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- Jost, Kenneth. “Remembering 9-11.” Is the US Safe From Terrorists Attacks? 21.3
(2004) CQ Researcher. 19 March 2012.
Kenneth Jost is a Professor at Georgetown University and his source is very credible. Basically, in this article it summarizes whether the U.S is still safe from the terrorist attacks, and that we are reminded every year on the anniversary on September 11. Also, within this passage it’s talking about the filler where the twin towers were held and why was it not held sooner. Some feel that the attacks may happen again and that we are more sensitive to that. - Jost, Kenneth. “Re-Examining 9-11.” Could the Terrorists Attacks have been Prevented. 14.21
(2004). CQ Researcher. 19 March 2012.
In summary, Bush’s administration is greatly being criticized especially when the attacks and the response were being investigated. Bush’s administration is being criticized for missing issues that were clues for 9-11. Also, it’s being stated that Clintons administration didn’t take good actions against AL Qaeda. - Zalman, Amy. “ Economic Impact of Terrorism and the September 11 Attacks.” Direct Economic Impact
Was Less Feared but defense Spending. Web. 19 March 2012
The Financial cost of September 11, 2001 can be calculated from different angles. She says that there are indirect costs and direct costs. Defense and homeland Security are the largest Cost by far. Most of all the human costs is incalculable. - Jones, Geronimo. Evidence of Controlled Demolition. Published on April 23rd, 2004, .
In this article, one of the main issues is that the tower’s structural engineer, Lee Robertson, addressed the problem of terrorism in the plans for the building, claiming he “designed it for a (Boeing) 707 to hit it”. In the center of the tower there is a central support core. This core is built of sheer concrete reinforced by 44 beams of construction grade steel, which were sealed in asbestos. When the plane hit the north tower it took a direct hit to the core, but the plane that hit the south tower went in on an angle, almost parallel to the core structure. The fuel barley grazes the core of the south tower, with most of it burning outside the building in a huge fireball, yet the south tower was the first to fall. - Joseph Avant
February 13, 2011
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Security Needs, Arms Exports, and the Structure of the Defense Industry: Determining the Security Level of Countries Saar Golde and Asher Tishler The Journal of Conflict Resolution Vol. 48, No. 5 (Oct., 2004), pp. 672-698 Published by: Sage Publications, Inc.
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4149815
This article investigates the structure of national defense's through out the World. It centers around the United States and Western Europe and how after the cold war these two regions became the leaders in the world for national defense. The main reason for this was and abundance of economic power compared to the rest of the world. This article also brings to light that the defense costs of the United States and Europe are lower when the number of defense firms is small. It also touches on the fact that any further increases in world prices could potentially crowd out developing countries, causing them to be forced to produce cheap and dirty weapons. A major part of this article focuses on the firms that sell weapons to countries. It explains how almost all of the firms that sell weapons are from the United States or Western Europe. So in fact they make the weapons in the same country that they sell them to. This provides a problem on many levels but it proves that their aren't any competing companies and their is essentially a monopoly, which is never a good thing. This is important because the media's view on defense after 9/11 caused the U.S to cry out for more defense and the issues of more defense is at question in this article. - Greg Murphy
Professor Griffin
Dean’s Book
October 9, 2008
Annotated Bibliography Assignment
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“The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima.” The Manhattan Project. U.S. Department of Energy: Office of History & Heritage Resources. 25 Sept. 2008 <http://www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/1945.htm>.
Information source used – Google
Search strategy employed – keyword – Hiroshima
Evaluation of Material – The information is laid out extremely well with many external links and sources that they have used to compile their data, as well as provide the reader with additional information. Facts are concise, unbiased, and provides great detail about the event itself without embellishing on personal stories. The data seems to have been gathered over a long period of time, so the evidence is thorough. This site will be valuable in the future if further research is required. - Loew. "How Free A City? Liberty After September 11." City Limits 32.3 (2008). Alternative Source Index. EBSCO. Web. 15 Apr. 2011.
I found the following journal to be extremely informative and interesting. As it talks about the "Summer of 2008" in New York, the authors touch base on the new security measures New Yorkers now live with post September 11 attack. Though they mention how some may find the new measure as reasonable and called for reactions after such a detrimental security breach, they also depict how "others believe that a new dangerous threat is rising...it's the risk that New Yorkers' essential freedoms and liberties are being eroded." - Guisan, Catherine. "Of September 11, Mourning and Cosmopolitan Politics." Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory 16.4 (2009): 563-78. Alternative Press Index. EBSCO. Web. 16 Apr. 2011.
I chose to specifically use Guisan's article as it provides and alternative viewpoint of my argument. Guisan believes post 9/11 has and can allow "complementary feelings of mourning and enchantment, fostering a broader attachment to the world". I believe this will be a strong parallel to contrast my argument with and believe I can provide examples from Doctorow's novel of how post 9/11 has lead to a more fractured society as opposed to one of "feel-good nationalism." - Doctorow, Cory. Little Brother. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2008. Print.
Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother provides scarily discomforting questions regarding security, power, terrorism, generational tension, and a slue more of themes. Starring teens in the Bay Area Doctorow brilliantly creates an all too familiar feeling of fear, paranoia, and the struggle between privacy and security through the life of teen rebel Marcus. - Serwer, Andy, and Beth Kowitt. "The Decade from Hell... And How The Next One Can Be Better. (Cover Story)." Time 174.22 (2009): 30-38. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2012.
The article from Time, expresses how this is the Decade from hell, but as well a big financial wipeout at the end of all of it. To this day, we still have troops in and out of Iraq which we have to pay for. We are in depth and will not be coming out of it since we keep spending money. As this article goes into the money that we put in for the cleanup after the tragedy of the Trade Centers, and to rebuild New York City after this tragedy happened cost us a lot of money as well. “Our national psyche has been damaged as much as our national economy by the record number of corporate bankruptcies, many of them household names: Kmart, United Airlines, Circuit City, Lehman Brothers, GM and Chrysler. The price of oil more than tripled this decade, settling at more than $70 a barrel, straining our economy” This is a fact from the article which shows how our economy is coming to a fall down, jobs going out of business, people losing their jobs as well as people losing their houses. What will end up happening?
Terger, DB 2011, 'The Economic Costs of 9/11 on the U.S', Phi Kappa Phi Forum, 91, 3, pp. 12-13, Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost, viewed 19 March 2012
“The cost of destroyed physical assets was estimated by Robert Looney at the Center for Contemporary Conflict, the research arm of the National Security Affairs Department at the Naval Postgraduate Institute, at $16.2 billion” Another $11 billion went to rescue, cleanup, and recovery. The total: $27.2 billion. This total amount is not including the money for the past few years of being in war and everything else. To show you how much our nation paid that year; “In 2001, the value of the nation’s output as measured by gross domestic product (GDP) was $10,286 billion. So the $48-$51 billion in immediate costs from the attacks represents about one-half of one percent of the U.S. national output that year.”
Jones, DR 2003, 'No Help for New York's Workers After 9/11', New York Amsterdam News, 94, 37, p. 5, Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost, viewed 19 March 2012.
This article expresses how we were financially hit hard in New York because due to this tragedy 2.7 million jobs were lost. But not only money was lost in this tragedy, this article states the following; “The loss of jobs and the pressure of keeping up with rising, unaffordable housing costs have combined to force some low-income families into poverty. The unemployment rate is hardly indicative of the true jobless picture. Some of the unemployed-demoralized by months of rejection-have simply stopped looking for work. The number of food stamp recipients in the city has been rising since early 2002. The homeless population has increased dramatically over that period of time. The rise in the number of people sleeping in city shelters from early 2001 to early 2002 was the largest one-year increase since the Great Depression.