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April 19, 1995, a date that will not be forgotten by the citizens of Oklahoma City. The day that a bombing took place at the Murrah building, killing over 168 people. The main culprit, a man that has a bone to pick with the government. With the assistance of a few of his friends, strike the biggest terrorist attack in the United States before 9-11 took place. Fortunately the major culprits were apprehended and arrested. However, the mastermind was sentenced to death. His name would never be forgotten

Grade 8: Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture Randy Pausch gives advice to his students in his last lecture. Use examples from his lecture to answer the question: What is good advice? Your answer should be an essay with two or three body paragraphs and quotes from the text to illustrate your thinking. Follow the RACER format. Every now and then, we ask ourselves this question; What is good advice? Good advice teaches people how to improve upon themselves. In the video “Last Lecture,” featuring

1992 - 2006 The first tower to collapse from the 9/11 attack was the South Tower. 15 minutes after the attack Apollo was the first to arrive. Apollo would be at the scene working several weeks, 18 hours a day. He would be assisting the injured victims and searching for any possible human remains. While doing his job there was one point where he was almost killed by falling rubble and fire. Every day he was given baths to wash off the dangerous contaminants at the scene. While he was there he

On September 11, 2001, the United States of America faced one of its most devastating events through its history. “The Battle of the World Trade Center lasted about 99 minutes and cost 20,000 lives in two hours (according to unofficial estimates as of midnight Tuesday.” (Thompson 161) A group of terrorist known associated with Al Qaeda hijacked a few American planes and crashed them into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon which caused a vast number of American deaths. Millions of Americans were devastated

they saw the lack of news about potential health and safety hazards linked with their recovery and cleanup duties. A landfill worker commented on inconsistent information: "there were a lot of passenger cars that were brought out of the World Trade Center and brought over to the landfill." The worker also went saying that everybody thought there wasn't anything wrong with this action. The workers were just rinsing them off and gave the cars back to the owners. It remained not noticed as a potential

The attacks were more localized than most catastrophic disasters, did not overwhelm emergency shelters or food distribution centers, and did not destroy the city infrastructure in either New York or Washington.. However, the 9/11 experience highlights one critical concept. One cannot ignore the importance of maintaining highly trained local emergency responders as well as properly

The Lie of 9/11 9/11 was of the biggest “terrorist attack” in the United States History. Many building was destroyed in this single day. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the pentagon, and crash in field near Shanksville in western Pennsylvania. The day of 9/11 was a conspiracy. The major of San Francisco (Willie Brown) was warned not to fly on September 11. Major Willie Brown said it a interview that it was a “ongoing myth”(Matier, Ross). If so why did he call his security people

United 93 is a film that depicts the events of September 11, 2001, when four planes were hijacked by terrorists. The film specifically focuses on the flight, United 93, and how the passengers defended themselves to keep the plane from crashing into the White House. The plane ended up crashing into a field in Pennsylvania, and no one survived, but their efforts helped save many more lives. At the time they had no idea that two planes had crashed into the Twin Towers and one had crashed into the

needed→ New and unidentifiable human remains were constantly sent here. Although 2983 relatives of the victims question and protest [what do they protest?] with pains and anger, the entangled 9/11 Memorial Museum has been built up at the World Trade Center site in New York. It aims to "tell people the story of 9/11 in the Ground zero of the explosion point." source for quote? WHAT IS YOUR THESIS STATEMENT? Memorial museums, in contrast to the “generic history museum which provides a container for a

Ahedi, Ashraf. "Muslim American Women in the Post-11 September Era." International Feminist Journal of Politics, vol. 13, no. 2, June 2011, p. 183. When the terrorist attacks of 9/11 occurred, life in America changed, and the attacks are marked as one of the most horrendous occurrences in the history of the United States of America. These events shattered the sense of security only America can provide and a feeling of fear and anxiety spread across this great nation. A great silence settle