The Boston Bombing

1.) Asa Don Brown, the author of “Desensitization of Terrorism,” focuses on how the influence of the media and social media have desensitized us when it comes to terrorist attacks. Brown directs the article toward an audience who questions why they are no longer as surprised by terrorist attacks when they occur as they used to be. This seems like an extremely odd feeling to have when several people are killed and hundreds are hurt, however, it is the strange reality these days. Terrorist attacks have been happening for years and years now and while we would love to just stop them from occurring, this is blatantly impossible to achieve. He emphasizes in the article, the idea that when terrorist attacks and the terrorists themselves are

On April 19th, 1995 a homemade bomb made of a concoction of agricultural fertilizer, fuel, and other dangerous chemicals was left in a truck parked outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City. At 9:02 in the morning, it’s blast damaged over 300 buildings surrounding the vehicle and even flattened a third of the federal building. (Strom, 2015) The bomb took the lives of 168 people, including 19 children. It was found that two men, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Lynn Nichols were the ones who planted the device. Both men were found to be associated with a radical militia movement that sought revenge for a siege in Waco, Texas two years prior. The siege killed 82 Branch Davidians, of whom, multiple were related to the militia movement.

The Boston Massacre was and is still a debatable Massacre. The event occurred on March 5, 1776. It involved the rope workers of the colonial Boston and two British regiments, the twenty-ninth and the fourteenth regiments. Eleven people were shot in the incident; five people were killed and the other six were merely wounded. The soldiers and the captain, Thomas Preston, were all put on trial. All were acquitted of charges of murder, however the two soldiers who fired first, Private Mathew Killroy, and Private William Montgomery, the two soldiers were guilty of manslaughter. The causes were numerous for this event. There had been a nation wide long-term dislike towards the British, and a growing hatred towards them by the people of Boston.

On March 5, 1770, two regiments of British soldiers that were stationed in Boston opened fire on a mob of bystanders that wanted the British out of Boston. This protest was for the ending of the quartering of soldiers in people’s homes. On May 4, 1970, the National Guardsmen fired upon the unarmed students of Kent State University who were protesting against fighting in the Vietnam War. The result of this was a change in the policies of the National Guard and to use rubber bullets. These two shootings in American history are examples of Military Representatives actively firing on unarmed citizens. Also, examples of the civilians provoking the Military Representatives for them to shoot. We can use these examples for today’s society to further the developments in non-lethal actions against protesters. But before the lessons learned with these two shootings are highlighted, the history and significance of these events need to be understood.

British and colonial relation took a huge turning point after the French and Indian war (Tax Analyst 2014.) The French and Indian war was only the start of the many issues that had lead to the American Revolution. The American Revolution was a time where Americans gained their freedom and independence from the British. America gained their independence during political turmoil. The French and Indian war left the British nation bankrupt, leading to harsh taxation and eventually to the American Revolution. Following the French and Indian war, tax laws were established.

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.

On April 19, 1995 the world was thrown into shock. Terrorism was not a thing in the United States. It was even more of a shock to find out this terrorist was a resident of the United States. Not only did this tragedy effect the hundreds of people inside the Oklahoma City Murrah building, it also affected billions of rescue workers, families, and loved ones. All the different groups of people affected by this bomb copped in very different ways.

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.)

In American history, many great events happened. In the same thought there have also been bad ones. The Boston Marathon Bombing. On April 15, 2013, two bombs were placed and exploded. They killed 3 people and injured at least 264. Yet, even if there was so much destruction, there was also great things to come out of it. Americans showed that willpower, fighting for justice, and aiding other people is part of our identity

On November 13th, 2013, terrorists attacked the Boston marathon, killing three and wounding more than 250. This attack wasn’t fatal, but it definitely caused some chaos. In a country so strong and running on pride, we wouldn’t let this act of hate scare us like it had twelve years earlier.

Millions of people die every day, however only a handful unexpectedly sacrifice. The wind whispered a brisk temperature of forty-eight degrees fahrenheit around nine in the morning while the daylight attempted to break through the clouds. Today is April 15, 2013; today is the 117th Boston Marathon. Taken place on the famous, Boylston Street in Boston, where more than 24,000 runners participated in this event, eagerly ready to perform in front of their friends, their family, the world, however, not everyone had a chance to finish. Approximately two hours after the winner crossed the finish line, terror commenced. The first bomb detonated outside Marathon Sports at 2:49 pm, followed by a second bomb, one block away, approximately 13 seconds after. Within these explosions, chaos erupted with people running away from the commotion, human beings started to trample on each other only to survive another day. Shrapnel, nails, and glass shattered in all directions until finding their home in a child’s limbs. Death and destruction suddenly became the

The Boston Massacre is considered by many historians to be the first battle of the Revolutionary War. The fatal incident happened on March 5 of 1770. The massacre resulted in the death of five colonists. British troops in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were there to stop demonstrations against the Townshend Acts and keep order, but instead they provoked outrage. The British soldiers and citizens brawled in streets and fought in bars. “The citizens viewed the British soldiers as potential oppressors, competitors for jobs, and a treat to social mores”. A defiant anti-British fever was lingering among the townspeople.

The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995 not only changed the lives of Oklahomans, but also changed the lives of individuals all over the world. The Oklahoma City Bombing killed “168 people, including 19 young children who were in the building’s day care center at the time of the blast. More than 650 other people were injured in the bombing, which damaged or destroyed more than 300 buildings in the immediate area” (History Staff, 2009). This terrorist attack on U.S. soil left many mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, etc. with an empty spot in their heart.

Many terrorist attacks like suicide bombing are carried out by locals and take place as part of intra-state wars or into regions occupied by foreign forces like Chechnya, Northern Ireland, Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan. All regimes, whether liberal or despotic, can imagine their own cities as victims of the kind of mass-casualty terrorism practiced by stateless terrorists, for example al-Qaida . But while al-Qaida’s attack in the U.S. enjoyed some support from Muslim populations, no country hailed Bin Laden as a freedom fighter.Many of these incidents do not fit in the category of ‘international

Terrorist attacks occur around the globe, but how does the location and the target affect the world’s response to the attack? The following will investigate two attacks that occurred in two very different parts of the world at relatively the same time and the reasons for the disparity in their attention on social media and international news coverage.