New York City is one of the most populated cities in the world. The terrorist attack of September 11th in 2001 affected the whole city, shutting down transportation, affecting business revenue, police and the public’s safety. The emotions of New Yorkers were horrified. This was one of three terrorists attacks that impacted America on that day, but also not the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. That morning of 9/11 was a regular day in New York City; children were on their way to school and adults were going to work. The weather was clear, the skies were blue and the temperature was in the 70’s. No one expected something so devastating to occur on such a beautiful autumn morning. September 11th affected New York negatively and recently it has affected the city positively with more growth to the city’s businesses and tourism activity.
Before September 11th the first terrorist attack attempt of the World Trade Center was at 12:18 PM on February 26,1993 a tourist bomb explodes in the parking garage of the world trade center in New York City. An attempted to knocking down the tower failed. This explosion created a crater of 60 feet wide and collapse of several steel reinforced concrete floors from the bomb. Even though the attempt failed this did leave six people killed and more than 1,000 were injured. This bombing created more than 500 million in damage to the parking lot. Authorities evacuated 50,000 people from both of the two buildings. Many people were suffering from smoke inhalation. (“World Trade Center Bombed”)
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At 8:45am a hijacked plane crashed into the World Trade Centre, 9:03am a second hijacked plane crashed into the World Trade Centre. Again at 9:43am another hijacked plane crashed into the Pentagon, and one other hijacked plane was shot down at 10:10am as it was going towards Camp David. On September 11th 2001 at 8:45am the first hijacked plane crashed into the World Trade Centre. American Airlines ...
According to Business News Daily, after the attack of September 11th businesses in lower Manhattan were shut down due to the destruction of the city. The fronts of the business buildings had been destroyed and other people were evacuated for their safety. About 14,000 businesses had been affected from the attack and this led to their shutting down permanently and others for renovations. While some businesses owners thought they would return, some had to leave because landlords raised the rent. Landlords made this the opportunity to raise the rent to rebuild lower Manhattan. Another of the struggles business owners had was recovering their clients and most never returned. Some businesses were able to return to their stores two weeks after but weren’t able to open until December due to the phone lines being down. After 9/11 approximately 800 businesses were shut down for good. On the bright side today more then 130 businesses now exist then before. (Brooks)
According to New York Daily News, ten years after the attack tourism to New York reached a record high in 2010. A record high of 48.8 million people came to visit the city. About 31.4 billion dollars were spent to that year, helping more then 310,000 New Yorkers working in restaurants, hotels, museums, and theaters. Days after the terrorist attack, New York had lost about 323.7 million in visitors from flight restrictions and thoughts of another attack had tourist in fear of visiting New York. The year of 2001 Broadway plays lost approximately 5 million dollars in ticket sales and other shows were cancelled. During autumn hotels are normally 90% full but due to the attack that percentage fell to half. Local restaurants suffered greatly and lost about 6 million dollars to 10 million a day.
At the time of the attack Mayor Rudy Giuliani was in office for the city of New York. Giuliani’s top priority was getting Broadway show sales up. The city began using discounts and promos for tourist. One of the promos was called “Paint the Town Red, White and Blue”, this boosted 40% savings on about 350 hotels, restaurants, shows and museums. Another promotion the city had put in was “Spend Your Regards To Broadway”. This rewarded New Yorkers spending more then 500 dollars in stores, restaurants, and cultural institutions with Broadway show tickets. Tim Zagat, CEO of the Zagat guide, announced an emergency restaurant week in October of 2001. Due to the low tourism in New York this brought normal traffic to midtown restaurants. when dining was still suffering in the city, Zagat’s team hosted “Christmas in Little Italy” in December of 2001. He also promoted the Chinese Lunar New Year that following February. By the next year in March 2002 Broadway tourism was back and just like the years before of 12.1 million a week in shows. That Spring in May hotel sales were up at 78.8%.
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SMC Company Five-Year HR Forecast The local labor market has continued to shrink and labor costs have continued to soar over the past two years. SMC's workforce has now become bilingual and has had to deal with occasional unsuccessful attempts for its labor force to organize a union. To remain competitive for the next five years and sustain its growing sales, SMC Company will have to address ...
About 30 restaurants were closed or destroyed from 9/11. Zagat says 129 restaurants have opened in the last 9 years. In 2003 it was the turning point for the city of Manhattan, when 37.8 million people visited the city. The amount of visitors went up 7% from 2002. New York was only seeing more tourist from there on out. Although this tragedy brought great pain to the city it did bring a new tourist site, ground zero. The community brought 9 million visitors in 2010, a 26% increase from 2008. (Pesce)
According Andrea Doyle in an article from Successful Meetings, “Roger Dow, president and CEO, U.S Tavel Association, calls the ten years since September 11, 2001, the ‘lost decade.’” He further said that this terrible day changed the way Americans travel and it has impacted travel to the U.S. In spite of the numbers of people traveling worldwide the U.S market share of global travel dropped from 17% in 2000 to 12.4 % in 2010. “If America had simply kept pace with the growth in global long whole international travel in the decade of 9/11, 78 million more travelers would have visited the U.S, adding the total of 606 billion to the U.S economy and supporting more than 467,000 additional U.S jobs annually.” These statistics were quoted by Roger Dow on the travel industries ten-year anniversary after 9/11. “The decade following 9/11 has seen significant changes in the way Americans, and those who visited America, travel,” says Dow. “We must continue keeping travelers sage with the highest level of security, but we must incorporate principles that improve facilitation and encourage travel.” (Doyle)
According to Guardian News Paper, in 2001 Robert De Niro co-founded the Tribeca film festival after the the twin towers had fallen. The first Tribeca festival was in 2002 to help restore the tourism in lower Manhattan after the attack of 9/11. This festival was a big success and they continued this tradition. Each year the festival has gotten bigger. This has screened more than 1,400 films from 80 countries. These activities have generated about 750 million dollars worth of economic activity for New York. (Pilkington)
The Essay on Million Years Galapagos People Germans
In both books I have read: John Stienbeck's "The Moon Is Down" and Kurt Vonnegut's "Galapagos," the main characters are escape great danger. Both stories describe how tough times can get and how the characters have to fight just to survive and make it through each day. In "The Moon is Down," for the people who inhabit the small Norwegian town, the struggle begins when they are invaded during WWII. ...
An article in Crains New York Business states, “The River to River festival” in New York city was created to bring tourism up. In 2002 the festival debuted with a 2 million dollar budget that was funded by the government and corporate sponsors like Century 21 and American Express. “River To River engages more than 100,000 loyal, exited, and diverse audience members and receivers significant support from corporations, foundations and government agencies,” said Nicola Salvage, the cultural councils marketing director.” We felt it was important to engage individuals in supporting the festivals as well.” (Souccar)
According to and article on Curbed NY, The september 11th museum is expecting delay to open after Hurricane Sandy. The source says that the museum will open in about a year. In the museum visitors will enter the belly of the towers passing two 50 ton beams that were recovered from the attack. There will be a sounding of LED lights that resemble the voices of people around the world telling their story of that day. They will also display voicemail messages of people in the towers and on the plans to loved ones. There will also be a tribute to the victims lives with photographs in remembrance by family and friends. In addition they will provide background information of the people who died from where there birthplace. (Alberts)
According to Daily Mail, The two pools where at ground zero symbolize the place where the twin towers stood in an eight-acre plaza. These pools are both 50 feet deep containing fountains. Along the two pools are engraved names of the victims from the attack of september 11th and the bombing of 1993 around the perimeter. A team of 30 electricians, lighting technicians and stage hands form the Municipal Art Society helped put this together. They each have powerful light beens of 7,000 watt lights. These lights are visible for 60 miles and turned on one at a time after 8 p.m. (Moran)
The Term Paper on Friday Night Lights High School
Ten years have passed since the publication of Friday Night Lights, and still, its words continue to influence and reverberate beyond anything I could have ever imagined. Nearly half a million copies are in print. The book is used in dozens of high schools and universities across the country. Barely a week goes by even now without getting a call or comment about it. Over the past decade I have ...
According to Christian Science, Monitor Moises Velasquez-Manoff said “Airplanes usually appear about 26,000 feet where air is less than -40 C. But factors besides altitude also play a role in their formation. Depending on how much moister is in the air, for example, contrails last shorter or longer. Moister availability also dictates whether they form at all, and how much they grown after formation.” September 11th created an opportunity to study the skies without any contrails or airplanes. On 9/11 the FAA prohibited any commercial aircraft to land in the Untied States for three days. That is when an atmospheric scientist David Travis at the University of Wisconsin conducted and experiment to look if temperature would change around the world and country. “He found that, for those three days, the average range between highs and lows at more then 4,000 weather stations across the US was 1 degree C wider than normal.” The daytime affect showed higher temperature indicating that contrails might have an affect of cooling the sky. This climate change saw a dramatic change especially in the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest due to these areas having high traffic normally, Travis saw a huge increase in daytime highs. (Velasquez-Manoff)
