Jordan Belfort

In conclusion, it can be said that the Entebbe Raid was definitely a justifiable act. The Israeli Government had little choice but to rescue the hostages at Entebbe Airport by force as the lives of the hostages were in imminent danger and they were in a precarious situation. The government feared a repeat of the Munich massacre after which they had received much criticism from their people for not sending troops to rescue the Israeli hostages. They could not afford to make the same mistake…

When life gives you lemons what do you do with them? The obvious and cliche answer would be you make lemonade. But what happens when life gives you tasks or burdens that prove themselves to be nothing but a pain and a struggle? You fight them because that is your only chance of getting rid of them. Perhaps one of the best examples of this would be the partitioning of Israel in 1948. Before 1948 there was no country known as Israel, there was no state for Jews, there was no place that all…

Today in America there are many things occurring that should be taken care of immediate. As a war is currently going on in Syria, many people including children have been forced to leave their country. These people are also known to be Syrian refugees. There has been debates in the United States on whether or not we should accept Syrian refugees because there might be a possibility that they might be related to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria also known as ISIS. ISIS has threatened the…

Kennedi Dodrill Mrs. Tina Simmons Honors English 11 21 September 2015 Annotated Bibliography Source 1: Background Information New York Times. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Sept. 2015. . Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank were, at one point, collectively know as Palestine.The right to own the land is being fought over by the Israeli Jews and the Palestinian Arabs, who are also known as the Muslims.After the Arab-Israeli War of 1947 was over, the land of Palestine was split into the three regions, Israel,…

Numerous social issues are spreading rapidly around the world, but the social issue of child soldiers has had a drastic increase in recent years. Currently, about 250,000 child soldiers exist worldwide (“Child Soldiers” World Vision). Although the recruitment of child soldiers has existed for several years, currently in various regions rebellious organizations along with military forces of countries have increased the recruitment of child soldiers. Specifically, children in the Middle East face…

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.…