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The thundering sound of the bomb blast could be heard for miles. Men, women, and children run frantically in order to find shelter, being blinding by the massive amounts of dust that have caused the sky to turn yellow. Mothers are scavenging for their children, who were playing games outside, now stuck deep in the rubble of buildings that have collapsed on top of them. Houses have been destroyed, families have been obliterated and innocent lives have been lost. For many around the world, situations like these have become a part of everyday life. In A Pure, High Note of Anguish, author Barbara Kingsolver describes the confusion and questions that arose after the terrorist attacks in New York City on September 11th. 9/11 was the largest terrorist

April 19, 1995, 9:02 a.m: a bomb was set off beneath the Alfred P. Murrah Building. The bomb damaged the structural support beams and the Northern support columns. Half of the building collapsed. 168 people died (Cook 5). Eric McKisick, a district manager, recalls the incident, ¨I made an assumption that, hey, everybody is out, everybody is good, and I left at that point. It wasn't ´till much later that I saw the devastation and understood they didn't respond because they couldn't.” Not only were there a large number of casualties, 300 people were also injured, some of whom were physically impaired for the rest of their life. A child who was in the building at the time of the explosion states, “I have no recollection of that day, but I’m reminded everyday about it because of my breathing problems (Brandes, Heide, Schapiro).”

During the morning of 9/11, everyone thought it would just be a normal day, however, four airliners were hijacked and planes were under attack by terrorists. One plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania, another in Pentagon, and the last two planes hit the Twin Towers of New York City. In that moment more than two thousand lives were quickly taken, leaving families and friends devastated. This horrible incident touched so many lives around the world. New York times published the most popular article about 9/11. Serge Schumann the author of this well known piece, interrupted the tragic crisis through ethos, logos, and mainly pathos.

In conclusion, both Quindlen and Sitton show both sides of tragic events. The imagery used in the articles sets a realistic tone, emphasizing the great emotion that came with both of these tragedies. Innocent lives were taken, four little girls and other countless blacks in the civil rights era and innocent lives in the collapse of the twin towers of 2011. Both changing a nation, shaping it and bringing the people together. Unbelievable events of sorrow still impact America to this day, as the nation honor the lives to the people that sacrificed for all we have, for America. In the articles, both authors use vivid imagery of American disasters and the loss of innocent lives to emphasize its effect on the people that rise as nation through the debris of hate.

A Man Kneels before the 9/11 Memorial suggests that a story is behind the image and a viewer can see Robert Peraza is a symbol for the grief and distress which 9/11 brought. Yet, and story is not clear the image has many story elements; they include: the posture or the man, his face, and the location. Robert Peraza, the subject of this picture, has a clear emotional attachment to the memorial. This is shown in the way he has kneeled down in grief with his head lowered, and his hand still outstretched on an engraved name. The location also brings about emotion due to the fact that the memorial represents the day thousands died on September 11, 2001.  Although, some may not recognize the memorial thus creating less emotion: whereas, The Old Vet and His Tank presents emotion more effectively by use of body language, facial expression, and the background. The Veteran has been overcome with shock and has knelt to the ground. His body language suggests he is saddened; upon looking at his facial expression this is proven. His eyes are closed and he is looking down in despair. The background tells a story because a tank is clearly shown and the viewer does not have to guess where he his, although, they may not know the complete background

On September 9/11/2001 the twin towers were attacked by icest they hijacked a plane with people on the plane and the attacked the twin tower and then it started to fall down on people and they started to run away from the towers and 3,000 people died the and started to cry and lost families. Then a airplane crashed by the pentagon and the cia went to go check it out and it was a icest in the plane and they took him to a jail cell and they investigated him for a very long time and then they killed him. Then we attacked them and that a war and we won the war it took a long time for the war to end and we won the battle and is what they deserved for attacking the twin towers and they thought of something else so they put spotlights to reception

“I am a survivor, from the battlefield” Tomiko Morimoto said. Morimoto remembers the bright flashes of red and orange and the loud bombing sounds. She recalls her ears ringing from the overwhelming sounds and all of the tall buildings falling down right in front of her eyes. "Everything started falling down; all the buildings started flying around all over the place. Then something wet started falling down, like rain. I guess that's what they call black rain. In my child's mind, I thought it was oil. I thought the Americans were going to burn us to death. And we kept running. And fire was coming out right behind us, you

Excluding events that happen through a disaster, leads to a falsification of the disaster and allows the viewer to continue to ignore the severity, as discussed earlier. In Chris Vanderwees’s article, Photographs of Falling Bodies and the Ethics of Vulnerability in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, he states, “censorship is never a viable suggestion and only leads to ignorance and repression, ultimately obscuring the historical record of any given event” (Vanderwees 179). Through the repression of images like “The Falling Man,” and others that are considered too graphic, the realistic aspect of the disaster is tainted and is not expressed to the truest form. This continues to provide viewers with Kaplan’s idea of “empty empathy” (Kaplan 93-95). However the exposure of these “taboo” images forces viewers to comprehend the reality of the attacks at a more personal level. Vanderwees continues in his article, stating that although the images of falling bodies is contextualized differently among individuals, they collectively bring what had been repressed back into the reader/viewer’s consciousness (Vanderwees 181). Through the use of these images, viewers are more capable and inclined to stop repressing the reality of what occurred. Rather then looking at the September 11th attacks as an attack on The World Trade Center, the

Ashby mentions that military movies were again popular and reality shows gained huge audiences, which made experts conclude that 9/11 did not influence the general development of US popular culture at all, but that it even shows how culture is able to dissolve such tragic events. On the other hand, Ashby examines that a kind of censorship developed for critics on George W. Bush’s politics and that fundamentalists gained more influence on the media, which was also used to promote religion, for example through the rapture/left behind series. In this way, the author refers to September 11th characteristic to create an apocalyptic thinking in popular culture. Ashby concludes that pop culture reflects and influences societies and that America, even with cultural divisions like the culture wars, stood together and rejected criticism to continue in a nearly ideal world of amusement. I really liked the epilogue, because it made me think about modern societies and their methods to deal with catastrophes. I was sure, media’s reactions on 9/11 were patriotic and a feeling of togetherness was necessary to comfort the

various first person accounts of survivors of the bombing to provide a vivid imagery of the

This novel captured the personal accounts of individuals that were affected by the attack on the Pentagon. This included, but not limited to when each person arrived at the Pentagon that morning, until Flight 77 crashing into the building. These individuals participated in the novel, though interviews and documentaries. The general editor, Stephen J. Lofgren collaborated information from sixty different individuals that were affected by the Middle Eastern terrorist attack. The individuals interviewed were government workers, policemen, firefighters, medical personnel, and observers. The anthology of material needed for this book started two days after the incident occurred. The main focus of the material used was to give readers an up close

What event or day could change how the United States citizens go about their everyday activities? Life has not been the same after that fatal day in September of 2001. The day is known as 9/11. This attack may have knocked the United States down briefly, but it has caused us to stand stronger for the freedom that we cherish. You may expect terrorism to happen places like Pakistan, India, the Middle East or South American but not here on American soil. This is not the first time that the United States has been targeted for terrorism. The United States has been the target for terrorist attacks more than you know. 9/11 helps us to remember that the United States is vulnerable to attacks just like other countries. Could 9/11 have been prevented? Did government agencies share information freely? Some people think that if the different government agencies would have shared information instead of having barriers that this terrible event may not have happened.

Twin Towers as known as World Trade Center in New York, U.S.A. were opened on April 4, 1973, and were destroyed in the 2001. Twin towers were one of the largest trading buildings in the world. Lot’s of people worked for it and visited there. They had almost controlled U.S. economy when they were existed. However, they got attacked on Setember, 2001. The attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks consisted of suicide attacks used to target symbolic U.S. landmarks. Due to the attacks many bad effects were occured. First, hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic debris containing more than 2,500 contaminants, including known carcinogens, were spread across Lower Manhattan due to the collapse of the Twin Towers. And this toxic debris led to allocating $4.2 billion to create the World Trade Center Health Program. Second, the attacks had a significant economic impact on U.S.A. and world markets. The stock exchanges didn’t open until September 17, 2001. It dropped the value of U.S. dollars. Third, as a result of the attacks, many governments across the world passed legislation to combat terrorism. They did much more care of terrorists than before 9/11 attacks. Seeing these situations, we can notice how 9/11 attacks were.

This project begins on one of the most politically and socially charged spaces in American history: Ground Zero. On September 11, 2001, the United States experienced one of the most deadly attacks on its soil when American commercial airliners crashed into the Pentagon in Washington D.C., the Twin Towers in New York City, and an open field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, resulting in the death of nearly 3,000 civilians. As New York tried to recover from the event, the city was in complete disarray. Thousands of citizens had been violently removed from their loved ones, the towers, symbols of America’s economic vitality, had collapsed on themselves, and Americans were anxious of another imminent, surprise attack. From the site’s perspective,

September 11th changed the lives of many Americans, irrevocably. The horrendous attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon altered the way American’s viewed their positions within the world, not to mention their lives and their safety. The attacks brought terrorism to the forefront of national attention, in every aspect. The government became immediately immersed in an effort to understand and defeat terrorism, and simultaneously, the media, with its perverse fascination with violence and profit-driven espousal to round-the-clock, up-to-the-minute coverage, demonstrated an obsession with the attacks, by broadcasting almost nothing but the latest developments in the search and rescue efforts and investigations