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    foreign attack until the turn of the 21st century which marked a pivotal point. On September 11, 2001, the attack on the World Trade Center profoundly changed not only U.S. domestic and foreign policies but the world. The research conducted in this paper will explore the incidents that occurred on the terrorist attack that destroyed the Twin Towers and devastated the World Trade Center in New York. Many had threatened the U.S. but none have previously been successful. The impact of 9/11 introduced a new

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    Numerous reasons and possibilities circulate through out the world as to if the United States government had ties to the happenings on September 11th, 2001. Evidence to dispute 9/11 being an inside job quickly began to go viral, especially on the Internet. False flag terrorism became a widely debated topic to go along with the conspiracies. Theorists believe that bombs demolished the World Trade Center Buildings, the phone calls from the planes were a hoax, or George W. Bush who was the current president

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    The attack on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, had negative health consequences beyond the staggering loss of life. The James L. Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act, signed into law by President Obama in 2010, established the World Trade Center Health Program that ensured those affected by 9/11 received monitoring and treatment services for 9/11 related health problems up until 2011 and reopened the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 to new applicants

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    separately and didn’t know each other. The attack on the World Trade Center Towers was planned by Ramzi Yousef, Mahmud Abouhalima, Mohammad Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Abdul Rahman Yasin and Ahmad Ajaj. They received the finance from Yousef’s uncle, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Four men were convicted in March, 1994 for carrying out the

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    life-affirming old city, the World Trade Center represented ''the new city, inhumane, manipulative, life-destroying,'' (Sanders, 2001), directly reflecting Joe Turner's life and character drastically changing within a three day period. Throughout the film the power of the CIA is a key theme even up until the very last scene, where a CIA agent hints that the media, specifically The New York Times, is under control of the CIA. In his book “The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System” published

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    Introduction The World Trade Center was a global icon of The United States of America. The tallest of the buildings was over 1,300 feet high (10). With such large buildings, the materials used in construction needed to meet certain standards just to successfully stand erect. The design intent has the biggest factor for the material selection. In the World Trade Centers, the materials were supposed to meet certain properties and requirements. The analysis of whether or not the World Trade Center buildings

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    has seen many terrorist attacks throughout the world and at home. Seeing them around the world may have hurt, but not as bad as seeing it in your own backyard, when you and your neighbors are being targeted. By definition Terrorism is usually a small group who kills suddenly or secretively. Many terrorist attacks are the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on the attack of September 11,2001, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, the Wall Street bombing and, the U

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    relationships. Historical tragedies are the reason we are where we are as a community and country today. They completely alter our thinking and open us up to realizations we had not thought possible. For example, The Holocaust, The Black Plague, and World War I to name a few. However, This is most evident in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that happened in the United States of America. Due to films being a representation of society itself, this tragedy has unsurprisingly had a profound impact

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    According to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center Foundation, the memorial is the tribute to victims killed in the terrorists attack in 2001 at the World Trade Center site. Nearly 3,000 people were killed which was the biggest terror attack in American history. The Memorial consists of 2 pools what retrace the footprints of where the 2 skyscrapers were situated. They are the largest man made waterfalls in North America (National 9/11 Memorial & Museum Foundation)

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    Following the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, Rescorla invited Hill to New York, where he hired him as a security consultant in order to assess the building 's security. Although no arrests had yet been made, Rescorla believed that the bomb had been planted by Muslims. Hill went undercover in several mosques throughout New Jersey, showing up for morning prayers at dawn. He took on the character of an anti-American Muslim, in order to interview the other visitors to the mosques. He concluded that

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