sentenced to life in prison in 2004. The Oklahoma City Bombing was the worst terrorist attack on United States soil until September 11, 2001.

The Boston Marathon bombing was a shocking and devastating event in the history of the United States. In the middle of what was supposed to be a very happy and cheerful event, three people lost their lives and 264 others were injured when two pressure cooker bombs went off near the finish line. Even though this was a truly horrific event, the initial response of the Boston Police Department to the explosions was incredible. Within minutes, additional Emergency Medical Service teams and the Boston Fire Department were rushing to the scene, hotels were evacuated, and police closed down a 15 block area around the blast site. The remaining runners were also redirected to a different area away from the explosion. It was truly impressive to see how well prepared everybody was in the case of an

During the iconic Boston Marathon two bombs went off. Thankfully about 3 quarters of the participants had already crossed. Public officials reported that 17 people were in critical condition, 140+ injured, and three dead including an 8-year-old boy. The two bombs were set fairly close to the finish line roughly 100 yards apart. According to the timers the bombs occurred 12 seconds apart.

The bombing of the Boston Marathon is one of the least deadly terrorist attacks against our county, but has brought to light many lessons that need to be learned. The Boston Marathon Bombing took place on April 15, 2013 at 1449 hours. Two men planted bombs near the finish line of the event which killed three spectators and wounded 260 others. The bombs were pressure cooker bombs packed with shrapnel and other materials hidden in backpacks that were maliciously placed amidst the crowd (History.com Staff, 2014).

Whether or not information was shared on the brothers, the larger question remained: why did the brothers radicalize and kill and injure scores of people who were attending the Boston Marathon? Those who make the leap towards terrorism experience varying levels of, anger, passion, or frustration in support of their beliefs. In recent years, rising expectations, fueled by images of affluence and democracy spread by the mass media have provoked feelings of deprivation among many populations, particularly in Africa, Asia, and parts of Eastern Europe. Individuals who become terrorists oftentimes do so because they feel unheard, insignificant, unheard, or not important. Still others follow a cause or group that is misguided and can lead to violent

On April 15,2013 during the Boston Marathon two brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar planted two bombs by the Marathon finish line killing 3 people but injuring more than 260 people and later after the bombing they went and they attempted to robbed a police officer named Sean Collier which led to the officer getting shot down by the two brothers and while the police were on a manhunt to find the shooters of the murder of Sean while still on the hurt for the bombers while the police were looking for those people the brothers went and carjacked a Mercedes SUV while making the hostage go to ATM and take money out and when the brothers went to go stop for gas the hostage manage to get away and call the police and reported the car stolen and when the

As stated on history.com “On April 15, 2013, two bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three spectators and wounding more than 260 other people.” 16 people also lost legs that day. The youngest amputee was a 7-year-old girl. The bombings were organized by brothers, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

On the 15th of April 2013, two brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev planted two bombs 190m apart on the side of the road, one of them by the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar set the first bomb off at approximately 2.49pm and the second bomb 12 seconds later. The homemade pressure cooker bombs were filled with nails, ball bearings and black powder and were triggered by a remote device. A 1.25V 3000mAh Sub-C battery was used in the explosives. These batteries were used for remote control cars. The perpetrator Dzhokhar told authorities that he learned to make the bombs from an article in Inspire magazine. Dzhokhar and his brother Tamerlan both got away without authorities noticing that they were the perpetrators

CNA, a research facility, partnered with the National Emergency Management Association to provide research and information on the public’s expectations about emergency management’s use of social media. Before this research, the data about this connection was only done with case studies and unreliable accounts. CAN used a survey in this research to see how people felt about social media in connection with emergency management. The results found an positive approach. Many people in emergency management agencies, on local and national levels are very familiar with social media. It is usually the larger websites that are more widely known. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, are widely known and publicized. There are however many other social media sites that are not as widely known that are even more useful to nationwide security and communication such as crowdsourcing and Nixle and these are not as widely known (Su, Wardell, & Throkidsen, 2013). So while people in emergency management

Chapter 3 explores the concept of universally shared basic emotions, an idea that was first advanced as a theory by Charles Darwin. Paul Ekman and Jakk Panksepp studied the concept of