Henderson Jordan

Soheil felt like he was trapped in a nightmare from which he couldn't awaken. He couldn’t breathe, and he wasn't sure which direction was up. Something was on top of him, and he violently pushed it away. His head broke through the surface of the water, and he struggled for breath but coughed up water instead. The sun was blinding, and he looked away from it. He recognized the color of the water around him and knew he was in the sea off Beirut. A dead body was floating beside him, apparently the…

Introduction Darfur is the western region of Sudan that consists of seven and a half million people enclosed in 439,180 kilometers squared. Before the year 2003, many locals within the Western region (informally known as Dartunjur for decades) felt neglected by the political party of Sudan residing in the capital; Khartoum. Due to years of political instability between the western region and eastern region of Sudan, in the year 2003, western Sudan became a separate region all together currently…

Hussein’s main objective seemed to be to get another ten percent of the world’s oil supply that was flowing beneath the teeny country, but it was more than that. After taking the oil, he hoped to reunite his own country with the money he made from additional oil sales. Iraq also owed a large sum of money to Kuwait for expenses in the Iran/Iraq war. Taking over Kuwait would cancel this debt. Hussein also clamed that he had fought the Iranians for the benefit of all Arab nations, and that Kuwait…

Recently, the Syrian Refugee Crisis has come to the attention of many countries, including the United States of America (US). The conflict between the Syrian government and the rebels has caused this crisis and needs to be resolved. The US wants this crisis to be fixed for its people, as well as the Syrian refugees. The US took in a total of 2,290 Syrian refugees since 2011, which is when the Syrian civil war began, through Nov. 2015. The US president’s plan is to take in 10,000 Syrian…

ISIS progresses to carry out terrorist attacks around the world frequently originating in the Middle East. ISIS causes great devastation everywhere that ISIS attacks. ISIS is a barbaric terrorist organization that needs to be disassembled and terminated before this organization commits future attacks. ISIS is a deadly terrorist group that impacts citizens and should be acknowledged more in the U.S.A. ISIS is a terrorist organization that is a xenophobic group that is located in the Middle East.…

Syrians are fleeing Syria. They are fleeing to escape undesirable things. They are leaving to escape government, bombing, and bloodshed. They are leaving to escape the tragedies these things left in its wake. Approximately 5, 000 Syrians are fleeing everyday. In 2002 the population was estimated at 22, 530, 756. It dropped to 22, 457, 336 in 2012, while today it is 22, 085, 048. Syria recently was a quickly growing country, but is now dropping. These refugees are escaping to the neighboring…

There has been several stabbing incidents by Palestinians against Israelis, which began in early October. Palestinians have attacked Jerusalem and central and northern Israel, and in the West Bank. The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians began due to the two communities clashing at Jerusalem, the holy site in September. On October 18, 2015, an Israeli soldier was killed, along with many others wounded, during a gun and knife attack at a bus station located in the city of Beersheva.…

The problems in Israel will not fix themselves. The only way to fix them is to intervene in the issue, and get to the source of the problem. Over the course of this paper, there is information that shows some of the things that need to be looked at. There is a lot of the brutality that exist in this country. Throughout the paper there are quotes directly from stories about their human rights violations, also there is stories directly from people that have lived these horrific tragedies. Children…

organization advocating on behalf the Palestinian people underwent drastic changes. These changes came following the defeat of a coalition of Arab nations in war against Israel known as the June War. In the June War Israel conquered territory from both Jordan and Egypt known as the West Bank and the Gaza Strip respectively in which the majority of Palestinian people lived. The PLO’s leadership, thought by many scholars to be a puppet of the Egyptian government, which was one of the losers in the…

Wars and arguments between people have been happening for years now, and they are only going to continue from here on out. This being said, the Syrian war is an example of a war that has been going on for so long, and it is starting to get out of hand. First, this war has become very spread over the past 4 and a half years. According to an article published on BBC news, several million people have migrated to other places outside of Syria, and hundreds of thousands have been left dead after long…