A day that will never be forgotten, and written about in history books for years to come. On September 11, every single American citizen had some sort of chill running down there spine. From the first breaking news of the incident to the last news we heard no one spoke a word. We as Americans no longer felt invincible to the rest of the world or safe. For the first time in years we showed weakness.
At 8:46 a.m. , in New York City American Airlines flight 11 was crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. Shortly after the first Boeing 767 hit the north tower another Boeing 767 the United Airlines flight 175 was crashed into the south tower at approximately 9:03 a.m. . While NYC was not the only location of these planes crashing. Yet another American Airlines Flight 77 was crashed into the Pentagon 9:37 a.m. , and what do you know yet another United Airlines flight 93 was crashed landed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania at 10:03 a.m. .
While people all over America have their eyes stuck to the television screen and ears to the radios trying to figure out what all is causing this to happen. It turns out that there were about 19 men working in groups of 4-5 were hijacking our planes and carrying out suicide missions by crashing the planes into the hearts of Americans. Supposedly, then men who hijacked the planes were from a terrorist group called "Al-Qaeda". which was managed by Osama bin landen. A man that the FBI voted as the prime suspect as soon as these planes started to crash. Come to find out that these hijackers took basic flying lessons that way once in flight they could hijack the planes and crash them into their destinations. The hijackers using knifes and supposedly fake strap on bombs to do so.
If you were to ask me I would not be able to pick out just 5 people that were heroes when this incident occurred because there are many people who played heroic roles during this time. There were all the NYC firefighters who gave there lives running into the World Trade Towers to save lives as everyone else was running out. Along with all the NYC police officers who were outside and helping sort things. Then the few brave people on Flight 93 who actually stood up to the terrorist on the plane and attempted to at least try to save the lives of the people that were on that flight.
A day that will never be forgotten, and written about in history books for years to come. On September 11, every single American citizen had some sort of chill running down there spine. But today September 11, 8 years later we now stand tall. As plans are being put into motion for the rebuilding of ground 0. Also the new defensive procedures we have put into effect to help avoid this incident from happening again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_701509060_2/September_11_Attacks.html
Friday, September 11, 2009
Can't put my finger on it!
When it comes down to it there isn't just one dream that really stands out to me. I have two dreams that come to mind. The first is stupid dreams where you are trying to get away from someone or something and your running but feels like you are running in place. Then the second dream the reoccurs a lot for me is when you dream that you are falling off of a cliff forever and ever til you finally wake-up.
It always seems that in the dreams where you are trying to run away from something that you get nowhere. As if you were to be running on a treadmill. Or you were to be in a Halloween movie with Mike Myers chasing you. Even though he is not running and you are, he seems to always catch you. I hate to make this next statement but every time I am running away from something in my dream, that something is always a spider. I hate spiders and always seems that is what i am running away from.
Of course next is the classic dream of falling forever. This is a dream that used to occur to me a lot back in the day but not so often anymore. I think the only difference that I had with my dream of falling from other people is that once you hit the ground and wake up in your dream, I actually wake up on the ground next to my bed after falling out. Luckily, my bed is about a foot off the ground so that way it is not that far of a fall.
Really, it just makes me wonder why is it always these two dreams that reoccur for me? Do I keep having these dreams because that is what I continuously think about before I fall asleep? Which that is a sweet fact I happened to come across in high school psychology. Normally what you are thinking about right before you fall asleep you have a higher chance of having some sort of dream about it.
It always seems that in the dreams where you are trying to run away from something that you get nowhere. As if you were to be running on a treadmill. Or you were to be in a Halloween movie with Mike Myers chasing you. Even though he is not running and you are, he seems to always catch you. I hate to make this next statement but every time I am running away from something in my dream, that something is always a spider. I hate spiders and always seems that is what i am running away from.
Of course next is the classic dream of falling forever. This is a dream that used to occur to me a lot back in the day but not so often anymore. I think the only difference that I had with my dream of falling from other people is that once you hit the ground and wake up in your dream, I actually wake up on the ground next to my bed after falling out. Luckily, my bed is about a foot off the ground so that way it is not that far of a fall.
Really, it just makes me wonder why is it always these two dreams that reoccur for me? Do I keep having these dreams because that is what I continuously think about before I fall asleep? Which that is a sweet fact I happened to come across in high school psychology. Normally what you are thinking about right before you fall asleep you have a higher chance of having some sort of dream about it.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
9/9/09 Will the World End?
Lots of controversies are going around on this very special day of 9/9/09. As of today it is one of the most popular search engines on the world wide web. Many people this that today is the day that the world will finally come to an end. But looks like there is only one chance left because the first thought was that it was going to end at 9a.m. today but looks like it didn't happen because I am still writing this blog even though there is 4 minutes til 9 I highly doubt it will end. But if it doesn't their next guess is at 9p.m. this evening. There is also a lot of talk going around dealing with movies that are coming out as well such as, "9". A movie dealing with such things as the worlds end.
But if you were talk to scientist they feel that people should just ignore such numerical theories of worlds end which I very much agree with because it just sounds retarded basing worlds end off numbers.
But if you were talk to scientist they feel that people should just ignore such numerical theories of worlds end which I very much agree with because it just sounds retarded basing worlds end off numbers.
Re: Greatness
In the essay "He Turns Boys into Men", Ehrmann makes his life goal of helping the male youth of this generation grow up into the correct type of men. Ehrmann is a 55 year old man that is in his retired years after 13 seasons of professional football with the Baltimore Colts. He spends his time now coaching a football team out of Gilman High School in Baltimore. Besides his coaching job Ehrmann also is a inner-city minister and not to mention even a founder of a community center.
His main goals though are to break down the standards of the pressure that society puts on males today with: athletic ability, sexual conquest and economic success. Ehrmann referes to these as the 3 false masculinties of males. He feels that all we do as males is compete to be the best and Ehrmann feels that all this competeing does is makes us feel isolated and alone if we are not at the top. He ties that into football by playing every senior in every game. Their main goal is to make a difference in these young adults lives to where they will have a better out look on life. Ehrmann makes sure too that the players do these tasks, even if it is as simple as making sure that no one sits by them selves at lunch too one day possibly playing a big role in other peoples lives such as Ehrmann is doing for these kids.
Ehrmann states, "At the end of our life, we ought to be able to look back over it from our deathbed and know that somehow the world is a better place because we lived, we loved we were other-centered, other-focused." To me that just screams greatness!
His main goals though are to break down the standards of the pressure that society puts on males today with: athletic ability, sexual conquest and economic success. Ehrmann referes to these as the 3 false masculinties of males. He feels that all we do as males is compete to be the best and Ehrmann feels that all this competeing does is makes us feel isolated and alone if we are not at the top. He ties that into football by playing every senior in every game. Their main goal is to make a difference in these young adults lives to where they will have a better out look on life. Ehrmann makes sure too that the players do these tasks, even if it is as simple as making sure that no one sits by them selves at lunch too one day possibly playing a big role in other peoples lives such as Ehrmann is doing for these kids.
Ehrmann states, "At the end of our life, we ought to be able to look back over it from our deathbed and know that somehow the world is a better place because we lived, we loved we were other-centered, other-focused." To me that just screams greatness!
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Greatness
It takes one word to describe Coach Ehrmann, Greatness. This is a man who gets all he wants out of life by teaching what he calls the correct way of becoming a man to the youth. Ehrmann methods are very simple, the main question he asks is at the end of your life are you going to be able to look back and say it was a life worth living? This question that he teaches and lives by is the center of everything. Ehrmann was a pro football player turned inner-city minister who also founded a community center. Oh! not to mention also coaches high school football. But his main purpose was to teach these high school kids he was coaching was to help these boys grow up to be real men. In today society he feels that it starts out with us kids trying to hard to compete and be better then the person next to us. To Ehrmann that is not a man. Then as you get older it becomes who has the hottest lady at their side or who has the hotter set of wheels. Still to Ehrmann that does not declare a man. That is what he feels our generation has sunk into making people think it what you have that makes you a man rather then what you do in life.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Farve Dirty Play?
In a preseason game on August 31 between the Vikings and the Texans Brett Farve made an illegal block. With this happening commentators and journalist are having a field day calling Farve a, "Dirty player", "the little girl Esther from 'The Orphan'". Before they start ridiculing Farve they should take a second and look back on his career of never being a dirty player from what I can remember. Also the fact that the man is practically reaching the age of having to use a walker, all we was trying to do was make a block. Sure he might have gone a bit low but lineman get called for that penalty alot too, why we not giving them the same crap?
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