... Writing Volume 8 Student Voices A Commonwealth College Publication Editor in Chief Jim Manis Editors Suzanne Harper and Liz Wright Associate Editor D... ...ssociate Editor David Russell Best of Freshman Writing is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. The Pennsylvania State University is an ... ...shman Writing Best of Freshman Writing: Student Voices is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. All the student essays contained herein ... ...l the student essays contained herein were produced by students registered in English 004, 015 and 030, within the Commonwealth College of the Pennsyl... ...ove this song,” the driver exclaimed as he turned the volume up loud. The radio screamed in the car as the car screamed down the road. “Hey, Josh, I’... ... Captain William E. Miller. When I re- turned home, I looked him up on the Internet and saw he had won the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously f... ...POWER PLANT NEXT DOOR THERE ARE MANY different nuclear power plants in the United States. Out of all of the power plants in the United States, some of... ...occurred at Indian Point in the beginning of 2000 caused 20,000 gallons of radioactive water to spill into the containment building and also released ... ...P .O.W . situation. As I was writing this paper, I searched throughout the Internet for sites about the seven P .O.W .s. Disappointingly , I only came...

...Excerpt: Welcome to the eighth volume of Best of ?. For the past several years we have been publishing student writing with the intention of both celebrating the work that our students do and of sharing it with others for a variety of instructio...

....... 8 Tammy Lenig English 4 ? Hazleton campus ?Neighborhood? .......................................... 9 Josh Gilligan English 15 ? Du Bois campus ?In the Beginning There Was Rap? ............. 11 Laura Hope Stawski English 15 ? Hazleton campus ?Hopeless Hope? ........................... 13 Samuel G. Lepadatu English 15 ? Hazleton campus ?A Good Samaritan? .................

... Staff List xiii–xiv Preface xv 1. “WE HAVE SOME PLANES” 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National C... ...Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 ... ...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ... Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...79 The World Trade Center Complex as of 9/11 p. 284 The World Trade Center radio repeater system p. 288 The World Trade Center North T ower stairwell ... ...Ong did not.The hijackers probably did not know how to operate the cockpit radio communication system correctly, and thus inadvertently broad- cast th... ...newsroom. During the 1990s, the rise of round-the-clock news shows and the Internet reinforced pressure on analysts to pass along fresh reports to pol... ...- ifornia; brochures for schools; and airline timetables, and he conducted Internet searches on U.S. flight schools. He also purchased flight simulato...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans an...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of B...