...know how many are dead and how many are injured but stay tuned for more information later tonight on the 6 o'clock news. Its obvious that 9/11 was the worst terrorist attack this nation has ever seen. After reading that I am sure those who don’t know much about 9/11 have a lot of questions well I am going to answer a few of those question that they might have. How was Al Qaeda able to hijack the planes on 9/11. Al Qaeda was able to hijack the planes because they bought multi tools because at the time knifes with a blade smaller than 4 inches were allowed on the plane. They also took flight lessons and used a flying simulator that showed them what it will be like when they are driving and it showed them how to fly planes. The terrorists who were going to hijack the planes slipped thru holes in airport security which helped them bring explosives and other items that weren't allowed on planes. If...
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...debatable issue, with some for and some against. But what led up to it and why did we invade Iraq? In this paper, I will look at the facts, rumors, and mere coincidences that overshadow this highly controversial debate. I will also speak on personal experience, when I was deployed to that region. As we all know, in September of 2001 a great tragedy struck this great nation. On the morning of September 11th, terrorists hijacked four passenger planes. Two of the planes, struck one of the World Trade Center Tower’s. One plane hit the pentagon, while the fourth plane was enroute to Washington D.C., crashed in Pennsylvania. Nearly three thousand people lost their lives in these horrible events. It has been since Pearl Harbor since that large of an attack happened on American soil. President George W. Bush was our Commander-in- Chief, his approval ratings before these attacks were not bad, but not great. His rating, which was done by the Gallup poll was around 55%, give or take. The economy was heading into a recession. How this all comes into play, is the theory that war boosts the economy. Companies are given contracts to build equipment and clothing for the military in return they hire more employees to keep up with the demand. Not only do unemployment numbers decrease, spending increases which help boost an ailing economy. There are a lot of conspiracy theories which suggest that the September 11 attacks were an inside job. For example the movie, “Loose Change,” directed...
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...Pearl Harbor and 9/11 was both two tragedy terrorist attacks. Pearl Harbor was a attacked planned by the Japanese and carried most of the attack out while United states were unprepared. With 9/11, the attack was planned by Arab -Muslim hijackers. 9/ 11 was carried out by 2 planes crashing into the trade center and killing thousands of people. Pearl Harbor was carried out by Japanese going to the American base and throwing bombs , and shooting missiles from their airplanes. With the Japanese, their long term goals was to deliver a knockout blowout to the U.S Pacific fleet with a surprise attack on Pearl attack which would give Japan power , and would help the japanese enough resources they need. The Japanese sent a surprise attack to Pearl attack early morning on December 7 , and the Japanese sunk 4 American battleships , , caused the last to go underground, while the damaging three other ships and over three hundred aircraft. Although the attack devastatingly successful , It was not the knock out Japanese planners Intended. The fight with Japanses on Pearl Harbor actually helped strangle the Japanses economy in the final years of the war. The long term goals of the 9/11 attack was to make Americans...
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...Homeland Security policies of President George W. Bush & Harry S. Truman Tasheika Fulmore Strayer University Professor Shelly Taylor Homeland Security Policies of George W. Bush and Harry S. Truman Over the years the citizens of the United States have had to either sit or seethe when a policy was passed by a president or they benefited from the policy implementation. We find examples in the civil rights act or most recently Obama care when it comes to looking at highly protested policies. However, no matter the feeling or benefit, presidents are expected to make policies. This paper will focus on two specific polices that deal directly with homeland security and will focus in on the presidents that created and enforced these policies. According to Robert Harvey (2008) ever since post WWII the U.S. has had a conflicted attitude towards safety. The author of this paper will coagulate a time line of two presidents and their desire to appease the safety view of Americans. For example, President George W. Bush and his homeland security act which grew out of the issues that arose after the 9/11 attacks. And also President Harry S. Truman’s national security bill which established the Department of Defense during the cold war. Each president had his own motive for signing these national security bills, but each bill grew out of similar problems that they each faced during their presidential areas. Both, presidents were under huge public pressure to make a decision...
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...9/11 Essay Terrorism has been a very influential problem in American history and has had an enormous effect on U.S. From Pearl Harbor, First World Trading Center, Truck Bombing of Federal Building, and last but not least September 11, 2001. September 11th was a very devastating event in the history of America. This was a huge problem and caused depression, mourning, and paranoid many people. Of course, this affected many people and to this day still does. What do you think caused 9/11?.... Let's find out. September 11, 2001 was a very tragic day in American history. It all started when 19 terrorists boarded multiple airplanes, hijacked them, and crashed them into different targets. The terrorists focus was at the Pentagon and World...
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...Both President George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair delivered speeches after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon. It was during this time that the United States desperately needed support and direction in terms of how it was going to deal with the most detrimental terrorist attack in history. The attack took America by surprise, and many people were in constant fear for their lives and their country. Because of this state of trauma that the nation was in, both Bush and Blair took action and delivered emotional speeches that utilized several rhetorical techniques to adequately minimized public fears as well as persuaded America to take collective action. On September 20, 2001, President George Bush...
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...Fahrenheit 9/11 This is a film that will make U.S. citizens really think about what actually happened on September 11th, 2001 and what is still happening with our country. Whether viewers of this film are fans of Michael Moore’s work or not, he keeps viewers guessing throughout about what he is going too pursued upon them next. It is almost hard as a first time viewer of this documentary to believe everything that is provided throughout the film. Moore has ways of convincing his viewers into what he exactly wants them to believe but sometimes he is lacking the credibility of where this information is coming from. Obviously there are parts of the film that viewers cannot argue with, in cases where there is footage of political officials or general public talking on a certain subject. But at the same time Moore usually doesn’t include what he is always asking the interviewee, so once again is he just showing his audience what is needed to be heard in part will make the viewer believe in what he wants them to. One of the most catching parts of the film as a viewer is Moore’s choice of music in particular scenes. While showing live clips he would play songs that take the scene to another level. He makes the viewer really focus on what he is trying to impose through the music playing in the background. As a viewer it is easy to see that when Moore is using a specific song in the scene it is simply adding to the situation that is being viewed. In all the cases whether it is some...
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...22 No Longer Inevitable? The Transatlantic Relationship from Bush to Obama Michael Cox Until recently, the relationship between the United States and Europe constituted one of the most intimate in modern times. Indeed, as we ‘over here’ love reminding our American friends ‘over there’, the United States was in the beginning a mere by-product of Europe – initially created by a rising European power in the form of Great Britain, then born out of a long war between Britain and France, and finally transformed into a world power in large part because of large-scale European migration between 1814 and 1914. Europe’s long twentieth century crisis, however, had a massive impact on the balance within this relationship, and by 1945 not only had Europe lost its place at the head of the international table but had become highly dependent on the United States itself. Still, in uncertain times, the US continued to need as many friends as it could muster, and whether one prefers to view the nature of the postwar relationship in the more liberal sense of being a ‘community’, or in more realist terms as being one in which an American hegemon dictated terms to weak dependencies, matters less than in recognising how important the relationship was to become to both countries during the Cold War. Thus, Europe needed the US to survive in a bipolar world: the United States, however, required Europe in order to protect that world from the threat posed by its many anti-western enemies...
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...The Uncovering of the Truth About the Iraq War There are many stories about war that are usually biased and only showing one perspective of war. As an audience, we are never truly given factual evidence about everything, especially in wars. In order to uncover the true story of wars we must investigate the matter at hand, why are we at war? The fact of the matter is because of our political leaders and the way they address themselves to other countries. The United States for many years has set a goal, which any country that is non-democratic in a sense is an enemy of the United States and the world. During 1991, Operation Desert Storm was put in place because Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. This increased international security. The reason...
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...9/11: What May Have Gone Unnoticed Should a country be able to trust their government? When asked that question most would reply with yes, or maybe even a “definitely”. What if everything citizens heard from the government through the news and media wasn’t the truth? Would it frighten people? Would it anger civilians who have put all of their trust into their government? Many may not know, but some groups believe that the U.S. government may be deceiving its people. As Americans, we have all probably heard of the disaster that occurred on September 11, 2001. It will live on in the memories of many people forever. When analyzing the death, destruction, and terror, many realize one more thing lies beneath. That something is confusion. Many...
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...According to the constitution the writ to Habeas Corpus is implemented to prevent tyranny and false imprisonments. In the length that our nation has been around there has only been three instances in which the habeas corpus writ was suspended. The first was after the civil war (during the reconstruction) and most recently during the War on Terror. The War on Terror has brought the Habeas Corpus writ into different perspective when it was approved that the writ be suspended for prisoners in Guantanamo Bay (GITMO). The Bush administration went under severe scrutiny after choosing GITMO as a detention center for “enemy combatants/illegal combatants” and suspending the Habeas Corpus writ to them. There had been no legal aid provided so that the detainees could attempt to prove innocence. In the over zealous need to prevent further terrorist attacks in a way we condoned terrorist like ideals. In 2008, the verdict in Boumediene v. Bush the Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration and their position on the detainees. The Supreme Court made its ruling, yet it has not taken new cases from Guantanamo in for review. So if the Supreme Court is turning their face then where does the power fall to…the President, Congress, Senate, or the Military? Who will get to dictate when detainees have proven their innocence? Habeas Corpus is a United States writ and has been for a...
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...9/11 Conspiracy Theories Hannah N. Powell Floyd Central High School 9/11 Conspiracy Theories On the morning of September 11, 2001, the terrorist attack in New York caused a shock to a vast majority of the United States. We have all seen the terrible footage of the twin towers collapsing and the crash of the plane at the Pentagon and in the field in Pennsylvania. It seems almost unthinkable for our own government to potentially control the awful events of 9/11. Around 8:00 am on September 11, 2001, Flight 175 from United Airlines departed Boston carrying two pilots, seven flight attendants, and eighty-one passengers. Within five minutes, the plane’s identification transponder was shut off; it was hijacked and turned for New York (McConnachie, p.396). Also, at around 8:00am, American Airlines Flight 11 left for Los Angeles. A few minutes after the plane departed, it was hijacked and directed towards New York. Around 8:05 am, Flights 93 and 77 from American Airlines changed its course and headed toward New York. At 8:46am Flight 11 slams into the North Tower at the World Trade Center striking the north side, only fourteen stories from the top. 9:03am South Tower at the World Trade Center was plunged by Flight 175. 9:45am Flight 77 collides into the Pentagon. Flight 93 crashed in a field after passengers rush the hijackers. Around 10:10am the Pentagon, the North, and South towers collapsed (McConnachie, p.396). Evacuations had already begun in the South Tower when the...
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...Reflections on World’s Leadership Mr. Bill Gates (Good Leader) Mr. George Walker Bush (Bad Leader) Presented to: Prof. Dr. Hayfaa A. Tlaiss Prepared by: Sarwat Praveen Student Number: 3518229 Section-2 & Group-2 Table of Contents MR. BILL GATES 2 INTRODUCTION2 ABOUT HIS LIFE…2 LEADERSHIP QUALITIES OF BILL GATES4 GROWING AND LEARNING4 HAVING VISION5 CARING ABOUT PEOPLE5 MY PERCEPTION, WHY BILL GATE IS A GREAT LEADER…6 BILL GATE IS MY INSPIRATION7 MR. GEORGE WALKER BUSH8 EARLY LIFE AND CAREER8 MY PERCEPTION, WHY HE IS BAD LEADER9 GEORGE BUSH FIRST PRESIDENTIAL TERM…9 FEW GOOD STEPS TAKEN BY GEORGE BUSH10 GEORG BUSH SECOND PRESIDENTIAL TERM10 GEORGE BUSH POST PRESIDENCY11 HOW DID HIS LEADERSHIP STYLE IMPECT ME AND MY LEADERSHIP STYLE 11 REFRENCES…13 Mr. Bill Gates INTRODUCTION William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor. Gates is the former chief executive and chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen. He is an exceptional leader in the business field. Being named the richest man in the world for the past decade by Forbes magazine, it was clear that Bill Gates must be an outstanding business leader taking his company Microsoft from a small firm that was founded in 1975 to a global company that is worth...
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...JEFFREY LONG JANUARY 27, 2014 September 11, 2001 has brought about many changes in the form of how the country protects itself from terrorists. In particular, how we handle individuals captured and labeled as enemy combatants. The United States Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba(GITMO) is land leased to the United States under the Cuban-American Treaty of 1903 for the use of coaling and a Naval station. Since 2002, the naval base has operated a detention camp for alleged enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other places. Legal issues surrounding the imprisonment without due process is an argument that has continued since the opening of this facility. This essay will argue why the rights afforded by the Constitution should be afforded to detainees at GITMO in terms of habeas corpus. Habeas corpus is a demand by a court to a jailer to produce the prisoner and announce the charges(Levin-Waldman, 2012). Derived from English common law, habeas corpus first appeared in the Magna Carta of 1215 and is the oldest human right in the history of English-speaking civilization. The doctrine of habeas corpus stems from the requirement that a government must either charge a person or let him go free. The Bush administration’s decision to incarcerate enemy combatants at GITMO without habeas corpus has tested the scope and commitment of this constitutional right(Schultz, 2011). This right is clearly stated in Article 1, Section 9 of the constitution that habeas corpus shall...
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...From the Truman Doctrine to the Bush Doctrine | Contemporary History | | An overview and comparative analysis of two decisive American foreign policy doctrines breed from fear that impacted the world. | Fear and the reaction to it has been a driving force throughout human evolution, it has helped shape both our physical and social development. Fear and the reaction to it in politics, has helped create and shape everything from our borders and languages, to our technology and religion. At its very best it serves as a common uniting factor that all people share. At its worst it has lead to some of our greatest wars. The Truman and Bush Doctrines are two such policy sets rooted in fears that helped shape the world we know today. On the 12th of March 1947, then President Harry S. Truman addressed a joint session of Congress requesting $400 million in military funding and other foreign aid to support the struggling nations of Turkey and Greece. Truman implored Congress to act quickly to provide aid and support to both nations. Truman described the current state of affairs in Greece as an environment of “political chaos” and that its internal security and very survival were threatened by “terrorist activities of several thousand armed men, led by Communists…” (Truman, 1947) In this speech lay the foundation for the resulting Cold War, and idea that the spread of Communism should be halted and contained. With further analysis of this same speech one can also locate early...
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