In this paper we will examine the impact of 9/11 on Americans and the U.S. economy and why the U.S. responded to the terrorism by enacting the USA Patriot act to “protect” America, which had become a big controversial issue to Americans. Another topic we will discuss is the negative effects of the Patriot Act such as violating Americans civil liberties and how the government stereotyped and secretly arrested Arab or Muslim citizens. The tragedy of 9/11 has impacted America in many ways and ever since then, America has made a lot of changes to prevent another tragedy, such as the national security which is tighter than it has ever been in recent years, especially in airports. According to Jennie Wood’s article, she mentions that the airport has way too many restrictions on what to bring in the plane for every traveler, such as, “Liquids and toiletries have to be a certain size and placed in clear, sealed bags. No food or bottled water is allowed through security.
He uses satire in his film to raise issues pertaining to the control of guns in America and find out the reasons why there is so much violence in America. He does this by exploring the American culture and history of violence, the unjustified white fear of blacks and the lack of justification for gun ownership. Moore believes that America has been responsible for a large number of wars and violent incidents around the world, culminating in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001. He uses the What a Wonderful World montage to prove that Americans do not use weapons in self-defence, as some would argue, but use weapons aggressively. Just before the sequence of revealing images, Moore is shown conducting an interview with Evan McCollum, Director of Communications at a Lockheed Martin plant near Columbine, who says, “But we have to learn to deal with that annoyance or that anger or that frustration in appropriate ways.
When dissecting religious resistance groups it is important to understand their ideology and its role in motivating and mobilizing it members. While religion itself does not usually lead to violence, given the correct combination of political, social, and ideological circumstances it has the potential to breed unthinkable atrocities. In the case of Hezbollah, the Islamic rhetoric is used to legitimize atrocities and propagate the religion, which ultimately furthers their political agenda. Consequently, “murder can become a holy war and suicide seen as martyrdom,” when their followers accept a divine mandate from Allah (5). Without a firm understanding of their rhetoric, which is inextricably intertwined with their ideology, their actions will
Not only did the attacks leave behind sheer devastation it left behind lots of speculation between what really happened that day. People started to poke holes in what was being shown on the news and what the government was leading the public to believe was the truth. With things not adding up with what they were telling us conspiracy theories began to develop. In this extended project I’m going to explore the main conspiracy theories behind 911 and answer the question were the attacks of 9ll really a conspiracy theory? What is a conspiracy theory?
There are many statements and arguments that suggest that the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima was necessary to end World War II. Such as the Japanese were not surrendering, they still had fighting power as they had sunk U.S. Naval Ship Indianapolis only two days before the bombing Many of this argument can be counted as the only reason the Japanese weren’t surrendering is because they didn’t want to give up there emperor to the “unconditional surrender”, they practically had nothing left. They were sending their battleships and pilots out on suicide missions as they were desperate. Necessity of the bomb lies with the amount of people that would have been killed in a land invasion, although it was vastly exaggerated.
Today, al Qaeda is a de-centralized, compartmentalised organisation that has self-sufficient networks in many countries. Al Qaeda’s success and influence can be traced to its terrorist attack in New York City and Washington DC on 9/11. The scale of these attacks claiming some three thousand lives acted to galvanise support and unify elements of Muslim extremism in parts of the Middle East. Al-Qaeda seeks to unite Muslims in a caliphate and to fight the West, especially the US and Israel, as a means of overthrowing regimes it deems to be secular or unIslamic expelling western influence from Muslim countries, and removing Israel. On the one hand, its initial influence was quite profound; terrorist attacks in Spain, Indonesia (Bali) and the UK, amongst many others were carried out by groups inspired by or affiliated to al Qaeda.
The Holocaust Aharon Appelfeld once said, “the Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it.” Although there is much proof of the Holocaust from museums, textbooks, videos, eyewitnesses, etc., there is an international group of “revisionlists” who disagree with the Holocaust ever taking place; they “seek to prove that the Jewish Holocaust did not happen” (Drobnicki 103). This “Holocaust denial” group not only propagates their thoughts in Arabian, German, or other foreign countries, but America as well; they use anything from newspapers to speeches to mosques to the Internet to get their point across (Lasson 224). Even though the First Amendment of the Constitution forbids Congress from interfering with a citizen’s freedom of religion, speech, assembly, and/or petition, the government should put a stop to this ignorance. Ever since the Holocaust
One can easily see how the Unites States poses as a threat towards them. According to the article, “Peace and Security” Henry Wu agrees with me by describing how much of threat the Middle East is. The Middle Eastern nations can stand for ignorance chaos because of their own actions. It is very unruly of how much they destroy each other and tear each other apart. It is only logical for an American Citizen
They’re fear mongers. They wanted to sell weapons by exploiting people’s fears. So the second we want to put common sense regulations on these assault weapons, the NRA will say ‘They are trying to steal every single one of your guns.’ And people believe them. Fortunately, the majority of the American people see past this.” Kasky also slammed Donald Trump for seeming bowing to the NRA in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting. He stated that the president endorsed gun control measures immediately after the shooting, but backed away following a subsequent meeting with NRA
The events of 9/11 have created hatred, fear, discrimination and Americans have begun racial profiling because of the Arabs who participated in the attacks. Arabs in America are no longer treated as normal American citizens because many stereotype them to be just like those terrorists who attacked America. The hatred for Arabs began immediately after America became aware of who participated in the attacks. Even a year after the attacks, the Justice Department was still aiming their attention on those from the Middle East and South Asia. As if being interrogated isn’t bad enough, they were also incarcerated and deported for just being their skin color.