Islam in the United States

“India, the country that occupies the greater part of South Asia. It is a constitutional republic consisting of 29 states, each with a substantial degree of control over its own affairs; 6 less fully empowered union territories; and the Delhi national capital territory, which includes New Delhi, India’s capital. With roughly one-sixth of the world’s total population, India is the second most-populous country, after China” (Schwartzberg). India can be a shock to some when it comes to their…

On January 20th 1999, the U.S. Postal Service unveiled a postage stamp honoring Malcolm X. The thirty-three cent stamp was the 22nd in the Black Heritage Series and portrayed a black-and-white portrait, taken by an Associated Press photographer, of Malcolm X answering a question at a 1964 news conference in New York. It also contained the name he used at the end of his life, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. The Black Heritage series began in 1973, when the post office released a stamp honoring "Porgy…

Rhetorical Case Study One The freedom of religious belief, regardless of the affiliation, has always played a salient role in society and culture in the United States: even before the country’s official inception. Likewise, religious freedom has always been a vital aspect in the past and present of Unitarian Universalists. I have chosen the Unitarian Universalist church for my rhetorical case study due to me being a member at a local congregation and my fascination with their teachings and…

About African Americans “Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything, If you’re a man, you take it” (Malcolm X). Malcolm is a prominent black nationalist leader who started out as a spokesman for the Nation of Islam. Born in Nebraska, but raised in Michigan he first encountered racism when he watched his house as it burned to the ground. A few years later his father was found dead, which was ruled as an accident. Today he is known as a civil rights…

Medias has a huge power and we know if for a long time. They have this tool called manipulation- and they use it by manipulating the facts. So do media really influence people that much? In the year 1960 in the United States of America for the first time in their history, presidential debate where eared on Television. The debate was between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. It is well described in the article titled “The Kennedy-Nixon Debates”, on the website “History.com”. People were…

The first dictionary definition of the word ‘terrorism’, ‘ syste`me, re´ gime de la terreur’, was offered by the Acade´mie franc¸aise in 1798 in the light of recent French experience. In order to understand how the term ‘terrorism’ originated, the author immediately started discussing the French republic. The French republic already have recently dealt with the execution of King Louis XVI in the fall of 1792, was under threat from foreign invasion and internal rebellion. In July 1792, the…

The increasing role of the media as a military outlet post 9/11 has led many political scientists to address the War on Terror as a war of words. Western and Arab news outlets, across the political spectrum, have portrayed interrelated and sequentially organized stories. These serve to weave certain ideological desires within their target audiences to achieve specific objectives. In political science discourses, these stories are referred to as “narratives”. This paper will explore narratives…

Alfonso to step down once again. Spain’s second republic was then formed. In the 1930’s, political parties began to become extreme. In the 1936 election, Spain’s government is a parliamentary monarchy, which means the king or queen acts as the head of state. Spain’s constitution was adopted in 1978 and it focuses on basic rights & public liberties, duties of the citizens, principles of social & economic policy, and the structure of the partial monarchy & parliament. Its purpose was to begin…

During the 2000 election, in the state of Florida, many black residents found themselves disenfranchised, unable to vote in the election (Unprecedented). Their Disenfranchisement was caused by Database Technologies, Inc., a database company, they were charged with compiling a list of felons that resided within the state of Florida (Unprecedented). One criteria that was emphasized by the state was to use the classification black (Unprecedented). Also they were a…

rashtra refers to a nation. It is commonly misinterpreted as a state. However a state and nation are two different things. State is entirely a political concept. It changes as the political authority shifts from one party to another, but the people and the Nation remain the same. Thus, combining the meaning of the two words we derive at a conclusion…