Jillian+Greer+&+Harlee+Havens

Topic: The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001.

__**Harlee**__

[|"The Day the Towers Fell"]

Gibbs, N.,Moakley, P. Pollack, K.,Adams, W.L.,Pickert, K.(2011, September 19).The day the towers fell. //Time International (South Pacific Edition), 178(11), 28-31//


 * Summary:** Exploration of various tales of 9/11.


 * Quotes: **
 * "'At that point, I realized America was at war.'"
 * "It was one of the most visually beautiful sights I had ever seen, just in terms of pure visual grandeur--the metal and the dust and blue sky. It was spectacular. It's one of those paradoxes where something so tragic can actually be beautiful, strange as that may sound."
 * "For a while, we all lived at Ground Zero."
 * "We did not need to decide, as the widows did, when it becomes O.K. to throw away your husband's toothbrush. We did not need to designate, as the soldiers did, who should be our children's guardians as a decade of deployment began. We did not have to reckon, as American Muslims did, with the constant second look, the elasticity of liberty when a country gets scared."
 * "But initially, there was--the fog of war, I guess, would be the best way to describe it."


 * Paraphrases**** : **Though everyone remembers the attacks differently, everyone still remembers the day perfectly.

[|The Emerging Phenomenon]

Ahmed Abdur Aashid, S. (2011, November). The emerging phenomena of post 9/11. Political Theology, 12 (5), 752-761. doi:10.1558/poth.v12i5.752


 * Summary:** A lasting effect of 9/11 is the tainted portrayal of Muslim culture.


 * Quotes:**
 * "In the Muslim community, the association between 'religion and politics' has become an unwelcome focus after 9/11. Thrust into the political sphere, virtually every Muslim found her or himself suspect, their religion vilified, their identity victim of the ideographic association: Muslim = terrorist. Forced into being defensive, Muslims were and continue to be simultaneously challenged to articulate Islam to a national audience, often ignorant of their religion, and at the same time unknowing victims of an equally ignorant biased media."
 * "The loss of dignified social and political discourse, alongside the mainstreaming of vitriolic and intolerant punditry is one of the most tragic after-shocks of 9/11."
 * "It gave us permission to add yet another minority to the list of perceived threats to the American Way of Life, conveniently forgetting that the vast majority of people in this country are children of immigrants."
 * "Today, many of us still find ourselves lacking that sense of security, personally, socially and politically."


 * Paraphrases:** The attacks on 9/11 have altered more than just American morale.

[|"Get your War on"]

Melnick, J. (2011, Fall). Get you war on. Radical History Review, 111, 217-224. doi: 10.1215/01636545-1268830


 * Summary: ** A professor explores the struggles of teaching modern conception of 9/11 to college students.


 * Quotes: **
 * "Even so, Eastwood did the work of organizing the American public to understand 9/11 as the 'twenty- first century’s day of infamy.'"
 * “'Too soon' was a key phrase deployed in these days."
 * "...how the growth of Web 2.0 existed in a mutually constitutive relationship with post-9/11 culture."
 * "Let me be clear: the robust narcissism of young people made it relatively easy to get these classes to see that 9/11 was about them. (Later, I would have John Cameron Mitchell’s 2006 movie Shortbus to enlist in class, with the drag queen Justin Bond’s great line about young people swarming to New York after 9/11 because 9/11 was the “only real thing" that had ever happened to them). What is more difficult, of course, is to get the students to see that 9/11 is not //only// about //them//."


 * Paraphrases:** Moving on from 9/11 and being able to analyze it is still a difficult task, even with people so young that they don't particularly remember the day itself.

[|Electric Cars]

Massey, R. (2013). Government invests another £37 millions in electric cars...despite only 2,000 being sold last year. //The UK Daily Mail.// Retrieved from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2281194/Government-invests-37m-electric-cars-despite-2-000-sold-year.html


 * Summary:** Electric car use.

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 * Quotes: **
 * "In 2012 just 2,237 electric cars were sold and registered for the ‘plug-in car grant’, though that is double the figure of 1,052 in 2011 and a big increase on the 111 in 2010."
 * Paraphrase:** Electric cars are facing struggles when working their way up in the world.

[|"You Don't Get the War You Want"]

Lichterman, A., Burroughs, J. (2004, September). You don't get the war you want. //Peace Review, 16 (3), 257-262.// doi: 10.1080/1040265042000278478


 * Summary: ** The faults of modern warfare.


 * Quotes : **


 * "Next, the Bush administration targeted Iraq, driven by old agendas of the oil..."
 * "This inconsistency exposes a contradiction at the heart of the rapidly expanding 'war on terror.'"
 * "Since September 11, some have called for readjustments of the law of war to meet the threat posed by non-state organizations that use global communications and mobility to the dense, complex networks and powerful technologies of modern societies into weapons against those societies. Most of these arguments have leaned in one direction: towards loosening the constraints on the governments that seek to track down and kill or capture those who are responsible for such attacks."
 * "...the routine acceptance, signiﬁed by the linguistic neutralization of the term 'collateral damage,' of the killing of innocent people by death delivered from a distance..."

**Paraphrase:** Fear instilled from 9/11 has made Americans justify less than moral means of warfare.

__**Jillian**__

[|War death Statistics] This has the death statistics on both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom which is updated daily.

Department of Defense. (2013). Statistics of fatalities and casualties in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Washington, DC.

On Location: A firefight in Kunar Province

This is an on the scene reporter reporting on an incident in Afghanistan where soldiers(including my brother) were injured in Afghanistan. Due to 9/11 we invaded both Iraq and Afghanistan and due to that many deaths and injuries have happened.

Foley, J. (2010). On location: a firefight in Kunar Province. Global Post. Retrieved from: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/afghanistan/100917/location-firefight-kunar-province

U.S.-Born Al-Qaida Cleric Awlaki Killed in Yemen

This is a report on the death of a most wanted international terrorist that was actually born in the U.S. This terrorist has planned attacks on the United States and is apart of Al-Qaida.

counterrorism

This reports the laws and regulations presidents have put on assassinating terrorist leaders throughout the past to the current day. Netzley, P, N., Moataz, E. A. (2014). counterterrorism. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2007. (p.96-100). //World History in Context //.