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National Security Crises and the Expanding American Presidency
… extra powers to defend the nation. After the September 11 terrorist attacks, the George W. Bush administration expanded executive power and Congress did not object. For example, Congress passed the USA PATRIOT Act and President Bush signed it into law on October 26, 2001, allowing law …
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A Comparative Pentadic Analysis of Mediated Presidential Discourse During 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina
… was confronted with one of the worst national attacks in United States history: the September 11 terrorist attacks of 2001. Through the devastation, however, President Bush triumphed in unifying and guiding this nation during what would become the height of his rhetorical leadership. Following …
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Effectiveness of the 2010 Beijing Convention and Protocol in Addressing Aviation Security Threats
Following the September 11 terrorist attacks in America and the occurrence of other new and emerging threats to civil aviation, the international community has been faced with the harsh reality in the field of aviation security, hence, several legal attempts were made to address such aviation …
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“Effectiveness of the 2010 Beijing Convention and Protocol in Addressing Aviation Security Threats
Following the September 11 terrorist attacks in America and the occurrence of other new and emerging threats to civil aviation, the international community has been faced with the harsh reality in the field of aviation security, hence, several legal attempts were made to address such aviation …
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PREJUDICE TOWARD MUSLIM AMERICANS AND AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION
… anti-Muslim prejudice was not affected by the September 11 terrorist attacks. I also find that the band of others plays a more important role in determining vote choice for hypothetical Muslim candidates than political orientations, authoritarian personality, and religious traditionalism. The …
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Title Changes in International Law in response to Terrorist attacks. A comparative study of Israeli and the US state practice
… of international law in the aftermath of September 11 terrorist attacks upon the US. More specifically, I am interested in the variation of legal responses of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to policies of counter-terrorism adopted by states, which have been victims of attacks …
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An Epistemological Inquiry into the Incorporation of Emergency Management Concept in the Homeland Security with a Post-Disaster Security Centric Focus
… the U.S. experienced two milestone events - the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Following the foundation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2002, the definitional context of Emergency Management and its phases/components, simply its essence, …
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Aftermath of 9-11: stress levels during January 2002 from Manhattan to California
<p>In September of 2001, the world entered a period of recovery from the terrorist attacks on our nation which will engender decades of struggle to study, analyze and express the effects of that day by almost every conceivable field of human endeavor. The purpose of this study was to describe …
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Understanding the Psychosocial Impact of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks: a Qualitative Analysis of Focus Groups
Much of the 9/11 mental health research to date has been focused on PTSD and posttraumatic stress symptoms. To better understand the broader experience of individuals following a disaster, exploratory focus groups were conducted with individuals from directly-exposed agencies and not …
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A Falling Sky: A Novel
<p>In the days following the attacks of September 11th, 2001, writers of fiction and non-fiction, poets, and screenwriters struggled with how and when to put to use their craft as a way to, not only express their feelings about the event, but to do their part' to help assuage the grief felt by the …
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Traditional and interactive documentaries : an exploration of audience response to September 11 documentaries in different formats.
On September 11, 2001, two planes crashed into the two tallest buildings in the New York City skyline, the most horrific act of terrorism on U.S. soil to date. A country devastated, the United States began the long road to recovery, prevention and retaliation. In response, screenwriters have …
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A DRM Study of Trauma Memory Among Employees of New York City Companies Affected by the September 11, 2001 Attacks
The general metadata -- e.g., title, author, abstract, subject headings, etc. -- is publicly available, but access to the submitted files is restricted to UT Southwestern campus access and/or authorized UT Southwestern users.
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A national survey of elementary principals' response to the events of September 11, 2001
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That's Not What Your Friends Say: Does Self-reported Posttraumatic Growth Translate into Friend Ratings of Improvement?
… measured longitudinally among survivors of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attack, in order to explore whether participants' reports of posttraumatic growth were associated with, supported or contradicted by friend ratings of improvement. In this context, participant-reported posttraumatic …
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The pit, the field and the edifice : a rhetorical analysis of the commemorative 9/11 Ceremonies of September 11, 2002
… the first anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001. By evaluating these ceremonies generically through a set of established epideictic criteria, a comparison and contrast of form and style in relation to their varying situations and rhetorical constraints was achieved. The …
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Age and Responses to the Events of September 11, 2001
Following the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, many turned to the field of psychology for greater understanding of the impact of such events and guidance in supporting our citizens. This study sought to gain greater understanding of the differential impact of the …
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