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Past politicians, legislation and political movements have changed the course of history in ways both big and small. Welcome to our blast to the past.
We will Never Forget
It’s been 19 years since the fateful day of September 11, 2001. No one ever thought that America could Ever be Attacked but it happened and shook us to our core and at the same time brought us together. In a brief moment, everything was normal and then everything changed as that first plane hit the World Trade Center. Of course we thought it was an accident until tower two was hit and then we knew America had been attacked. Every Americans day and life changed in a split second. You’re going to work, school, starting your day then at 8:46am see a plane crash into the north tower. Probably think nothing much of it until the south tower is hit at 9:03 am. Then you realize something is really wrong. Try to make sense of it and you can’t as it’s all over the news and then you hear the president speak realizing we’ve been attacked.
Abby MortonPublished 4 years ago in The Swamp9/11 A Day Forever Remembered
It started off as a typical Tuesday morning for me. I was fifteen years old and a freshman in high school. I was sitting in my first period civics class preparing for a test the next morning. Suddenly the principal came over the loudspeaker announcing a plane crash that had just taken place. President Bush had asked for the nation to stop and say a prayer for the lives that were lost. I was confused at first, plane crashes, although very tragic, was not an uncommon thing. We didn’t realize it at that moment, but this was not just a typical plane crash. As we were able to gather more information, it became clear that nothing would be the same for our country, for mankind. The day, September 11, 2001, would forever go down in our history books as the day that we were attacked by terrorists. Nearly 3,000 innocent lives were lost when those planes hit the trade center.
Judith JaschaPublished 4 years ago in The SwampToday's History Lesson...
“Germany experienced a period of political calm, economic development and social progress in the mid-1920s.” How far do you agree with this judgement?
Rebecca SmithPublished 4 years ago in The SwampWe Can't Forget, Even If It Hurts
It’s been nineteen years since 9/11/2001, and it’s really hard to say what hasn’t already been said. I know I could say a million and one different things, and hope it sticks out among the rest. However, I won’t try to do that. I’ll just try to go through the memory of this awful event for what it is, something we can’t forget, even if the memory hurts.
Coco Jenae`Published 4 years ago in The SwampWhat September 11 Taught Me About How Much America Cares About Its Own.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was sitting in my AP US History Class in Valley Stream, New York. A girl from our class came upstairs from dropping off attendance to tell us that everyone in the office was crying and that something horrible had happened but she didn't know what. Shortly thereafter, our principal came over the PA to tell us that all schools in New York City and surrounding areas were on lockdown, the school was shutting down immediately and we were all to go directly home. News and rumours started spreading like wildfire and then another teacher came in to inform our teacher of what had happened. I remember her collapsing into tears because her husband worked for Time Magazine at the time and his office was in the building right next to the World Trade Centre towers. Other classmates began crying as it started to sink in that their parents or family members worked in or around the city. Initially we didn't know it was a terrorist attack on American soil. We heard early reports of a plane accidently flying into the building. As we filled out and left the school, I distinctly remember being able to see the first tower burning from the third floor as the front of my school had a clear view towards Manhattan. It wasn't until I got to the pizzeria on the corner of Merrick Blvd and Central Ave and walked in to see the second plane fly clearly into the second tower that we all knew this was not an accident. The pizzeria was packed and dead silent. Everyone stood frozen in their tracks as New Yorkers, trying to process what we were watching right before our eyes. I remember walking home in a complete daze. I had never witnessed anything like that in my life and because it was happening live, there was no censoring of anything. When I got home, my dad was sitting on the couch watching CNN. I walked in and we both sat silently and watched what was happening. We watched as human beings jumped from the highest floors of the towers, some burning alive as they did. Then in horror, we watched both towers completely collapse in on themselves. We witnessed people die in real time right in front of us on tv.
Whitney SmartPublished 4 years ago in The SwampHenry VII - Your Next History Lesson...
To What Extent Did Henry VII Initiate a New Approach to Kingship? Kingship, the essence of a ruler and having ‘an aptitude for kingly duties,’ seems to fit with the image of Henry VII, through his new approaches. For example: the creation of the Star Chamber, aiding England to stay on her feet, bringing about the rise of the Tudor state since the fall of Richard III. Although it could also be argued that these apparent ‘new approaches’ were not unique to the Tudor king, “the rise of the Tudor state, itself, implies that something new had been created, either from nothing or from the ruins of something that had earlier fallen,” and such ‘initiations’ carried out, much like replacing the Exchequer and keeping the money in his own chambers, was similar to Edward IV - showing a lack of new approaches to the system.
Rebecca SmithPublished 4 years ago in The SwampA Random History Lesson
How significant were the personalities of the contenders to succeed Lenin in accounting for Stalin’s defeat of his opponents in the years 1924-1929?
Rebecca SmithPublished 4 years ago in The Swamp9/11/01 Personal Tribute
I have numerous tattoos but the two that have the most meaning for me are on my forearms. They are in remembrance of my brother, one of the firefighters who lost his life on 9/11/01. I don't talk often of this event in my life, but in order to write this properly, I have to, so here we go.
Lisa LawrencePublished 4 years ago in The SwampOrientalism & the American Native
The term “orientalism” has been made popular and a primary key concept of historiographic bias by the Palestinian historian and activist Edward Said, with the publishing of his book Orientalism in 1978. The concept of orientalism is that throughout the course of the 19th and early 20th Centuries, numerous cultures which existed outside of continental Europe were studied by European academics to understand the elements which made them culturally opposite to that of their native customs in England, France, Spain, Italy, and Germany. In the areas that are known today as the Middle East (then dominated by, mostly, the Ottoman Empire, India, Iran, and Egypt). However in the process of attempting to gain an understanding to each separate society’s traditions, and distinctions, many learned scholars and artists began to create a sense that in order for their fellow societies in Europe to understand this "world beyond their own" easier and faster, their scholarly findings and artistic renderings were condensed into cultural normalities which blurred the dichotomies between norms which are specifically Ottoman and those which are specifically Egyptian, Iranian, or Indian. The concept that these nations and their cultural normalities are all the same except for differences in geographic borders between the nations and empires. That the modern world now associates with stereotyping and cultural appropriation, Edward Said labeled as orientalism.
Jacob HerrPublished 4 years ago in The SwampProhibition
When Prohibition began, the entire alcohol industry was the country's fifth largest employer. The Mob Museum explains how the growth of Walgreens stores exploded during Prohibition because it was legal to sell alcohol as medicine.
Something ComplicatedPublished 4 years ago in The SwampTHE HOUSE OF STUART
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Ruth Elizabeth StiffPublished 4 years ago in The SwampThe Important of Liberia to Black American by Gebah Kamara
According to Gebah Kamara Liberia’s contribution to the world and Black American has often been forgotten by the very people that it was established for. According to the author Gebah Sekou Kamara, he details in his book” Slavery and Black American Statehood” that many freed Blacks from the United States and beyond gave their lives for the founding of this beautiful coastal land in West Africa that is today known as the Republic of Liberia. Gebah Kamara is concerns that today’s generation of Black Americans would rather visit or talk about Mexico and foreign lands than mention or admire their connection with Liberia.
Albert DavidPublished 4 years ago in The Swamp