MOST POWERFUL PHOTOS OF

2011Number 1-18 and jot down:

A)A short caption for each photo

(what you think is going on)

B) Your emotional response

Robert Peraza, who lost his son in 9/11, pauses at his name at the North Pool of the 9/11 Memorial.

A whirlpool forms off the Japanese coast after the tsunami on March 11.

A girl in isolation for radiation screening looks at her dog through a window in Japan on March 14.

Members of the national security team receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation

Room of the White House on May 1.

Firefighters of Ladder Company 4 — which lost 7 men on 9/11 — perched together, watching a news bulletin in Times

Square declaring that Osama bin Laden was dead on May 2.

A volcano erupts in Chile, causing air traffic cancellations across South America, New Zealand, Australia and forcing

over 3,000 people to evacuate.

A woman jumps from a burning building during the London riots in August.

A student is punched in the face by a police officer in Chile. Students are demanding a new framework for education.

Office workers look for a way out of a high rise building in New Zealand on February 22. A strong earthquake killed at least 180 people.

Mihag Gedi Farah, a 7- month old, is held by his mother in a hospital in Kenya. The baby has since made a full recovery.

Facebook played an extremely important role in the uprisings throughout the Middle East.

Cars are abandoned on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive during the "Snowpocalypse" in February.

A monstrous dust storm roared through Arizona in July.

Before/ after shot of Missouri after a massive tornado in May

A protester gets sprayed in the face with pepper spray at an Occupy Portland protest.

A U.S. Army soldier takes five with an Afghan boy during a patrol in Afghanistan

Two lights from the former site of the World Trade Centers shine for the 10th anniversary of 9/11.