Brussels

Transfixed, I stared at the headlines on my monitor. Within hours of the 2016 Brussels bombings, media outlets and pundits declared Belgium a jihadist haven. Geographically distant, Belgium was—and is—easy for many Americans to view through the lens of terrorism. But as I delved deeper into Belgium’s history, my fascination with the country and the tension between its politically and linguistically distinct regions of French Wallonia and Dutch Flanders only grew. With a Fulbright English…

The Accuracy of Criminal Profiling As society keeps expanding, through growth and technology, more opportunities for crimes pop up in our daily lives, ranging from internet gambling, all the way to insider trading. But as with any criminal movement, criminal justice is not far behind. Half the battle of fighting crime is knowing what to look for, and the other half is knowing how to stop it. Criminal profiling does both, and being in a generation with James Holmes and The Columbine shooting,…

bomb squad arrived" because the explosives were unstable, but no one had been injured "thanks to the professionalism of the authorities at the scene. About an hour after the airport explosions, Khalid El Bakraoui, a Brussels-born 27-year-old, detonated a suicide bomb on the Brussels subway/Metro station at the end of rush hour. The bomber, whom Van Leeuw said was identified by his fingerprints, was in the second car of a train at the Maelbeek metro station (Hume). This took place over a few…

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On Thursday, June 23rd the people of Britain went to the polls and made a decision that will reshape history for the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe. The referendum vote to leave the European Union, commonly referred to as Brexit, is not one many people predicted would pass. However, a combination of factors––economic, social, and political––building up enough tension and anxiety in the British people, lead a very split electorate to the polls where the referendum vote was their outlet…

Instead, the use of cocaine as a catalyst for escapism begins with the onset of the First World War and continues to intermingle with the aforementioned “frenetic artistic activity” of the avant-garde. By examining the poetry from Benn’s “Brussels Spring”, it can be argued that this motivation for the consumption of cocaine begins to evolve before the war is even ended. The “great emptiness” that the Expressionist poets capture most uniquely and their anticipation of a reactionary recreation…

Some of his paintings could be interpreted as self portraits (such as the men in bowler hats), others feature his wife Georgette, and their apartment in Brussels makes an appearance every so often. Magritte's art and development as an artist was influenced during his childhood was his encounter with a painter in a cemetery and state it was as if 'he were performing magic'. The second event being the suicide…

Inhumanity: Then and Today What makes a human has been argued upon for unmeasurable amounts of time but there are some points commonly agreed upon. Of course humans are the sole species that have ability of speech (Choi para 10), but humans are the only animals that can express emotion through means such as laughing and crying (Burton para 3-4). Humans also are the only living creatures that can have beliefs and reasoning, which in a way helps explain the subject of the Holocaust. In World War…

Profiling for Law Enforcement Seeing and predicting the future is something that has always been intriguing for human beings. Many people admire Sherlock Holmes for his uncanny ability to solve crimes with an almost all knowing, future seeing, and super-human ability. While Sherlock Holmes may be a fictional character, the principles of applying the process of elimination to scenarios are very real indeed. Profiling is a word that brings controversy in today’s society, but it can be used very…

Collins’s childhood and early years greatly affected her life as an author. As a child, Collins loved reading suspenseful books which she carried on in her life as an author. For example, one of her suspenseful books, The Hunger Games. While living in Brussels, Belgium as a teen, Collins was able to see plenty of old castles and old war zones which could have influenced her to write about old historic sites in her books such as The Hunger Games. Due to her father’s job, she moved around a lot.…