Baghdad

Career Coach – Autobiography – GEB 3035 Sadok Hasan 1. Family Background. I was born in Baghdad, Iraq to a humble family of 5 – in the heart of the second Gulf War. I spent only my infant years there as my family struggled to get by. My dad had his own computer business while my mom stayed home to take care of the kids. I think inevitably my parents wanted to leave their home country with their kids one day, but it was made apparent when Saddam Hussein’s army stole my father from our house and…

the events at Nishapur, was not a Mongol. The man Juvaini was in fact Persian, one of the many groups conquered by the Mongols, and Juvaini at the time when he wrote about this account he was under the employment of the Mongols. Juvaini was from Baghdad, but he was writing about a event in Nishapur that happened 40 years prior to its destruction, so his account may be sketchy. One of the accounts that is lacking from these documents that would solidify the fact that the Mongols were not…

absence of direct opinions, Hare expresses disgust towards Donald Rumsfeld through the breaking up of the vague sentence and title of the play, “Stuff. Happens.” This is when Rumsfeld is asked to respond to the looting and pillage that occurred in Baghdad, in which 50,000 artefacts were taken from Iraq’s national museum, an event most modern audience members would associate with sorrow, causing them to stereotype Rumsfeld based on his lack of remorse. This also draws attention to the…

When a person dies, it can be heart breaking. But when a few people die, it can be devastating. Together Saddam Hussein and Pol Pot has slaughtered over 2,300,000 people because of their political and religious views. Anyone who opposed them were killed. Saddam Hussein believed in secularism which is the belief that rejects religion while Pol Pot believed in a communist society. Because of their views, these men did everything in their power to make sure their dreams were accomplished and…

The effect of the Kurdish fight for autonomy in both Iraq and elsewhere, has changed the Middle East’s landscape. This includes subnational or internal fracturing of Kurdish parties, national barriers, and newfound international relations as well as political alliances with historical rivals. Gareth Stansfield illustrates this point when he uses Kurdish history in Iraq as and cites economic and political relations with Turkey as signaling a potential Kurdish state, “By embracing this agenda,…

According to Dictionary.com obedience is to comply “with an order, request or law or submission to another’s authority.” Obedience is a component in social behavior and everyday life. However, there are different forms of obedience such as blind obedience. This is where an individual follows direction without any question or moral perspective without knowing they are causing harm. Such form of obedience can be hostile and perilous to the people involved. This can be seen in the atrocious deaths…

Khan 's grandson, Batu, conquered Russian territories including, Moscow, Hungary, and Poland. It was only Ögödei 's death that saved Europe from further attacks. However, in the Middle East, a Mongol army terminated the Abbasid caliph and conquered Baghdad. Each area annexed brought foreign engineers and scholars into the empire which encompassed the Silk Road and with each conquest came the opportunity to control tax and tribute. Through each expansion, the Mongol Empire became more…

to colonialism. Pan-Arabism also stated that Israel (“Zionist Entity”) was the spearhead of this Western colonialism (Isseroff). Furthermore, when he discovered that Britain and the United States had tried to recruit Iraq (an Arab State) into the Baghdad Pact, an infuriated Nasser launched a major propaganda event to prevent Arab States from ever aligning themselves with the West. As seen from past leaders such as Adolf Hitler, uniting the people against a common enemy is a powerful tool.…

American Sniper Book Review American Sniper goes fully in depth into Chris Kyle’s exciting life story leading up to becoming a Navy SEAL. The book does have a table of contents, glossary, along with maps and photographs to showcase Chris’s experiences while reading the book. The author’s background is fully realistic being that the author of the book is about himself, a small town boy from Texas and his own experiences first hand with the being an American sniper in the war of Iraq. Chris has…

  The mighty Congo Empire, at Cote d’lvoire, Aka, the Ivory Coast of West Africa had the Burkina Faso warriors originally from the Bantu migration 600AD. They were skilled in horse riding and the use of the bow. Their earliest history starts with the Dagomba tribe neighboring the Boussansi, the Ninisi, the Gourounsi and the Kabisi their union brought about a great warrior kingdom called the Mossi. The greatest warriors of this Empire were the Wagadogo and the Yatenga. They used weapons such…