Examples Of Societal Response To 9/11

Did you know, that one person escaped the tower with seconds to spare? A man named Ron DiFrancesco was trying to escape from the South tower, after the North Tower had been attacked, when the second hijacked plane hit between floor 77 and floor 85 of the South Tower. The explosion threw him against the wall, but, however, he was able to carry on to the ground floor from floor 81 in the same time the building was standing after the attack, and then it had collapsed behind him as he was escaping from the building. The attacks on September 11, 2001 had many important effects such as a change in immigrations laws, starting wars, and changed airport rules.

According to David Plotz, “20 percent of Americans know or have a friend /relative who knows someone injured or killed from the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001”. Even if one doesn’t fall into the 20%, the 9/11 terrorist attacks still affects them and their country. When the planes first struck the twin towers, the employees inside had a very limited amount of time to evacuate the building. Unfortunately, nearly 3,000 people never made it out alive. This is entirely due to the lack of education/preparedness for emergency situations prior to this day. The greatest loss of life on 9/11 was caused by the incorrect survival strategies of the people within the twin towers including distractedness, unpreparedness of emergencies and elevator

200 hundred people would jump to there death on 9/11. Most of the jumpers came from the north tower, this was the tower that was hit first. The third plane hit the Pentagon located in Washington D.C at 9:37 am (History.com Staff). 125 people were killed in Washington. Many of these people worked for the U.S military or Navy. 15 Minutes after the airplane hit the Pentagon, tower 1 collapsed (History.com staff). Not long after the first tower falling the second tower fell.The towers fell because the fire weakened the building structure therefore the top floors collapsed (Anderson).When the towers fell they left a cloud of smoke that cover New York City.While all of this was going on in New York City the 4th plane was being hijacked. After the 4th plane had been hijacked the passengers revolted and took control over the flight. The plane would flip over mid flight and plummet into a field in Pennsylvania. Most of the people killed were civilians, but there were many firefighters and first responders killed also in 9/11. 3,000 people would die in the attacks and 6,000 plus where injured. The attacks on 9/11 where the worst terrorist attack in world history ever. The attacks would leave an imprint on many Americans minds. It a memory many

Ever since the impact of 9/11 it has killed nearly 3,000 people which is still plays a big factor into today’s society. Much debate has arose on whether the government formed new agencies to protect the United States citizens. Many do not realize the long term effects with 9/11 and how it has changed are whole society. “Although, after the attacks the federal government created the Transportation Security Administration and, on Nov. 19, 2001, Congress passed the Aviation and Transportation Security Act” (Poladian). Like agencies know they want people to show up to the airport early before there flight so that they can take their shoes off and go through a security check point. These are the reason why airport security has intensified (Poladian).

The attacks were the four airplanes crashing and destroying the most famous towers in New York City, The twin towers. This Tragedy caused about 3,000 people’s deaths. Citizens were first aware of the attacks

America is an improbable idea, a mongrel nation built of ever-changing disparate parts, itis held together by a notion, the notion that all men are created equal, though everyone knows that most men consider themselves better than someone. "Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image," the historian Daniel Boorst in wrote. That's because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant, like the crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk-art forms, velvet and calico and checks and brocades. Out of many, one. That is the ideal.The reality is often quite different, a great national striving consisting frequently of failure. Many of the oft-told stories of the most pluralistic nation on earth are stories

On September 11, 2001, 19 Islamic extremists planned and carried out terrorist attacks against the U.S., murdering about three-thousand innocent American citizens as a result. They specifically targeted the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Virginia, and were planning on attacking the White House as well. The extremists hijacked four planes; two of the planes were flown into the Twin Towers and one plane crashed into the Pentagon. America had not seen such a world changing, eye opening terrorist led event since the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The terrorist attacks on 9/11 changed and shaped not only America, but the world as a whole. The effects of the attack are still evident in today’s world: socially, economically, and politically.

Americans were sitting at home in front of a television set, crying and contacting loved ones that may have been in the twin towers as they collapsed. Watching this great

On September 11, 2001 terrorists crashed into the the Twin Towers killing, thousands of people. Each year people reflect back on that day and constantly worry about another attack; people are always intrigued by the stories and documentaries that people hear about on T.V. Trust is firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone(dictionary.com). All people can do is to trust in the government to make good decisions to make the U.S safe and secure. The 9/11 attack changed people forever, people lost family members and jobs. “If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate(heavy.com).” 9/11 had a major impact on U.S. society because it engaged the U.S. society

The 1990’s were the years that the U.S. would be forever changed in the way citizens lived, and the way Americans saw a certain kind of people, the Islamic peoples. On September 11, 2001, the United States encountered one of their deadliest terrorist attacks in US history. Over 3,000 lives were taken from multiple sites; Manhattan, New York; Washington, D.C.; and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. New York had the most casualties with over 2,750 people losing their lives in both World Trade Centers after the collapse of the towers. All the planes involved in the incidents were hijacked by Islamic Terrorists who flew into the towers in NY, the Pentagon in D.C., and an open field in Pennsylvania, killing everyone on board. However, the events of 9/11 were not the first terroristic attacks on American citizens. The Oklahoma City bombing of 1995 is another incident of terroristic attacks on U.S. soil.

September 11th, 2001 was the beginning of a new fear, and a sense of Americans had to "watch their back". The attacks made US citizens more aware, but made the US look like it wasn’t as invincible as it was portrayed. Some of the short term effects that took place after 9/11 was the heart ache felt by all the families of almost three-thousand victims in the attack. It caused a complete shutdown of the American air space, stock markets closed down, and insurance companies, airlines and tourists sector showed longer periods of recession. In New York there was a short term oversupply of rental space and a reduction in hotel occupancy. There was a lot of discrimination and still is today against "Muslim-looking" travelers, and a huge increase of hate crimes after the events. Some of the long-term effects after 9/11 was an increase in people joining the military, the USA Patriot Act which came into effect October 26th, 2001. There was a huge increase in security which also involved allowing law enforcement agencies to search private data and the right for USA to detain and deport immigrants suspected of terrorists’ activities. In the book "9/11 In American Culture", professor of information studies Philip Agre says "The U.S. home front itself is as much of a theatre of

When 9/11 occurred it was everywhere within minutes. On the Television, radio and outspread panic through the cell phones at the time. Nearby people watched in awe as the first tower, the north tower was hit. Television crews rushed to the scene to be the first to broadcast what had happened. Not even 20 minutes later the second plane crashed into the south tower, causing that tower to start to burn down too. Both planes were from the United Airlines and allegedly hijacked by terrorist. The both planes had about 20,000 gallons of jet fuel on board. The plane collided with the building which caused a huge explosion followed by smoke and debris coming from the building. From that it was clear the United States was under attack.

September 11, 2001, millions of New Yorkers and American citizens woke up and started their day, unprepared and unaware for the catastrophic attack that would be taking place in just a few short hours. At 8:46 a.m., Eastern Standard Time, Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower. The impact killed all of the passengers and crew as well as hundreds inside the building. At 9:03 a.m., a second plane, Flight 175, crashed into the corner of the South Tower killing passenger, crew, and workers who worked on floors seventy-five to eighty-three. Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m. killing approximately 185 individuals (History.com Staff). Because of the damaged to the support system, fires, and impact at extremely fast speed, the South Tower collapsed at 9:59 a.m. (Lipton and Glanz). Having heard about the acts of terrorism that had just taken place in New York and Washington, D.C., a group of passengers drove their plane, Flight 93, into a Pennsylvania field killing everyone on board but possibly saving hundreds of other lives in the process. The North Tower collapsed at 10:28 a.m. 102 minutes after being struck (History.com Staff). On September 11, 2001, almost twelve hundred people were wounded or killed by “coordinated suicide attempts” by Al Qaeda terrorists. In result to the four airplanes being hijacked and used for premediated reasons, the United States government instituted new regulations for entering the country and airport security as well as expounded on systems already in place.

The attacks that happened on 9/11 were widely observed. It was the largest spectacle and the most prevalent tragedy in America. As Sturken mentions in Tourism and Sacred Ground: The Space of Ground Zero, the orchestrators of the attack not only meant to kill people on September 11th but to make it a spectacle and spread fear. Not only did they succeed in spreading fear, the spectacle caused an enormous amount of individual deaths as well. Ground Zero became a place of mourning where people left personalized gifts at makeshift

The events that took place on September 11th, 2001 completely devastated the nation. It was hard for any American citizen to fathom the fact that so much damage could be done in one day, and that someone could be so evil to commit such an atrocity. Even though something so awful occurred, it brought our nation together and made our country even stronger than before. 9/11 taught the citizens of our country how much our responsibilities count. Without the heroic actions of the citizens in the towers so many other people would have died. The heroes of 9/11 had to make very difficult choices, and many of the heroes chose the lives of others over their own. These people put the greater good before their very own lives; which is similar to the people years ago who gave their lives so that the colonies could achieve freedom.