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far greater than their tribal leaders: their religious nation. It also meant that non-Arabs Muslims can serve anywhere in the government and military institutions and allow the Caliphate to spread even further as societies away from the capital in Baghdad moved from the “Amsar” model to a more autonomous, merit-based system of society where nationality does not matter as much as religion…

War has always been a part of our country. We are the country that we are today because of the American Revolution, which was a very important war. Many of the amazing people that have become famous and well known nation wide have been war heroes. These war heroes are not only great on the battlefield, but off it as well. Chris Kyle portraits greatness and who was one of America's most lethal snipers, he is no different from any of the past war heroes throughout history. On the battlefield, he…

The importance of knowledge in the Islamic world was intrinsic to its culture. For, the Prophet Muhammad had repeatedly stressed on the importance of knowledge and learning: “Acquire knowledge, it enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to heaven. It is our friend in the desert, our company in solitude and companion when friendless. It guides us to happiness, it sustains us in misery, it is an ornament amongst friends and an armour against enemies.” Several…

Association of Gene Polymorphisms and Development of Neurological Conditions Using Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Samir Nacer Lab Partners: Krystine Sora, Sierra Sandler, Ali, Alfredo Lam, Natalia Figueroa Biology 3600 Genetics I with Lab Instructor: Dr. Robert Smith Laboratory Assistant: Eileen Date of Experiment: November 7th, 2016 Abstract: A migraine is a neurological condition in which blood vessels dilate causing an extreme aching pain on a specific side of the human skull.…

Chapter 1 Before History Discoveries have found that about 5 million years ago there were different species of human ancestors belonging to the genus of Australopithecus. It is said that they had emerged in the areas of eastern Africa, specifically in the regions of Tanzania, Kenya, and Ethiopia. This species, however, were not apes but rather a creature in the Hominidae family, that had human like features. “They would seem short, hairy, and limited with intelligence. They stood something over…

World Affairs COLD WAR, DETENTE AND THE RENEWAL OF TENSION The emergence of a Bipolar World: Before the smoke had even settled down shortly after the World War II, there was a new war of ideologies gathering into force. The Soviet Union and the United States had collaborated in defeating the fascist empires of Japan, Italy and Germany. Nonetheless, as it approached the culmination of 1945, the wartime coalition crumbled. The United States, anchoring the Capitalist World, and the Soviet Union,…

In 2004, my country, Iraq, was in war with America. During this war the American soldiers dominated the capital of Iraq, Baghdad. They occupied the place, but the Iraqi people withstood the American soldiers. Iraq converted from a nice, beautiful and safe place to live in to enormously dangerous place because of the war. The American soldiers roamed in the streets. They started killing and taking anyone that was walking on the streets for no particular reason. I perceived a lot of gang violence…

around providing people with guns, narcotics and automobiles. The story takes place in an unnamed country in Central America where Alfie becomes involved in guerrilla warfare. Alfie confesses that his weakness is woman. As a young boy back in old Baghdad, he used to stroll up to the diplomatic enclaves just to look at women and visited whores. Now he works for Clovis. T. Ransome and has a sexual affair with Ransome’s wife Maria. Maria, the dark, sensuous, liberated Latin woman is yet another…

In a fairly short duration Bharati Mukherjee has received a respectable attention from the critics around the world. She is described as a ‘voice’ of expatriate- immigrant sensibility. She has stayed in different places, and lived through various cultures. In her journey as a writer her creative sensibility has undergone many changes, a continuous quest from ‘expatriation to immigration’. As a writer her concern can be seen in the lives of South- Asian immigrants in the USA and Canada and the…

Ghandi's campaign for independence went on, with his encouragement of peaceful protest and criticism of British administration and taxes. In 1921, Ghandi called for all Indians to boycott paying taxes on farming tools to the British, a strategy to have a negative effect on the economy. His non-cooperation campaign, despite its nonviolent aims, periodically became violent, and Ghandi was imprisoned in 1922 for instigating the movement. He was released two years later. The movement, however, was…