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    China is now in chaos. The people have been fighting and quarrelling for the past 250 years. Millions of people have been killed, and someone needs to restore order and keep the peace. This is a difficult task to complete, as the people are like a pack of ravenous wolves after a quarter-of-millennium long war. However, there is one particular solution that might work for China. I propose that the emperor should adopt legalism as his ruling philosophy, as the strict law and harsh punishments put…

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    Naked In Death, written by New York Times best selling author Nora Roberts under her pseudo-nym J D Robb, introduces the reader into the futuristic world of 2058, where Lieutenant Eve Dallas fights to capture murderers on the streets of New New York. 2058 ushers in an era of flying cars, voice operated everything, and a whole new set of laws and regulations. Everyday things like microwaves or cell phones which, in addition to following voice commands, have knew names like autochefs or telelinks…

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    A suicide bomber is a person, a man or woman, who execute bomb attacks in different areas, and they know that they will kill themselves in the process of doing so. Suicide bombers are also called homicide bombers. In the history of suicide bombing, people have been used by other people as a building block of their success and are thought and treated to be living tools (Lewis, 2013). They usually target places where there are numerous people and then blow themselves up, causing mass panic all…

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    of each act, this drive is known as desperation (Holt et al. 2015). Desperation is a state of urgent desire or need, it is what makes a person eat when they are hungry and drink when they are thirsty; it is a large causal factor of terrorism (Holt et al. 2015). Terrorism is an act or threat of violence to forward political aims and to generate fear outside the immediate vicinity of the act (Lutz & Lutz, 2013). The need to…

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    In June 2016, a man shot 49 people at a gay nightclub. The terror attack had such a horrific outcome that at the time it was the worst attack on the United States since 9/11, both attacks rooted in hatred. In the literary works, Symposium by Plato and Metamorphoses by Ovid, the narrators contemplate whether love acts as the disease or remedy for society and the individual. These themes still have an importance in today's society, as acts of hatred still permeate through the fabric of humanity…

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    In these two readings the certain theories such as realism, constructivism, liberalism, and national security are explain and then certain concepts are proven either wrong or the biases that match with these certain theories are found to be not entirely correct and how they relate to international relationships. In Snyder’s One World, Rival Theories he first starts off by explaining how the September 11th attack has put a greater emphasis on national security. This also goes on to introduce…

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    Gore’s argument in his book, The Assault on Reason, informs readers about the way fear encourages illogical thinking. Gore varies greatly between different methods of persuasion, including appeals to emotion (pathos) and credibility (ethos). He utilizes these many techniques to bring out the relationship between politics and fear, however, a specific element overshadows the others. The extensive application of expertise, a form of ethos, lends itself to Gore’s statements about how fear affects…

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    Atul Gawande’s Look on the Normalcy of Terrorism in The United States in His Article “Why Boston’s Hospitals Were Ready” Atul Gawande, a literary writer and doctor in Boston, portrays the devastation of the bombings at the Boston Marathon and the heroic acts performed by emergency medical teams, nurses, and doctors alike. However, there is one primary element that Gawande focuses on throughout the article: terrorism is becoming a normalcy in The United States. To explain further, since 9/11…

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    Red White Blue Burning the fifty stars, thirteen red and white stripes has become a political expression of some Americans dissatisfaction of the government systems. Burning the flag is a controversial issue for some American people. Many believe the American flag is a symbol of freedom, liberty, and human rights. Others believe the American flag has become a negative symbol of hate and division between American people. Each opinion has its reasons as people like to express from their…

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    “The State of Phishing Attacks” by Jason Hong provides an enlightening summary of the current state of phishing attacks. First, Hong defines and describes different types of phishing attacks. Second, he describes the motivations behind these attacks. Third, he notes how people create different attacks (e.g. fake phishing email, setting up fake websites, etc.) and he discusses the corresponding motives behind these types of attacks (e.g. using these tools to gain sensitive or confidential…

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