Essay about IRA Attack

Terrorism is a threat in the United States today and has been for a long time as well as all over the world. The global deaths due to terrorism is up for then 4,000 percent over the past dozen years. The largest terrorist attack on America soil was 9/11, and it still has a huge impact to this day. One of the most popular groups of terrorist today is ISIS. Another big group is Al Qaeda who when under one of the most famous terrorist, Osama Bin Laden, caused 9/11.

April 19, 1995, 9:02 a.m: a bomb was set off beneath the Alfred P. Murrah Building. The bomb damaged the structural support beams and the Northern support columns. Half of the building collapsed. 168 people died (Cook 5). Eric McKisick, a district manager, recalls the incident, ¨I made an assumption that, hey, everybody is out, everybody is good, and I left at that point. It wasn't ´till much later that I saw the devastation and understood they didn't respond because they couldn't.” Not only were there a large number of casualties, 300 people were also injured, some of whom were physically impaired for the rest of their life. A child who was in the building at the time of the explosion states, “I have no recollection of that day, but I’m reminded everyday about it because of my breathing problems (Brandes, Heide, Schapiro).”

One of Ms. Brown's coworker quickly called her daughter, who was touring the World Trade Center. Ms. Brown's coworker lost contact with her daughter and did not hear from her again for four long days. All the cell phone company's signals were all stationed on top of the Twin Towers and when the buildings fell, all service was lost. All communication was gone and in the streets, there were silence. Smoke spilled out of the burning towers and painted the sky black. People jumped out of the flaming buildings, desperate for escaption. When the towers crumbled, a black substance covered the streets and people as they ran for help.

You’ve had many hard times in your life, and the bombing of Himmel Street was just one of them. When you went down to the basement that night, did you feel any unusual thoughts? Did you have any idea that in just minutes your

London is struck by a devastating terrorist attack, it is cut off from the world, protected by a military force known as Choppers. The rest of Britain believes that the city is now a toxic, abandoned wasteland.But Jack and his friends some of whom lost family on what has become known as Doomsday know that the reality is very different. At great risk, they have been gathering evidence about what is really happening in London-and it is incredible. Because the handful of London's survivors are changing. Developing strange, fantastic powers. Evolving.

Malorie Blackman makes the aftermath of the Dundale Shopping Centre bombing very vivid for the reader by using very interesting and useful word and phrases. Malorie starts the scene by describing when the bomb blown off. She starts with a flash, which gives the readers the picture of light sparked instantly, followed by a simile ‘like the very air was alight’ to show that everything around was burnt up. Then she uses the word ‘a fraction of a second’ to tell that just immediately after the flash, a bomb exploded.

"Any form of public death--be it an execution, a disaster, a brutal murder, or a suicide--sends shockwaves through society and stimulates a great deal of emotion, especially among the witnesses." (44, Sociology in a Changing World)

In this article a social issue must be addressed worldwide, which is incidents happening against Muslims due to the misconceptions of their religion and assumption of terrorism among them. Hate crime is a criminal offence and a person could be imprisoned for up to 3 years if convicted. In Canada, a hate crime is defined as any criminal offence against a person, group or property that is motivated by hatred or prejudice towards an identifiable group. The following are grounds under the Criminal Code of Canada: Race, colour, ethnicity, language, religion, age, mental or physical disability, sex or sexual

German enemy planes once again ravaged the skies of London, bringing along with them compacts of gunpowder and death. The city let out haunting cries, luring those below to hole up in havens of steel. A boy and his mother sat in the confines of their Anderson shelter, cowering in fear of the droning above.

On December 5th, 1952, London began to go through its “I want to resemble a post-apocalyptic city” phase. Smog shrouded the entire city in it’s smothering blanket, and many were hospitalized because of the deadly illnesses they contracted. Others were not as fortunate and turned into one more number on the steadily increasing death toll. Much harm was inflicted onto both the people and environment of London during the worsening conditions of the days that followed the first, and a lesson was learned the hard way.

Despite the struggle to bring about a resolution to the conflict during the 1970s and 80s, terrorist violence continued to be a problem into the early 90s, and British troops remained in full force. In 1981, ten IRA prison hunger strikers starved to death after they used hunger strikes to protest against losing their ‘special category’ status and against wearing prison uniforms. This democratic success persuaded Republicans of the benefits of politics instead of violence as a way of getting what they wanted. In 1985 British and Irish prime ministers Margaret Thatcher and Garrett Fitzgerald signed the Anglo-Irish Agreement. This recognised the Republic of Ireland's right to have an advice-giving role in the affairs of Northern Ireland.

Shrouds of grey dust and ash polluted the air. The smell of death and burning destruction was all one could smell. The wind whipped and twirled blowing dust and ash, spawning small cyclones in its wake. The streets flooded with what could be human remains. Rusting burned out vehicles, twisted fallen trees with roots trembling in the wind, scattered papers flying here or there with no final destination. Crumbled ruin of buildings of once great cities was all that remained. A once boisterous atmosphere of the world now silenced by the destruction mankind has caused.

The pub had only one television screen, mounted up high. The pictures and commentary went on and on about the blaze, which the night before had destroyed the homes of most and the lives of hundreds as the Grenfell Tower burned. The plume of smoke they’d seen from the train was residual fire from the burning high-rise not quite quelled the night before. Tat felt awash again in the feelings and images of the past few weeks. How did the pleasantries of travelling in the springtime in England co-exist in her psyche with the Manchester bombings, the mass murders on the bridges and in the market in London, the crippling computer failure at British Airways, a bumpy national election, and, finally, this horror of a fire?

Terrorism and hostage taking may be as old as civilization itself. There are numerous references to abduction throughout Greek mythology. In midievil times hostages were taken for money or a guaranteed safe passage through a country. In the U.S., Indians on the western frontier terrorized settlers to frighten them away. Throughout the twentieth century, up until the 1970’s various terrorist acts were committed, yet it was not as big a problem as it is today. The new age of terrorism dawned at 4:30 in the morning of September 5, 1972. It was then that members of the Palestinian organization Black September attacked the Isreali Olympic team. Three men were killed on the spot and nine were taken captive. The terrorists demanded that 200 of

Hysteria reigned supreme among survivors who, in a second, were left with the residue of a war. A tanker truck was on its side; its armor ripped from its frame to testify to the force of a gas-main explosion. The hole where they were drilling was a crater, like the ones on a meteorite-battered planet. The bodies of those he labored with lie everywhere. Many welders hung upside down from their girders swaying to and fro from the blast; half their clothes burned away to reveal flesh charred and disfigured. Most men on the ground groaned in the agony expected to be found in hell.