9/11 Attacks - Facts & Summary

On September 11, 2001, at 8:45 a.m. on a clear Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact left a gaping, burning hole near the 80th floor of the 110-story skyscraper, instantly killing hundreds of people and trapping hundreds more in higher floors. As the evacuation of the tower and its twin got underway, television cameras broadcasted live images of what initially appeared to be a freak accident. Then, 18 minutes after the first plane hit, a second Boeing 767–United Airlines Flight 175–appeared out of the sky, turned sharply toward the World Trade Center and sliced into the south tower near the 60th floor. The collision caused a massive explosion that showered burning debris over surrounding buildings and the streets below. America was under attack. The attackers were Islamic terrorists from Saudi Arabia and several other Arab nations.

9/11/2001: The Day That Changed America "As you can see," the ferry captain said over his bullhorn the morning of September 11, "a plane just crashed into the World Trade Center." It was 8:48. Our commuter boat had left Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, for New York City three minutes earlier. It was the kind of morning pilots call "severe clear." We could see the skyscrapers of lower Manhattan—still 40 minutes away—with aching clarity. Like everyone, I watched in horror as smoke spewed from the upper floors of the north tower, and metal strips that had encased the building unfurled like cans of tuna fish. Then it dawned on me: my brother Michael was in that 110-story building. Mike and Tuck traded over-the-counter stocks and rode the same boat each morning. I knew they would be in their office, I just didn't know what floor it was on. When I looked up, I saw a second plane slice through the top of the south tower. Still, we sailed on. We watched in disbelief as shards of glass and paper rained down on the streets below.

How to use rhetoric to get what you want - Camille A. Langston Aristotle, the student of Plato, taught first in Plato’s Academy and then tutored Alexander the Great, and finally established his Athenian philosophical school the Lyceum. The Lyceum is an amazing place to visit. Watch this video to learn more about the its remains here. In the fourth century BC, Aristotle compiled several of his lectures, two of which he wrote when he taught in Plato’s Academy and two later when teaching in his Lyceum, into the treatise, Rhetoric, which he used as a text. His teaching method differed from others; Aristotle was a peripatetic lecturer, which means he walked around as he spoke with his students instead of standing in the front of a room. He is accredited with developing the peripatetic teaching style. Aristotle was not born in Athens and was not an orator like the sophists, and one of the most famous orators of the age, Cicero, were.