Exam Question 1

1. The sudden dip in the Overseas Arrival Graph was 2001. This sudden dip was due to the attacks towards the United States on September 11. This is when people from Al Queda attacked the Twin Towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington DC, and they flew a plane down into an open field in Pennsylvania. The United States government closed down all air travel on that day and continued to close down over seas travel for a while longer after that, keeping any immigrants from coming into the United States, and anyone from leaving. Statistics like this can help educate me and others in how terrible and significant these attacks really were. Graphs like these for any historical event shows you how significant the event actually was. An example of this is when we looked at the graphs of AIDS and country's economy the other day. You can see how bad or good the events or topics were to the specific country.