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=**May 10, 2010 - Preliminary research**=

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 * __Final draft of research paper__**

__**My Research paper (Rough draft)**__ __**

Outline**__
 * 1) Introduction
 * 2) The event
 * 3) April 19, 1995 at 9:02 am, an explosion in the Alfred P. Murrah building injured over six hundred people and killed 168 people; nineteen of them were children ranging from one to seven years old.
 * 4) The car bomb, carrying around one thousand pounds of ammunium nitrate and fuel, left a crater that was eight feet deep and could felt for miles creating a nine story hole into the federal building and more damage to nearby buildings.
 * 5) Thesis:The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City gave a change to how the United States government deals with domestic terrorism, strengthened anti-terrorist programs, gave funding for new structure within new federal buildings and gave realization to millions of American that a terrorist can live right next door and an attack can happen at any moment.
 * 6) The event in more detail
 * 7) A brown Chevy pickup truck with tinted windows and a bug sheild in the front carried the bomb.
 * 8) On Friday, April 21st Timothy McVeigh was charged for the bombing; friend and accomplish Terry Nicolas was held as a material witness for the crime.
 * 9) The reason behind the bombing was for the attack to Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas, an event in which federal agents attacked and killed eighty five members two years prior.
 * 10) Political Effects
 * 11) President Clinton redeveloped an anti- terrorism legislation for domestic terrorism.
 * 12) Includes extending powers of the FBI to investigate and inflitrate threatening military groups in any circumstances wheter there is any edvidence of not of such threats to national security.
 * 13) Reconstruction to federal buildings for security was made, such as making paring spaces farther away from the buildings.
 * 14) The removal of day care centers within federal building was a change in order to secure the safety of children.
 * 15) Economic Effects
 * 16) Money was spent in order for federal building reconstruction.
 * 17) The amount was a total of six hundred million dollars.
 * 18) Compensation towards the city and its victims was given from the federal government
 * 19) That amount was forty million dollars.
 * 20) Recuilding the Alfred federal building was the total of three hundred thousand dollars.
 * 21) There was no effect towards the stock exchange and the global market.
 * 22) Social Effects
 * 23) Americans were shock of how an American commited the act of terrorism
 * 24) According to the article on the day of the incident 'Federal authorities ....believed [the suspects] to be of Middle Eastern origin. Both passengers have dark hair and beards.
 * 25) This states how Americans can easily believe that people of Middle Eastern decent,or those in connection with terrorist groups from the Middle East, only bomb and terrorize federal buildings, supporting a sterotype.
 * 26) When McVeigh was sentenced to a death sentence, on of the jurors quoted saying 'I mean this is an American killing an American. You don't think that about somebody in your country doing this.'
 * 27) Many were shock to hear that Timothy McVeigh commited this act.
 * 28) The many reasons were the fact that he was an awarded veteran who did service in the Gulf War and participated in the Michigan Militia.
 * 29) Many stated that McVeigh was the boy next door and no connection with an terrorist groups.
 * 30) Conclusion
 * 31) Thesis:The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City gave a change to how the United States government deals with domestic terrorism, strengthened anti-terrorist programs, gave funding for new structure within new federal buildings and gave realization to millions of American that a terrorist can live right next door and an attack can happen at any moment.

The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City gave a change to how the United States government deals with domestic terrorism, strengthened anti-terrorist programs, gave funding for new structure within new federal buildings and gave realization to millions of American that a terrorist can live right next door and an attack can happen at any moment.
 * Working thesis statement:**

The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City gave a change to how the United States government deals with domestic terrorism, founding of stronger of anit-terrorist programs, giving $600 million dollars on restructering of federal building-making sure that days cares are no longer in federal facilites- and gave realization to millions of Americans that a terrorist can live right next door to them and attacks can happen in any minute.


 * Working bibliography:**

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Linenthal, Edward T. //The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory.// New York: Oxford UP, 2001. Print.

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Wires., From Tribune. "BOMB ROCKS FEDERAL BUILDING IN OKLAHOMA." //Chicago// //Tribune// 19 Apr. 1995, EVENING UPDATE, NEWS: 1. //NewsBank.// Web. 7 May. 2010.