Connections

Below you will find areas of further research you can conduct based upon your area of interest. For example, if you enjoy music, you can study all the musical responses that were created from that day.

__**Creative Arts **__ __Music __ -Find music written about the terror attacks or issues involved with the tragedy. Analyze the lyrics. How do they apply to historical facts? Is the songwriter making a political statement? Compare the music to that which was created during other American tragedies.

__Art __ -Locate artistic representations of the issues surrounding the attacks (the actual events, firefighters, rescue efforts, etc...). Analyze the art. How do they apply to historical facts? Is the artist making a political or other type of statement through the art?

__**Controversy **__ -Should the mosque have been constructed in 2010 near Ground Zero? -How should airport security be handled? Are enchanted putdowns and scanners that see under clothing appropriate? -Is it acceptable or constitutional to give extra scrutiny to Arabs at airports?

__**Economics **__ __Business __ -What was the economic impact of the crashes on the companies headquartered in the buildings? -How did the 9/11 attacks impact the stock market both in the short and long term?

__Personal __ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-What was the financial impact on survivors who worked in the World Trade Center towers? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-Who were the people who gained financially from the tragedy? (this is not an attack on those people, it is a reality of life. When there is a disaster, all types of peripheral industries benefit financially).

__**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Health **__ __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Psychology __ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-Why are there so many conspiracy theories? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-What went into the decision made by the people who jumped from the towers? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-How does the mind work in "fight or flight" mode? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-How do different people deal with extreme stress in different ways? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-What type of physical training would be necessary for a firefighter to climb to different levels of the towers?

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Physical Impairments __ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-What are the long term (to this point) of the condition that has come to be known World Trade Center Lung? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-How does Post Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD) affected those involved in the attacks? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-Identify and evaluate major components of New York's crisis management system at the time, and how they have made improvements.

__**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">History **__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-Study the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. Is there anything from the event that could and should have foreshadowed the attacks? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-Study the hunt for bin Laden by former Presidents Clinton and Bush, and by current President Obama. With whom should the credit and blame lie?

__**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Language Arts **__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-Find poetry about the day, events, heroes or other related topics. Analyze how the poetry relates facts and information about the attacks. What message is the author trying to communicate?

__**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Math **__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-Use math to calculate different aspects of the day's events: With how much force did the planes hit the buildings? Based on how quickly the towers collapsed, how far away could someone have wound up if they started running the instant the towers began to collapse?

__**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Military **__ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-Analyze the military response of the United States to the terror attacks? Which were correct decisions? Which were incorrect? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-Describe the challenges the U.S. military faced in Afghanistan? What did they learn from Soviet intervention in the 1980s.

__**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Politics **__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-What were the political responses to the U.S. response in Afghanistan and in Iraq? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-Compare President Bush's speech on the night of September 11th to Franklin Delano's speech after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

__**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Science **__ __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Engineering __ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-Describe the structural composition of the buildings? What updates were made with the new towers? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-Describe the state of the art aspects of the elevators in the towers before the attacks.

__**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Social **__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-What are other situations in American history where groups of people have been scrutinized more closely in response to a crisis? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-What are other situation in world history where groups of people have been scrutinized more closely?

__**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Tech Ed **__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-Research the materials the towers were made out of. Why did they collapse? How could the contraction have been made more solidly to prevent the collapse?

__**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Technology **__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-How does a cell phone service become "overloaded?" Were there some cell services that had better chance of getting through than others in New York City?