Al Capone

Before beginning this essay on Sociological Imagination, I wanted to state that the Pittsburgh Steelers are the best Football team in the world and Eminem is the best rapper to spit. Sociological Imagination is how one thing that is affecting one culture can also have an affect on my culture at the same time. The problem I think of that fits this is ISIS. ISIS is an extremely violent and ruthless terrorist group. They don't care how or what you do they are out to kill. This radical group is…

Life, Liberty and the Dispute of Happiness "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" (Lazarus, lines 10-14) This excerpt is from Emma Lazarus’ “The New Colossus” which is on a bronze plaque inside the Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island. The Statue of Liberty represents the welcoming of tens of thousands of immigrants from around…

After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, it is safe to say that individuals both in the United States and around the world were impacted by this horrible event. It shocked the nation in more ways than one and till this day we continue to see the influence it has on global media regarding international relations and politics. After 9/11, the “attacks” did not just stop in New York and Washington, they continued in our media. The news coverage changed dramatically by altering the public…

Under the direction of Osama Bin Laden, the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda hijacked airplanes and used them to carry out suicide terrorist attacks. They crashed the planes into different targets within the United States. Planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and killed thousands when the buildings collapsed. It is believed that al-Qaeda fulfilled these attacks as retribution for America’s military presence in the Middle East…

Abderrahmane Sissako directed the film Timbuktu, which is a city in, west African state of Mali. The movie is related to the bias infringement of the relentless Jihadist. The invaders use fear, violence, and terrorism to suppress the harmless people living there. The mortified citizens of Timbuktu must comply with the new Sharia law enforced on them or else they will face severe consciences. The city once was a magical community, with diverse traditions and enriched with history but now is being…

History Although no subdominant group living in the United States lives without experiencing one form of oppression or marginalization, the 9/11 attacks turned the Muslim American living situation from bad into worse (Jamal and Naber, 2008). The post-9/11 era in America was a frightening one, but increasingly terrifying for Muslim Americans seemingly being blamed for the actions of isolated terrorist organizations in foreign countries (Jamal and Naber, 2008). Even though it is often nonphysical,…

How does each affect the foreign policy of the United States and what possible repercussions exist with the use of either power model? I conceptualize shrewd force as including both delicate and hard power, whose extents will fluctuate by connection. I contend that the US official starts its counter-terrorism strategizing with an appraisal of the terrorist risk from a specific nation. The US official will utilize hard energy to battle a fleeting terrorist risk, delicate energy to battle a long…

The book, Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam, was written by John Louis. To first understand the book, the author behind it must be understood. He is an American professor of International Affairs and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He is also the director of the Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim–Christian Understanding at Georgetown. Esposito was born in Brooklyn, New York City in 19 May 1940. He was brought up as Roman Catholic in an Italian neighborhood, and…

The United States Invasion of Iraq In 2003 Iraq has been the focus of the international community and has been featured prominently in the media in recent times. America’s interest grew after WWII because of oil. The United States was Iraq’s biggest guest, through the oil-for-food program. Before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Iraq’s domestic oil was fully nationalized and closed to oil companies. Later that year, it was privatized and dominated by foreign firms. Oil was not the only…

strategy can actually create terrorists. This would be called a “light footprint strategy” and would involve special operations and covert intelligence. As we learned about in Iraq, when the United States sends in troop to Muslim countries, groups such as Al Qaeda benefited due to new radicalization. 4). I completely agree with Fareed's statements on our foreign policy. I believe that with all of the military invasions, the instability is even greater. We need to implement a more light…