Lieutenant Rene Davila, shield number 328, lieutenant in Battalion 04, Fire Department of New York. I was assigned or I put myself on assignment immediately after I heard the transmission of the plane hitting the tower. I couldn't tell you exactly what floor it was. I couldn't tell you how many floors were gone but there was a good portion of the building that was definitely destroyed. Responding now— You know you see that guy on 911 or something like that and he's a hero and he's a big shot or whatever.
991108768 Fall 2011 English 101-065 Photographs: Evidence or Assumptions? In Tom Junod's "The Falling Man," several physical characteristics are given to describe the man in the photograph. The details that are given are researched and evaluated to lead the reader closer to the revealing of the falling man. “The Falling Man” is about a picture of a man that jumped from the twin towers on September 11th. Junod forces us to become connected with the man, and then pulls all of the information away, allowing us to realize the truth of photographs.
He was told that he doesn’t “belong in jail” (38). He realizes that he had done something terrible and that things will probably never be like they used to, and he was right. The death of the man was uncontrollable by Roy. The man tried to get away but it seems as if it was his time to die. The “whole cut buckled”(35) which made the “hobo” (35) lose his “balance just when he hit the gravel, and he fell backwards underneath” (35).
I believe he uses them both as a boost to relate his message to the audience. The title of the article is the Falling Man however, Junod insists on using the term “jumped (69)” throughout the entire article. When I hear the word fallen, I automatically develop this sympathy towards the victim. On the other hand, I were to hear the word jumped, then I probably would not have as much sympathy because of the fact that there was a choice in the matter. When someone falls, it is an accident but, when someone jumps, it is because of their own will.
David Laub English 101 A-5 Matt Bougie 4 February 2013 On September 11, 2001 planes flew into the World Trade Center. While some survived the attack many died in different ways. In “The Falling Man” is about the controversial picture of a man falling to his death after the planes smashed into the building. The article explains the story of the events during the attack and after with trying to answer the question on everyone’s mind. Who is the Falling Man?
Liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen then mixed and ignited, causing the explosion that destroyed the Challenger" (Palmer, Dunford, & Akin, 2009, p. 375). All the astronauts aboard the Challenger perished. Seventeen years later, on February 1, 2003, the Columbia disintegrated over Texas and Louisiana during re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. During lift-off, insulating foam fell from the fuel tank onto the wing, which caused a breach in the fragile tiles that were to protect the shuttle from the heat of reentry. Days later, when the shuttle attempted reentry, the breach allowed heat into the wing, which caused destruction of the craft.
The second plane hit the South tower of the World Trade Center around 9:02 A.M. (911 timeline). Both of these towers are monumental buildings that couldn’t withstand the impact of the crashes. Within two hours the buildings had collapsed to the ground. The third plane was flown into the Pentagon building in Washington, D.C. at around 9:37 A.M. (911 timeline). Finally, the fourth plane crashed into a field in the rural area of Pennsylvania around 10:03 A.M. (911 timeline).
9/11 affected the health, financial markets and economy of the citizens of the United States. 9/11 took place on September 11, 2001. Three airplanes were hijacked by terrorist and used as weapons. Two of the planes hit the World Trade Center in New York City and 2,752 people died (September 11 Attacks). The other plane crashed into the Pentagon and killed 189 people.
After a few minutes of watching the same clip, I suddenly saw another plane crashing into the twin of the other building. I couldn’t believe it, I looked at my family and all you could see was the sorrow and angst in their faces as they sat with there mouths dropped open. As the cameras zoomed in on the masses of people covered with a grey ash, you could see in the background smoke swarming the air and then the first tower went tumbling down. That’s when it really hit me that our country was under attack. Since I was so young I didn’t really know that there were more planes than the two that had hit the Trade Center.
The strong radiation from the atomic bomb contaminates the city. This radiation kills all of the people there. The explosion from the bomb whirls up massive amounts of dust and water. The dust and water become radioactively contaminated and fly several feet up. Then, the day after the nuclear explosion, the contaminated dust and water rain down and contaminate a large area.