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It was a typical Tuesday morning with clear skies in New York City on September 11th, 2001 until at around 8:45am (history.com). Suddenly without warning, a Boeing 747 commercial aircraft carrier filled with approximately 20,000 gallons of extremely volatile jet fuel plummeted directly the World Trade Center’s north tower causing catastrophic damage to the building and killing hundreds instantly (history.com). The media and common folk initially assumed that this must be the result of some horrendous

In his article, “15 years after 9/11-have we said goodbye to carefree?”,” Paul Fadelli explains that society can never go back to being carefree due to the rise of terrorist attacks. Fadelli presents to middle aged folks who remember the 9/11 attacks, which shaped this society into a new era of occasional terrorist attacks. Fadelli believes that even though terrorist attacks are more prevalent in society, that society shouldn’t lose the act of being carefree. Fadelli’s purpose is to prove that things

What is a Hero A hero is a leader. Someone who is willing to save others before themselves. A hero has a fire burning determination to do something that is bigger than themselves. Someone who has enough selfishness to fulfill a dead-man's dreams. A hero possesse loyalty for their people or their country. Enough physical and mental strength to save another person's life. Someone that has enough bravery to stand up to any obstacle thrown in the way of their greatness. Someone who puts a city on their

People believe that the September 11th collapse of the World Trade Centre’s Twin Tower was not completely due to airliners crashing into both towers. Some people believe that the crash and fires within the building that followed, were not the sole cause to the eventual collapse of both towers. Several advocates have spoken out, that the fires and crash of the airliners was not enough to have caused the collapse. Some of these advocates include, architect Richard Gage, physicist Steven E. Jones and

Title is typed here It was just a regular day in the the windy city but that was about to change. At 12:00 in the afternoon people started hearing very big rumbling sounds and didn’t know was going on and when people started to look they saw all of the helicopters and fighter jets just bombing everything that was on the ground and `people knew that they could be next. So everyone started gathering everything and packing because they knew their house was gonna get blow up. A 22 year old guy named

World Trade Center offers an unique insight to 9/11 through the perspective both of the officers who were trapped at the world trade center as well as the perspective of their families who felt trapped waiting for their return outside of the towers. Using audio-visual techniques the film causes Americans to imagine themselves in the shoes of Sergeant McLoughlin's All-American family. At the beginning of the scene(48:35-49:37) a reporter can be heard from the TV speaking in a slow voice about

watching the pigeons flying around outside I got hungry so I ate a Snickers bar. For some reason it tasted better that day than it ever had before, and then there they were, the planes! My coworkers and I watched as they circled the towers, getting lower and lower. By that time everyone was at the windows all watching, all wondering. Then the first plane came in close, too close. The next thing we knew there was a huge ball of smoke and ash coming from the first tower. The first plane had hit! We had

On September 11, 2001, a devastating and tragic event rattled New York City, New York. Terrorists flew two Boeing 767 aircrafts into the World Trade Center buildings, causing them to erupt in flames and catastrophic structural damage that eventually lead to their collapse. Among the multitude of photographs taken that day showing various images of the buildings on fire and of the rubble, there is a photograph of a man with the World Trade Center’s as his backdrop, plummeting to his untimely death

When 9/11 happened I had no clue what was going on all can remember was all these people getting amazed I really did not find out what really did happened un till I was like 6 or 7 and watched the actual videos it was really sad and crazy how people can actually get on plain whit the intentions of killing thousands of people just hearless.whart happened afterwards was people in shock which later turned to paranoia andacuusating the Muslim community. The American government and the American people

The event you are reading about today is the attack on the Twin Towers. This event happened on September 11  2001 in New York City. The the Twin Towers attack happened around 8:46 am. Two planes were flown into the towers after being hijacked. The Towers at this point were caught on fire, people were crushed and others jumped out of the Towers or else they would have burned to death. After the Towers burned they collapsed one after the other, when they came down with huge puffs of smoke and dust