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The Day That The 9 / 11 Attacks Happened

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When I was very young I remember the day that the 9/11 attacks happened. I was in my 5th grade math class when my principle made an announcement over the PA stating what took place. He requested that there be an immediate assembly in the gym. When we got to the gym he began to talk about how America was attacked and that two airplanes hit the Twin Towers in New York City. When I was hearing all this I was very confused only being a young boy. Many people came to pick their children up from school in fear that something could happen to us. I also remember how the news portrayed the attacks. They constantly replayed the footage of the planes hitting the towers over and over again. This was a form of social control, in the form of an agent of socialization where “mass media gives information and images that are consumed by the general public (Chriss, 2010). They wanted to strike fear into the people of America and wanted a sense of patriotic emotion running through their veins. President Bush came onto TV and told everyone that they have weapons of mass destruction and didn’t really explain who they are. The only motive was to hurt the American people and this was an action of war. He mentioned that this was the doing of Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. It wasn’t until I just read this article that I really understood why Al Qaeda does these things or what their motives are. Al Qaeda lives and operates by the theory of focoism. This focoist theory is explained in Che’s article as

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