9/11... by Emilie Michaux https://padlet.com/emiliemichaux1/n6ks1uexfa0kqjlw HOW WE REMEMBER... en-us 2021-09-23 06:56:23 UTC 2025-12-23 15:13:26 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/2b50.png emiliemichaux1 https://padlet.com/emiliemichaux1/n6ks1uexfa0kqjlw/wish/1762208956 This document is a photo. The photographer is Anthony Correira. It shows the importance of the damages of the attacks, material and moral damages. We can notice in the foreground a fireman who looks really sad and desperate. The Twin Towers are in the background and they have collapsed. A lot of smoke, and dust fly. When i saw this photo i was upset. When we saw this man we understand his life will never be like before. We see on his face he saw horror.]]> 2021-09-23 06:59:00 UTC https://padlet.com/emiliemichaux1/n6ks1uexfa0kqjlw/wish/1762208956 AndrĂ©a emiliemichaux1 https://padlet.com/emiliemichaux1/n6ks1uexfa0kqjlw/wish/1762216141 I decided to interview my history geography geopolitics teacher, Mrs. Vaufrey Andres, here is her account of the day of September 11, 2001: "I learned this tragic news in my car, I was going to the high school for two class meetings. I was shocked at first, but also frustrated that I could not watch television or listen to the radio because I had to go to school to work. I had to wait until the end of these two class meetings to finally get some more information. I also remember not being able to get the first news from the radio because I couldn't imagine what was going on. A fear then settled in, this fear that attacks would happen elsewhere, especially in France. This fear remained because some time later a factory in Toulouse exploded and my first thought was that the attacks had arrived in France. From September 11, 2001, I felt a sense of permanent danger. 

For my second interview I decided to call my uncle. I chose him because I find his story interesting, here is his testimony: "My memory of the September 11 attacks remains hazy because I had just returned from a long student party. I had slept very little, my hours of sleep were counted in small naps. I was in my student apartment, I didn't have a television, so I heard the news on the radio but I didn't understand it right away. The presenter started to talk about flash news, which intrigued me, but when I heard that a plane had crashed in New York, I didn't believe it, I thought I was still in a dream. I went back to sleep and later I went to a friend's house who had a television. It is while watching the news flash with the images that I understood that what I had heard on the radio was true. The gravity of this event was so important that I thought it was a dream, that it was impossible. Well, fatigue was also a cause, but it's true that it marked me enormously and shocked me." To finish his testimony, he brightened up this story by telling me how he ended up in that state that day and that of course "alcohol abuse is dangerous for your health!"

]]> 2021-09-23 07:02:33 UTC https://padlet.com/emiliemichaux1/n6ks1uexfa0kqjlw/wish/1762216141 emiliemichaux1 https://padlet.com/emiliemichaux1/n6ks1uexfa0kqjlw/wish/1762223179 The document I chose today is a photo from the archives of Magnum Photo, a photographic press agency in New York. It was taken by the photographer Thomas Hoepker. We can see that this picture is taken in New York, more precisely in front of Hudson River shows us young people discussing with as a background the twin towers affected by the attacks of September 11, 2001. To analyze a little more this picture, we can say that it is divided in 3 shots: the first shot with 5 young people, carefree, with a bike sitting together talking; the middle shot where we can see the river crossing New York: Hudson River; and in the background the landscape of New York with its buildings where we guess the twin towers behind the thick smoke in the sky. I think that the attention of the viewers goes first to the smoke that covers a part of the photo and then on the young people discussing because thanks to the smoke and the date, September 11, 2001, we understand that it is a photo taken during the attacks but by looking at the people we notice no emotions on their face, they seem completely carefree. It's a very frustrating paradox when we analyze this picture. We can see moreover a very calm river accentuating this paradox between the calm in the first and second plan in front of the chaos on the other side of the bank in the last plan. It is thanks to a vertical plane that we can analyze these situations divided on 3 lines. It also shows us that at the time of the attack many New Yorkers did not realize the impact it would have on their lives and on their country in the coming years. The photo shows that even during or shortly after the attack, many people remained unconcerned, thinking that it was an accident, for example. So we have an example of the "world before the attack" during the attack which can lead us to think that information 20 years ago took time to reach us. This again creates a contrast because the group of young people shows us that we are still in a "world before the attack" while the smoke heading to the left means the aftermath, the progress. This smoke going to the left corner of the fault seems to warn the group of young people that this event will make the United States move forward (we know that it is by its gravity that the attacks are still in our minds today). This smoke that covers a large part of the photo would therefore be progress, advanced by its direction but also by the fact that we can see a metaphor with the expression rising from its ashes like a phoenix, which is a form of hope. The photo then taken live from the attack is almost futuristic because it shows us that the United States must keep hope, which will be the case because a solidarity will be created after this drama. I chose it because I liked to see all his contrasts just by looking at it. The colors are very beautiful and I appreciate the angle taken by the photographer on the whole of New York

]]> 2021-09-23 07:06:03 UTC https://padlet.com/emiliemichaux1/n6ks1uexfa0kqjlw/wish/1762223179 emiliemichaux1 https://padlet.com/emiliemichaux1/n6ks1uexfa0kqjlw/wish/1762233837 This document is a photograph of the Tribute In Light, the Twin Towers memorial taken by Roberto Schmidt on September 11, 2021. It shows the Manhattan district crossed by two beams of blue light and the buildings illuminated at night. This photo is divided into three planes, in the foreground, at the bottom there is the Statue of Liberty. In the second shot, we see buildings including the Empire State Building and the Tributes in Light. In the last shot, there is the dark blue sky because it is dark. First, our attention is drawn to the beams of light, then to the Empire State Building and finally we notice the Statue of Liberty. We can easily imagine that the photographer chose to include all his New York monuments to show that even if the attacks of September 11, 2001 were horrible, they are now part of history, of the past, and that we must now use as historical monuments like the Statue of Liberty. I think this photograph is really moving and important for all new generations because it shows that it is crucial to remember what happened on that tragic day and how the world has recovered. This photograph is, I find, also very beautiful in its shades of blue and the white lights of the buildings which draw the skyline of New York.

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