Al Capone

It’s hard to pinpoint the beginnings of ninjas, properly called shinobi, in Japan because countries all around the world have used assassins and spies. Many sources show that the skills that became the ninja's art of stealth, ninjutsu, started to emerge between 600-900 A.D. Ninjas themselves are believed to have started popping up in the 1200s-1500s. A Japanese folk tale says that the ninjas descended from a demon that was half crow, half man. However, it appears to be more likely that the ninja…

Gray, Geoffrey. Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper. New York: Crown, 2011. Print. Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper is a non-fiction book depicting the DB Cooper story and the possible suspects behind the crime. It describes the hijacking in great detail and talks about the author’s research, which reminds me of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. However, this book does not include DB Cooper’s impact on airport security. I borrowed this book from the St. Louis County Library and read it over…

questions and answers. It all went down on the morning of September 11, 2001, the extremist terrorist group, known as Al Qaeda, hijacked four American airlines and flew them into the Pentagon and World Trade Center towers. The fourth plane was downed by the heroic passengers into a field in Pennsylvania, and the plane was believed to be headed for either the White House or the Capitol Building. Al Qaeda was very resentful of the Western influence on their own culture and wanted to try to stop it…

War in Afghanistan cannot be blamed on one specific event but rather multiple. For the first decade of the 21st century, the United States has been sending thousands of troops into the middle east to fight against the Al-Qaeda who were seen as terrorists. The US knew that the al-Qaeda were allowed to hide in Afghanistan by the Taliban but the US did not act. They did not want to wage another war against a foreign country at the time, yet the War in Afghanistan lasted over 103 months making it…

Members in ISIS are known as jihadists. Jihad means “holy war” and is not a violent concept, but in this context, the word Jihad stands for people who are severely against nonbelievers. ISIS was founded in 1999 and is currently lead by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Very little is known about the ISIS leader except that he was born in Samarra, which is located in the north of Baghdad (Waugh). ISIS continues the want to expand their group to other locations. So far, they have branched out to areas…

regarding the issue of national security vs individual privacy exemplifies the continuing battle to find the appropriate balance between such as controversial topics. According to Paul Pillar, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, stated that Al-Qaeda’s attacks on the U.S. has created a lot of uncertainty for safeness and security and a spike in concern over terrorism that has yet to fully…

Isis is an authentic Muslim group because they follow and live by the strict words of the Qur’an. For example, if you steal something, your hand(s) will be cut off, or if you commit adultery they will throw pebbles at you until you die. The actions of the terrorist group are similar to the writings of the religion’s founder. “The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic. Yes. It has attracted psychopaths and adventure seekers, drawn largely from the disaffected populations of…

Chapter 4. Data presentation, discussion, analysis The results of this analysis have revealed three themes; how propaganda influenced peoples thinking, how framing was used by media organisations throughout the troubles, how newspapers where bias when reporting and also how paramilitary groups used the media as a self-serving tool. The author will back these themes up with quotes from the transcripts and newspaper articles. The authors aim in this research was to gather information from…

The Costs of Terrorist Attacks on 9/11 On September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda Islamic terrorists hijacked four airplanes and crashed two of them into the World Trade Center in New York City, the third into the Pentagon in Virginia, and the fourth into a field in Pennsylvania. President George W. Bush was reading to a group of kids in a middle school when he was told the news, and soon later stepped out. He responded by giving a speech to the nation and implementing the Government’s emergency response…

Moderate news outlets are more likely to not discuss scripture, and if they do, it is usually referring to how a certain terrorist interpreted the scripture for themselves. However, verses from the Bible or other holy books are not mentioned in the media as much as Islamic scripture when justifying terrorism. Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, an associate professor at the University of St. Thomas, found that violence is prevalent and justified many times throughout Abrahamic religious texts. He theorized…