9/28 BR

Should college students be allowed to have concealed weopons.

Pro's
1. Pro-gun groups insist that an armed student or professor might have saved the day.
2. Mass shootings are rare on campuses.
3. Disarming victims doesn't protect them.
4.  Instead of controlling access, colleges rely on colorful "no gun" signs, foolishly expecting compliance from psychopaths.
5. Some call armed self-defense an extreme response, but in reality campus carry would only allow permit-holders to protect themselves on campus just as they do off-campus
6.We'll never know whether one responsibly armed citizen could have stopped the Virginia Tech shooter because armed self-defense is the only outcome colleges specifically prevent.
7. Concealed carry has steadily increased in recent years, but contrary to criticism, crime has fallen.
8. Campus carry is not untested. More than 200 colleges in six states have allowed it for years without incident.
9. Some colleges even see crime decline.
10. Colleges only maintain status quo, and encourage victims to comply or play dead.

Con's
1. Letting college students pack heat is a recipe for tragedy.
2. Undoubtedly cost more lives than they save.
3. The odds that a student or professor with a gun might be in the right place at the right time — with the skill, nerve and presence — to deter a criminal are incredibly slim.
4. The notion also assumes that everyone with a concealed gun permit is well trained.
5. In many states, including Colorado, a gun permit and a single training course, often lasting a day or less, are all you need to legally carry a concealed weapon.
6. Many courses don't include live firing.
7. In New York City this summer, when police shot and killed a gunman on the street near the Empire State Building, they also wounded nine innocent bystanders.
8. Imagine what might happen with armed amateurs firing away in a darkened theater, or a barroom brawl.
9. Colorado doesn't need any more tragedies.
10.  They know there are smarter ways to protect students than arming them for potential gun fights.

Social Issue

To whom it may concern:

I am writing to you about an issue that has been troubling our country for years. Everyone in their life has been bullied or been a bully. People don't know the effect it has on a person. I believe that we need to go into the schools and do different programs to show the effects fo people.

Kids everyday are afraid to go to school for the fear of being bullied. One out of four kids are bullied on a regular basis. Everyone knows the feeling of being bullied and nobody likes it. We need to go in the schools and stop the bullying before it gets any worse.

Most of the kids that bully have bad home lives. If we can show them the good in other people we can prevent them from putting someone else down. A lot of times it make the bully happier to make someone else feel bad about themselves. We can show them that they don't have to put other people down and to make other people happy.

We can show the kids that do get bullied that they don't have to be scared to go to school. They can focus on getting an education without fearing someone else. If everyone got along there would be a lot less problems and fights that the school has to take care of. We should show that bullying hurts everyone even if they dont show it.

By going in the schools it will show everyone that it is indeed a social issue. It effects everyone and the only way we can stop it is if we take action. We will have more success in stopping the bullies if we take the issue head on. I hope that this will change your point of view on how things are at the schools and hopefully you will help change our schools and make them safer.

BR 9/25

I think it is dumb. They should have to get parental consent to give their kids birth control. It is ignorant and ruuuuuuuuuuuudeeeeee.
lol

9/24

Romney insulted 47% of america with his comments. Obama will raise taxes.

BR 9/21

It is a little creepy, especially if he wrote it on her van. It makes him look like a dweeb. He should have tweeted her like a real man.

1. Complete bell ringer

2. research the first ammendment and the right to privacy....name five parts of the first amendment. Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of the Press, and Right to Petition.

3. examine how much privacy one has in the digital age we live. Write a paragraph
      One person’s privacy is another person’s suppression of free speech. We've lost a lot of privacy in the past 2 decades with the advancement of technology. People are allowed to spy on your cell phones and computers. It can also see what purchases you have made.

4. research the patriot act and summarize it in a paragraph.
     The act, as a response to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, significantly reduced restrictions in law enforcement agencies' gathering of intelligence within the United States. Under perceived pressure from widespread panic felt among Americans from both the September 11 attacks and the 2001 anthrax attacks, Congress rushed to pass legislation to strengthen security controls. Opponents of the law have criticized its authorization of indefinite detentions of immigrants.

5. write a paragraph detailing if the patriot act is a violation of the first amendment
Government agents under this law are able to access a person's records including "library and internet records, medical/psychiatric and student records and financial information," without a warrant. THey can track every phone call you make and what you buy. It invades our privacy.


6. find a news article and copy and paste the link where you feel the person ised their privacy as an "excuse" to get away with something
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/20/mitt-romney-wobbly-week-live?newsfeed=true
 

7. find a news article and copy and paste the link where you fee a person's privacy was not protected.
http://uk.omg.yahoo.com/news/kate-middleton-prince-william-appeal-privacy-tv-following-111344546.html

15 people

1.       Answer the following question:  Why is there a constitution day and what mandated it?

To celebrate our creation of the constitution.

2.       Could you pass the US citizenship test....find five links on the Internet and take the quizzes and post the links and your scores.

 

http://www.800citizen.org/us_citizenship_test/american_citizen_test/ 

88%

http://www.factmonster.com/quizzes/citizenship1/1.html

72%

http://www.studenthandouts.com/01-Web-Pages/New%20Folder%20(3)/Batch-01-MC-INS-United-States-Immigration-Citizenship-Practice-Test-Questions-Multiple-Choice.html

16 points

3. Constitution Day Scavenger Hunt with 60-Second Civics

You and your teammates have been given a set of clues to identify nine delegates to the

Constitutional Convention that was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the summer of 1787. In

order to complete your task you need the clues provided by your teacher and podcasts from the

Center for Civic Education. The podcasts are available at

http://new.civiced.org/framers.

Step 1:

Your teacher has assigned you a certain number of podcasts. In listening to them you

should be able to determine which nine delegates your clues indicate. As soon as you think you

have identified the delegates, check with your teacher to determine if you are correct. If you are,

then move on to the next part of the assignment. If you are not, continue listening until you found

the correct delegates.

Step 2:

Review the nine correct podcasts and complete the information required in the box

adjoining each clue. You must also choose two additional facts about your delegate.

Step 3:

Sharing your information. Your teacher will direct your group on how to share the

information you have gathered about your delegates with the class.

Constitution Day Scavenger Hunt with 60-Second Civics

Teacher Resource 3: Clue Sheet

Reproduce the chart below in word and complete it. Then separate the clues and randomly group them into

sets of nine. Distribute one set to each group.

 

 

Clue: This delegate took notes at the

Philadelphia Convention.

Name: James Madison

State: Pennsylvania

Age/Year of Birth: Born March 16,1751

Two Additional Clues: American Statesman and political theorist, fourth President of the United States.

 

 

Clue:  He refused to sign the Constitution.

Name: George Mason

State: Virginia

Age/Year of Birth: Born December 11, 1725

Two Additional Clues: American Patriot, delegate from Virginia to the US Conventio

 

 

Clue:  This delegate was the head of the Virginia delegation to the convention.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

 

 

Clue:  He practiced in law in Williamsburg.

Name: John Blair

State:  Virginia

Age/Year of Birth: Born in 1732

Two Additional Clues: He was actively involved in the colonial resistance to Great Britain, supporting moves to boycott the importation of British goods in reaction to the Townshend Duties. Blair participated in Virginia's constitutional convention of 1776, sitting on a committee to amend George Mason’s declaration of rights and frame the state’s constitution.

2

 

 

Clue:  He studied medicine in Scotland.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

 

 

Clue:  This Framer emancipated his slaves in

his will.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

 

 

Clue:  He was responsible for the Judiciary Act

of 1789.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

 

 

Clue:  He was the chairman of the Committee on Style.

Name: William Samuel Johnson

State: Pennsylvania

Age/Year of Birth: 1727

Two Additional Clues: President of Columbia college, peacemaker

 

 

Clue:  He served on the committees that draft both the Declaration of Independence and the Article of Confederation.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

 

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Clue:  He studied law in Philadelphia.

Name: Richard Bassett

State: Delaware

Age/Year of Birth: 1745

Two Additional Clues: owned 3 homes in Delaware and Maryland, made no speeches at Philadelphia convention

 

 

Clue:  He was a roommate of James Madison at the College of New Jersey.

Name: Gunning Bedford, Jr

State: Delaware

Age/Year of Birth: 1747

Two Additional Clues: represented the small states point of view, spent many years as a federal district judge

 

 

Clue:  He served as the first postmaster general of Wilmington.

Name: Jacob Broom

State: Delaware

Age/Year of Birth: 1752

Two Additional Clues: died in Philadelphia while attending business, had various careers

 

 

Clue:  He voted against independence and did sign the Declaration of Independence.

Name: John Dickinson

State: Delaware

Age/Year of Birth: 1732

Two Additional Clues: he did enlist in the Continental Army, had the reputation of a scholar and was highly respected

 

 

Clue:  He voted against the independence, but signed the Declaration of Independence.

Name: George Read

State: Delaware

Age/Year of Birth: 1733

Two Additional Clues: led the ratification battle in Delaware, Chief Justice of Delaware until death

4

Clue:

He was born in Connecticut.

Name: Jared Ingersoll

State: PA

Age/Year of Birth: 1749

Two Additional Clues: ran for VP but lost, argued several cases before supreme courtlue:

 

 

Clue:  During the Revolution he served as a lieutenant colonel in the dragoons.

Name: William Few

State: Georgia

Age/Year of Birth: 1748

Two Additional Clues: became one of Georgia's first U.S. Senators, served in Georgia state legislature and Continental Congress

 

 

Clue:

Served as one of the original trustees of

the University of Georgia at Athens.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

Clue: His notes at the convention described the personalities of others.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

 

Clue:  He studied in Flanders, Belgium.

Name: Daniel Carroll

State: Maryland

Age/Year of Birth: 1730

Two Additional Clues: served in the Maryland senate, arrived late to Philadelphia convention

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Clue:  He died three years after the convention.

Name: Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer

State: Maryland

Age/Year of Birth: 1723

Two Additional Clues: owned a large estate near Annapolis, supported the Revolution

 

Clue:

He was opposed to increasing the power

of the federal government.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

Clue:  He was called away from the convention due to family illness.

Name: James McHenry

State: Maryland

Age/Year of Birth: 1753

Two Additional Clues: studied poetry and medicine, spent time writing after retiring

 

Clue:

This Framer studied law under Thomas

Jefferson.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

 

Clue:

After Shays’ Rebellion, he spoke out

against giving the common people too

much power.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

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Clue:

He became an apprentice to a merchant

at the age of fifteen.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

 

Clue:

He was born in the territory that became

Maine.

Name: Rufus King

State: Mass.

Age/Year of Birth: 1755

Two Additional Clues: graduated from Harvard, early opponent of slavery

 

Clue:

In his early twenties he contracted

smallpox, which damaged his eyesight.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

Clue:

He came late to the convention and

served on Committee of Postponed

Matters.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

 

Clue:

His wealth came from investing in trade.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

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Clue:

He was arrested by the British for

treason, rescued by a group of patriots.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

Clue:

He went to convention because his

father and an associate decided not to

go.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

Clue:

He is not to be confused with the

gentlemen from Georgia who also did

not sign the Constitution.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

Clue:

He served as a missionary among the

Mohawk Indians as a teen.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

Clue:

He was born in Ireland and came to the

colonies at the age of two.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

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Clue:

During the Revolution he served as

secretary and aide to General

Washington.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

Clue:

He believed that the Articles of

Confederation should simply have been

amended.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

Clue:

He served eight years as chief justice of

the New York Supreme Court.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

Clue:

In 1790, he moved, settling in what is

now Tennessee, and was one of its first

U.S. senators.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

Clue:

He was born in North Carolina, but

raised in Ireland and Scotland.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

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Clue:

He was educated to be a minister, but

studied medicine in Europe.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

Clue:

He was one of the founders of the

University of North Carolina.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

Clue:

He was tried and acquitted of the charge

of cowardice after the Battle of

Germantown.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

Clue:

His Poor Richard’s Almanac was read

nationwide.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

Clue:

He was expelled from the Quaker church

for his military service.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

10

Clue:

He served as superintendent of finance

under the Articles of Confederation..

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

Clue:

He lived in Philadelphia, where he was a

prominent businessman.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

Clue:

This delegate was born in Connecticut,

the son of a British colonial official.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

Clue:

After the Revolutionary war, he

defended loyalists and their

sympathizers.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

Clue:

Early in life, he lost a leg in a carriage

accident.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

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Clue:

He studied law in London, then

practiced law and built a fortune.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

Clue:

He served in the military during the

Revolution and was held as a prisoner

for two years.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

Clue:

He was an older cousin to delegate with

almost the same name.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:

Clue:

He served in the British Army until

1771, when he resigned after marrying

a colonial girl.

Name:

State:

Age/Year of Birth:

Two Additional Clues:   

BR 9/20

It violates her privacy and is rude and ignorant.

BR 9/19

The photos should not have been released because it violates her privacy.

9/18 BR

Google has not taken down the video because it hasn't violated any of their terms on YouTube.

Candidate quiz

I side with Mitt Romney on 72% of issues in the 2012 Presidential election.

8/17 BR

They are protesting a video made by an american group and killing americans.

8/17 BR

I think people should be allowed to buy whatever they want and to worry about their own health.

BR 9/13

It is important that we remembered what happened and to honor the victims. Also we made the school look better.

1. research the specific events that occured on 9/11 and make a timeline.....that includes at least 30 events of the fateful day. Make sure it is in chronlogical order.
8:00 a.m.
8:13: Flight 11 has its last routine communication with the FAA's Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center.^[4]
8:14: Flight 11 fails to heed air traffic controller's instruction to climb to 35,000 feet. Aircraft is hijacked.^[4]
8:14: United Airlines Flight 175, another fully fueled Boeing 767, carrying 56 passengers and nine crew members, also departs from Boston Logan airport, also bound for Los Angeles. Five hijackers are aboard. One of them communicated with Mohammed Atta shortly before American 11's takeoff.^[4]
8:19: Betty Ong, a flight attendant on Flight 11 alerts American Airlines via an airphone, “The cockpit is not answering, somebody’s stabbed in business class—and I think there’s Mace—that we can’t breathe—I don’t know, I think we’re getting hijacked.” She then tells of the stabbings of two flight attendants.^[4]
8:20: The Federal Aviation Administration's Boston Center flight controllers decide that Flight 11 has probably been hijacked.
8:20: American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757 with 58 passengers and six crew members, departs from Washington Dulles International Airport in Fairfax and Loudoun Counties, Virginia, for Los Angeles. Five hijackers are aboard.
8:21: Flight 11's transponder signal is turned off, but the plane remains on radar screens as a blip without additional information. (Prior to the 9/11 Commission's report, news organizations reported this time as 8:13 or immediately thereafter.)
8:24: A radio transmission comes from Flight 11: "Eh..... We have some planes. Just stay quiet, and you'll be okay. We are returning to the airport." It is believed Atta mistakenly held a button directing his voice to radio rather than to the plane's cabin as he intended. A few seconds later, Atta's voice says, "Nobody move. Everything will be okay. If you try to make any moves, you will endanger yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet." Air traffic controllers hear the transmission.
8:25: Boston Center flight controllers alert other flight control centers regarding Flight 11. NORAD is not yet alerted.
8:26:30: Flight 11 makes a 100-degree turn to the south heading toward New York City.^[5]
8:34: A third transmission from Flight 11: "Nobody move please. We are going back to the airport. Don't try to make any stupid moves."
8:34: Dan Bueno from Boston Center notifies the tower controller at Otis Air National Guard Base at Cape Cod of the hijacking of Flight 11. The controller directs Bueno to contact Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS), the northeast sector of NORAD.^[6] The controller then notifies Otis Operations Center that a call from NEADS might be coming.^[7] Two F15 pilots begin to suit up.^[8]
8:37: Flight 175 confirms sighting of hijacked Flight 11 to flight controllers, 10 miles (16 km) to its south.
8:37:52: Boston Center control notifies NEADS of the hijacking of Flight 11, the first notification received by NORAD that American 11 had been hijacked. The controller requests military help to intercept the jetliner.

Cockpit view of the World Trade Center towers from the Hudson River – the flightpath of American Flight 11

8:41: The FAA's New York Center requests information about Flight 11 over the radio. Flight 175 responds: "[...]ah we heard a suspicious transmission on our departure out of Boston ah with someone ah, ah sound like someone sound like someone keyed the mike and said ah 'everyone ah stay in your seats'".^[9] New York Center acknowledges and says it will pass the information on.
8:42: United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757, takes off with 37 passengers and seven crew members from Newark International Airport (now Newark Liberty International Airport), bound for San Francisco International Airport, following a 40-minute delay due to congested runways. Four hijackers are aboard. Its flight path initially takes it close to the World Trade Center, which is 3 minutes away from being struck, before moving away westwards.
8:42 to 8:46 (approx.): Flight 175 is hijacked.
8:44: Flight attendant Amy Sweeney, aboard Flight 11, reports by telephone to Michael Woodward at the American Airlines Flight Services Office in Dallas, "Something is wrong. We are in a rapid descent... we are all over the place." A minute later, Woodward asks her to "describe what she sees out the window". She responds, "I see the water. I see the buildings. I see buildings..." After a short pause, she reports, "We are flying low. We are flying very, very low. We are flying way too low." Seconds later she says, "Oh my God, we are way too low.” The call ends with a burst of very loud, sustained static.
8:46: Two F-15 fighter jets are ordered to scramble from Otis Air National Guard Base in Massachusetts, intended to intercept Flight 11. Because Flight 11's transponder is off, the pilots do not know the location of their target. NEADS spends the next several minutes watching their radar screens in anticipation of Flight 11 returning a radar contact.

Seconds after American Airlines Flight 11 impacted North Tower

8:46:30^[10] Flight 11 crashes at roughly 466 mph (790 km/h or 219m/s or 425 knots) into the north face of the North Tower (1 WTC) of the World Trade Center, between floors 93 and 99. (Many early accounts gave times between 8:45 and 8:50). The aircraft enters the tower intact. It plows to the building core, severing all three gypsum-encased stairwells, dragging combustibles with it. A powerful shock wave travels down to the ground and up again. The combustibles and the remnants of the aircraft are ignited by the burning fuel. As the building lacks a traditional full cage frame and depends almost entirely on the strength of a narrow structural core running up the center, fire at the center of the impact zone is in a position to compromise the integrity of all internal columns. People below the severed stairwells start to evacuate—no one above the impact zone is able to do so.
French filmmaker Jules Naudet and Czech immigrant Pavel Hlava videotape the crash of Flight 11 with their video cameras from different locations. A WNYW TV camera records the sound, but not the image, of the crash.
8:48 to 10:28: At least 100 people (some accounts say as many as 250), primarily in the North Tower, trapped by fire and smoke in the upper floors, jump to their deaths.^{[citation needed]} One person at street level, firefighter Daniel Suhr, is hit by a jumper and dies.^[11] No form of airborne evacuation is attempted as smoke is too dense for a successful landing on the roof of either tower, New York City lacks helicopters equipped for horizontal rescue and the roof tarmac would have been too hot with too much smoke to land a helicopter.^{[citation needed]}
8:48:08: The first television report of an incident at the World Trade Center is broadcast locally in New York by WNYW less than two minutes after the plane crashed into the North Tower. WNYW breaks into a Paramount Pictures movie trailer for Zoolander with the first live TV pictures of black smoke coming from the North Tower, relayed by a WNYW cameraman at ground level. One of the station's camera crews already had been out on the street that morning for New York's mayoral primary election. As WNYW broadcasts the first live pictures of smoke, the voice of reporter Dick Oliver is heard from the scene:

“

"Jim (referring to WNYW's Jim Ryan, who was not in the studio at the time), just a few moments ago, something believed to be a plane crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. I just saw flames inside, you can see the smoke coming out of the tower; we have no idea what it was. It was a tremendous boom just a few moments ago. You can hear around me emergency vehicles heading towards the scene. Now this could have been an aircraft or it could have been something internal. It appears to be something coming from the outside, due to the nature of the opening on about the 100th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center."

”

Three minutes later, Jim Ryan corrected the location of the first plane crash from the South Tower to the North Tower.
Around the same time the first radio report of the incident is heard on WCBS-AM through traffic reporter Tom Kaminski. WCBS' traffic reports are delivered every ten minutes "on the 8s", meaning that Kaminski's traffic report was to come within two minutes of the initial impact of Flight 11 (although there is no record of how much time actually passed). At the time Kaminski was in "Chopper 880", WCBS' helicopter that he reports from for morning and evening rush hour traffic reports. The following consists of WCBS anchor Pat Carroll tossing to Kaminski in the chopper before he files his report.

“

Pat Carroll: WCBS news time, 8:48, it's traffic and weather together sponsored by Henry Miller's Theatre. Tom Kaminski, Chopper 880. Tom Kaminski: Alright uh, Pat, we are just currently getting a look...at the World Trade Center, We have something that has happened here at the World Trade Center. We noticed flame and an awful lot of smoke from one of the towers of the World Trade Center. We are just coming up on this scene, this is easily three-quarters of the way up...we are...this is...whatever has occurred has just occurred, uh, within minutes and, uh, we are trying to determine exactly what that is. But currently we have a lot of smoke at the top of the towers of the World Trade Center, we will keep you posted.

”

CNN breaking the news of a plane crash at the World Trade Center

8:49:34: The first network television and radio reports of an explosion or incident at the World Trade Center. CNN breaks into a Ditech commercial at 8:49. The CNN screen subtitle first reads "WORLD TRADE CENTER DISASTER." Carol Lin, the first TV network anchor to break the news of the attacks, says:

“

This just in. You are looking at obviously a very disturbing live shot there. That is the World Trade Center, and we have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center. CNN Center right now is just beginning to work on this story, obviously calling our sources and trying to figure out exactly what happened, but clearly something relatively devastating happening this morning there on the south end of the island of Manhattan. That is once again, a picture of one of the towers of the World Trade Center.

”

Just a minute later, Sean Murtagh, CNN vice-president of finance, in an on-air phone call, says from his office in the CNN New York bureau that a large passenger commercial jet was seen to hit the World Trade Center. Murtagh is the first network employee on the air. The first email bulletins of breaking news from CNN and MSNBC report "fire at tower of World Trade Center". Both CNN and MSNBC's websites receive such heavy traffic that many servers collapse. BBC News' website is active and shows a picture of the North Tower on fire. Minutes later, email news bulletins revise the reports of fire to a plane crash.
8:50: NEADS is notified that a plane has struck the World Trade Center as they continue to try to locate the flight on radar.
8:50 to 8:54 (approx.): Hijacking begins on Flight 77.
8:50 to 8:55 (approx): Howard Stern reports live on his radio show that something has happened to one of the Towers. He states that it was clearly a terrorist attack. This was mentioned within the first five minutes after the first plane hit. The name Osama Bin Laden came up within a half hour of the first impact. Sometime around 10:00, and before the South Tower fell, Howard also made a remark to the effect that those buildings won't stay standing.^[12]
8:51: A flight controller at the FAA's New York Center notices that Flight 175 had changed its transponder code twice four minutes earlier; he tries to contact the flight.
8:52: Lee Hanson receives a phone call from his son Peter, a passenger on United 175, who says "I think they've taken over the cockpit-An attendant has been stabbed- and someone else up front may have been killed. The plane is making strange moves. Call United Airlines-Tell them it's Flight 175, Boston to LA." Also on Flight 175 a flight attendant aboard calls a United Airlines office in Chicago, reporting that the flight had been hijacked, both pilots had been killed, a flight attendant had been stabbed, and the hijackers were probably flying the plane.^[13]
8:52: The F-15s at Otis Air National Guard Base are airborne. Still lacking an intercept vector to Flight 11 (and not aware that it has already crashed), they are sent to military controlled airspace off Long Island and ordered to remain in a holding pattern until between 9:09 and 9:13.
8:54: Flight 77 deviates from its assigned course, turning south over Ohio.
8:55 (approx.): Announcements are made over the building-wide PA system by officials in the still-undamaged South Tower of the World Trade Center, reporting that the building is "secure" and that people should return to their offices. Some do not hear it; others ignore it and evacuate anyway; others congregate in common areas like the 78th floor sky lobby.
8:55: President George W. Bush is at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida as part of a scheduled visit to promote education when presidential advisor Andrew Card, who is with Bush, informs him that a small twin-engine plane has crashed into the World Trade Center. Before entering the classroom, the President speaks to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, who is at the White House. She first tells him it was a twin-engine aircraft—and then a commercial aircraft—that had struck the World Trade Center, adding “that’s all we know right now, Mr. President.”^[14]
8:56: Ten minutes after the North Tower of the World Trade Center was hit by American 11, the transponder on Flight 77 is turned off and even primary radar contact with the aircraft is lost. During radar blackout Flight 77 turns east, unnoticed by flight controllers. When primary radar information is restored at 9:05, controllers searching for Flight 77 to the west of its previous position are unable to find it.^[15] Flight 77 travels undetected for 36 minutes on a course heading due east toward Washington, D.C.
8:58: Flight 175 takes a heading toward New York City.

[edit] 9:00 a.m.

The Twin Towers burning from the impact of flights 11 and 175.

9:00: Lee Hanson receives a second call from his son Peter, aboard Flight 175: "It's getting bad, Dad. A stewardess was stabbed. They seem to have knives and Mace. They said they have a bomb. It's getting very bad on the plane. Passengers are throwing up and getting sick. The plane is making jerky movements. I don't think the pilot is flying the plane. I think we are going down. I think they intend to go to Chicago or someplace and fly into a building. Don't worry, Dad. If it happens, it'll be very fast. My God, my God." The call ends abruptly, as Lee Hanson hears a woman scream.^[13]
9:01 to 9:02: A manager from the FAA's New York Center tells the Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Herndon, Virginia, "We have several situations going on here. It's escalating big, big time. We need to get the military involved with us. . . We're, we're involved with something else, we have other aircraft that may have a similar situation going on here."
9:01: FAA's New York Center contacts New York terminal approach control and asks for help in locating Flight 175.
9:02: Evacuation is ordered by FDNY Battalion Chief Joseph Pfeifer (North Tower). An announcement is made over the PA system to evacuate the buildings.
9:03:02: Flight 175 crashes at about 590 mph (950 km/h, 264 m/s or 513 knots) into the south face of the South Tower (2 WTC) of the World Trade Center, banked between floors 77 and 85.^[16] All 65 people on board the aircraft die instantly on impact, and unknown hundreds in the building as well. By this time, several media organizations, including the three major broadcast networks (who have interrupted their morning shows), are covering the first plane crash—millions see the impact live. Parts of the plane, including the starboard engine, leave the building from its east and north sides, falling to the ground six blocks away.
A massive evacuation begins in the South Tower below its impact zone. One of the stairwells in the South Tower remains unblocked from the top to the bottom of the tower because of the plane hitting at an offset from the vertical center line of the building, but it is filled with smoke. This leads many people to mistakenly go upwards towards the roof for a rooftop rescue that never comes. The Port Authority kept the two sets of heavy metal doors leading to the building's only roof exit tightly locked.^[17] The impact severs communication with several television and radio broadcast towers at the WTC; local station WPIX's feed freezes on an image of the second impact which is all the station broadcasts until alternate transmitters are set up hours later.
Because of the North Tower's obstruction of the South Tower from certain camera angles, some are originally unaware that a second plane has struck the South Tower, and instead mistakenly believe that the second explosion has occurred in the North Tower. As instant replays of the second plane crash are shown, the anchors on the three major broadcast networks speculate on whether they are witnessing a terrorist attack or some sort of very rare accident. CNN changes its headline to read "Second plane crashes into World Trade Center." In the case of the anchors on the local station WABC, they at first assume that the explosion seen was caused when the fuselage of the first plane exploded. As other sources and eyewitnesses correct them that it was actually a plane that had hit the South Tower, the WABC anchors then initially suggest it was a rare accident, saying that the two crashes might have been caused by navigational system failure.
Several eyewitness accounts and camera footage reveal that the plane was coming in at an angle, and was seen to turn drastically to the left to be able to hit the tower, unlike its predecessor, Flight 11, which had been able to hit the North Tower straight on. Thus, it is believed that had the plane continued flying straight, it would have at least simply clipped the side of the building with its left wing, or even missed the building entirely. (Flight 175 came in from the southwest, apparently heading for the Empire State Building, but turned right, then left into the South Tower.)

 

9:03: President Bush enters a classroom as part of his school visit.
9:03: FAA's New York Center notifies NORAD (NEADS) of the hijacking of Flight 175, at the same time it crashes.
9:04 (approximately): The FAA's Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center stops all departures from airports in its jurisdiction (New England and eastern New York State).
9:05: After brief introductions to the Booker elementary students, President Bush is about to begin reading The Pet Goat with the students when Chief of Staff Andrew Card interrupts to whisper to the president, "A second plane has hit the second tower. America is under attack."^[18] The president stated later that he decided to continue the lesson rather than alarm the students.
9:06: The FAA bans takeoffs of all flights bound to or through the airspace of New York Center from airports in that Center and the three adjacent Centers — Boston, Cleveland, and Washington. This is referred to as a First Tier groundstop and covers the Northeast from North Carolina north and as far west as eastern Michigan.
9:08: The FAA bans all takeoffs nationwide for flights going to or through New York Center airspace. ABC reports later that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the agency that runs the New York-area airports, asked the FAA for permission to close down the New York Center airspace.
9:11: The last PATH train leaves the World Trade Center. The station is vacant when the towers collapse.
9:13: The F-15 fighters from Otis Air National Guard Base leave military airspace near Long Island, bound for Manhattan.
9:14: President Bush returned to a holding room commandeered by the Secret Service shortly before 9:15. The holding room contains a telephone, a television showing the news coverage, and several senior staff members. The president speaks to Vice President Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, New York Governor George Pataki, and FBI Director Robert Mueller, and prepares brief remarks.^[19]
9:15: NBC's Today program reports unconfirmed statements from employees at United Airlines that an American Airlines aircraft had been hijacked previous to its destruction.
9:17: The FAA closes down all New York City-area airports.^[20] The city had initially asked the FAA to close down the airports.
9:17:02: CBS News correspondent Jim Stewart in Washington mentions that in the intelligence community, Osama bin Laden is a probable suspect.
9:18: CNN makes reference to foul play for the first time, stating the FBI was investigating a report of plane hijacking. CNN headline: "AP: Plane was hijacked before crashes".
9:21: All bridges and tunnels into Manhattan closed.^[20]
9:23: Flight 93 receives warning message text from United Airlines flight dispatcher: "Beware any cockpit intrusion- Two a/c [aircraft] hit World Trade Center."
9:24: The FAA notifies NORAD's Northeast Air Defense Sector about the suspected hijacking of Flight 77. The FAA and NORAD establish an open line to discuss Flight 77, and shortly thereafter Flight 93.
9:25: The Otis-based F-15s establish an air patrol over Manhattan.
9:25: A video teleconference begins to be set up in the White House Situation Room, led by Richard A. Clarke, a special assistant to the president, that eventually includes the CIA, the FBI, the departments of State, Justice, and Defense, and the FAA.
9:25: The Associated Press informs CNN that the two plane crashes in the World Trade Center appeared to be an "act of terrorism" (terrorist attack).
9:26: The FAA bans takeoffs of all civilian aircraft regardless of destination—a national groundstop. All military bases in the United States are ordered to increase threat conditions to Delta status.^{[citation needed]}
9:28: Hijackers storm the cockpit on Flight 93 and take over the flight. The entry of the hijackers is overheard by flight controllers at Cleveland.
9:29: President Bush makes his first public statements about the attacks, in front of an audience of about 200 teachers and students at the elementary school. He states that he will be going back to Washington. Today, we've had a national tragedy, he starts. Two airplanes... have crashed... into the World Trade Center... in an apparent terrorist attack on our country, and leads a moment of silence. No one in the President's traveling party has any information during this time that other aircraft were hijacked or missing.^[21]
9:32: A radio transmission from Flight 93 is overheard by flight controllers at Cleveland: "Ladies and gentlemen here... is the captain please sit down... Keep remaining [sic] sitting. We have a bomb on board."
9:32: Controllers at the Dulles Terminal Radar Approach Control in Virginia observe "a primary radar target tracking eastbound at a high rate of speed", referring to Flight 77.
9:33 to 9:34: Tower supervisor at Reagan National Airport tells Secret Service operations center at the White House that "an aircraft [is] coming at you and not talking with us," referring to Flight 77. The White House is about to be evacuated when the tower reports that Flight 77 has turned and is approaching Reagan National Airport.
9:34: The FAA's Command Center relays information concerning Flight 93 to FAA headquarters.
9:35: The President's motorcade departs from the elementary school, bound for Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport and Air Force One.
9:35: Flight 93 reverses direction over Ohio and starts flying eastwards.
9:35: Based on a report that Flight 77 had turned again and was circling back toward the District of Columbia, the Secret Service orders the immediate evacuation of the Vice President from the White House.
9:36: Cleveland advises the FAA Command Center that it is still tracking Flight 93 and inquires whether someone had requested the military to launch fighter aircraft to intercept the aircraft.
9:37: Vice President Cheney enters an underground tunnel leading to a security bunker.

 

9:37:46: Flight 77 crashes into the western side of the Pentagon at 530 mph (853 km/h, 237 m/s, or 460 knots) and starts a violent fire. The section of the Pentagon hit consists mainly of newly renovated, unoccupied offices. All 64 people on board are killed, as are 125 Pentagon personnel.
9:39: Another radio transmission is heard from Ziad Jarrah aboard Flight 93: "Uh, this is the captain. I would like you all to remain seated. We have a bomb on board and are going back to the airport, and to have our demands, so please remain quiet."
9:39: Fox News Channel reports, "We -- we are hearing -- right now that another explosion that -- has taken place. At the Pentagon."^[23]
9:39: NBC and MSNBC report an explosion at the Pentagon.
9:40: Video teleconference in White House Situation Room begins with the physical security of the President, the White House, and federal agencies. They are not yet aware of the Pentagon crash.
9:40:49: CNN's Breaking News bulletin reads "Reports of fire at Pentagon."
9:42: Ben Sliney of the FAA issues the execution order for SCATANA grounding all air traffic over the United States and diverting any incoming international traffic to alternate destinations.
9:43: The White House and the Capitol are evacuated and closed.
9:45: United States airspace is shut down. No civilian aircraft are allowed to take off, and all aircraft in flight are ordered to land at the nearest airport as soon as possible. Nearly all international flights headed for the U.S. are redirected to Canada, while some flights from South America were diverted to Mexico. Transport Canada, Canada's transportation agency, also closes down its airspace, but the Mexican airspace did not shut down. The FAA announces that civilian flights are suspended until at least noon September 12, while Transport Canada gives similar orders, but until further notice, to take in diverted U.S.-bound international flights, launching the agency's "Operation Yellow Ribbon". The groundings last until September 14. Military and medical flights as well as Con Air flights continue. This is the fourth time all commercial flights in the U.S. have been stopped, and the first time a suspension was unplanned. All previous suspensions were military-related (Sky Shield I-III), from 1960 to 1962. Many newspapers (including The New York Times) mistakenly print that this is the first time flights have been suspended. This was also the first time commercial flights in Canada have been stopped.

Further information: Operation Yellow Ribbon

9:45: CNN receives initial reports that, in addition to a fire at the Pentagon, there is also a fire at the National Mall. These reports on the National Mall, however, are later proven to be false.
9:49: The FAA Command Center at Herndon suggests that someone at FAA headquarters should decide whether to request military assistance with Flight 93. Ultimately, the FAA makes no request before it crashes.
9:50 (approximately): The Associated Press reports that Flight 11 was apparently hijacked after departure from Boston's Logan Airport. Within an hour this is confirmed for both Flight 11 and Flight 175.
9:51: FDNY Battalion Chief Orio Palmer reaches the 78th Floor Sky Lobby of the South Tower along with Fire Marshal Ronald Bucca. Palmer reports that there are two pockets of fire and numerous dead bodies.^{[citation needed]}
9:52: The National Security Agency intercepts a phone call between a known associate of Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and someone in the Republic of Georgia, announcing that he had heard "good news", and that another target was still to be hit.^[24]
9:53: CNN confirms a plane crash at the Pentagon.
9:55: A CNN correspondent mentions Osama bin Laden as someone determined to strike the US.
9:55: Air Force One leaves Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport.
9:57: Passenger revolt begins on Flight 93.
9:57: President Bush leaves Sarasota, Florida, on Air Force One. The plane reaches cruising altitude and circles for approximately 40 minutes while the destination of the plane is discussed.
9:58:59:^[10] The South Tower of the World Trade Center begins to collapse, 56 minutes after the impact of Flight 175. Its destruction is viewed and heard by a vast television and radio audience. As the roar of the collapse goes silent, tremendous gray-white clouds of pulverized concrete and gypsum rush through the streets. Most observers think a new explosion or impact has produced smoke and debris that now obscures the South Tower, but once the wind clears the smoke it becomes clear that the building is no longer there. On ABC, Good Morning America correspondent Don Dahler, who was home at the time of the incident and lived near the site, reports to anchor Peter Jennings on air that he has witnessed the tower collapse; this is perhaps the first official word of the collapse as Dahler's report is filed seconds after the building collapsed

2. Make a collage of pictures from 9/11 and come up with a symbolic statement that encompasses the events and aftermath of the tragedy.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jg32wjgts7bxw0t/Presentation1.pptx




3. write a five by five essay on how america has changed since 9/11. 

     The decade after the 9/11 attacks reshaped many facets of life in America. Some changes were temporary -- an immediate response out of concern for our safety -- while some proved to be more lasting transformations in American life. Among the words or phrases (9/11 being one of them) that entered everyday language: al-Qaida, Taliban, ground zero, radicalism, extremism, anthrax and the Axis of Evil. Their usage dramatically increased and soon became part of Americans' everyday lives.

     Perhaps the most immediate and obvious changes after the attacks took place in U.S. airports. Two months after the attacks, Congress federalized airport security by passing the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, which created the Transportation Security Administration. Prior to 9/11, security had been handled by each airport, which outsourced to private security companies.

     While the Patriot Act may be the most recognizable piece of legislation relating to Sept. 11, more than 130 pieces of 9/11-related legislation were introduced in the 107th Congress in the year after the attacks, with 48 bills and resolutions approved or signed into law. Government agencies created after 9/11 include the Department of Homeland Security, which consolidated other agencies, including the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.

     The country with the most notable drop in Visa Insurance after 9/11 was Pakistan. In 2002, the number of tourist visas given to Pakistani citizens fell almost 70 percent and immigrant visas dropped more than 40 percent compared to 2001. It wasn't until 2008 that Pakistani immigrant and tourist visas to reach pre-9/11 levels. Egypt and Morocco also saw sharp drops in visas issued in 2002, though both have rebounded since.

     International tourism to America fell for three years after 2001. Starting in 2004, it began to increase again, surpassing pre-2001 numbers in 2007. In 2010, a record 60 million foreign tourists visited. The number of Americans who travel Internationally also declined after 9/11, the Office of Travel and Tourism Industries reports.