Global Terrorism Essay

After experiencing various terrorist attacks and discrimination the American people have begun to close their doors as intolerance continues to grow within the American community. "We are operating in an atmosphere of hysteria and fear," said Ibrahim Hooper, national communications director for the Council on American Islamic Relations. "I have never seen it like this,"(Gregory Krieg, CNN). America is a well known country partly because of its diversity in cultures, races, and the ability of all…

Foreign policy today is a conglomeration of a few different areas: security, humanitarian aid, diplomacy, and economics. Security policy entails military operations, and has historically been concerned with dangers posed by countries themselves; as years have passed and technology has advanced, security threats, such as intelligence hacks, have become big concerns. With the rise of groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS, the government finds itself facing “nonstate actors” who pose unique threats, and…

According to a Rappler article by Michael Bueza, there were 5,927 people killed (2,086 in police operations, 3,841 extrajudicial or by vigilantes), 33,830 arrested, and 764,742 "surrendered" (As of 12/12/2016). The citizens live in fear, not because of criminals but from the government. In the Financial Times article, by Bryan Harris and Grace Ramos, there are three ways the death toll has risen up as fast as it has. The first is by the government through the Philippine army and national police…

Mass surveillance will not work because various kinds of warrantless surveillance the government uses undermine privacy, causing a tension between the target groups and the government. As a necessary part of human rights, privacy allows individuals to live free and gives them a powerful feeling, which is essential to security and satisfaction. With privacy, people have their right to prevent their lives from being intruded by others. However, as the frequency of threats to U.S. national security…

Frustration-Aggression hypothesis people turn to terrorism as a result of their frustrations with their political, social and economical situations. However, many psychologists regard this hypothesis as simplistic on grounds that aggression is not always a consequence of…

After reviewing the information Snowden released, I agree with his actions bringing the American government to level with its people. In my eyes he is a modern patriot who used the checks and balances system to ensure the government stays truthful to its people. When he broke the law he exposed the government of breaking laws. If Snowden was held accountable for his illegal act, then the government should be as well. I believe he shed light on just the start of many things to come out that the…

Peaceful, and I stress peaceful, resistance to an unjust law is a net positive towards society. I say this because of the lack of viable alternative options in the face of injustice. These other options are sorely limited, coming down to small variations on the following: Violent resistance (which lends itself to extremism and the replacement of one corrupt system with another corrupt system) and outright non-resistance (which lends itself to collaboration and in turn a total lack of any change)…

Dr. Noelle Trent came to Ouachita Baptist University and gave a lecture called, “Interpreting Difficult History: Public History in the 21st Century”. Dr. Trent works at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee and has various job duties. From being in charge of the museums’ s educational programs to acquiring artifact donations, Dr. Trent is passionate about making people’s voices heard. To begin the lecture, she defined difficult history and public history. Public history,…

The ability to predict precisely when and where the next natural disaster, industrial accident, or terrorist attack will strike is limited. And, given the circumstances and difficulty of predicting which adversary will strike and how it will strike, DHS did the best they could. When it came to natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. A main circumstances of DHS leadership failing was the inability to understand Katrina as an incident of national significance on par with September 11 2001…

Chemical Attacks are among some of the most serious, and in my opinion, savage attacks that humans can inflict on each other. To use a weapon that kills people slowly or only makes people ill seems inhumane. This is likely why the use and manufacture of chemical weapons has halted. The international community as an inhumane way to wage war looks at the use of chemical weapons. I realize that there is likely no “humane” way to wage war, but the use of chemical weapons kills so many…