The movie "Crash" was a great example of how people of different cultures can be prejudice and stereotypical toward one another. It showed how ideas and feelings are adopted and can be carried down from generation to generation. People tend to place their own culture on a pedestal while placing others that they don't understand beneath them. You see and hear things about a race and assume that all or most act out those same behaviors. People also base those feelings on how a person is dressed.
The attack was labeled "the most lethal terrorism in human experience." Also, 9-11 was by far the worst terrorist attack on American siol. This attack took a lot of planning, many say it was "strategically planned" meaning they had everything very organized & in order. Not only was it very well planned, also the terrorists had arranged for the planes to crash into specific locations such as: the Twin Towers, the White House, & the Pentagon building in D.C. Approximately 3,000 lives were sadly lost during this horrible attack.
In a practical sense it maybe possible to change the way we look and act to belong to a group; but as demonstrated in the film Edward Scissor hand, our characteristics can both enrich and limit our ability to belong. The film follows the protagonsit Edward, whose unique characteristic of having scissors for hands, both enriches and limits his ability to find belonging. As a consequence of having scissors for hands, Edward finds that his ability to belong is limited as others see him as a destructive outcast, illustrated when the antagonist Jim harasses him,“You can't touch anything without destroying it! Who the hell do you think you are hanging around here, huh? Get the hell outta here!
Response to 9/11 The Event On 11th September 2001, four planes were hijacked by Al-Qaeda. One of the planes flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre in New York City. 20 minutes after this horrible event, with camera crews sending pictures all over the world, a second plane crashed into the South Tower. Both Towers collapsed, killing 2,752 people. This number includes the innocent people on the planes, firemen, policemen and medical staff who had all gone to assist the crisis.
18 minutes after the crash as the news cameras broadcasted live images of what initially appeared to be a freak accident, a second Boeing 767–United Airlines Flight 175–appeared out of the sky and flew into the south tower of World Trade center near the 60th floor . The collision caused a massive explosion that showered burning debris over surrounding buildings and the streets below. It was now clear that America was under attack. At around 10.00 a.m. the south tower of the World trade center collapsed and at 10:30 the north tower collapsed killing close to 3000 people including 343 firefighters and paramedics, 23 New York City police officers and 37 Port Authority police officers who were struggling to complete an evacuation of the buildings and save the office workers trapped on higher floors. Only six people in the World Trade Center towers at the time of their collapse survived.
However, Edward will not accept by the society because he is so different. This is a wonderful tale about love and kindness, but also about rejection and estrangement. It shows the limits of people's tolerance for what is different from them and how strangers, those who stray from the norm, commonly named 'misfits', awake mockery or fear from a society which will use them and ultimately reject them, thus breaking their innocence and goodness. Though a harsh satire of people's vices, such as deceit, gossip, jealousy, hypocrisy, as well as a tragic witness to the pain and frustration linked to being unable to be accepted as one is by others, the tone is still infused with an ever constant sweetness, gentleness and innocence. The film can be read as a dark, romantic fable for adults, another take on the disparity between the individual and society, on the unique nature of one single character and the horror of conformity.
The events of September 11th 2001 shocked the world, two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Centre in New York. The world’s news reported on the crashes the first was a shock the second unfurled live on air witnessed by millions around the world. The events of this day were not only tragic but had a major impact on how people looked at their lives, the re-evaluated how they lived, how they travelled even culturally life changed. As a result of people’s changing attitudes freedom of speech, censorship, music and even the way news is reported has changed. Vocabulary changed too “terrorism” “bomb” and “terror attacks” were terms used regularly and became a social norm with “war” being added to the list when Iraq was invaded.
Racism, an institutional ideology In 2006, the movie Crash presented many challenging portrayals of racial and ethnic issues. Crash is set in Los Angeles and portrays the ways in which people often show evidence of racist behavior, even while shielding themselves from the same kind of conduct, during confrontation. They do so when apprehensive and insecure: when discouraged with tribulations beyond their control, when threatened with a loss of self-esteem, and when frightened that racial others may extricate them from their place in the social structure. Racist behavior is an easy response because racial categories were fabricated to present superior and inferior status. Race is an influential idea and a continuing concept, made-up by society.
Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, while the third plane soared into the Pentagon just outside of Washington, D.C., along with the last plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania ("History.com," 2011). In this attack, more than three thousand people died and extensive destruction. Various people lost their lives due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time and risking their lives to save others. Many citizens reacted out of anger, fear, and insecurity to this unexpected situation. People began to question how safe the United State really is, which brought the attention to our Congress and the
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Four passenger airliners were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists so they could be flown into buildings in suicide attacks. Two of those planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the North and South towers, respectively, of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. Within two hours, both towers collapsed with debris and the resulting fires causing partial or complete collapse of all other buildings in the WTC complex, as well as significant damage to ten other large surrounding structures. A third plane, American Airlines Flight 77, was crashed into the Pentagon, leading to a partial collapse in its western side.