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* N H C E Background Information September 11th disaster: (A) It is the result of a series of coordinated suicide attacks by terrorists upon the United States. On the morning of September 11th, 2001, terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the World Trade Center in New York City, resulting N H C E Background Information September 11th disaster: (B) in the collapse of both buildings soon afterward and extensive damage to nearby buildings. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania after passengers and members of the flight crew on the N H C E Background Information September 11th disaster: (C) fourth aircraft attempted to retake control of their plane. Excluding the 19 hijackers, 2,974 people died as an immediate result of the attacks with another 24 missing and presumed dead. The overwhelming majority of casualties were civilians, including citizens from over 90 different countries. N H C E Watch Discuss Directions: Watch the video and then discuss the topics as follows: 2. How to integrate such unlimited love into our daily life? 1. Why is calamity liable to give birth to love without limitations? Key Key Back N H C E Watch Discuss 1. Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, once remarked, “Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.” So it is, because, in time of peace, most of us are too preoccupied with aspirations for fame and wealth to examine ourselves. As a gradual result, Americans born in the 1970s are often referred to as megeneration, or soulless slaves to consumerism who care little about bigger issues of politics, social justice or poverty. For more Bertran Rusell, a famous British philosopher, once concluded from his many years of obervation in China that the Chinese nation was wanting in passion for humanity. For the sense of