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What if one day you had to move somewhere unfamiliar, was falsely accused of something you never did, and had to deal with race prejudice everyday? This was the injustice the Japanese Americans had to go through during WW II. When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 12/071941, the United States reaction took a very effective part in american history. The FBI started arresting Japanese American known as community leaders and were taken away from their families. President Roosevelt signed the…

The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang relates the invasion of Nanking by the Japanese army and narrates what the Japanese did to the Chinese army, citizens and other people of the city and how the different people acted during the event. Iris Chang's description of the Japanese soldiers, the Chinese, and the Westerners follow what Machiavelli, Locke, and Rousseau say about human nature. Their ideas on how people behave in the state of nature and Machiavelli's behaviors that leaders should exhibit…

Before I discuss how utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics would respond to what took place, I am first going to briefly describe the situation. “While most of the population slept during the night of December 3, 1984, a toxic cloud of over forty tons of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas escaped from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, central India. Heavier than air, the gas blanketed the slums surrounding the facility and spread over the city of 800,000 people. At least 2,000 died immediately…

“Hard Measures,” is a book written from the perspective of Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr. and can easily be categorized as the most controversial story told regarding the aggressive CIA actions that followed after the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States. As I began to read this book I was immediately able to see Jose’s desperate attempt to justify his actions as the former Chief of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center. My first question was why he felt so compelled to write a book…

Racial Profiling and Racism: A Current Issue When it comes to controversial topics, such as racial profiling and racism, is society the biggest cage when it comes to the basic rights deserved as equal humans? Starting from the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement and further on, the acceptance of different races and ethnicities has grown tremendously throughout the years. Yet as people we are faced with a question that we continue to ask ourselves: is it ethically and morally correct to treat…

include: standard guerilla tactics, robberies, bombings, murder, terrorist training camps, small-scale sea battles, ad hoc navy, and even anti-Tamil riots. Their tactics were under the group’s founder, Prabhakaran. So, far, LTTE has had 168 suicide attacks between 1980 and 2000. One of the main tactics that were used was the formation organization of gangs to project it’s influencing to ambuscade the government, which made them successful because they were smart enough to swarm the enemy and…

1. We celebrate the 16th anniversary whereby identification of a potential suspect became strictly prohibited in reportage. One security guard, Richard Jewell, exposed a bomb before detonation in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park of Atlanta. He was temporarily investigated as a culprit by the Federal Bureau of Investigation leading to nationwide publishers to aggressively dispatch personal records. Jewell’s background had been exhaustively scrutinized to bring outside interest as the rigorous…

Throughout the whole of history, especially that of modernity, people have been blaming others, even their own neighbors, for their problems. Arthur Miller lived in a time of monumental hysteria. The “Red Scare” devoured the lives of many innocent Americans, effectively destroying many reputations. Miller lived in a time of deceit and lies, and so therefore took it upon himself to share his own story through the story of people that were once in a similar state to his own. The novel The…

terrorist attacks were indisputably one of the most horrifying events that has happened on United States soil and will forever be remember in history. But some experts has suggested that it could have been avoided if only pilots were allowed to arm themselves on duty. Many people has tried to mimic the event and try to see and prove if this theory is true or not. There seems to be a lot of holes in this theory that has to be filled in order to ascertain that in fact the 9/11 terrorist attacks…

The Unsolved Mystery of D.B. Cooper I.Introduction A.Imagine being a flight attendant, now picture receiving a note from a passenger which indicates that there is a bomb on the plane; this is what happened to Tina Mucklow, a flight attendant and also one of the main witnesses of the D.B. Cooper Case. B.The unsolved case of D.B. Cooper is one of the most infamous hijackings of American History. C.Not only that, it’s also one of the largest and most difficult conundrums ever for the FBI.…