The novel Sophia’s War by Avi begins with a twelve year old girl named Sophia. During this time was American Revolutionary War. Sophia’s life was changing drastically as her father was missing, her brother was captured, and the city where she lives was burned. A young man named Nathan Hale was caught being a spy and was sentenced to be hung. Sophia and her mother were there when his hanging occurred.
In Laura Blumfeld’s “The Apology: Letters from a Terrorist”, instead of hating a Muslim terrorist for shooting her father, she used her background in Middle East Correspondence to send letters and communicate with her father’s shooter, Omar Khatib. After revealing that she is the daughter of the man he shot, she discovers the remorse in the gunmen but also begins to understand Omar’s reasoning behind the shooting. Blumfeld put herself in Omar’s position to get his point of view on why he did what he did. “Thirteen years have passed.
Jimmy was trying to change his life around . He hadn’t robbed a bank in a year. He was trying to sell his tools he robbed banks with. Jimmy sent a letter to a old friend of his named Billy.
A summary of the story Sabotaged is going to be formed from beginning middle then end. The main characters in the story I will mention a lot of times is Jonah, Katherine, Andrea, Brendan, Antonio, JB, Dare, and Second. The beginning of the story starts with Jonah, Andrea, Dare, and Katherine going back to the year of 1600. Soon after they landed Andrea told her friends that she changed the code on their Elucidator (it allows you to talk to people who help you stay alive back then)
I survived the Attacks of September 11 2001 by Lauren Tarshis, was published July 12, 2012 by the publisher Scholastic inc. . This book has 117 pages and its genre is Realistic Fiction. Lucas is a 11 year old boy that was into sport after an unwanted event with his father. The passion for the sport brought Lucas to be trapped in the trifling event of 9/11 Lucas Calley is a 11 year old boy whose dad is a part of the FDNY and has a very good friend named Benny but Lucas called him uncle Benny. Lucas dad got badly injured when he tried to stop a warehouse fire that left him burned and in the hospital for burn for 2 months.
Document Based Assignment 2 On September 11, 2001 terrorists attacked our country causing one of the most devastating events in United States history. Islamic extremists seized control of four airplanes, crashing two of them into the Twin Towers, one into the Pentagon, and the last in Pennsylvania. Overall they killed 3,000 people and another 6,000 were terribly injured.9/11 is a day the U.S. will never forget, paying respect every year to all those who sadly died. There are many clues leading up to this incident showing Osama Bin Laden’s hatred towards the U.S. and the Americans reaction to him.
On April 19th, 1995, the bombing of Oklahoma City was the deadliest act of terrorism within the United States of America prior to September 11th of 2001, when the planes crashed into the World Trading Center in Manhattan New York City. The Oklahoma City bombing remains to be the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in the history of America. The main bomber’s name was Timothy McVeigh, age 26, and he had a build up of anger against the US federal government, which led him to bombing the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Timothy McVeigh was one of the three people associated with this crime, the other two people were Terry Nichols, age 40 and Michael Fortier, age 26. McVeigh was convicted and found guilty, he was sentenced
“To Catch a Bombmaker” by Clay Dillow appeared in Popular Science in October 2015. Catching a Bombmaker does not come easy; you must have intelligence, surveillance, and knowledge behind the science of a bomb. In “To Catch a Bombmaker” these three things led to a terrorist being caught in the action. Mr. Dillow’s purpose for writing this piece is to inform. Dillow is very professional in his writing.
Blazak, Randy. " White Boys to Terrorist." Volume 44. 2001, 982-1000. Sage Publications
She becomes an accused terrorist after a convention centre in New York City she is doing security detail for is blown up. All evidence is leading to her. Immediately she is the run, searching for anything to prove she was framed. In the small time she has before the FBI captures her, she must prove her innocence. There are several supporting characters.
She started talking when she saw her father’s friend Frank. She doesn’t realize but everyone one is on her side, she wants her father
Throughout the novel, Slaughterhouse Five, Billy Pilgrim struggles with the hardships that take places all throughout his life. These hardships occur in his family life during World War II and being abducted by aliens from another planet. The misfortunes vary in difficulty, some minor, while some are life and death situations. There are many obstacles that Billy and other men encountered and were faced with, which were separated by every point of life: the past, the present and the future,with the future teaching Billy how to cope with these obstacles. Billy Pilgrim’s past consisted of serving the United States in the Second World War.
“I did not ask for the things that I’ve been through and I certainly did not ask my mind to paint and repaint the pictures in flashback forms.” Quoted from Michelle Groth, about post traumatic stress disorder. For some it is impossible to run away from their past but for one human, Billy Pilgrim, a World War 2 and Dresden bombing survivor, it is possible. He chooses not to face his experiences and goes into a very strange place.
Billy Knight had somewhat of an inconceivable magnetism and a face so piteous that he managed to bring out the humanity in every stranger that happened to saunter past his spot on Sixth Avenue. As they got closer to his dishevelled figure, boisterous conversations fluttered into silence and dove-like coos as men and women from all walks of life subconsciously reached into their pockets to drop him a coin or a prayer. “You need this more than me,” they would say. That wasn’t true, Billy was actually quite wealthy, having been an anaesthetist in his younger years, or, as he called it, “a dream inducer.” He just enjoyed sitting alone on cool cement ground and watching in his weary jacket as people passed him like factory smoke among cars and
Terrorist campaigns were climbing in decades prior to 9/11. A group of terrorists attacked New York’s World Trade Center on February 26, 1993. The aim of this attack was to drive two bomb loaded trucks into the basement of a building to bring down both of the towers of the World Trade Center. The mission was not accomplished, but the attack did kill six people. The organizer of this attack was Ramzi Yousef, whose uncle went on to be the operational commander of the attack at the World Trade Center on 9/11.
