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Terrorism: 9/11 On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 a group of terrorist called “Al-Qaeda” hijacked 4 airplanes and crashed them into the world trade center’s north and south tower in New York City. This left the whole world in shock. What many people thought was going to be a normal day came out to be a day that we will never forget. Nothing this devastating had ever happened in US Soil since the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. A perfectly executed plan by a terrorist group…

Afghanistan I. Introduction Hook: Afghanistan…. Because we live in America, our government and hollywood have indoctrinated us over our lifetime. Why do I say that? For most of us, when I said Afghanistan we began to picture what we have been trained to think of. Ak-47’s, bearded men wearing white turbans and robes, terrorist, bombs… Our government is wrong. Hollywood is wrong. We are wrong. Wrong for judging. Purpose: Shed light on students of what the Afghan culture is and our misconceptions.…

In the fifth and sixth centuries AD, previous to the rise of Islam, the clans of the Arabian Peninsula played only minimal part in what was already a highly developed and complex culture, dominated by the two great superpowers of the era, which were the Byzantines and Sasanian Empire. Islamic art was vastly influenced by the Byzantines and Sasanians Empire. Between, 750 to 1500 the Islamic world developed and perfected some of the old techniques that were initially used by the Romans like the…

WHAT DRAWS WOMEN TO TERRORISM? Cyra Castro MILS 500 – Research Methods in Military Studies February 7, 2017  Introduction In recent history, we as a nation, have had to live closely with the result and actions from terrorist groups and organizations. This sadly, is not new. What is new, is the involvement of women within these groups. When someone typically thinks of terrorism, most equate it to a male committing a violent action. Though this has some validity to it, we…

Modern society is characterized by dynamic and sophisticated changes in terrorism activities. As a result, terror cells such as al-Qa’ida are a major threat among policymakers, intelligence agencies, and multinational firms in the United States. The U.S. government is continuously formulating policies of gathering intelligence against terror groups. For instance, the U.S. has formulated the Counter Intelligence Centre (CIC) to facilitate the monitoring and intelligence collection against this…

Throughout the years of the post classical era, 500 through 1000C.E., the religions Islam and Christianity undoubtedly began to take shape. Although Christianity had already been established since the around 30 C.E., it wasn’t until the post classical era that it became a major religion thoughout western and eastern Europe. (Bentley 233) The Islamic faith on the other hand did not emerge until the year c.610 C.E. and developed as a major religion of the region throughout the time period.…

The views of different religions on the “End of the world” Eschatology, is the part of religious studies dealing with events of the end of time, and humanity’s final destination. The word is derived from the Greek root Eschatos, which means “last”. Almost all religions and beliefs through all nations around the earth have their own ideas and beliefs about the events that are going at the final days and that will lead to the end of the world. Although there are lots of religions all…

Triggering Factors B: Triggering factors are things that cause a conflict to break out. They are separated into four categories which include: Internal mass-level factors, external mass-level factors, external elite factors, and internal elite factors. All four of these categories have influenced the Yemen Civil war. Internal, Mass-level factors Internal mass-level factors manifest itself in the form of bad domestic problems. Yemen faced several domestic problems before the war had broken…

Terrorism today is one of the world 's complex problems. The last two and half decades in many countries of the world are grappling with this problem. But the problem is increasing day by day. The reason for this distorted mentality of some people. The purpose of terrorism is to spread fear among the people and to publicize their vote through violence. People who work for this purpose called them terrorists. Terrorism is a major problem in the world 's current problems. It is a man-made problem…

We are finding different and new ways of defining one’s heritage. The racial options of the 2000 Census were modified to accommodate those who want to express their multiracial heritage. For the first time, respondents could identify themselves as members of more than one racial category. Also, a separate question about ethnicity appears before race (Banks, 2005). The United States has been called the melting pot due to the diverse cultures. According to U.S. census there is an estimated 3.5…