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Barack Obama is the forty-third president of the United States of America. He is the first African-American president. President Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. After high-school Obama attended Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years. Afterwards he transferred to Columbia University in New York City, graduating in 1983 with a political science degree. He worked his way through college with the help of scholarships and student loans, when Obama moved to Chicago he…

Steve Coll, former The Washington Post journalist and financial correspondent, received his first Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism on a series of reports criticizing the Securities and Exchange Commission. Since then he has become one of the most respected and highly awarded journalists in the United States, serving as a voting member for the Pulitzer Prize board. He received his second Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2005 for what many consider his magnum opus, Ghost Wars. In…

the largest impact because it includes military operations. In paragraph one, the author establishes a setting by providing significant terrorist groups, locations and time. When the author mentions the international terrorist organizations “such as Al-Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah”…

George W. Bush’s “9/11 Address to the Nation” was a speech, which was given after the catastrophic event that occurred on September 11, 2001. Two airplanes were hijacked and were crashed into the Twin Towers in New York City on this day, shocking the whole world. He addressed this speech to the people of America on the night of the disastrous event, highlighting how America’s freedom was attacked. Thousands of innocent people died while thousands of people were wounded. After the event,…

Management of al-Qaeda beneath the guiding jihadist footsteps of Osama bin Laden has go on to spurring a fear of mapped all around the globe with its very existence. The Islamic extremist organization recognized as al-Qaeda and its leader pull together great efforts in the execution attacks on the United States of America thwarted by only the demise of their head, and yet it gradually rose in power from similar-minded individuals participating with them over the passage of time. It has…

British Airways Flight 5390 Accident The aviation accident that will be discussed in this paper is the British Airways Flight 5390. The accident happened on June 10, 1990 during the plane’s flight from Birmingham airport to Malaga, Spain. The plane took off at 7:20 am local time at the Birmingham airport with 81 passengers, four cabin crews and two flight crews. The plane was captained by Tim Lancaster, an experienced pilot with 11,050 flight hours, and co-piloted by Alastair Achison, also an…

The Hurt Locker is a movie that follows an elite explosive ordinance disposal team (EOD) in Iraq. Sergeant James arrives as the new team leader of the EOD after Sergeant Thompson was killed on a mission by an IED. The other members of the team include Sergeant Sanborn and Specialist Eldridge. There are several traumatic events throughout their time in Iraq. To begin, Sergeant James becomes acquainted with an Iraqi child throughout the film. On one mission the team needed to search a building…

The Raid on Entebbe In his article, “We thought this would be the end of us': the raid on Entebbe, 40 years on”, Jonathan Freedland stated this quote from an unknown Israeli special forces operative “Lie down, don’t get up. The army is here, the army is here”, during an active hostage rescue mission. When Air France Flight 139 took off from Tel Aviv bound for Paris, no one on board could foresee the flight being hijacked. As the plane stopped in Athens for fuel, 4 terrorists boarded. Eventually…

John Gotti On December 16, 1985, as John Gotti looked on, Paul Castillano and Thomas Bilotti boss and underboss of the Gambino crime family in New York, were ambushed and shot dead by assassins under John Gotti’s command. Nearly all of the family’s capos (chiefs) knew Gotti had been the one behind the hit, and at a meeting of twenty capos on January 15, 1986, Gotti was formally acclaimed the new boss of the Gambino family. At the time of Gotti’s takeover, the Gambino family, with an annual…

Remember History Repeats: Whitewashing of American history. If students of the United States learned what actually happened in our history, we would be one of two things: terrified or open minded and know about whitewashing. Whitewashing is defined as the cover up of crimes, vice, or scandals to perfunctory investigation. The students deserve to know what really happened years ago. How come we don’t get to learn about the $5 Indians? How come history books don’t really say how bad slaves…