Lower Manhattan Essays

  • What Are The Causes Of 9/11

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    day of September in 2001, considered the largest terrorist attack ever in United States history. One American Airlines plane, and one United Airlines planes theoretically flew into the 2 World Trade Center Towers, also known as the Twin Towers(Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York),when hijacked by the Islamic extremist group, al-Qaeda, and who also happened to be followers of Osama Bin Laden. Most people believe that planes happen to be the cause of these incidents, but a handful of others, believes

  • Technological Changes After 9/11

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    (Amadeo 1). Initially the war cost $20 billion and then $13 billion was used to implement homeland security. “The biggest economic impact of 9/11 attacks was how the increased defense spending led to the U.S. debt crisis” (Amadea 2). The city of Manhattan experienced a loss of jobs due to the drops in demand for travel. The World Trade Center towers and surrounding buildings that were destroyed were home to many of the city’s large financial service firms. The 9/11 attacks destabilized the financial

  • Comparing Documentaries: 9/11 and September Mourning

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    Comparing Documentaries: 9/11 and September Mourning The ways in which the codes and conventions are used the documentaries are that many of them have an interviewer this is sometimes either an invisible interviewer or the interviewer is present and is can be picked out by the audience. Also the camera work differs. The two documentaries I will be concentrating on will be '9/11' by the 'Naudet brothers' (9/11, Naudet Brothers, 2002, Fr/US) '9/11'was released by 21st Century Fox, it was released

  • Osama Bin Laden: One Of The Most Remarkable Skyscrapers

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    After September 11 at approximately 8:45 the most remarkable skyscraper the two buildings everyone came from everywhere to see was changed forever.september of 2001 there was a terrorist attack involving a group of extremist Islamic people.they had bored different planes going different places across the united states.when two hijackers hijacked the planes headed the planes off course straight to New york city.No one new what was really happening until the first plane crashed into the first remarkable

  • Memory And Flashbulb Memory

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    Flashbulb memory is when a person learns or experiences a very surprising and emotional arousing events (Matlin, 155). As it is a long lasting memory that people report vivid details about a traumatic event, it has been the subjects of recent scientific studies. Recent findings have mentioned a relationship between flashbulb memory and the September 11, 2001 attack. An article published in the American Psychological Association entitled “Seared in Our Memories” written by Bridget Murray Law analyzes

  • Argumentative Essay On 9/11

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    towers. “Real controlled demolitions commonly use explosives to topple large buildings. However, the trademarks of actual demolitions (the characteristic “boom-boom-boom-boom” sounds and the flashes of high explosives) were completely absent in Manhattan on the morning of September 11, 2001.” This quote shows that they used other substances to make the explosions quieter. “The other part is that WTC 7 resembles a ‘classic controlled demolition’ because it imploded, collapsing completely, and landed

  • Attack on World Trade Center

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    September 11 in New York City. This tragedy affected us all. It was nice Tuesday morning. Everybody were rushing to their jobs in the most beautiful and remarkable city of the world. Planes in the sky were usual routine of this city at this time. Manhattan was ready to welcome millions of its residents and tourist. Everybody were going about their businesses. There was illusion that nothing can disturb this normal existence. Rapidly, two passenger planes, like envoys of terror, crashed into both

  • Analysis Of Thomas Beller's 'The Ashen Guy'

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    Imagine walking up on the scene of that fateful day of 9/11 knowing absolutely nothing apart from the talk around you, seeing the black smoke accumulating around the World Trade Centers, hearing the blare of sirens as the police cars accelerate by. Thomas Beller knew what all those things felt like. He was a simple pedestrian riding his bike going about his everyday life when he saw the black smoke, heard the sirens, and felt the whip of the police cars speeding by. Beller had no clue what was going

  • The Impact of the World Trade Center Attacks on New York City's Economy

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    Consulting worked on the report. The group in turn worked with state agencies as well as the Federal Reserve Bank to cull economic data and provide assesssments of 14 separate private industry sectors. Not surprisingly, the study showed that lower Manhattan absorbed the greatest damage. In addition to the thousands of lives that were lost in the destruction of the World Trade Center, the downtown region lost 100,000 jobs along with close to 30 percent of office space in the wake of the attack. "This

  • Robert Moses

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    Bronx to Manhattan and New Jersey (CUNY Baruch). In 1942, Robert Moses proposed the idea for

  • History of New York Skyscrapers

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    to the 16 or 18 suggested by recent scholars. The World Building was 309 feet tall and was demolished in 1955 for the expanded automobile entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge. Manhattan Life Insurance Co. Building 1894 The Manhattan Life Insurance Company Building was constructed in 1893 and was opened in 1894. In 1892 the Manhattan Life Insurance Company held a competition for its headquarters, selecting architects Kimball and Thompson as the winners. The structure was intended to be the tallest in New

  • Nydia Marquez In Search Of Justice Summary

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    Nydia Velazquez is a representative for New York’s Twelfth Congressional District, which includes parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. In her essay “In Search of Justice,” Velazquez describes several unjust situations that happened in her district. She points out that the residents of Greenpoint, which is the heart of her district, are among the poorest in the country. She argues that large corporations carelessly dump their waste next to poor minorities’ living areas and emphasizes the terrible

  • Personal Narrative: A Day In My Favorite City

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    showing Phil, my boyfriend and a “New York Virgin”, the most touristy parts of the city; Times Square, the Statue of Liberty (from a distance), and the many street performers. When we’d had enough of the mobs of people, we hopped into a typical Manhattan cab, asking our foreign driver to take us to The Met. We pulled up to that great walk of stairs, and got out of the taxi. Walking up the stairs, and into the museum, my excitement could hardly be contained. I could not wait to see enter the huge

  • Donald Trump Makes America Great Again Analysis

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    Central Park. TRUMP, often spelt out in gold capital letters in a font called Stymie Bold, is ubiquitous. But as well as being the place where he built his corporate and personal brand, the politics of Donald Trump can also be traced back to New York. Manhattan was the site not only of the destruction of the Twin Towers in September 2001 but also the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. All these years on from 9/11 and the financial crash those massive convulsions continue to shape the contours

  • Ellis Island

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    States Navy used Ellis Island as a weapons warehouse, storing 260,000 pounds of powder. However, complaints from nearby New Jersey residents lead to the removal of the storage area in 1890. The original station, Castle Garden at the Battery in lower Manhattan, could not handle all of the immigrants coming in. To have room for the immigrants, the island grew to 3.3 acres. In the next two years, Ellis was enlarged to fourteen acres in order to hold all of the immigrants and support buildings. By January

  • Historic New York and Its Diversity

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    Town, and many others. Following the steps of the Dutch who first came to Lower Manhattan, we embarked on the Staten Island Ferry on Sunday, Nov. 10, and we could see one of the world’s most famous figures: The Statue of Liberty, a gift from the French to the U.S. that was put in such a strategic and historic place. The view of the green icon from the boat that was transporting passengers from Staten Island to Lower Manhattan, with the skyline of New Jersey in the background, and New York to our right

  • Manhattan Square History

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    environmentally important institutions as well as Manhattan Square, a seventeen-acre parkland bounded by Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, and by West 77th street and West 81st street. Known since 1958 as Roosevelt Park, Manhattan Square has become home to American Museum of Natural History since the land was ceded to that fledging institution by the Commissioner of Central Park in 1872. The museum’s first building opened to the public in December 1877. Manhattan Square was a result of an 1877 law mandating

  • Broadway History

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    west end of the Island where part of it was later named "The Boulevard". Finally on February 14th 1899 the name Broadway extended from Broadway to Bloomingdale and The Boulevard Road (Broadway (Manhattan)). Broadway is the oldest north-south road that runs through Manhattan. It runs all the way through Manhattan and the Bronx and then extends 18 miles past the city ending outside Sleepy Hollow, New York. The street got its name from the translation of the phrase "Breedeweg" which means "broad road" in

  • History Of Flushing

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    from businesses and from political forces that would like these affordable housing to be relocated. Flushing has and will be changing for many years to come just like any other neighborhood but at a higher and faster rate. This will squeeze out the lower to middle income families further away from downtown Flushing. Most of these families will be the Chinese families that are changing the landscape right now in Flushing. The landscape and the demographic will continue to change in Flushing.

  • Statue Of Liberty In New York

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    States. New York has so many men made creatures which you will not able to see anywhere else in the United States. It starts with 102 story Empire State building, 24 hrs open Time Square, Number of museums, amazing Brooklyn bridge which connects Manhattan and Brooklyn and can 't complete without magnificent sculpture of the US is the Statue of Liberty. How to get there By flight There are three airports near by city. John F Kennedy International airport and Newark Liberty International airport