action. Terrorist groups using the networked structure, are organized in cells so that the loss of a cell would not compromise the identity, location or actions of other cells or the organization. Hezbollah, Palestine Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and Tamil Tigers are politically motivated and their attacks are focused on their governments. Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Boko Haram, ISIS and Lashkar E Taiba are all motivated by religion and their targets are…
connection to their homeland (Jaffna) through deterritorialized localism made possible by space-time compression. Two avenues Tamil in Norway maintain this “deterritorialized localism” by are, through association with the revolutionary Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and by the traditional institution of arranged marriage…
due to this, a war was sparked. A war in which violence was justifiable, as long as it was for a cause that could be believe in. When Saraswathi decided to be a suicide bomber to help the Tamil Tigers, she believed that what she was doing was right, either because she believed in a world that the Tigers idealized or because she thought the Sinhalese soldiers needed to pay for the sins that they…
paramilitary groups, because they needed a job; they were looking for adventure, survival or because they were abused at home. In fact, ideology was the second to last of their reasons. In Sri Lanka, Dennis McGilvray commented that The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), call themselves liberation fighters and not terrorist. He asserted that in the case of the LTTE the need for join this group had more to do with their linguistic and religious divide, the Tamil minority did not feel…
with Saraswathi as she strived for this peace and redemption. Being influenced by mass propaganda while also falling into a deep depression after her dream of becoming a school teacher was no longer possible, Saraswathi’s choice to join the Tamil Tigers was not a surprise. Her own mother said, “You must go to the training camp. Learn to fight. Become a hero” (Munaweera, p.159). At first this terrified her, yet as the training went on and she was finally able to reclaim her strength and aside…
I was not interested in politics for most of my life or that was what I thought up until the year 2007. Previously my views and conceptions of politics were often based on a restricted understanding of the subject and the lack of trust in politicians. I perceived it to be irrelevant to my life because then I had other priorities such as sports, exams, and other school related activities, hence I became alienated from politics. As I grew older, my interest in political affairs was realized at…
We will have commercials that will air through Massillon Cable TV’s local television channels. This will be less expensive than advertising on non-local television networks and it will help us appeal to local consumers. At the Massillon Paul Brown Tiger Stadium, we will have an advertisement located on the scoreboard of the stadium. We will also rent the billboard on the corner of Lake and 21.This will cost us approximately $600 to rent…
A rare species of fish nearing extinction The rare species of the spotted handfish is nearing extinction after roaming this earth for more that 55 million years. It is said their population decrease is due to pollution, people capturing them for pets and much more. So help keep this species alive. What makes these little fish so special is evident in their name. As their name suggests The spotted handfish (Brachionichthys hirsutus) is one of the world's most endangered marine fish. This…
therefore there is no chance of making the exact same medicene. Scientists may have to start over and figure out how to implement another ingredient that is similar to the Western Black Rhino's horns. You can infer that from the IUCN's warnings, the Javan Rhino from Asia is also about to retire. Both elephants' extinctions have the same cause,…
There are two types of jungles, one is what we call an urban jungle, and another is a land, which mainly consists of trees and other plants. But very soon, we will only be left with the urban jungle, because the number of trees left in this world is gradually decreasing to critical levels. Forests take up 31% of the Earth’s land, and the numbers are dropping. This is the impact of deforestation; we are losing our forests, our jungles, and our trees. Deforestation is done in many ways, including…