Al Capone

Father Douglas Bazi, the priest who was kidnapped and tortured by Al-Qaeda, said being a Christian in Iraq is “impossible.” The Baghdad-based priest spoke at a church in California and shared how Al-Qaeda militants captured him was he was on his way home from church in 2006. Within the nine days that he was held hostage by the terrorists, Father Douglas Bazi’s lost some of his teeth when his captors smashed them with a hammer, was shot in the leg, and sustained a broken nose and back, the…

Samuel had experienced many accidents, and seemed to ride his luck in circumstances where death seemed a certainty. However, almost prophetically his death was one he had so often lamented about to Harry Harper, a close journalist friend. A death like that of another aviation pioneer, his good friend Charles Rolls. Samuel would often comment - ‘In an aeroplane, clean and quick.’ The populace of all Aldershot military and civilian collectively mourned Samuels loss with a sense of personal sorrow…

If the building you were in started catching on fire, would you jump out of a window or would you burn to death? Some people would say jump, but what if the building was ten stories tall, would you still jump? You might think that this is the worst case scenario, but this actually happened in real life. In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory caught on fire killing and injuring many of the workers. Isaac Harris and Max Blanck were the owners of the factory. The Triangle Shirtwaist…

document examiners (James, Nordby, & Bell, 2014, p. 454). These examiners utilize and perform various types of examinations while analyzing questioned documents; i.e., comparison of handwriting and signatures, photocopy manipulation, etc. (James et al, 2014, p. 454).…

one Islamic state. Because he saw the Western world influencing the Middle East, the idea appealed to him. At this point, Osama bin Laden became significant. He built the terrorist group al-Qaida from the ground up. The terrorist group was dedicated to symbolic acts instead of a military campaign. In 1998, al-Qaida bombed United States embassies. Then, they bombed the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen, killing seventeen sailors. This all led up to the largest attack yet, the attacks on the Pentagon and the…

The articles, “Blacky Sunday” and “True Teen Story from History: The Dust Bowl” have many things in common and many differences. Some differences were, the places it took place in. Ike was driving up to Baca County, Colorado and Catherine was in Kansas at her grandma’s house. What was also different was their childhood. “His house was a dugout: a one room home built into a hill, with walls made of sod, or soil. He shared this room with his parents and eight siblings.” this was stated on page 7.…

My family research project will focus on the fourth wave of migration and the identity of American immigrants especially Muslim immigrants. There are several questions that I will focus on in my family research projects such as what economical or social condition motivated for people to migrate to the US after 1965 and how it is different from the previous waves of immigration, but the main question that I will focus on is how to recent Muslim immigrants identity themselves socially and…

Al-Qaeda and ISIS are two Islamist multi-national organizations which aims to spread all over the region in order to unify the Muslim world, they believe they represent religion, and use the later to justify their actions. These two Islamic groups have fought war against what they called the non-Islamic population and the west. As much as the two organizations have big similarities from how they both share the Wahhabi ideology, loathe the religious establishment of al-Azhar, involved in…

Let us build a wall! All Muslims are terrorist! Illegal immigrants are stealing our jobs! These are all statements that have been circulating around the media. Why such negativity towards Illegal immigrants? What does it really even mean to be an illegal immigrant? In the United States when speaking about Illegal immigration it is usual that the first groups to come up as a discussion are Mexicans. The truth is that Mexicans are not the only illegal immigrants; the United State is built with all…

In my opinion, segregation is still a significant point in the 21st century. Racial differences and ethnic misunderstandings are frequently complicated due to the long history of slavery and the endless waves of immigration across the country. People usually does not ultimately maintain objectivity when discussing isolation, because their opinion emerges without them even noticing it did. Foreign relations can have an enormous impact on the race relations based on previous problems and…