Algeria

increasing application among extremist groups. During the last three decades this phenomenon has emerged in many countries around the world, including Lebanon, Israel, Sri Lanka, Iraq, United States, Spain, United Kingdom, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Algeria, Morocco, Turkey, Chechnya, Uzbekistan, etc. Some of the many questions asked about these terrorist attacks are; “Why do they do it? What motivates them? What do they gain out of it? Why are the terrorists becoming younger and younger…

they beat us 2 to 1. I got to exude my creative passion once we arrived at the local church. The elderly Peruvians of the town are encouraged to go to Church every day because they can socialize with other elderly people and the students of Fe Y Algeria. Every Tuesday, the student volunteers conduct a mini dance class to get the elderly people active. I grew a love for dancing since I was young, therefore, this was my time to shine. I quickly and skillfully learned the traditional Peruvian steps…

The beautiful, yet terrifying sight of The Twin Towers falling was a moment in history that will live for centuries to come. Americas had many wars and fights with countries many for freedom or didn’t like that Americans had freedom. Osama bin Laden was a terrorist leader, he has caused many attacks towards civilians. Once Americans had cornered Osama and executed him everything felt so better like weight lifted off our shoulders. In 1999 people from a group “Tawhid Wal-Jiha”, then later on…

How could you expect anything to happen in a city that is considered lifeless? In Algeria, there is a city called Oran that is soulless due to the ordinariness of the people and their lifestyle. The city, itself, lacks in anything interesting or pleasing to the eye. In the story, the town is even described as ugly. Everything soon changes when the city gets struck with the plague. In the beginning in Part One, it begins to depict how the rats started to captivate the lives of the people living…

Within Jones’s article “Modern Magic and the War on Miracles”, he discusses the reasoning behind Robert Houdin’s trip to Algeria in 1856. His trip focused on turning the general population of Algerians away from religious leaders such as the Marabouts and ‘Isawiyya, by showing Algerian’s Arab chiefs how their magic is not actually from a divine source, instead it is a simple magic trick. Once arriving, he performed his most notable tricks, dazzling the audience to the point that they presented…

Camille Saint-Saens was one of the most conservative yet still famous composers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Born in Paris on October 9, 1835, Saint-Saens displayed the skills of a child prodigy at an early age.He began piano lessons with his aunt at the age of two, and started to write compositions a year later when he was three. At age 13, Saint-Saens was admitted into the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied organ and composition. He was able to memorize all of Beethoven's…

women but also garners lots of publicity. Such a controversial maneuver could be seen as a way to draw attention to their campaign and increase funding. Media coverage is important to an organization like this because they need the funds to help women. While a drone may have been an overly dramatic way to deliver the pills, the ultimate goal of Women on Web is to assist women with a medically induced miscarriage, draw support, and educate the globe on the dangers of unsafe, illegal abortions.…

During the time period of 1700-1900 there were many changes and continuities in long distance migrations in both Europe as well as in the Americas. The continuity during this time period in long distance migrations was that there was a constant flow of foreign migrator’s that were coming into the United States looking for economic gain. However the change in long distance migrations in both Europe and the Americas was that at first there was a diaspora of Africans coming into the United States…

After World War Two many colonized countries formed nationalist movements that advocated for decolonization, which called for the withdraw of colonial powers from their country and the formation of their own self-determination. Nationalist movements utilized non-violent tactics to spur decolonization such as boycotting the colonialist’s products or refusing to work for the colonialists, but when these peaceful protests were ineffective, nationalists turned to violence in order to decolonize.…

Response to The Battle of Algiers Can violence ever be justified? This is always a thorny question. During the peaceful era, the answer seem to be rather straightforward— in order to achieve social harmony, no violence should be justified. However, when situation complicates, it seem to be hard to give such a simple reply. After reading Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and watching the Battle of Algiers, I think, in the colonial context, it is justifiable for the colonized to use…