Somalia

July 15, 1849 when the Habsburg Austrian Empire launched 200 pilotless balloons armed with bombs against the revolution-minded citizens of Venice. According to a July 18, 2013 survey, 61% of Americans supported drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Support spanned the political divide, including Republicans (69%), independents (60%), and Democrats (59%). The first targeted drone strike by the United States occurred on Feb. 4, 2002 in Afghanistan when a CIA Predator drone fired on a…

One example the Livia used in class was the image that was taken in Somalia of a starving child with a scavenging bird behind her; she said that this picture won a series of awards but the conflict that rises behind this image is that it makes the people of Somalia look like they are incapable of helping themselves. These images are regularly used in commercials that ask for individual’s money, which leaves people…

After the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003, a number of Sunni extremist groups, among them al Qaeda in Iraq, emerged to fight U.S. forces as well as Shiite civilians in an attempt to start a civil war. After a temporary defeat in 2006, al Qaeda in Iraq began to re-establish themselves within Iraqi prisons. When the 2011 revolt against the Assad regime in Syria, the group took advantage of the ensuing chaos and established a base of operation in northeast Syria. They also renamed…

Somalia is known as the horn of Africa with a huge culture and many subcultures within, where I’ll be focusing on Somali weddings. There are many important traditions that go into making this a special day for not only the bride and groom but the families as well. Many traditions may sound familiar with other cultures as there are many Islamic influences as it is the official religion of Somalia as well as western influences. In this subculture, I will discuss the values, norms, language, symbol…

In fact, several students have known soldiers that were stationed out in Somalia, which brings the book’s message even closer to home. After reading the novel Black Hawk Down, many students felt more educated about the average soldier’s life while also appreciating all of the sacrifices that were made , especially those of whom…

In foreign countries children are constantly put in danger of being blown up or shot repeatedly to death. Why are these children put in so much danger you may ask. The answer is that foreign countries and revolutionary groups often let children join their armies. Even worse is most of these groups purposely kidnap children for their armies despite the legal age to serve being 15. When these children are captured and taken to be put on trial for their crimes a great debate arises. Some people say…

chapter 12, Rawlence mentioned a history passage about the famine in southern Somalia. He said, “It was the worst famine in the region for decades. Up to 1.2 million people were at risk of starvation and 12 million needed food aid” (Rawlence 102). Refugees are dependent on the government when it comes to food supplies, there is no…

Did you know that, a kid in Somalia entered a child soldier group to protect himself from bullies, now the kid smokes and uses drugs and does not even remember about his family. Therefore, he now is one of the toughest kids in the area and the organization which recruited does not let him leave.Child soldiers are soldiers, which fight on combat between gangs or countries and they are forced to join. Mostly all end up dead or without one leg, for example a kid in Somalia was shot with an RPG in…

The death of the hundreds of thousands of Rwandan civilians is as much of the international community’s fault as the leaders of the genocide. There is evidence indicating that the UN was forewarned of the mounting genocide in Rwanda. According to declassified French documents, France had been informed of the mounting genocide from at least January 1993, more than a year before the Rwandan Genocide. Despite knowing this, French president François Mitterrand supported the Hutu leaders, who was…

In his book, After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War, author Douglas Kriner delves into the murky concept of congressional influence in the arena of the United States’ increasingly executive-driven military engagements. Kriner analyzes the ways, both formal and informal, that Congress exercises affect over presidential actions in the international sphere. The publication addresses the regularity with which Congress seeks to influence presidential conduct of major…