Somalia

of the Middle East to East Asia. When these nationalities are lumped together as one (Arabs), little attention is given the fact that the Middle East is composed of 22 nations of North Africa which include Morocco, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Somalia and not all people living in these countries are not necessarily Arabs or Muslims (244). Unfortunately, in America and Europe the words “Arab” and “Muslim” often take on a similar meaning, and have a negative connotation ever since the 9/11…

air-to-air missile or other types of guided munitions. Drone strikes are mostly carried out of the US military in countries like Pakistan and Yemen. Recently, the U.S. military killed more than militants in an airstrike on an extremist group’s camp in Somalia. Drone Strikes are mainly used for uses like destroying buildings and vehicles. This method of killing is considered highly controversial in this day and age. These strikes began when President George…

The Cold War long defined American foreign policy. American foreign policy was forced to embody American national identity by advocating for economic freedom and countering the Soviet Union across the globe. Once the Cold War ended, the U.S. faced a world with new actors and new challenges. This new world necessitated a new foreign policy as well. After the Cold War, U.S. foreign policy struggled to meet different challenges, but its core objective of spreading American ideology remained. The…

During this part of Black Hawk Down, the rangers and the D-Boys are still trying to get to the second crashed black hawk in Mogadishu, Somalia. They have lost their humvee convoy and are traveling on foot to the destination to try to get the survivors. They are being pinned down because of how many Somali militia soldiers there are and how they are all over the place. The Sammies are shooting in every direction at them and there is close to no cover for the running American soldiers. This…

lieve is that sometimes it is necessary. Those who tend to believe such commonly agree on the thought that one side of the battlefront deserves it. This thought is often reflected in films, media, and other social mediums. While films claim to be anti-war, they subliminally invoke emotions that promote war. Kurt Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse Five gives his take on war being represented through a secondary medium. Vonnegut believes that war, despite its purpose should not be revered as the effects…

Causation of this will inevitably create new challenges faced by women and their young such as, foraging for water and food, plotting them in the middle of another vulnerable situation of being exposed to more violence. Without money, transportation, and connections to resources, women in the Democratic Republic of Congo are left with no way to escape the terrors. When the United States led the invasion to attack and ultimately provide the fatality of Saddam Hussein, this imprisoned many women…

The sub-Saharan is located in Africa that lies south of the Sahara desert. The sub-regions of sub-Saharan consist of Somalia, Dijibouti, Comoros, and Mauritania. The offical federal republic of somila is a country located in the horn of Africa. Ethopia is to the west, Dijibouti to the north east, the gulf of aden to the north, the indian ocean to the east, and kenya to the southeast. Somila's population consist of 10.8 million people, and most of those people are muslims. The offical republic…

the war is like. This wonderful amazing book is called Black Hawk Down. In the book it doesn't just explain how we were in war but it shows how both the American and the Somalis side of the story. What makes the author so amazing is that he went to Somalia to gather all of his information and used it so that we don't look bad, and at the same time the Somalis don't look bad either. This is important because it allows you to see that we are not always the guilty one and sometimes we are the ones…

Why do we help people in need? Is it because humans are inherently compassionate creatures or is it because people crave positive reciprocity. Regardless of the actual answer many people in the world lend their hands to people in need in order to give them the support needed to overcome a difficult situation. When one helps someone in need they help facilitate positive encouragement which is needed when someone is down on their luck. It may be the intrinsic feeling of compassion within humans…

Since the inception of drone usage, they have been used by the military for many tactical, surveillance, and strategic purposes. The use of drones in wars has helped America ever since the first usage in 1995. Drones are an incredible way to locate and track terrorist groups and fight wars off the ground. They have helped the United States locate some of the worst public enemies in the world and annihilate them. The use of predator drones has helped the United States in…