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The Potters Club: In the very beginning of the chapter, there is quite exciting conversation between Vikram and Additional Director General of Police regarding the two issues of terrorism and Naxalism. He calls the Naxals as the traitors who are responsible for the death of the common civilians in the country. This chapter preaches us what the situation of tribes in India is. Why the concept of ‘rich are getting richer and poor are getting poorer’ prevails and how corruption is connected to…

“Everyday Surveillance” William Staples’ “Everyday Surveillance” first appeared in his own book published in 2000, Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life. In this article, Staples aims to convince his teenage audience that the present world is exposed to constant surveillance, letting our privacy fade out completely. Personal anecdotes, contrast, and metaphors are techniques Staples skillfully uses to create a strong, convincing article. Through his strong use of…

The events of September 11 have impacted Americans in many similar ways throughout the nation. In Kearney’s writing, “Terror, Philosophy and the Sublime: Some Philosophical Reflections on 11 September”, he discusses the events that took place and he brings up a question, “how can we understand what happened on September 11?” His piece talks about the idea that the “terror” from 9/11 comes from inside and out, meaning that the thoughts AND actions of everyone involved impacted the outcome of the…

It is believed that the Royal family plotted to kill Princess Diana because she was allegedly pregnant and was planning to marry a Muslim man by the name of Dodi Al-Fayed, who was killed alongside Princess Diana in the car accident. Dodi’s father, Mohamed Al-Fayed, stated that in Paul Harper’s, DEATH OF A PRINCESS: What are the Princess Diana death conspiracy theories? Some people STILL believe the Paris car crash in 1997 wasn’t an accident, the Royal family…

in order to improve and enhance the vocal function of the speakers with normal voices, opera singers, teachers with voice disorders, and elderly men (Stemple et al., 2014). Method: The VFE begins with describing the problem to the patient or showing illustrations using the patient’s own stroboscopic evaluation images/videos (Stemple et al., 2014). This is used in order to demonstrate what the problem is and give feedback because not all patients are aware of their vocal disorder. Moreover, the…

Pan Am Flight 299, August 3rd 1970 (Suarez). A man approaches a flight attendant and states that he wants to go to Cuba, he then pulls out a gun and bottle that he says is filled with explosives, and threatens to set them off if he does not go to the cockpit. The Premier of Cuba, Fidel Castro, was waiting when the plane landed at Havana’s airport. The only people to exit the aircraft were Captain Augustus Watkins and the Hijacker. Castro tours the exterior of the plane for around 40 minutes,…

government. Such terrorists understand the potential and power that the United States government holds and made attempts to mend their ways. The most taboo theories was President George W. Bush and the United States’s government’s involvement with the Al Qaeda in 911 and how the United States government was responsible for the Oklahoma City bombings. Vidal was a savage with his writing and very critical, refusing to be silenced by shamefully committing the sin of publishing such offensive claims…

However, later in the novel when Oskar visits the Empire State Building he imagines how a terrorist would fly a plane into the building and how he would be able to see the pilot’s face, “who would be a terrorist” (244). There is no further description of the pilot, other than that he is a terrorist and that his eyes would tell Oskar that he hates him (244). Out of context, the terrorist could be of any descent because of the lack of description. In context with the aforementioned anxieties,…

Reflective Essay How Terrorism Effects Islam Reputation A lot of people think of Muslims as bad people, terrorists, and somehow, every time a terrorism happens the news most of the time without knowing what happens they Muslims did this, and when someone from other religions kills an innocent Muslim, somehow he is either a hero or just nobody cares about the poor guy that got murdered, they blow themselves to kill other Muslim people, and they call themselves Muslim's but what I'm going to…

Three hours in, three hours more. Inside this metal death trap called an airplane sits me and three hundred others. This flight to Ireland had me anxious from the minute I had been told we were taking this trip. I understood that the overall trip would be amazing, but my enthusiasm was masked by evident fear, the fear of flying. It was not necessarily the fear of flying in a plane, as I had done that twice already. Likely, it was the concern of flying over water that terrified me. My fear is…