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that we live in. There are constant threats to our country, our way of life and to our allies. When faced with the threats today, most people automatically think of Al Qaeda and or ISIS/ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria/Islamic State of Iraq and Levant). This is who we are fighting on the bigger scale today. There are other threats as well and they are Lone Wolf Terrorist acting in the name of Islam here in our country, concerned attacks that could happen to our nations critical…

Council” as over nine-hundred abbots and over four-hundred bishops attended the event at the Lateran palace in Rome. Some of these clergy men were “coming from as far afield as the Latin empire of Constantinople and crusader-held territories in the Levant (MP p. 139)” due to the importance of the event. The council, or synod as it sometimes is referred, was executed as a means to strengthen the influence of Christendom and the Catholic faith as held by the medieval papacy. In order to accomplish…

Rachel Samuels 001665731 HIST 1390 Professor Burds Israeli Espionage Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel’s Secret Wars examines the history and exploits of Israeli intelligence from the country’s founding in 1948 to today. Instead of moving through the history chronologically, the book looks at the history through various stories and examples of intelligence successes and failures. The book also gives insight into the other major and minor organizations that play key roles in providing…

Taylor Levant FMS 508 Defying the Odds: The Defiant Ones and Interracial Buddy Films Audiences have long been fascinated with interracial buddy films. From comedy to sci-fi, moviegoers love the opposites attract chemistry that these on screen homosocial relationships spark, as well as the stories they tell about men and the times in which they live. Though interracial films are commonplace today, the genre didn’t even exist until The Defiant Ones was released in 1958. Directed by Stanley…

Based on Akins, the evolution of learning theory said that all social behavior is learned, including crime. He identify social learning theory in four key elements. First, differential association refers of individual learning deviant behavior from their close friends or family. (Akins & Winfree, 136) One example, individuals that grow up with a close friend that is involved in terrorism behavior is more likely that he or she follow the same line of terrorism behavior. Second, imitation is one…

Introduction In 2011, the people of Syria lead protests inspired by the Arab Spring, which quickly lead to bloody civil war. Since the war in Syria began, an estimated 13.5 million Syrians have sought refuge in neighboring countries and further (UNHCR, 2016). The United States has welcomed only a small percentage of these migrants, and recent terror attacks has stirred fear of these refugees to the American people. Current political elections have focused heavily on Syrian refugees and some…

“Everything is happening at once and everything is happening to everybody” is a quote from the World Service Authority’s article “World Citizenship Defined” (Lechner & Boli 492). This quote means to say that what happens in the world affects everyone in one way or another. In a sort of butterfly effect phenomenon, the civil war in the Syrian Arab Republic and the ensuing flight of several million Syrians across Europe has affected the economies of several countries, albeit in different ways and…

The United States occupied Haiti from 1915-1934. The period of American occupation in Haiti intended to bring positive change to the nation. One of their aims was to bring a democratic government to Haiti. The success at which the Americans achieve their goal is debatable. Though the American aim to bring an independently functioning Haitian government may seem well, that was not the whole picture of why the United States occupied Haiti. Today the political stability has not improved and is…

An example would be when he didn’t go into India first but instead spent years to secure Asia Minor and the Levant rather than strike deep into mainland Asia immediately, He did that in part to make sure that the Persians would not be able to pursue his trade and logistical ties back to Europe. Little by little he made his way into “the western sections of the…

Our Current President, Barack Obama, has had some controversial policies over his two term period. Policies that have many citizens wondering what exactly he is doing and of the ways he is implementing them. Some of these policies include Obama Care, Fast Tracking, Withdrawal of United States Troops in Iraq, cash for clunkers and the shutdown of Guantanamo Bay. These policies are not necessarily bad ideas, they are simply bad implementations and have consequences that I do not believe were…