Al-Qaeda in Iraq

1980’s Fashion The Titanic was discovered at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on July 14, 1986. Music was big in the 80’s and the hairstyles were crazy. Many new things were invented such as artificial hearts and cable television. However, fashion was all the rage and the events of the 1980s greatly influenced the fashion. The world wide web was created in 1989. It allowed people to search up anything from a computer. The first artificial heart, made to last a lifetime, was made in 1988. It…

Obama's speech overall focus on the Islam and how in america we are taking our anger on the Muslims who fight for our country because of the hate we have on the Islam. During the speech president Borock Obama was using language in his speech so that it does not just relate to just Islam's but to many cultures in the world.He was stating that we as a county should not fight against one another,that we should stick together in this time of crises.Also their something that stuck with me through…

A telecommuting job could be the answer for some people who prefer to be at home. After 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon I felt so out done by the great loss of lives in that attack. The attack on Americans who went to work and lost their lives is crazy. These land mark places housed the most educated, wisest, well trained and knowledgeable, historians people. The losses for 9/11 are as following: “$7 billion: Amount paid out through the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund to…

At boot camp we had one week called Hell Week, where there’s 3 tiers of challenges. In Hell Week we slept for 2 hours in one week. I was pushed harder than any other camp or challenge I’ve ever done. To get breakfast we had to run 1 mile with a 180-pound boat on our heads. We had to swim in water less than 40 degrees Fahrenheit when we have been awake for 72 hours. The scariest mission for me was obviously the Operation Red Wing mission. We were assigned to capture and/or kill Ahmad Shah, and…

September 11, 2001: 19 militants associated with Al-Qaeda, an Islamic extremist group, hijacked four commercial airliners headed for Los Angeles and San Francisco. The hijackers took over the planes, crashing two into the World Trade Center in NYC, one into the Pentagon in Virginia, and another one into an empty field in Pennsylvania. None these planes were found with survivors; around 2,996 deaths altogether. Think that’s the worst of it? What about the 4 million muslims who unwillingly died in…

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.…