Al Sharpton

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…

“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it” - Douglas MacArthur. You must be able to risk things in order to have a gain. He was born on January 17, 1921 and passed away on March 6, 2007 at the age of 86. Louis Ted Seith was the commander of the 483rd Bomb Group which destroyed the only flying prototype of the Nazi Long Range Bomber and lots of fighter jets while more than 200 enemy fighters opened fire on the bomb squadron without an escort from ally fighter jets. He may have…

these values. The Bass’s Model of Transformational Leadership is one of the best ways to describe the style of the leadership within this organization. The Boss used charisma, power and inspiration to inspire his organization to follow his leadership. Al Capone was arguably one of the most famous American gangsters. During the prohibition era Capone led his organization to profit millions of dollars all…

Humans were created to do good and given the ability to reason right from wrong. The gift of our conscience is a beautiful thing. It is unfortunate that in our world many humans fail to love and fall victim to the many evils of this life. I believe that humans are bad because they are motivated by power and thus they become blood thirsty to acquire and retain it. William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies shows that humans are malicious through the murder of Simon (pg. 202). Simon was the…

good motives behind the government’s intentions to evoke the prohibition of alcohol, crime and corruption increased. A lot of organized crime blossomed during this time period due to prohibition. Money was placed into the pockets of Gangster’s such as Al Capone. Many police and public officials also were put into these crime…

Conspiracy theories have become almost a big trend in American culture. Many of these conspiracy theories relate back to the American government, and usually not in a good way. One of the most well known conspiracies is the Malcolm X assassination. Malcolm X was a prominent civil rights figure during the 1950s and 1960s. He fought for equality amongst White Americans and African Americans, which was seen as a threat by many White Americans. Although many believe Malcolm X was killed by his own…

In the article, “An Afghan American Speaks” by Tamim Ansary, he talks about how it was for him after 9/11 happened. How Americans were raged by the fact of how could someone want to kill so many people. Many Americans wanted to take all of their anger out by, “bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age” as Ansary says in his article. Ansary uses Pathos a lot throughout his article. Some ways that he uses Pathos in his article is at the beginning when Ansary states how he heard on the radio that…

The Roaring Twenties in the Great Gatsby By: Isaiah Aguilera The 1920s was a decade of exciting social changes and profound cultural conflicts. For many Americans, the growth of cities, the rise of a consumer culture, the upsurge of mass entertainment, and the so-called "revolution in morals and manners" represented liberation from the restrictions of the United States’s Victorian past. Sexual mores, gender roles, hairstyles, and dressing all changed profoundly during the 1920s. But for many…