Al Pacino

The two story lines between the movie “13 Hours: Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” and the novel “Lord of the Flies” both share similar plot characteristics such as survival and bravery. The main characters are put into unpredictable situations throughout the story and are forced to overcome the conflicts given the circumstance and fix the situation by working with each other and figuring out ways of surviving. In the events of the movie “13 Hours: Secret Soldiers of Benghazi”, 6 ex-military…

Attacked on the United states aviation as always been a target for terrorist to carry out their violence disasters exploit against the United States calling fear and economy breakdown. And of such attacked was the Richard Reid failed shoe plot. Richard Reid board flight 63 an American Airlines flight carrying 197 people from Paris, France to Miami, United states on December 22, 2001 with sophisticated bombs made of plastic explosive, detonating cord, a homemade detonator and a safety fuse with…

“Guilty”. Guilty: it was that one, six letter word that would forever shake and destroy Adnan Syed’s entire world. In an instance, he would go from a high school honours student with a propitious track career to just another name on the long list of the nearly ten thousand Americans who are wrongly convicted each year. Adnan is innocent, and Serial, a popular podcast series narrated by Sarah Koenig, puts light on Adnan’s tragic story of how such a promising young man can be stripped of his…

Political extremes have always been a part of the American system, but when these outliers are allowed to take center stage it can cause a multitude of problems. These extremists pray upon Americans fears often prompting mass hysteria. In his book, American Hysteria, Andrew Burt explains why these hysterias occur and uses five historical examples. His thesis is that political extremism is used as a coping mechanism for Americans who have lost social status and their sense of national identity…

In 2008, a woman from Anderson, Indiana set fire to her ex’s clothes and burned his storage unit. There was “more than $100,000 in damage” (NBC). The woman’s ex most likely did not do anything to deserve this and she was simply just overreacting. Naturally, society expects the girl to get over her ex and move onto another guy; in extreme circumstances, the woman will not move on, but instead kill herself. Welcome to The Aeneid: Book four. Written by Virgil in 19 BC, the twisted love story of…

(MIP-2) Najmah's voice is of a girl who has had her life ruined by the Taliban, a real, radical Islamic terrorist group, and we can hear her voice through her struggles and encounters with this terrorist group. (SIP-A) Her voice can be heard through her exposure to the Taliban, a fundamentalist Islam terrorist group. (STEWE-1) Najmah’s first encounter with the Taliban is when they take her father and brother away. The talibs were accusing Baba-jan of helping their enemies. They took all the…

During the Revolutionary War, gaining the upper hand was imperative to defeat the British. George Washington wanted to know every detail on what was occurring, in all 13 colonies, especially involving anything that dealt with the British. Washington understood the importance of espionage and therefore creating a spy group called “The Culper Ring”. Washington made Benjamin Tallmadge as the as director of military intelligence. Tallmadge charged a spy ring in New York City, the site of British…

Is there really a phenomenon about the fear of Islam called Islamophobia? Or is it just an illusion? Islamophobia is the fear of Islam and is an act of prejudice against Muslims. It’s been spreading in the past decades widely in the western countries due to the increased number of Muslims. According to Oxford English Dictionary, the first time the term was used was in 1923 in an article in The Journal of Theological Studies (Simpson, 1989). The causes of Islamophobia impact people who don’t…

Al-Shabab’s ideology is typically described as a brand of Salafism and Wahhabism that supports takfir, the excommunication of apostates or unbelievers. Though it has stated many goals in the past, the group fights first and foremost to create a fundamentalist Islamic state in the Horn of Africa that would include not only Somalia but also Djibouti, Kenya, and Ethiopia. Islamism and Salafism served to express commonalities and build alliances against shared enemies who happened to be world…

Technology is everywhere- a world without the internet, smartphones, computers and many more technologies that make our life easier seem to be impossible. It has and will always change our life- warfare is not an exception. One of the most important changes in warfare within the last decades is the development of unmanned aerial vehicles-better known as drones. As the name already explains itself, drones are aerial vehicles, air crafts, without human pilots in them. They come in different…