September 30

Pan Am Flight 299, August 3rd 1970 (Suarez). A man approaches a flight attendant and states that he wants to go to Cuba, he then pulls out a gun and bottle that he says is filled with explosives, and threatens to set them off if he does not go to the cockpit. The Premier of Cuba, Fidel Castro, was waiting when the plane landed at Havana’s airport. The only people to exit the aircraft were Captain Augustus Watkins and the Hijacker. Castro tours the exterior of the plane for around 40 minutes,…

ALIT 402 - FINAL TERM PAPER September 11, 2001 (A Tuesday) and How I Became Interested in Timothy McVeigh and Vice Versa from Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated by Gore Vidal “I’m not a conspiracy theorist. I’m a conspiracy analyst,” explained one of the most controversial writers, Gore Vidal. Gore Vidal was not labeled as a journalist alongside with his accomplishments as a great American writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and actor. Most commonly…

However, later in the novel when Oskar visits the Empire State Building he imagines how a terrorist would fly a plane into the building and how he would be able to see the pilot’s face, “who would be a terrorist” (244). There is no further description of the pilot, other than that he is a terrorist and that his eyes would tell Oskar that he hates him (244). Out of context, the terrorist could be of any descent because of the lack of description. In context with the aforementioned anxieties,…

Reflective Essay How Terrorism Effects Islam Reputation A lot of people think of Muslims as bad people, terrorists, and somehow, every time a terrorism happens the news most of the time without knowing what happens they Muslims did this, and when someone from other religions kills an innocent Muslim, somehow he is either a hero or just nobody cares about the poor guy that got murdered, they blow themselves to kill other Muslim people, and they call themselves Muslim's but what I'm going to…

"A conspiracy theory, Uscinski and Parent explain, is defined by four characteristics: “(1) a group (2) acting in secret (3) to alter institutions, usurp power, hide truth, or gain utility (4) at the expense of the common good”" (Shermer). There are multiple aspects of a conspiracy theory explained in the quote above but the most intriguing one is about people hiding the truth and gaining utility. Take for example the tragedy of Kurt Cobain and how his wife may have hired someone to kill him.…

Three hours in, three hours more. Inside this metal death trap called an airplane sits me and three hundred others. This flight to Ireland had me anxious from the minute I had been told we were taking this trip. I understood that the overall trip would be amazing, but my enthusiasm was masked by evident fear, the fear of flying. It was not necessarily the fear of flying in a plane, as I had done that twice already. Likely, it was the concern of flying over water that terrified me. My fear is…

The column “The Power of Good” by Ben Shapiro published by TownHall.com on October 04, 2017, focuses on the good acts that arose from the tragic mass shooting in Las Vegas. Shapiro, a political columnist, responds to the massacre at a concert in Las Vegas to highlight the good that can come from a horrible event. Shapiro uses his diction to conceive vivid descriptions, first-hand interviews, and malicious events that contrast with his opinion to present it as fact to advocate his point that…

Osama Bin Laden was the world’s most wanted terrorist; he masterminded the September 11 terrorist attacks and led the infamous al-Qaeda terrorist network. He thus became the symbol of Islamic terrorism as he called for attacks on the United States, its allies, and the west in general until his death in 2011. For many people event today, he remains the epitome of terrorism and its evils. However, according to the case study “Bin Laden Justifies Terrorism,” Bin Laden believed that his tactics of…

Criminals and Terrorist have similarities in the way they plan to commit crimes yet, there poses a distinct difference in the act of motivation. Criminals are usually motivated by greed; whereas, Terrorist are motivated by religious and political ideologies, which encompasses short and long-term goals (Clarke, R.V. & Newman, G. R., 2008). Some of the key components that are considered by Criminals and Terrorist include, the target of choice, the method and tools required to perform the act, and…

forces from Afghanistan, the U.S. discontinued its support of the mujahideen immediately thereafter leaving a political void. By 1996 the Taliban established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, which would serve as headquarter for al-Qaeda. The September 11 terrorist attacks coordinated by al-Qaeda in 2001 would mark the beginning of the United States’ War on Terror. In the wake of the attacks, George W. Bush delivered an ultimatum to the Taliban government to turn over Osama bin Laden and other…