Near East

The Spread of Islam: From Muhammad to Empire The Islamic culture grew in many different ways, two completely opposite ways of convincing converts to join the Islamic faith came into play, peace and destruction. Conversely, possible converts and others found the culture interesting, as their peaceful nature attracted many from afar and people were swayed by the culture. The very intricate trade routes made by the Islamic empire helped possible converts to see the aspects of the…

Introduction: During the 1100-1300s, the Middle Eastern Middle Ages Empire emerged from Arabia, and the Islamic forces conquered much of the Eastern Empire and Persia. During this time, the Eastern Middle Ages progressed rapidly and they were well advanced in terms of medicine, logistics and technology. The Western Middle Ages were restricted from advancing, and they gathered much of their knowledge from the Eastern Empire. As a result, the Eastern Middle Ages became substantially more advanced…

The Middle East has experienced centuries of foreign intervention, mostly for control of the resources within the region. From the Crusades, to the World Wars and eventually to the current events in Syria, foreign nations have interfered with the social, economic, and government affairs for their own gain. Specifically, this paper will argue that during times of progress and modernization these foreign nations took advantage of Middle Eastern nations, such as Egypt, Syria, Persia, and the…

or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has been growing into the public eye, whether it be on social media or in the news. The notorious terrorist group, calls itself an Islamic Caliphate and is steadily gaining more and more control of the Middle East. Bombings, beheadings, and massacres have built up the Islamic State’s notorious reputation. With every public execution, a growing group of people have been starting to associate all Muslims with extremist groups such as ISIS. While the Islamic…

summer of 1961, more than 200,000 East Germans had defected to West Germany, increasing the tension between the East and the West to a level that an outbreak of violence was close to occurring. The supporters of the wall said that the wall helped prevent German neo-Nazis from move onto the East. Also, the supporters saw the wall as a sign of the division of Germany and hoped for peaceful negotiations to occur. Those who opposed the wall said that it was a sign that East Germany was going…

The Berlin Wall was a barrier that separated the west side of Berlin from the east side of Berlin. The wall was built in 1961, and torn down in 1989 (History.com Staff, 2016). The Berlin Wall was built to keep the fascists of West Berlin out of East Berlin, and to make sure that the fascists had no influence on the socialist state of East Berlin (History.com Staff, 2016). Berlin was in the heart of the portion of Germany controlled by the Soviets, or as Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev put it,…

Israel. Jordan. Syria. Egypt. Words commonly associated with the Middle East, but there is more in common with the countries than usually thought of. All four countries are accountable for the events of the Six-Day War. The Six-Day War was fought because of the evoking expressions over the land in Israel, including Jerusalem. The Six-Day War was beneficial to the Israeli state in many ways that helped them. By the end of the war, the Arab nation was defeated by Israel. Israel gained the land…

some point in each characters story. Some examples include the water in the bath tub, the water in the tap dance scene, and the water in the bucket of water where the one character almost drown. Along with each of these instances of water a death or near death experience followed. In the bath tub, the one character attempted suicide to escape the voices in her head. The one was blatantly almost drowned to death in the one scene. In the dance off scene, the tap dance in the water was followed by…

But how do you overcome this fear of death? It is impossible to face death so that is out of the question. Encountering a near death experience sounds like it would only make matters worse. Encourage myself to die; chances are I wouldn 't live to see the results. Being around death to get use to it, seems defective already. The solution of getting rid my fear seemed scarce…

Many of us view loss in a very limited way. We see it as the end of something, period. Seeing things in such a black and white way, i.e., a beginning and end, right and wrong, shadow and light, is at times helpful. But it can also be limiting and may bring unnecessary pain. The limiting perspective that may come about from seeing life in this way also brings about a certain amount of expectation. We assume that because it happened a specific way last time it will happen that way again. And when…