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    screaming “Allah Akbar” while they perpetrate acts of terror. Extremist Imams (Islamic religious leader), wield their message of hate from the speakers of mosques every Friday, coercing the disenfranchised and simple-minded up the “staircase of terrorism” (Moghaddam, 2005) and the path of their fictitious Sixth Pillar- Jihad. With their message that “Islam is under attack” and that governments all over the world are exploiting Muslims. Islamic State imams, as well as al-Qaeda and other jihadi…

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    9/11 Literature Review

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    Literature Review R1: Does the act of terrorism in countries mean there is low to minimal security within these countries. R2: Looking at the act of terrorism during the United States of America’s (USA) 9/11 attack, Does this show there is low to minimal security within our countries? Did this attack increase terrorism through social media or technology? Purpose: The goal of this literature review is to determine whether the 9/11 attack on America is associated and indicates that our countries…

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    ask someone what the definition of terrorism is, you’d most likely get answers like bombings and groups of people trying to hurt others, but the more accepted and applicable definition is summarized as: combatants inflicting violence on noncombatants for ideological, political, or monetary gain. My inquiry derived from this definition is terrorism ever justified? The conundrum with this concept of terrorism is that there is so many characteristics to terrorism that must all fit together to…

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    reveals social violence and chaos in the very heart of Western civilization. By setting the novel in London, Conrad shows that even the seeming order of civilization in the West is illusory as both political radicals and conservatives work counter to social order. The character of London contributes into the formulation of social violence as a theme in the novel. The muddy and twisting streets, the encircling curtain of never lifting fog are in compliance with the theme that the world is…

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    New York Health Care (NYHC) needs to prepare for the current terrorism threats. If the attacks happen as planned and the antiterrorism unit fails to save people, emergency cases might come into the hospital for help. Whether financially capable or not, the hospital should treat the casualties, as a requirement of EMTALA. The hospital should try reaching the community in advance and educating them on the importance of health insurance (United States 2013). The hospitals should consider the…

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    Potential Terrorist Attacks The 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. caused a paradigm shift in security procedures and surveillance techniques (Boer, 2015). The Department of Homeland Security works with other agencies to anticipate and mitigate potential terrorist attacks. Aggressors use a variety of weapons and devices designed to inflict maximum damage. Car bombs can cause unprecedented destruction since they have a large quantity of explosives (Phillips, 2018). Both moving and stationary…

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    Public Corruption

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    A lot of people like to pop the question "what does the FBI serve to the U.S.A and what do they contribute to the country?." Not knowing what they do and how they contribute to the country, could be pretty hard knowing the fact that they like to stay secretive and most of their cases are top secret. Their priorities are highly focused on 10 things. Which are terrorist attacks, foreign intelligence operations, cyber based attacks with high-technology crimes, combat public corruption, civil rights…

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    The main effect as to the depiction of targets of the counter-terrorism action as “barbarious”, “evil” is to dehumanize terrorists. Dehumanization refers to the socially constructed process of depriving humans of their human character. As Bar Tal defines it, it is characterised by the process of “(attributing) extremely negative characteristics to another group, with the purpose of excluding it from acceptable human groups and denying it humanity” or “labelling a group as inhuman, either by…

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    Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros has occupied a shifting and uncertain place in the history of Western Europe in the sixteenth century. Historians have experienced considerable difficulty trying to pin him down in broad historical categories: he was a humanist, except for when he burned Muslim books in order to suppress their text-based philosophy. He was an ecclesiastical reformer, except for his unwillingness to create serious change within the Spanish Inquisition. The contradictions above are…

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    will, or the ability to play competitive sports in school or professionally. People that might have muscle dysfunctions or are simply just not strong enough to play really physical heavy sports, often play competitive games like Counter strike: Global Offensive. Counter Strike has been around for years and is the largest competitive style game there has ever been. It puts a team of five players against another team of five players on a battlefield as teams try to score rounds to win games. The…

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