Radicalization

The Holocaust was a tragic event that took the lives of 11 millions Jews, homosexuals, disabled people and gypsies. Although a majority of the Jews killed during the Holocaust came from Germany, a good portion also came from other European countries including Poland, France, Austria and the Netherlands. The appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany in 1933 began the twelve-year period of torment for Jewish people who lived in Europe. There are many factors that led up to the…

“Someone said to me 'To you football is a matter of life or death! ' and I said 'Listen, it 's more important than that '. (Bill Shankly) Soccer is a sport that crosses boundaries and is played all around the world. It brings people together to enjoy the intensity of 90 minutes filled by passion and uncertainty of who will ultimate winner. Most of the people who watch soccer do it in a passive way as a source of mild entertainment, but there’s a growing minority of fans who have taking the…

Not Your Parent 's Kind of Protest Throughout history, the process of protest has influenced the present, the past and should continue to influence the future. Protest has helped create the world as we know it and has been a force that has undeniably changed the course of history. The Boston Tea Party protest, which helped form our nation, is an early example. The civil rights movement showed the world that with careful planning, change can be forced. Today 's current situation involving…

Radicalism: An Interpretation of the Religious History of Afro-American People (Orbis, second edition, 1983). Wilmore explores the historical struggle for freedom in African American religion during the antebellum and post-Civil War eras, the "DE radicalization" of the black church during the first half of the twentieth century, and the rejuvenation of social activism in African American religion as part of the civil right and Black Power movements. His book provides a moving chronicle,…

Another important aspect of globalization is immigration. Another major change brought about by globalization is immigration. As advances in transportation made the movement of goods easier, they also made the movement of labor easier. Immigrants make up a small, yet increasingly significant portion of the population, increasing from 2.6% in 1960 to 3.3% in 2015 (“International Migrants by Country of Destination, 1960-2015”). Nearly two thirds of them emigrated to Europe and Asia in 2015, while…

Before World War Two and the Holocaust, the world had no official term for the practices of ethnic cleansing or genocide. Before World War Two and the Holocaust, the world had no international court system, capable of holding people accountable for crimes against humanity. Before World War Two and the Holocaust, the world community was more or less in a state of anarchy as defined by Thomas Hobbes, as no major power claimed the world that Britain left for it. While the Second World War and the…

Terrorism has in the recent years turned out to be a significant threat to the human race. This menace impacts directly or indirectly on governments, individuals, organizations, economy and particularly vulnerable groups. The term terrorism refers to the utilization of brutality to scare a population or an administration thus influencing the political, ideological and religious change. Terrorism, as can be described in other words as psychological oppression, is a product of various populations…

group of men protested against parliaments Tea Act by throwing 92,600 lbs of tea into the Boston Harbor. This was their way of protesting parliament 's power to impose commercial monopolies upon them. The events that evening contributed to the radicalization of anti-Parliament protests, up and down the seaboard. The British response to those actions was the ordered closing of the port of Boston. This action incited a coordinated sequence of inter-colonial boycotts that made the expansion of…

1. In your text book, the 911 Commission Report suggested several reforms for restructuring government in the wake of 911 and has listed ten (10) recommendations. In this Question, you are to discuss each of the recommendations and were the recommendation’s successful or not. Do we need to make changes here and where to expand on these recommendations? The 9/11 Commission Report suggested several reforms for restricting government in the wake of 9/11 and listed ten recommendations as followed.…

Assess the impact of events such as 9/11, 7/7 and the Paris attacks on the prospects of ethnic minorities across Western societies. __________________________________________________________________________________ Multiculturalism has been happening for countless centuries, however the amount of it has drastically increased in volume since the post-war era, mainly as a result of refugee’s and issues that came along with the cold war. Since the first Iraq war, and general the modern…