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diametrically opposed to each other. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s approach was more organized and civil and they achieve their goals through organized protest and sit ins. The Black Panthers in contrast, took a more militant…

advocating the status quo, extremest groups based on hatred and anger existed on the playing field. Malcom X, a radical Black activist, advocated a violent uprising by Blacks against Whites (in essence, "Kill Whitey!). There was also the Black Panthers, a militant Black organization that was prepared to seemingly start another civil war with all the weaponry it managed to procure. On the other side of the spectrum, there were the Ku Klux Klan and other White hate groups. What all these…

1 CITE WHY IRAN). It could mean the complete opposite. In addition, Iran shows retaliation against the United States, Israel and other states by supporting terrorist groups and militants throughout the Middle East (CITE). This definitely makes Iran questionable with their intentions because the state is already nervous about being undermined from others. The Iranian government appears to support the use of nuclear weapons in order…

1) Describe some of the similarities and differences between fascism and communism. Be specific. Fascism is a militant governmental political group that stressed allegiance to the nation and compliance to the leader. Fascism didn’t have a distinctively explained ideology or organization, which is different than communism. They did partake in similar concepts. They advocated for a radical type of nationalism. They promised adherence to an autocratic leader. Both structures were controlled by…

On the 11th of September 2001, the British Prime Minister Tony Blair stated: "This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. […] we, […] are going to have to come together and fight it […]."(BBC News) How should we then fight “the new evil”? This question is bound to loom large as a conundrum for humanity. KENNEDY Odede, founder and chief executive of Shining Hope for Communities, and number of others uphold that the indigence of the environment proves to be the breeding ground of…

without causing injuries or death. As with most terrorist groups the ETA had strong willed people and were not known for compromise. They had agreed to start a terrorist campaign, but could not agree on a single strategy. They split into a more militant group the ETA-M and broke away from the ETA in 1974. The ETA alternated between violence and political action. They relied financially on robberies, kidnappings and “revolutionary taxes” which they extorted from businessmen. They continued…

Black September ID Black September can be referenced to either the Jordanian civil war, or the Palestinian terrorist organization. The civil war in Jordan took place between Palestinian groups and Jordanian military with the majority of the violence happening in September of 1970, resulting in the name “Black September.” The terrorist group that formed almost a year after the civil war referred to themselves as Black September and was mainly known for the killing of eleven Israeli athletes…

Throughout life, major events that occur are often a result of a series of built up incidents and a single action taken place can cause immense devastation, yet reversible. Genocide is officially defined by the United Nations as committing an act with the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group...” the Rwandan Genocide exemplifies this perfectly. The tension between the majority Hutus and minority Tutsis who are the two most common ethnic groups…

discrimination in employment and a minimum wage increase. The march portrayed the movement’s potential and the unity between blacks and whites. However. it also showed the movement’s limits. Organizers pressed John Lewis, leader of SNCC, to take out militant messages from his speech. Despite the critical role of women in this movement, all of the speakers were…

Screaming Queens is a powerful, moving documentary that exposes an event that was lost in history. Not a lot of people have heard the story of the riot at Compton’s Cafeteria. This event has been overshadowed by others such as Stonewall, but that does not make it any less significant or important. It took one determined woman, Susan Stryker to track down and uncover the true story of what happened one night in August 1996. The riot took place at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco.…