I will then look in to and discuss the various conspiracy theories that surround the question. Introduction When asked to think of a name associated to the word terrorism Osama bin Laden will spring to the front of many people’s minds. This is not surprising as he been the most influential and internationally recognised terrorist over the last few decades. At 10:30 AM on May the 1st 2011 the White House released a statement claiming bin Laden had been killed in an American operation in Pakistan. Many people all over the US and Europe celebrated at the news as they felt that justice had been done for the 9/11 attacks which killed so many innocent people.
The Death of Osama Bin Laden: How the U.S Regained Its Strength Ten years after the massacre that took the lives of many Americans on September 11, 2001; many people decided to celebrate the announcement of Osama bin Laden’s death by waving American flags and singing “God Bless America” as the news coverage of his execution appeared throughout the media. However, this celebration caused conflict between those who thought it was wrong to celebrate a murder, and those who believed in rejoicing at the end of the war. In his article Why We Celebrate a Killing, Jonathan Haidt exposed his ideas of why it was beneficial to celebrate Osama bin Laden’s death as it unified a diverse population, allowed for closure to those affected and increased pride in the American government. He also touched upon a few reasons why people disagreed with the celebration of bin Laden’s execution, mainly being the feeling of going against morals and lowering America’s standards as people commemorated revenge. In his article, Haidt proposes that this celebration was an example of man’s needs for survival, which is human’s most primal instinct.
At a memorial service Sunday evening, President Obama will join the loved ones of the 12 people killed in a rampage at the Washington Navy Yard in last week. “I'll be meeting in mourning with families in this city who now know the same unspeakable grief of families in Newtown and Aurora and Tucson and Chicago and New Orleans and all across the country, people whose loved ones were torn from them without headlines sometimes or public outcry," Mr. Obama said in a keynote speech to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Saturday night. Obama also acknowledged his failure to get new gun-control legislation passed. “That means we've got to get back up and go back at it, because as long as there are those who fight to make it as easy as
News May 05, 2011 THE DEATH OF OSAMA BIN LADEN EFFECTING EVERYONE? By: Kawenvir Singh As Americans learned the death of Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al-Qaeda, the streets of America had begun to flutter with celebration. The US Special Forces had been the ones who shot Bin laden. They had a lead from a courier in Pakistan that distinguished where Osama Bin Laden was hidden. A few of the Pakistan Citizens felt threatened and notified the US Special Forces right away that also knew.
Rhetorical analysis - Bush’s speech. On a cloudless fall day in September 2001, 19 terrorist attacked USA and made it into front pages of every newspaper in the entire world. The whole world’s population were shocked, and never before have people conjectured that the terrorists would attack the United States of America. Same evening, at the time president, George W. Bush held a speech, whose intention was to calm the U.S. population and to warn the terrorist and the rest of the world about an eventually war. Bush’s intentions with the speech is to calm the country, and be their president.
Even to this day, 9/11 is one of the most respected days in our lives. On the date of September 20, 2001, former President George W. Bush took the podium to address the tragedy. It all started off in a melancholy tone, but he also sounded extremely determined. He did the best that he could that those lives were not forgotten. The quote “After all that has just passed, all the lives taken, and all the possibilities and hopes that died with them, it is natural to wonder if America’s future is one of fear.” was the beginning of Bush’s speech to all the people of America.
Effects of the Cliché “Actions Speak Louder Than Words” On the 11th of September 2001, the entire world was affected by the terrorist attacks on the United States of America. On the Sunday after these attacks, then U.S. President George W. Bush made a speech announcing his plan to “rid the world of the evil-doers” who traumatized his country earlier that week. Bush also inadvertently drew a parallel from this event to another event that traumatized many: The Crusades that took place during the Middle Ages. "This crusade, this war on terrorism is gonna take awhile” said Bush. The unintentional reference to the Middle Age’s Crusades George W. Bush made in his response to the 9/11 attacks was justly criticized as it connected the problem at hand to the violence of religious warfare, inflicted anxiety upon a vast amount of the world’s population, and holds a fearsome truth.
With the attacks on our nation on September 11, 2001 the effects have been felt and displayed all over the world. We are at war with Afghanistan and have been for just a little over 10 years. So why are we over there, what have we done, and when will our troops come home? On September 11, 2001 4 commercial airplanes were high-jacked two were flown into the world trade center, another flown into the pentagon, and one that was able to get taken over by passengers and crash landed into a field. During that day approximately 3000 people died according to the New York police and fire department.
The attacks by Al Qaeda on September 11th were co-ordinated and calculated they hit the heart of capitalism and also the Pentagon another plane was ditched in a field in Pennsylvania which may have been heading for Washington D.C. almost three thousand people from many different countries were killed that day so the effects were felt world-wide. The response to this was the ongoing “War on Terror” with the deposition of the Taliban being the goal. Thirteen years later troops are still in Afghanistan and Iraq from both America and Britain although they are beginning to withdraw. Before the attacks of September 11th music had been used for protest there
They gave their final hugs and kisses to their husbands, wives and their children before heading to work. Within a few hours of waking, thousands of innocent Americans were brutally murdered in a hideous act of terrorism. This act of terror prompted our government officials to draft a law that would help protect us from terrorists. The month following the attack, this new law was drafted, considered and passed by the House and the Senate. This Act is named “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT ACT).