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theories on how the plague started, whether from rats or the filth or trade routes or the Jews caused it. The death rate was outstanding (not in the good way); an estimated 8 million deaths in the Middle East and 75 million in Europe. The mortality rate in Europe: 31%. The Middle East: 33%. “The mortality in Siena (Italy) began in May (1348). “It was a cruel and horrible thing; and I do not know where to begin to tell of the cruelty and the pitiless ways. It seemed that almost everyone…

For the last hundred plus years Hollywood has used repetition as a teaching mechanism to reinforce negative stereotypes through images surrounding Arab people. Stereotypes are part of individual’s everyday lives. Every person in the world is associated with some sort of cultural label that can be either positive or negative. Stereotypes affect individual’s emotions, social lives and how they relate to their environment (Site). When North American individuals think about Muslims and Arabs, the…

influence and the Middle East is no different. Americans should care about the current state of the Middle East for numerous reasons. Some of the reasons Americans should care about the current state of affairs in the Middle East include economic, national security and world peace. Americans should care about what is going in the Middle East, but unfortunately a majority of Americans will not care until the current state…

USA and Saudi Arabia Each nation in the world has a unique feature or ability for which it is known for. While some are known for their economic and military prowess, others are revered for their rich cultural histories and vibrant people and natural resources that they have in abundance. As such, the uniqueness of each country can be exhibited through a detailed comparison between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia and U.S. have some similarities and differences…

what they saw in the movies. However, the problem in the three cases is generalization. In Meddle East we do have terrorist, but not everybody in Meddle East is a terrorist. Moreover, we do have poverty, literacy, and rich people; but not in the way that people think. The goal of building a contact zone and King Abdullah program is to teach people about the different paths of people in the Middle East and Saudi Arabia especially and why people should never hear one side of the story and believe…

In 1961 more than 80,000 people fled, ("Berlin Wall") this had made the economy on the east side increase as they received a huge number of skilled workers. With this the economy of the communist side was threatened, so Khrushchev ordered to close the border for good. They built a concrete wall that divided the city. With this it became impossible to get from east to west side with the exception of the checkpoints where principally diplomats were allowed to enter or…

artists, writers, etc. However, the escape from East Germany was not impossible. Even though at least 117 people were killed, fugitives managed to cross the border by jumping out of windows adjacent to the wall, climbing over the barbed wire, flying in hot air balloons, crawling through the sewers and driving through unfortified parts of the wall at high speeds. After 28 years from the construction of the Wall, a series of protests have erupted across the East Germany in November 1989. On the…

The Middle East is a region with a very interesting history. One of the major superpowers of World War I, The Ottoman Empire, rose to power there, and shortly afterward, once World War II ended, Israel was created there too. The establishment of Israel proved to be a problem, as the Jewish nation would have to take land originally belonging to Palestinians. This is not the only situation where land has been an issue in the Middle East; land was also responsible for the Persian Gulf War. The…

attempt at counter-hegemony. As part two will attest, ideologies of control gave way to ideologies of revolt as counter-intellectuals formed their own version of acceptable wisdom in order to challenge the dominant ideology. In the case of the Middle East that would mainly be in the form of Islam since it was the ideological current pushed by the ruling class, for the counter-intellectual class, they used Islam to claim that the ruling class has betrayed its principles as similar to other…

In 1956, one of the officers who drove out their idle King, Farouk, and took over the government, Gamal Abdel Nasser, became Egypt's President. Nasser performed great contributions to the growing power of Egypt. Regarding a duty of Egypt as a leading Arab country, Nasser was trying to help the Palestinian refugees to fight for their rights to return. So he provided Palestinian armed groups with financial and military aids. By 1956, Israel was no longer capable of ignoring the tricks Nasser was…