Wtc Victim What's A Life Worth Analysis

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September 11, 2001, will forever be remembered as a day of tragedy for the United States as an act of terrorism killed roughly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center, and 200 at the Pentagon. Terrorists hijacked four separate aircraft that day, two planes were crashed into the north and south tower of the World Trade Center in New York, one was crashed into the Pentagon in Virginia, and the last one crashed into a field where it was believed that passengers disrupted the hijackers, causing the aircraft to crash before reaching its target. Both towers eventually fell, and this attack brought about the beginning of many changes for the United States, that had a ripple effect onto other nations. On September 20th, Bush called for an emergency joint session of the US Congress where he announced the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (MacFarlane, P. J., 2017). Along with this new department came the development of several measures that were implemented to prevent future attacks. Although the terrorist attacks of 9/11 were devastating and caused turmoil and unrest for the United States, even to present day, there were some positive outcomes to be had from this event.

When the major event 9/11 took place it caused the government to really question. What is a person's life truly worth? In the article “What is The Value of A Human Life?” by Kenneth Feinberg. He actually came up with the idea about how each individual's lives is valued financially. In the beginning of building this new law Feinberg came across that. Not everyone gets the same amount of compensation. For example, “The law required that I give more money to the stockbroker, the bond trader and the banker than to the waiter, the policeman, the fireman and the soldier at the Pentagon.” (Feinberg para 2). Since the required

If there is one day I dread most upon its arrival, it would be 9/11. Sure there was an immense amount of strength as a nation represented, following the terrorists attacks, but it also brought a great amount of grief and sorrow. I remember watching videos of innocent people jumping from windows in the twin towers hoping to escape the terror. These people believed there was no one to help and no one to help them. They lost hope. In “Remembering a Hero, 15 Years After 9/11” written by Peggy Noonan, published in The Wall Street Journal on September 11th 2016, Alison Crowther—Welles Crowther’s mom—recalls the courageous actions to save the lives of others, made by her son on this horrific day. Noonan utilizes pathos, ethos, asyndeton, and

On February 26, 1993 at 12:18 pm in New York City, the first call was received at the Central Office from a street alarm box at the corner of West and Liberty Streets. The call was reporting a possible transformer vault (or manhole) explosion on West Street near the World Trade Center. As manhole explosions are common in wet whether, there was no hint of a major catastrophe until the phones never ceased to ring after aid had arrived to the site. Numerous phone calls continued, now reporting smoke in the towers of the Trade Center as far up as the 33rd floor within the first three minutes of the explosion (http://members.aol.com/fd347/wtc.htm). The ceiling then collapsed in the train station, which

In one article, What Is A Life Worth? by Amanda Ripley, it speaks about the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and how the attacks led to the development of the human life calculator. It calculates how much your life is worth, based on how much you make and would have continued to make if they had lived. “Every award will be based on a cold calculus, much the way courts handle wrongful-death claims” (Ripley 5). The calculator does not take into account the worth of a person's life, regardless of how much they make. The family members,friends, and lovers of those lost deserve to know that their loved one matters and was more than just a set number. These events changed the course of their lives forever. Many fought the government, saying that they felt their loved one was worth more than what was said and that that should be taken into account.

The Dead of September 11 is deep poem that provokes many feelings and thoughts. There are many topics that are rather easy to delve in to. Throughout this essay, three of these literary techniques will be addressed and “delved into”, so to speak. These techniques are: diction, figurative language and tone. Throughout the following essay several large ideas and the theme of this poem will also be addressed, including but not limited to the universality of the poem and the absolute obliteration of falsities and of false intimacy. Tony Morrison has created a complex, captivating piece of literary art that can be viewed and be interpreted in many different ways, with each individual person who examines it

Well, the families of Woburn Wells wanted no part of the money. They just wanted the problem fixed and an apology from the ones who caused this tragedy.

It is not right to assign value to the life of a person, even a man with training could not help but be bothered with how wrong that is. Compensation for a death would be rather problematic, distinctions in the compensation would only fuel the hurt and grief of the survivors knowing that their family was worth only a certain amount.

Determining the amount of damages that should be given to the different types of people is the central issue of the article. “I had always accepted that no two lives were worth the same in financial terms. But now I found the law in conflict with my growing belief in the equality of all life” (Ripley 3). This means that the best solution from a moral standpoint should be that all victims receive the same recompense. Feinberg’s job, however, was to administer the congressional directive to ensure victims’ families “maintain something resembling their current standard of living.” (Feinberg 11). His work attempted to uncover the true value of life by diverting attention away from a lump sum of money for each victim, and instead focusing on the victims’ lives, ensuring that each family gets what they deserve. Using complex calculations of compensating for potential unearned wages and then deducting other financial assets meant that some families actually qualified for no money at all. Did that meant that their loved one’s life was worthless? The government’s virtuous intentions, while seen by many as flawed, were not always derided. Victim David Gordenstein, who lost his wife on 9/11 reflects, “I am proud of what my country tried to do. I think the intention is noble” (Ripley

Following the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, Rescorla invited Hill to New York, where he hired him as a security consultant in order to assess the building 's security. Although no arrests had yet been made, Rescorla believed that the bomb had been planted by Muslims. Hill went undercover in several mosques throughout New Jersey, showing up for morning prayers at dawn. He took on the character of an anti-American Muslim, in order to interview the other visitors to the mosques. He concluded that the attack was likely planned by a radical imam at a mosque in New York or New Jersey. Followers of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, a radical Muslim cleric based in Brooklyn, were subsequently convicted of the bombing.

Jess Walter creates a post 9/11 world that balances precariously between real and surreal. It is real enough that the reader is able to comprehend how awful the attack truly was; but surreal enough that the reader feels the same way most Americans did at Ground Zero—confused, frightened, and grief stricken. Remy, the unwilling hero in all of this is exposed to many different forms of grief both public and personal. Using irony and satire, Walter critiques the way public forms of grief were presented as the only viable ways of grieving after 9/11. Reporters wanted to broadcast each and every loss. The government wanted to exploit the grief of the American people so that they could continue what they were doing in

Self sacrifice not only helps those directly affected, but also serves as a powerful symbol that makes a difference in the world. One man who put his life before others selflessly was Rick Rescorla. A retired US Army officer, he worked at the World Trade center as a director of security before and during the attacks of September 11th. He had always suspected that the World Trade center could be a potential target for terrorists. So, on the day of the attack, Rescorla was instrumental in helping those in the building to escape. Ignoring a PA announcement that ordered everyone to stay at their desks, Rescorla ordered everyone to escape through the staircases in a calm manner. His wife, Susan, who was watching the news at home, called him frantically.

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

I think that yes and no. Nothing is ever worth losing 2,200 lives. At the same time, we gained some things from the war. However, we did not gain anything from the treaty. As the lesson states the British no longer needed to raid U.S. shipping since they had defeated the French. This is a good thing that happened because then we have fewer wars and fights going on. It still doesn’t change the fact that we lost 2,200 lives in the war though. There are a couple of other things that we gained from the war. But were those couple of things worth the 2,200 lives? I say no. Each one of those 2,200 people had family or even a wife living at home. And then after the war, they have to deal with living on their own and thriving on their own. That is