September 11 attacks

The Attacks

The 2001 September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the terrorist group al-Qaeda on the USA.
Four passenger airliners were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists to be flown into buildings in suicide attacks. Two of the planes, American Airlines and United Airlines, were crashed into the North and South towers of the World Trade Center. Within two hours, both towers collapsed with debris and the resulting fires causing partial or complete collapse of all other buildings in the WTC.

Osama bin Laden's Purposes

The motivation of Osama, was that with the invasion of the US army on their lands, and the killing of innocent people, the US was starting a holy war against the orient cultures. In bin Laden's  "Letter to America", he explicitly stated that al-Qaeda's motives for their attacks were:

*U.S. support of Israel

*Support for the "attacks against Muslims" in Somalia

*Support of Russian "atrocities against Muslims" in Chechnya

*Support of Indian "oppression against Muslims" in Kashmir

*The presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia

*The sanctions against Iraq

The Flights

The four planes that crashed onto the towers were:
*The American Airlines Flight 11: a Boeing 767 that departed from Boston's Airport at 7:59 a.m. en route to Los Angeles. The hijackers flew the plane into the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m.
*The United Airlines Flight 175: a Boeing 767 that departed from Boston's Airport at 8:14 a.m. en route to Los Angeles. The hijackers flew the plane into the South Tower of the World Trade Center at 9:03 a.m.
*The American Airlines Flight 77: a Boeing 757 that departed from Washington Airport in Virginia at 8:20 a.m. en route to Los Angeles. The hijackers flew the plane into the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m.
*The United Airlines Flight 93: a Boeing 757 that departed from Newark Airport at 8:42 a.m. en route to San Francisco. As passengers attempted to subdue the hijackers, the aircraft crashed into the ground near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at 10:03 a.m.

Movies and "Pop-culture" about it:

*Alan Jackson - Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPHnadJ-0hE

*Barber - Adagio for strings - 9/11 Tribute
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sftaC0yC714

*Fahrenheit 9/11

*The Siege

Conspiracies:

Some of the conspiracies turns on the point that jet fuel, cant melt steel beams. That the WTC 7 builiding fall apart without any plane crashing onto it. And the form of the dismantlement of the WTC turned into a mystery, because making the "maths" of energy and using the constants the buildings will not fall apart without another impulse, coming from the inside.

   

The celebration of Jews of Auschwitz:

Just to start let me explain what was "Auschwitz". In Nazism time, the German had built a lot of center of torture. Auschwitz was a complex composed by tree centers. The first one was opened in 1942, this complex was especialzed in hand of slave labor specially of the Jews.

In 2015 a lot of relatives of Jews who were murdered or torturated in one of this complexes came to streets of Poland to celebrate 70 years of freedom.

This manifest was completelly peaceful, just to be happy because that time was gone. If you want to know how this can help you in university texts I have the answer! Every year this kind of text has at least one question about nazism, so this time can be different than the others, just like in a positive side of this story... If you want to know more about it here comes some tips for you:

#1 you can watch "Auschwitz" but this is a documentary... So if this is not a kind of video that you like to watch you have another option
#2 "Schindler's List" is a movie about it

And here you can look at some review about those movies:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108052/?ref_=nv_sr_1

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1722426/?ref_=nv_sr_1

João Francisco, Natália Haack e Nathália Barroso 3E

Second World war

 

Second World War

The second world war happened between 1939 and 1945. It involved almost every country in Europe and the world was divided in two groups: the Allies - Germany, Italy and Japan - and the Aix - France, England, Russia and later the U.S.
The war began because of the consequences of the Treaty of Versailles to Germany, which brought a revenge desire to the german people. Germany was being ruled by Hitler and his nationalist ideals and started to arm the country, making it increasingly stronger. 

The german army started to attack other countries, what they couldn't do, according to the treaty, but England and France pretended they didn't see it, because they wanted him to attack the URSS, which he didn't do at first, turning against France, England and many other european countries. His army was so strong that he got to conquer most of the Europe, but when he attacked the soviets, they fought back and started to take from him, with the "help" of England and France and United States, all the territory he had conquered, beginning Germany's decay.

  Germany lost everything, even its own land, and Hitler killed himself, only then, ending the Second World War.

         Here are some movies that show the scenario and the life of the people in this big happening of 

the world's history:

       

The boy in the striped pyjama- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W0dHsNQvRE

         Inglourious bastards- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnrRy6kSFF0

Amanda Ritter, Laura Gratsch e Marianna Thums 

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All about the Vulcans 

A long time before the beginning of the human specie, already existed a lot of Vulcans spread all over the world.

It is estimated that there are around 10000 Vulcans that ate considered actives in the last 2 million years. Actually, around 500 Vulcans can be considered actives and 20 of than are considered very active.

Brazil has an inedited title in this area. It's the country with the oldest Vulcan formed by the system of volcanic boilers and it's located in Amazonia. It has 1,9 billion years! 

On planet Earth, we have several different volcanoes, including active and inactive. The five countries with the most active volcanoes are Chile, which is about ninety-five, to Indonesia, with one hundred and twenty, the United States, with over one hundred and thirty, Japan with sixty-six and Russia with twenty-nine volcanoes. They are monitored by the government in case someday erupt, as it did on Wednesday in Chile.

     After half asleep century, the Calbuco volcano, located in southern Chile, erupted unexpectedly and leaving the country on red alert. More than 4000 people have been evacuated from areas near the volcano, local schools were suspended and flights were canceled. We all expect anything worse happens there.

Nowadays, volcanoes are really rare in most parts of our planet, but it wasnt like this less than a century ago, there were volcanoes all around the world and all ative. As it is a dangerous phenomenon, it is only studied by professionals, who make documentaries and give us information for works, films and even precaution. Here it goes a list of top movies and videos about volcanoes:

Documentary about hawaiin volcano: 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dPVwAqz5maU

http://m.zerohora.com.br/292/planeta-ciencia/4746849/veja-os-cinco-paises-com-mais-vulcoes-ativos

Noticias.terra.com.br/ciencia/vulcao/

Calbuco Vulcan 

http://youtu.be/B5hIRz8Co9Q

Movie "Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York"

Movie "Pompeii"

World War ll (1939-1945)

The second world war was the biggest war in history. In Germany came the Nazis, led by Hitler, who wanted to expand the German territory, in breach of the Treaty of Versailles, including regaining lost territories in the First World War. In Italy it was growing the Fascist Party, led by Benito Mussolini, who became the Anyway of Italy, with powers without limits. Japan also had strong desires to expand their domains to neighboring territories and islands of the region.After the attack of Germany to Poland, England and France declare war on Germany, thus forming two sides. The Axis (Germany, Italy and Japan) and the Allies (England, France, the USA and the USSR).During the period from 1939 to 1942 the Axis dominated and won the war, but after the attack of Germany to Russia and the attack from Japan to the USA(Pearl Harbor), the Allies began to dominate, and in 1945 won the war after the surrender of Germany and Italy. The Japan, last parents to surrender, still was attacked by USA, who played an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing millions of innocent Japanese.

Movies and books that mention World War II:

• Pearl Harbor:

Pearl Harbor is an American 2001 film in tribute to those who died in the Japanese attack on military base at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. An act that shocked the world and affected thousands of people, definitely putting the United States in World War II World .

• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas:

The film is the distinct vision of both worlds to the innocent eyes of two children one being the race " Aryan" and the other is of Jewish descent , during the Second World War .Bruno ( Asa Butterfield ) is eight years old and is the youngest son of an SS officer , when his father is transferred from Berlin to a concentration camp , live isolated in the garden of their new home. Exploring the new environment, Bruno knows the boy Shmuel ( Jack Scanlon ) without knowing that he is stuck in the field that is commanded by his father . This meeting is born a simple friendship. This friendship is put to the test when Bruno learns that Shmuel is a Jew , as these , in Nazi Germany , are considered enemies of the people ariano.

• The D- Day Battle The Crowning:

The book The Climactic Battle THE Day D of World War II , Stephen Ambrose , was based on oral and written reports from true events , witnessed by men who participated in the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944 .


Names: Sophia, Jéssica  and Gabriela