Just War Safety

The first responders who showed up at the scene were exemplary in their actions and prevented something that was horrible from becoming much worse. Military members should rest at east knowing that those who are there to protect them are well trained and capable. The Federal bureaucracy again demonstrated that the right hand did not know what the left hand was doing. The agencies need better interoperability and intellectual stovepipes need to be prevented. This attack should never have happened. The government had the knowledge and intelligence to prevent it but failed to connect the dots. We cannot let each other down like this. We are all brothers and sisters under the flag and in this day and age we need to stand together or else more senseless tragedies like this will continue. It cannot be allowed to

On September 11, a plane crashed into The World Trade Center, demolishing both buildings. Many people were affected by this tragedy, some even were diagnosed with cancer from trying to clean up ground zero. There are speculations that the people who did have health issues were the ones not wearing the respirators, and many died because of not protecting themselves from the dangerous fumes. Some did not realize that, it could be the last day they might see their families and rushed out without saying goodbyes for the last time. There was little help provided to the sick workers. The lawyers of the workers treat them more as heros then the people who employed them to help clean up after the World Trade Center attack. There were many rising concerns given after the attack and a vast majority of people wish those concerns would be addressed.

A women by the name of Sheryl Ray witnessed this bombing happen. She claimed at 9:02 that day, “I glanced out of my office window for rain clouds, following what sounded like a very long and loud blast of thunder. The sunny sky I saw quickly contradicted what followed” (Ray). She had said the images were almost unbelievable because they looked so identical to a foreign war torn country (Ray). Ray being a nurse she was allowed into the site (Ray). She claimed, “After showing my business card to a police officer, I was allowed into the area. Hundreds of physicians and nurses, flanked by gurneys, wheelchairs, and medical supplies, stood anxiously outside the hospital’s emergency department waiting for yet another ambulance to arrive” (Ray). The first group of people she saw were the survivors all mangled and distressed, but she claimed they did not make a sound (Ray). This is because no matter how beat up or awful they looked, they were the lucky

September 11, 2001 the U.S. was attacked by four crashing planes caused by terrorist. Two of the planes crashed into The World Trade Center at New York City and killed everyone on the plane, 3,000 deaths when the tower collapsed. One to the Pentagon a administrative building at Washington D.C. The last plane crashed into a field at Pennsylvania while passengers and crew members tried to take back control. After that George W. Bush responded to 9/11 and declared “War On Terror”. But I thought the U.S. response to 9/11 was not really appropriate by the way.

Just war encourages peace for all people and indicates that even though it isn’t the best solution, it is still required. Everyone has the duty to stop a potentially fatal or unjust attack against someone else, even if it meant using violence against the attacker. Plus, all states have some important rights that must not be violated by either people or states, so when they’re violated or potentially getting violated, that state is entitled to defend itself through whatever means necessary. Also, the state that did the violating lost their privilege to not have their own rights violated through means of violence. Therefore, just war is ethically permissible.

That was my thought when I got to the first floor of the World Trade Center. In the building, the mezzanine or the lowest point of the tower was a huge mall. I thought being down and actually know that I had a chance to get away from that horrid place after the bombing was a relief but it is not. I was horrified when I got to the mezzanine level of the tower. There were dead bodies lying around everywhere outside the building. It is as if I was in a war and they were the casualties. Those bodies lying on the floor got blown to pieces by the impact from falling down. It was an unbelievable sight. To think that during a normal day your life could be over in just one snap. A part of felt like an over inflated balloon ready to explode. I had made it safe down to the ground. But seeing the things that happened around the plaza did not feel like I was in a safer place. The mall was in ruins, pieces of the building and airplanes were falling off, and windows were battered. As I make my way out, I saw my coworker, Alice, that one I saved from the jammed bathroom door looked very mortified. She cried while moving away from the building. We then saw signs that say “head this way” and so we headed that way. on the other hand, I heard another another crack and I saw the other tower collapsing. I decided to go back inside the building because if I go further out the second building would fall on me. All I could think of during that moment was my family; my wife Jenny, and my son Ben. I did not know what to do anything else but cry. The debris from the building dropped on top of us. Everything was pitch black. It is like when you go to the beach and decided to pack yourself into sa sand. My mouth, my nose, my ears, and my eyes were covered by rubbish. I threw up and checked myself if all of my body parts were still connected to me. Several people were also trapped in this scene. I took some cloth from my clothes and wrapped it around my nose and mouth to keep me from

Throughout the rest of the museum you continue to see what workers like Ricks and others who survived saw after the explosion. “When you see displays of persons personal effects and personal things they recovered from the rubble... You see a pair of little kid’s shoes that are burned or melted, whether the kid was in them or not- we don’t know for sure- there was a defenseless little kid… whose parents worked at the building or near the building and there was this gigantic blast that goes off” (Lemke). The blast was huge. “One thing that stuck in my mind was how big the crater was in the street that the bomb blast created… It blew a 30 foot deep hole… It basically wiped out a third of the building” (Lemke). It took a lot of people and time to go through the large amount of rubble. An entire section is dedicated to workers who helped in

Some of them didn't even have a choice, and even if they did they still would have chose to help out because it's the right thing to do. Some of them were the heroes of that day even though it's hard for them to feel like it. Nobody knows what they had to go through back then and even what they still have to go through everyday. Being in those circumstances is a very hard thought for most of us to think about. What the first responders went through nobody can fully understand, not even from hearing about it. You can listen to all of the stories but you won't be able to understand the pain they went through. Many of the first responders, if not all, have had to get help from a doctor over the years to be able to cope with it. Whenever the twin towers got hit it was a very tragic event for everyone that lives in the United States of America and even others from around the whole world. Everything changed after that. This first responders were there and witnessed it in person. It was hard enough for most to even watch it on the television or listen to it on the radio but seeing it happen and seeing all of the damage it done, is a whole other story. We will never know what they have had to go throughout. This day went down in history and will never be

In a war, innocent people will die. It cannot be helped. Although bombing runs may kill innocent civilians, they must be done. For example, a school with 50 children in it is located next to a Taliban bomb factory. The U.S. should blow up the bomb factory even if it means that the 50 children will die. This is because the bombs that are produced in the factory can be used to kill many more than 50 people. These deaths are justified because a greater good will come from the destruction of the factory. Until it is feasible for a war to be fought where no innocent people will die, these civilian deaths are justified because a greater good will come from the destruction of a threat to a greater number of people.

It is unclear as to why such devastation necessary. These targets were cities, not exclusive military positions. The deaths were mostly civilians, not soldiers. Countless innocent lives were ruined by this choice

From the street there were people screaming and running it was mass chaos. At this time you could see the media and firefighters everywhere. I got the hell out of there went home hugged my wife. I realized God had spared me that day. A lot of my friends and coworkers died that day. I’m truly sorry, sometimes I feel guilty that I didn’t do my part to help but I was afraid for my life. A couple of my friends that made it from a bit higher up said it sounded like a bunch of explosions. I remember thinking after hearing from them and seeing the video footage what the heck happened? In my opinion it felt like a bomb (Jones).

One of the components of war that make it justful is that the cause of the war must be just. In other words, the attacking country must inflict lasting, grave, and certain damage for it to qualify as just to fight back. Also if basic human rights are being violated by a group of people then it is just for another entity to decide to go to war to free the victims of the inhumane aggressors and their torments upon the innocent human beings.

Starry Night is notoriously famous and is probably Vincent Van Gogh’s most well-known piece of art, but that is all for a reason. Van Gogh very unique curving lines throughout the work and they create a flow to the painting that is very somber and fascinating. The line quality of the work seems whimsical in ways yet intentional, the lines are not pressed in very hard on the painting, you can tell because there are color differences within the lines meaning Van Gogh made casual strokes to create the lines, yet at the same time they are definitely intentional as Van Gogh uses the color variations to combine with one another creating a very colorful arrangement on the canvas. All of the colors may be mellow and cool, but they are all very unique and different in their own ways. Van Gogh uses the actual stars in Starry Night to create a stark contrast to the rest of the scene. The stars shine bright yellow and orange in the night sky, drawing the viewers gaze and attention. Yet at the same time there is an ominous black object in the foreground of the painting, the object is said to be a cypress tree but it is no less interpreted for its possible deeper meanings. The painting uses these stars as the acting natural light for the painting and this is why the rest of the painting uses colors that are so cool, this is because Van Gogh wants clear contrasting values between the stars and dimly lit town. Van Gogh uses irregular shapes throughout the skyline and hills in the background

When a historian looks over a primary resource there are several questions that they need to think about before they can even begin to do an analysis of it. There are four important questions to be asked. These questions are, what kind of document is it, who wrote it, who the audience was intended for and why it was written, as well as where and when it was written.

The First World War was a locomotive of historical precedents in both warfare and propaganda. The war commenced with cheers, celebrations in the streets, and lines of volunteers signing up for the armies. However, as the war progressed, the belligerents saw destruction of European empires, the introduction of conscription, and untold atrocities committed by soldiers on both sides. Allied and Central governments alike produced propaganda on massive scales to sustain a rallying cry throughout the war. The First World War set a precedent of war being “a bloody and relentless struggle in which sustaining morale became just as essential for both sides as sustaining military effort” (Taylor 176). War was no longer only a battle of military power but also a battle for mobilizing entire populations and nations. The effective use of propaganda by the Allied Power governments, especially the British government, secured their victory over Germany by increasing patriotism, recruitment, morale, and ultimately encouraging the United States of America to join the war.