That morning, 19 terrorists[2] affiliated with al-Qaeda[3] hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. Each team of hijackers included a trained pilot. Two aircraft (United Airlines Flight 175 and American Airlines Flight 11) crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City, one plane into each tower (WTC 1 and WTC 2). Both towers collapsed within two hours, followed by WTC 7 later that day. The pilot of the third team crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. Passengers and members of the flight crew on the fourth aircraft (United Airlines Flight 93) attempted to retake control of their plane from the hijackers; that plane crashed into a field near the town of Shanksville in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania. As well as the 19 hijackers, a confirmed 2,973 people died and another 24 are missing but presumed dead as a result of these attacks. Just the fact that we knew about September 11 before hand, but did nothing about it intrests me even more into this current event. So many people died for being the most powerful country in the world, and since this happened we are now in war with Iraq. I have family members overseas fightening the war in Iraq, and it scares me that one day I will get a call saying they will not be coming home. I am upset to know that even though so many years have past, it doesn't seem like we will be leaving Iraq for another decade or so.
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On April 19, 2005 Joseph Ratzinger of Germany waved to the crowd on Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City shortly after being elected pope. The new supreme leader of the Roman Catholic Church, who turned 78 on Saturday, chose to be called Pope Benedict XVI.This topic of a new pope being elected because of the death of the late Pope John Paul II intrests me a lot. It doesn't happen in every lifetime that a pope gets elected. The process of waiting for black or white smoke to come out the chimney to alert the people of a new pop or not is amazing. I feel very connected to this topic mainly because I am Catholic. As a Catholic, I only hope to have the best leader to look up to and lead people. It is like the upcoming preseidential elections, or maybe for town mayor in my hometown. The whole process from seeing who can become a pope, to the pope standing outside that window in Rome is what I empathize most about this topic.
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The Amish school shooting occurred on the morning of Monday, October 2, 2006, when a gunman took hostages and eventually killed five girls (aged 7–13) and himself at West Nickel Mines School, a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.[1][2][3][4][5] Police report that the gunman was Charles Carl Roberts IV,[5][6] a 32-year-old milk-tank truck driver who lived nearby.This topic intrests me a lot because how often do you hear of poeople not liking the Amish? You never do, and nonetheless, this topic is about a guy who went into a school and shot five Amish girls. There are many issues behind the killing of these young girls. Some say the man had a grudge with the Amish community from something that happened 20 years ago. Others say that he was actually going to sexually assult the girls. I feel I have a personal connection with this topic because my family and i are good friends with some Amish up in Wooster, Ohio. We talked with them and they are very sad that it happened. One event that happened in my life that is similar to this is when I was in high school, we had a guy come in with a gun. We all had to deck down low, and people began to cry. We did not want to be like the Columbin students. I empathize most with the five girls that died from gun shots. They did nothing wrong and did not deserve any of it.
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Hurricane Katrina was the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. It was the sixth-strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the third-strongest landfalling U.S. hurricane on record. Katrina formed in late August during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season and caused devastation along much of the north-central Gulf Coast of the United States. Most notable in media coverage were the catastrophic effects on the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, and in coastal Mississippi. Due to its sheer size, Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast as far as 100 miles (160 km) from the storm's center.Katrina was the eleventh named storm, fifth hurricane, third major hurricane, and second Category 5 hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic season.
This topic intrests me because New Oreleans went from the home city of Mardi Gras, partying, livliness to death, sorrow, and hatred of mother nature in a brief minute. Then once this disaster was over, there were many allegations to President Bush that he did not act fast enough. The people of New Oreleans were living on the streets, and had no food or water to live on.I feel connected to this subject more than most people because my twin sister went down to New Orleans and helped with the clean up effort and rebuilding. She has pictures that wern't even on the media and that I believe no one should have to see again in their lifetime. I am very empathized most with the way New Orleans was handled. I believe we could of done more to help the people who were standed there with no food or water faster.
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It all began with Septemeber 11th, when hijackers bombed the two World Trade Centers. From then on, gas prices soared to record highs from $3 to even $5 in some citites throughout the United States. We import our oil from overseas, even though we have enough oil in the United State to last us a lifetime. The only thing that stops us from getting it here in the US are the people that are trying to conserve the trees and animals that are ontop of the oil. This topic intrests me beacuse its amazing how one event happens such as 9/11, and then a domino effect begins to happen with other things. I am a gas buyer, so I hav a personal connection with this topic. I use to be able to fill my car up with $10., but now it takes $20. Money that I would put towrds my education and future uses is now being put to filling up my car so I can get around.The part of the topic that I empathize most with is that it seems like oil companies are stealing our money, our hard earned money that we work for and just stuffing the money in their pockets.
