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In the story States written by Edward Said there are many textual elements used to help describe the story and how it is a sad story. It is a different type of story with many different conflicts and ends up ending to perfection. More than 25 years Said states that the Palestinian issues have not gotten better. “We are at once too recently formed and too variously experienced to be a population of articulate exiles with a completely systematic vision and too voluble and trouble making to be…

The media plays a major role in our society today. It makes us look at the world in another perspective based on how they want us to see it. The media has a way of choosing what stories to report and what stories to leave out. After 9/11 the myth of invincibility is destroyed and causes America to become weak and insecure. To rebuild this image, the media starts to portray America as the strong nation it once was and that nothing like that will ever happen to them ever again. Raymond Bonner,…

Ronald Reagan Before Ronald Reagan became president he was a actor and President of the Screen Actors Guild, as President of the Screen Actors Guild his political views would shift from liberal to conservative this was mostly due to the fear of communism in the Film industry. During the 50’s and early 60’s he toured the United States as television host and a spokesperson for conservatism his policies were also family oriented even though he was formerly divorced. He was then elected as governor…

Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the united states, is best known for his folksy charm and appealing personality. Reagan is the only movie actor ever to become president, he had a remarkable skill that earned him the title “the Great Communicator.” Ronald Reagan was the second child of John Edward Reagan, a struggling shoe salesman, and Nelle Wilson Reagan. Reagan’s nickname, Dutch, derived from his father’s habit of referring to his infant son as his “fat little Dutchman.” After several…

a secret police known as the Cheka that began a campaign of terrorism that would later become known as the “Red Terror” (Beck et al., 2005, pp. 517-519). Under the Bolsheviks hundreds of academic professionals and artists were imprisoned and tens of thousands of churches were forced to close while many of the leadership and followers of the Russian Orthodox Church were imprisoned in forced labor camps or outright executed (Spindlove and Simonsen, 2013, pp. 211-212). Another use of terror on a…

Death is a huge part of life. Everyone experiences it at least once in their lives. It can affect different people in various ways, some may choose to ignore it, some may get vigorously torn apart by it and others chose to fight it with the utmost of powers. This is shown in the key poems ‘War Photographer’, ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ and ‘A mother in a refugee camp’. All of these poems show particular differences in their attitudes towards death; which is also seen in the further…

Currently, I work as a researcher and policy planner for Presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders. My job is informing him on the brief historical chronology leading to present day extremism, providing him with clear advice for how to differentiate between groups and their perspectives, supply him with points that he can use in a debate to refute some of the fear and hate-mongering statements made by others, as well as give him effective suggestions for how to confront Global Jihadism in ways…

Caramel presents the viewer with the day to day life of a group of single women living in Beirut, Lebanon. Marriage holds an extremely exulted place in Middle Eastern culture and this creates social pressure that each women must negotiate. Each women in the salon feels a different pressure in regards to finding a husband and through the different pressure the viewer can identify what society expects of women. This essay will define Lebanese expectation for marriage and how society’s…

In this paper, I will cover my leadership philosophy and a challenge of a squadron leader who I interviewed. My leadership philosophy is derived from my experiences over the years, namely from observing the failures and shortcomings of leaders. As for the interview section of the paper, a lieutenant colonel in my chain-of-command related his experience of dismissing a master sergeant some years ago from duty due to substandard performance. With nearly twenty-years of work experience in three…

Being a young woman in the United States, means growing, finding yourself, and being free during that process. Not all young women have the same sort of freedom that Westerns have. The United States is a secular country, which is a country that have no religions or beliefs embedded in it’s laws. The countries that these films are based, Iran and Israel, are Islamic nations. An Islamic nation is governed by Islamic laws and cultural practices with a primarily Muslim community. After watching the…