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Annotated Bibliography On How 9/11 Changed America

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Annotated Bibliography Green, Matthew. “How 9/11 Changed America: Four Major Lasting Impacts (with Lesson Plan).” The Lowdown, 6 Sept. 2016, ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2014/09/10/13-years-later-four-major-lasting-impacts-of-911/. Accessed 8 June 2017. Summary: This article has three main topics that greatly support the idea of how 9/11 changes the US. First, the section titled “ongoing wars” shows how the US has entered wars that had a huge effect and how the September 11th attacks changed the US military. Second, “Immigration and deportation” covers the number of people subject to these affairs before and after 9/11. Third and finally,” The friendly is skies” goes over the effect on flight of all kinds and airport security. These three points …show more content…

First, the article was uploaded in 2016 making it fairly new and up to date. Second, Kqednews.org is associated with PBS and NPR which are both trustworthy sources making it a good source for information. Also, the article is not bias at all because it relies on stats. Reflection: This source was very interesting and I couldn’t find any other sources that were focused entirely on before and after 9/11. I was very interested in this source because it focuses on 3 main changes between 9/11 and today. In any research paper on 9/11, the information provided would be very …show more content…

The article has a section for what happened the day of and the days following the September 11th attacks. The article also has a section for how the attacks were carried out. Finally, there’s a section of the article centered on the affect that the attacks had on America. All these topics support the article and are useful. Evaluation: My evaluation would be that the source is reliable for the following reasons. First, although the article is old, it does not provide exact data so it is legit. Second, the writing style provides an in-depth description of all the main ideas. Finally, the article is not bias. I believe that this source is reliable due to the reasons listed previously. Reflection: This article was very interesting to me because it was originally published in the NYT paper only a day after the attacks. At first thought, you may think that the article is too old and not up to date but the article does not rely on data so there is nothing to be out of date. Another reason that this article is interesting is because it describes the attacks from the view of someone who saw them in real time. I believe that these two reasons alone make the article a more than worth while

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