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¶ … alarm woke me up. Crawling from bed to bathroom and back to bed, I lay there wishing I didn't have to go to school or work. I crept to the desk and turned on my computer before even thinking about getting dressed, eyes still half shut and glazed from a lack of sleep. Internet Explorer launched, automatically loading the Yahoo! Portal, where I half-heartedly read a handful of top news headlines, a brief local weather report, and checked e-mail, as I liked to do first thing in the morning. I thought nothing much of the odd yet typically newsworthy photo of a plane hitting the first World Trade Center tower. Must be an accident, I thought. Some small private jet veered off-course, its pilot perhaps drunk. "Plane hits building,' the headline read. "Terrorism suspected." Nothing surprising there; terrorism was a household word far before September of 2001. Terrorists bomb boats and buildings all the time. Even if it were terrorists, big deal -- they hit an indestructible edifice on a suicide mission. We're indestructible, impenetrable. No one attacks the United States.
By the time I got to work both buildings had fallen. The world changed that day. It changed the psyches of almost every resident of the United States and perhaps the whole of North America. It changed the political and economic landscapes of the world, turning stable balances of power into shifty, tenuous uncertainty. It changed, or rather ended, the lives of...
September 11 changed media discourse and popular rhetoric.
Three years after the disaster, terrorism has gone beyond being a household word. Terrorism is now a political keyword, a hypnotic response word, even a word laced with racial and religious overtones. When the word is uttered, most people in the United States don't think of Colombia or Sierra Leone. They think of Saudi Arabians. Iraqis. Palestinians. Just about anyone who is, or even looks, Middle Eastern.
The term September 11 evokes far more than planes hitting the Manhattan twin towers and the Pentagon buildings, evokes far more than three thousand civilian lives lost in a day, evokes far more than the largest foreign attack on United States soil since Pearl Harbor. September 11 will from now on be a date that, like July 4, cannot be dissociated from its semantic significance. Just as July 4 means "Independence Day" and barbeques and summer fun, September 11 connotes terrorism, fear, and George W. Bush. In the wake of September 11, the public has all but forgotten to question the whereabouts and wheelings and dealings of the Al Qaeda organization, which claimed responsibility for the attacks. September 11 changed the world by giving the Bush administration a blank check with which to write off the lives of Iraqi people -- because presumably there was a connection between that nation and that fateful day. The…
Business Ethics Changes in U.S. Business Ethics Practices Changes in U.S. Business Ethics Practices Since Sep 11, 2001 The incident of 9/11 made the world pass though many sad and undesirable changes. One of such changes is declining rate of ethical considerations in U.S. based commercial organization. The subject is important to explore as it is likely to affect the image of U.S. business organizations. Furthermore, it is also expected that U.S. literature
American Foreign Policy Since September 11, 2001 Over its history, American foreign policy has proven remarkably flexible. Indeed, critics have said it has been too flexible -- "too naive, too calculating, too openhanded, too violent, too isolationist, too unilateral, too multilateral, too moralistic, too immoral" (Mead, 2002). All of these criticisms have been true of U.S. foreign policy at certain points, but its flexibility has made it possible for the nation
Of course, not all of the counterterrorism methods will work, and there will certainly be changes, alterations, and even the disbanding of some of the things the government has done to help prevent further attacks. Clearly, the nation has learned quite a bit from the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The people learned the country was vulnerable to attacks never before imagined. They learned that thousands of people could die in
Hammond Exam On September 11, 2001, Al Qaeda attacked the heart of the American economy causing not only losses in terms of property and financial damage, but also widespread terror and fear which extended far beyond the borders of the United States of America affecting the world as a whole. Like any other nation, the foremost interest of the United States is national security[footnoteRef:1], which entails not only the security of
Terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 [...] whether the government needs to do all it can in order to protect its citizens, even if that means they have to surrender some of their civil liberties. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 changed America forever. The people understood they were vulnerable for the first time in decades, and they understood that security measures would have to increase -- that
Terrorist Attack On September 11, 2001, 19 Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four United States commercial airliners travelling from the east coast to California. The hijackers forcibly took control of four planes. Two planes were purposefully crashed into the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York City. The third aircraft was flown into the Pentagon building in Washington DC. The fourth plane landed in a Pennsylvania field. All of the people on