...Kristina Osborne A# 00145476 English Thursdays - 5:30 2,976: The Effects of 9/11 Eleven years ago, the United States of America had a hugely different attitude towards terrorism than it does now. There was no thought of any act of violence being done on "our soil" only those "other" countries. Ten years later, the effects of 9/11 and its aftermath are still being seen in America. Even more than Pearl Harbor or the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the 9/11 attacks stand alone as a seminal moment in the modern history of the United States, one that exerted the most profound effects on the politics, policies and psychology of America and its citizens. A few of the effects of the Twin Towers being brought down on September 11th, 2001 are; permanent vulnerability, the creation of the TSA (Transportation Security Administration), Ordinary Heroes, and a United People. For Michael Nacht, professor of public policy at UC Berkley, the most fundamental impact of 9/11 is the "sense of permanent vulnerability that haunts citizens of Main Street and Pennsylvania Avenue alike." Where there was no fear, there is now a loss of naivety regarding the unknown. In place of a naive society, there is now a sense of paranoia that never existed before. No longer do you ignore the sound of a crash, a boom, or the earth shaking. Such things are no longer attributed to an innocent source but immediate thought goes to terrorism. We hear a sonic boom and rush to the door to make...
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...September 11, 2001 is better known as “9/11” to Americans who experienced this time in our history. 9/11 was a bad terrorist attack in which over 3000 people, including more than 400 police officers and firefighters, were killed. Almost 10,000 others suffered injuries. An Islamic gang of religious extremists called Al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes crashed into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Following these dire events, the American people went began to see people of Muslim and Eastern descent differently as well as treat them differently. Innocent people were accused and convicted of crimes because of their national origin. This was an unfair but popular practice in the days and months following 9/11....
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...Our nation security has never been the same since the event that change everything, the bombing of the twin towers in September 11, 2001. Thousands of innocent lives were lost because we lack the security we have now. In order to prevent this from happening again our government developed polices in order to counter act and mitigate the threats of ongoing terrorism. Department of Homeland security is formed as a separate agency of the government to secure our nation from the acts of terrorism. The agencies sole purpose is to keep us safe and to prevent the attacks of the terrorism. In the development of the policies and counter terrorism tactics the government face different issues? In this essay we are going to look at how these issues affected...
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...On September 11, 2001 the twin towers in New York City were purposefully destroyed by a group of Islamic extremists. The attack led to an innate fear of those of the same religion. Flash forward a decade and that fear has all but decreased. The grouping of individuals by association is known as stereotyping, Stereotyping leads to numerous problems for both the individual and the group as a whole. For example, Individuals face discrimination at both work and school. The effects on the group, however, are much more drastic. Because of their religion, many nations refuse to give them asylum out of fear. On the individual level Muslim children and teenagers are targets for derogatory comments and acts of hate. According to Sacirbey, an older boy asked a young female student “What are you looking at towel-head?” (Sacirbey). The older boy was referencing to her Islamic headscarf. O’Neal had...
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...debris at a total cost of cleanup of $750 million”. The impact caused polluted air throughout the city. Thousands of hard working people died. Thus, 9/11 became a terrible event in America that impacted memories and lives. The Twin Towers were known for its massive architecture in New York City. It was completed (April 4, 1973), the towers grabbed attention due to its beauty of architecture. The Towers were, “One and Two World Trade Center, rose at the heart of the complex”. Moreover, the Twin Towers took...
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...plane. Moore claims “The plaque underneath it proudly proclaims that this plane killed Vietnamese people on Christmas Eve 1972.” (Moore, Michael) Moore’s phrasing implies that the plaque praises the deaths of civilians, however the truth behind the plaque is a different story. When Michael Moore was criticized for his inaccurate paraphrasing of the plaque, his response was: “I was making a point about the carpet-bombing of Vietnam during the 1972 Christmas offensive. I did not say exactly what the plaque said but was paraphrasing.” (Moore, Michael) Moore misleads the audience and deliberately keeps the plaque hidden off screen so he could get away with the deception. Moore was insinuating that it was America’s own fault for the attack on 9/11.What seems to be another solid point starts to crumble after finding that Osama had not used any ‘CIA Training’ on September 11th, Moore was simply just reminding the audience that CIA had some sort of dealing with Osama in an attempt at concreting his...
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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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...Sydney Nelesen 13 September 2016 The Idiot Wall In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the government-controlled television shows are catered towards a society of conformists with short attention spans and no desire for any substance or meaning. There is a show in which people randomly yell at each other for no reason other than that they are in some sort of argument. Mildred watches this show, and when asked by Guy what it is about, she has trouble trying to explain it. Guy prompts her with questions about the people arguing and she struggles remembering. Mildred watches her television shows and does not comprehend what is going on because the shows are very nonsensical. She is not bothered by the lack of sense, though. All she cares about are the pretty colors and loud noises. The way she acts towards this plotless show reveals that she is superficial and ignorant. Mildred also has get togethers during which she and her friends only watch television and barely communicate. When they do, it is about their television shows, another of which is The White Clown. Mildred invites two of her friends over to watch The White Clown. When the show comes onto the walls, “A woman smiled and drank orange juice simultaneously… the room took off on a rocket flight into the clouds; it plunged into a lime-green sea… White Cartoon Clowns chopped off each other’s limbs… the room whipped out of town to the jet cars wildly circling an arena [, and then] a number of bodies [flew] in the air”...
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...In Ray Bradbury’s futuristic short story “The Pedestrian” the protagonist, Leonard Mead struggles against society’s norms. In a society where everyone is attached to technology, Leonard Mead is different from everyone else. The society does not consider him normal because he writes books instead of sitting in front of a tv screen all day. On top of that, he goes on walks at night while people are in their houses. Using the setting of a dystopian future, the author conveys the theme that technology poses as a threat to society. The setting of Mead’s society demonstrates how technology threatens the future. In the year of 2053, Leonard Mead feels as if he is “alone in the world” because no one is ever outside (1). Mead feels lonely in his world...
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...Bowling for Columbine – Documentary or Fiction? In the text bowling for Columbine – documentary or fiction? David T. Hardy argues that the film is deceptive. 1: On what ground does he base this claim? David T Hardy uses a lot of facts. By using fact substantiate David T. Hardy his arguments. David T. Hardy means Bowling for columbine is fiction even though it has won an Oscar for the best documentary. “Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" won the Oscar for best documentary. Unfortunately, it is not a documentary; by the Academy's own definition He means Bowling for Columbine makes its points by misleading the viewer and the statements the film is made which are false. “The point is not that Bowling is biased. No, the point is that Bowling is deliberately, seriously, and consistently deceptive.” David T. Hardy mean that Bowling for Columbine is deliberately and seriously but he also mean that the documentary differently are deceptive. To deceptive someone is to give someone the wrong perceptions by tricking them or give them false information. Hardy means Michael Moore differently give us wrong information. This argues Hardy by telling us that Michael Moore for example have changed in Heston’s statements. Michael Moore has taken audio of seven, from five different parts of the speech. Actually is one section giving in different speech. It is first after the weeping victims, Moore using the quoted “I have only five words for you…. Cold dead hands” David T. Hardy...
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...The Columbine High School massacre in Littleton Colorado will always be remembered as an unforgettable horrific event that still leaves a mark on the town today. The controversial filmmaker Michael Moore took his take on it and ventured into the creation of events that took place that day. The documentary that was produced, directed, and written by Moore deconstructs the events of this particular decimation and uses his techniques to compose a use of visuals, sounds, editing, and political messages. He portrays his viewpoints as well as cultural perspectives through archival footage, interviews and intertextuality. He makes sure to have a purpose for each shot to leave a harsh yet defying impression in our minds. "In Moore’s eyes, the Columbine...
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...The setting of the movie, “Bowling for Columbine” takes place in a little town country. Two boys are having a game of bowling when suddenly a pretty faced girl appears wielding an M-16 type of assault weapon. It is just a normal typical morning in America. Even though, the scenery is bombarded with ruins of buildings demolished after the bombing approval by the president. The USA is recording high numbers of people killed by small firearms and yet there is no civil war at present. Michael Moore then sets out to explore this phenomenon and why it is in play. Within our society today, media and stereotyping takes over human loves, people fear different ethnic races, children are growing to be more violent and America is growing to be more corrupt. His answers reveal strange and shocking findings, there is a very easy availability of shotguns and light firearms, which results to a rampant all over the States. America’s national history also proves to contain and entail a violent form of culture-imprinted into people’s way of thinking. Forms of entertainment are also partly to blame as they give the viewer a certain incitement including poverty levels, they are also to blame for this way of living but all these factors are not the real reason why he carries the study. Moore believes that this bloodshed has a deeper hidden truth that is not clear to ordinary folks. The powerful and elite class of people needs to be interrogated as to how their operations lead to the rise of many...
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...Bowling for Columbine This movie is a documentary of what the narrator Michael Moore believes is the cause for the Massacre in Columbine high school in 1999. This movie was written and released in 2002. The Massacre in Columbine high school was committed by two students: Dyan Klebold and Eric Harris. These two students attended classes for bowling and were absent from school the day they murdered 12 students and a teacher. This also left 21 people injured at the scene. The narrator Moore starts off the documentary talking about “bowling” in Massachusetts could be a big factor in these two seniors’ students committing this crime. “Bowling” is when shooters use bowling pins as their targets and helps target vital points on the human body in case you ever had to shoot one. Furthermore, Moore went through out the documentary assuming that anger and being in the suburban environment when bomb making etc. is very popular could have caused the very shocking murder act. Therefore, Moore believes the problem in America’s society is that guns and weapons are too easy assessable, shown early on in the documentary by the use of a skit from Chris Rocks standup comedy saying “the price of bullets should be increased because there would be a smaller killing rate and less innocent by standers”. This quote reveals that Moore agrees with Chris rocks point and it conveys messages that if you are going to keep guns so easily accessed then at least have the decent to increase the prices. Although...
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...Review Bowling for Columbine: -by Kasper Jørgensen Rating: Michael Moore’s documentary “Bowling for Columbine” is inspired by the school massacre at Columbine High School back in 1999. The film explores what Michael Moore suggests could be the reasons behind such a tragedy. An early scene of the movie shows how Michael Moore gets his hands on a hunting rifle, simply by opening a bank account (!) Just before leaving the bank, Moore asks, "Don’t you think it's a little dangerous handing out guns at a bank?" A clear indication of his point of view, so early in the documentary. Michael Moore uses several effects to affect us, the whole setup of the movie is so messy and cleverly cut, that you have to be a true-blood American and blissfully unaware about things around you, not to feel that he has a point with this documentary. He uses the shock effect many times, best illustrated by the video montage of some of the awful American foreign policy decisions. Along with this montage of video footage, the song: What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong is playing, which of course is ironic as hell. His strongest argument for all the gun violence in the U.S.A. is the fear that gets thrown at the Americans, throughout their entire lives, all broadcasted by the media. He also shows the American history, through a hilarious animated movie, with a bullet as the narrator. All in all, if you want a good laugh, try to understand other countries mentality or just want some possible...
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...Michael Moore a man that when people mention his name draws instantly, great controversy. In many cases people choose to either love or hate him. Today in the great many pages of information on Michael Moore it is hard to find the plain truth. The question lies to the truth of Mr. Moore’s editing and ethical interviewing styles. It seems more and more readers are swamped with loads of blogs, reports and satire from the arm-chair news rooms of the local coffee shops about how this or that is better than he or she. It is harder to sit down ask a question and get the “who what when and where” of a story that is actual fact. Michael Moore presents himself as a person of the people His very nature is that of an unassuming common man, from his oversized clothes to his frumpy walk to the typical ball cap, Michael Moore seems like a person that anyone could know from his or hers’ own neighborhood. (Wilshire, 2004) The man takes pride in making sure that he states he is one of the people and claims to represent the people. On the contrary Mr. Moore makes sure that he tells people he meets for the first time that he is from Flint Michigan. Actually Mr. Moore is from a little town close to flint called Davison Michigan a sleepy suburb of the run down city of Flint Michigan. (Spence, 2010) In the movie bowling for Columbine Mr. Moore portrays all Americans as a gun wilding, violent and heartless as a society with no care for the common person. Mr. Moore targets Charlton Heston...
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