Bin Laden family

“The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression … It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all” said by the theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking (Phillip 1). He explains that human aggression is the reason for our inevitable self destruction. 1984 is a novel, by George Orwell, about a dystopian society that has a government similar to a dictatorship. The main character,…

On September 11, 2001, the United States and many of its citizens became eager for revenge on Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban. As an effect of losing nearly three thousand American lives, President George W. Bush signed and enacted a joint resolution, allowing him to “use force against those responsible for attacking the United States,” on September 18, 2001 (“U.S. War in Afghanistan”). Only a week after the heart-breaking attacks, the nation widely supported what would turn out to be the most…

Clock is Ticking Tick…Tick…Tick…BOOM! The ticking of America’s clocks stopped while the world stood still. A cloud of smoke and the screams of terror start rising. People are running away and running into the debris. America is being attacked and is now in a state of panic. News crews from around the country are flooding in showing the act of terrorism, and people from Hawaii and Maine can tell anyone exactly what they were doing on that fatal day. That fatal day was September 11th, 2001. The…

directed towards the Islamic faith. What we fail to realize is that we tend to pass on our views to family and friends and they too pass it on until the society as a whole start to view things in the same manner. This is where biases and discrimination are formed and occur. I chose this topic because it has significantly impacted my life both directly and indirectly. It has had negative effects on my family, friends, country and many other countries all over the world and…

n his story, Elie Wiesel develops the main idea that after the terrorist attacks on the U.S, Americans had become more united and needed to fight the terrorists back. In the beginning, he describes how a sunny day in September turned into nightmare because of a terror attack that will forever be remembered. Then he begins to discuss whether this attack would drive us apart or bring us together? Elie and his wife witnessed the gigantic clouds of smoke and ashes . Many Americans were speechless…

victorious, as they were damaging to their enemies; the US. For the US, the great loss of lives and safety was detrimental. The terrorism resulted in an ongoing war between Al-Qaeda and the US, which to this day takes many soldiers away from their families and out of their homelands to fight for their country. At the conclusion of the Cold War in 1989, many believed that they would never have to see or hear of such violence and devastation ever again. For this reason, the Al Qaeda terror…

of this magnitude. When you are able to kill over 3000 people through a series of sophisticated planned strikes, one begins to question the background of these men. For example, Osama Bin Laden, was a former CIA operative in the early 1980’s (Klebnikov, P). The United States worked closely with Bin Laden and his Afghan Arab fighters…

Ever since I was little I loved seeing the Twin Towers and watching what happened on 9/11. I always wanted to know why the 10 terrorist would ever do that. What was going through their mind while it was happening? Why would they risk their lives just to kill a bunch of innocent people? Why did they choose to do it on 9/11? How did the Twin Towers fall? Why did they choose to attack the Twin Towers? I found out all the answers to my questions one night when i was on my computer in my room.…

In New York On September 11, 2001 the world was faced with devastation. At approximately 8:45am a plane crashed into the North tower in the World Trade Center. At the time everyone was confused as what was going on. The people of New York thought that the plane lost control somehow and crashed right into the North tower. But at 9:03am that was when a second plane crashed into the south tower. New Yorkers were starting to believe that this was a terrorist attack on the U.S. The question I wanted…

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is one the partners responsible for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. His actions killed three people and injured 260 other spectators who were watching runners cross the finish line on this mournfully historic day. Now almost two years later, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is giving his jury a hard decision between sentencing him to life in prison and sentencing him to death. The New York Times article entitled, “Question in Boston Bombing Trial: For Tsarnaev to Testify or Not,”…