The movie “The World Trade Center begins with showing the audience how an average day might begin for residents of New York City. As the sun is coming up over the city subways are busy getting people to work, streets are jammed with traffic and your everyday noises of the city are heard. The movie quickly puts its focus on the civil servants that are getting ready for what they think is just another day in New York. The center of the movie revolves around two Port Authority Police officers Will Jimeno and Sgt. James McCoughlin who become trapped in the rubble after deciding to go in after the first plane hits.
Its construction employed over 75,000 people and the total project cost approximately 8 billion dollars.
Many People are still affected emotionally by September 11 2001 today. A huge number of people are still facing mental health issues. They are trying very hard to forget about the past and move on with there every day life. Many still fear that there might be another terror attack in the United States. The American psychological association found that people living in New York who have experienced the World Trade Center attack are showing more mental health problems more than any other place. Many people feel that we should honor our love one and the police and fireman that lost their lives because of 9/11. The National September 11 memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center has been established to honor the dead and respect the historic site of America’s tragic loss. The memorial was opened on September 11 2011. It consist of two huge pools with the nation’s largest human=made waterfalls located on the site between the two fallen towers. The name of those who died at the WTC, pentagon, and in Pennsylvania aboard flight 93 . The Museum presents a gallery that tells the story of 9/11. It contains artifacts, photographs and multimedia display.
America continues to succeed even though the country was contrived of an implausible concept because of the patriotism within the citizens of the United States. Terrorism has a negative connotation, but for America terrorism created a positive atmosphere of togetherness. “Terrorism” within the United States led to “devastation and
Our nation is built around the drastic events that we have had to endure. These events shape our laws and sometimes force us to reexamine our constitution. When the laws are made with the stem of fear the laws can become destructive. We often see this when traumatic events unfold in our nation. 9/11 is one of those events. Not only did the historically traumatic event of 9/11 shape our nation, it shaped all of the world. The Twin Towers were the major buildings of the entire complex that made the World Trade Center. The Twin Towers themselves were the tallest buildings in New York City. They each had 110 stories. Together they provided the room needed to accommodate about 35,000 people for 430 companies. In addition to this, they attracted people from all around the world. A rough estimate would say they attracted roughly 70,000 New Yorker’s and tourists daily. (1)
The attack on the World Trade Centers left tons apon tons of rubble on the streets. While servicemen and women were trying to find survivors of the Twin Towers, hundreds of firefighters and police officers from thousands of different stations were killed by falling in holes or collapsing ground. The cleanup groups had to spend a total of $1.3 billion, which is a lot of money, to clean up the streets of Manhattan. In fact, replacement cost of the major buildings in the World Trade Center was $3 to $4.5 billion. Over 83,000 people lost their jobs with a total of $17 billion lost in wages, (that would be a lot even for Donald
After the attacks on September 11, it tooks several months to get things mostly back to normal in New York. Lots of people worked very hard and long days to get the streets clean and get New York back to normal. To replace the two buildings after the attacks The One World Trade Center was built, and wa finished in 2014. This is now the tallest Building in the U.S today. There was also a memorial set up to honor the people who were killed in the attack in 2001, and the bombing that took place in
The supply chain of parts to manufacturers also was interrupted from dislocations in air transportation, as cargo was rerouted through ground networks. The weakness in the airline industry pre-9/11 was amplified by the attack that resulted in larger layoffs than previously anticipated. The impact was particularly evident in Manhattan’s real estate, retail trade and tourism. The New York Manhattan area lost roughly 7 percent of its office space in the 9/11 attack, mostly space that supported national and international financial industries. (Federal Reserve Board, 2013)
On September 11th 2001 terrorists attacked the Twin Towers. About 2,996 people died including 19 terrorists. This sad place is now replaced with the 911 memorial and museum. This place has wonderful geographic features such as waterfall and the names of the people who died. Yes this a sad place but about 4 million people visited in less than one year.
Travel agents, tourism, hotels, automobile rentals, and resident aircraft manufactures were badly affected. Hotels reported higher vacancy rates and employment in the sector as a whole fell by 58,000 (about 3%) in Oct and Nov 2001. Nearly 18,000 businesses were disrupted, disrupted or destroyed by the attacks. Over 300 firefighters and nearly 100 policemen were killed while trying to evacuate the World Trade Center before it collapsed. 40% employee of World Trade Center had been casualty. New York Stock Exchange and New York Mercantile Exchange closed due to event. The event impact hugely on aviation sector, lead to Planes grounded for a week or
Many people lost family and friends on September 11, for a very devastating reason. 2,977 lives were lost along with many injuries because of these attacks. The attacks left many in shock, leaving many with fear to move forward after experiencing, witnessing, and hearing about the events that had taken place (September 11). Many lost their parents, their soulmates, and the country lost the people who helped to fight for us on this day. The firefighters, police, and military all risked their lives to help the people in trouble. A text says, “Equally alarming, more than 335,000 people lost their jobs in tourism between 2001 and 2002, according to a case study by Finland’s Centria University of Applied Sciences” (DePietro). This evidence shows that many people from other countries or different parts of the United States that usually visited popular parts, stopped because of the attacks. Many people that experienced the attack had just as bad effects on their lives as the ones that were lost. In the book, “Escape From The Towers” the author, Andra Abramson states, “At 8:46 a.m., Greg Trevor finished a phone call. He stood up to stretch his legs. At that moment, there was a huge crash. American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into Gregs building. The plane hit the North Tower about 20 floors above Greg's office. Greg remembers hearing a loud noise. Then he
The World Trade Center (WTC) represented American pride and influnce. The twin towers stood 1,352 feet with 110 stories. It was finished in 1971. The morning of September 11 no one knew that four flights would be hijacked to take American lives and using two of them to bring down the World Trade Center. Yes there had been warnings that an aviation attack would happen but who knew when it would happen and how would it have been prevented. Flight 11 American Airlines (AA) hit the North Tower around 8:46 am between the
The world trade center was a symbol of capitalism that we have as a nation. The world trade center had many different businesses
According to the case, the Canadian tour operating industry had been flourishing between 1988 and September 11, 2001. The Canadian economy growth rate also was increasingly as this industry that was very positively correlated with the overall economy. On September 11, 2001, there was the terrorist attack the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. As a result, both buildings collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and damaging others, also killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings. After this event, the economy in the United States and the overall countries slowed down. Specifically, the total number of trips
For whe“When the Eiffel Tower was built in 1889 in Paris it, in a way, taunted American architects to build something taller. By the early twentieth century a skyscraper race was on” (Rosenberg 1). Smith and Raskob teamed up and were racing against Walter Chrysler (founder of the Chrysler Corporation) to build the tallest building. Being the envy of the city was not the only purpose of building such a fantastic building, but there was also a practical reason. Tenants were willing to pay higher rents in tall buildings. So, the owner of the tallest building collected the highest rents and became even wealthier (Mann 12).