Throughout history the Jewish people faced an overwhelming amount of adversity around the world. As conditions worsened over time many Jews faced significant persecution and instability within their natural boarders. In turn, much of the international Jewish community began to look for new, safe and prosperous countries to immigrate to. At the top the list was England. It presented one of the best choices for the resettlement of Jews from around the world as England had many attractive qualities…
Presented as “the story of history’s greatest manhunt for the world’s most dangerous man” (Mayer), Zero Dark Thirty is the dramatization of the search for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Centering on the work of Maya Lambert, a Central Intelligence Agency officer, the film has raised controversy due to its historical inaccuracy in depicting torture. The film justifies torture by portraying that enhanced interrogation techniques provided key…
How I would solve the ISIS problem As show in FRONTLINE: The Rise of Isis, ISIS was a terrorist group that was barely nothing that grew up to be a big problem. They need now get as big as they did until they went to Syria. In 2011, The American troops left the country of Iraq after an 8-year war. They thought it was a good idea and also thought the Iraq could stand on there two feet again. I think that bringing the American troops out of Iraq was a bad idea, if they would have stayed longer…
“Tick, tick, tick”. A bomb has been planted in a civilian building, and a mastermind terrorist has been captured. This, a very real scenario, is one that often threatens our government. So the main debate is what the government should do with the terrorist. Should our government use torture or enhanced interrogation as a way to save lives? The answer is yes, we should! Many view torture as an inhumane tactic and believe that torture should be eradicated from all governments. There are others,…
The world has become a place of utter chaos, a place where you constantly have to look over your shoulder, that is not any way someone should live.The world took a radical turn back in 1933, if the date sounds familiar, it should be. That is the date when the horrific events of the Holocaust began. Thinking back to all of the innocent people that lost their lives and didn’t have a clue what was happening should make a person feel the least bit angry, or wish that people had gotten more involved…
Osama bin Laden is one of then most well known names in the globe. The actions he took that led him to fame, was his success in creating one of the largest export groups of terrorism. Consequently, given him the title of: the hero of the Islamic empire. His desire to create a Muslim empire has influenced him to commit the most gruesome terrorist attacks of all time. On September 11, 2001 his attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center unleashed one of the longest terrorism associated war.…
Mahatma Gandhi and Osama Bin Laden; two names that can immediately make you feel at ease and then distressed by having them so close in proximity to each other. These names don’t seem to fit together and definitely don’t seem as though they should be together on the same page. Despite their obvious differences, though, they can be seen as alike in some ways. Granted, one was a man who stood up for peace while the other stood up for violence; but both of them were very successful in motivating…
The United States and the Soviet-Afghan War In December of 1970 the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan with a force of 30,000 troops in order to assist the communist government and setup a client state (“Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan”). This invasion marked the start of the Soviet-Afghan war, a long drawn out war due to the United States funding the Afghan freedom fighters who fought against the invading Soviet Union only to make the war longer and more expensive for them. The war would…
What do you hope to accomplish Malala? When Malala was asked about her goals, her response was; “I am hoping through the Malala Fund we will be doing more projects and reaching more suffering countries where children have no access to education. We want to do work on the ground and we want to spread the importance of education to people and children in the communities, to help them realize how important education is for their generation. Also, doing work on the ground, like building schools and…
The issue I will discuss is spies by Lewis H. Lapham. My whole life I’ve wondered if there are people who live in the shadows that gather information on our country’s enemies and even spy on the average citizen. I think every person should be concerned with being spied on it’s an invasion of privacy and breaks the rights we have as humans. It bothers me that there is a group of people that knows everything yet we only get told what they want us to know. The two main articles I will discuss are…