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    taking their religion to the extreme because, in today’s modern society, ISIS believes they are a “major” threat to society. Yet, are they as big a threat as they may seem? ISIS has one weakness that they expose: to receive attention from the United States. ISIS wants the U.S. to recognize them, but since they are not a threat, President Obama will not give them importance because they truly do not do any harm. Al Qaeda on the other hand, was a major threat. They wanted to create a “Taliban”…

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    The Land of the Unfree The word “patriot” has changed in meaning throughout time; however it has always seemed to be defined as someone that vigorously supports their country. Within the last few decades terrorism has become a major issue and if it wasn’t for the creation of the USA Patriot Act in 2001, by President George W. Bush, we probably would have had a larger amount of terrorist attacks then we actually had. The Patriot Act has helped monitor foreign communications, as well as…

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    9/11 Reflection Paper

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    By the time I was born the idea of terrorism was a bit more common and imperceptibly more everyday. So for me learning about 9/11 wasn’t too shocking, I do feel that it was so wrong and unfair, then again my feelings can 't go any deeper because I was born into the world where the biggest terrorism event already happened. People had already been shocked and to some there can not be anything else in the world that can…

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    Case Study Of Al-Qaeda

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    war on terror has cost countries trillions of dollars. Terrorist organizations love making their enemies waste money. It is part of their strategy to “strangle the enemy financially.” As explained in the strategy section, terrorist understand that terrorism is tough to counter. It is like fighting ghost, because they are able to easily blend in. Considering all the money that the U.S has to allocate due to Al-Qaeda, again it can be seen as an achievement in part of Al-Qaeda. Out of the four…

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    point that I have learned this week is that terrorism can’t happen without the proper funding. Some terrorist groups raise money through employment at their job, while others have fundraisers and take charity donations. Don’t be fooled, most of these charity donations are a scam. Money laundering is one of the most popular ways that terrorist and criminals receive income. The difference is that terrorist will launder money to support their cause for terrorism, and criminals will launder money to…

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    First you must, define terrorists. Next you must, locate terrorist and their organizations. Lastly, destroy terrorists and their organization. Once a terrorist, terrorist group, or terrorist organization is found the United States must react quickly and efficiently. they must use every means available to disturb, annihilate, and end these acts of terror. The ultimate goal is defeat. We must come up with a defense strategy to hurt these organizations. “Our [enemy] is proactive…

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    The Problem and Purpose of this study The purpose of the study is to find out how different types and combinations of interpersonal violence relate to a women’s mental health status. This study focuses on how how experiences with sexual assault, physical assault, and witnessing a serious injury or death throughout a woman’s life are associated with increased problems of mental health issues and substance abuse problems. This study addressing an experience of one aspect of interpersonal…

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    especially in the Middle East countries and the EU. The PKK is also active in eastern part of Turkey and Northern Iraq. The PKK was formed in 1974 inspired by the Marxist-Leninist ideology, till date the insurgent organisation aims to create an independent state for…

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    Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work anymore...there's always been a lottery," (Jackson 4). Old Man Warner discusses that “there’s nothing but trouble” in unfollowing the traditional lottery. He also states that discontinuing the tradition will bring dire consequences to the…

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    Fraud Triangle The Fraud Triangle Theory created by Donald Cressey explains the three elements needed for fraud to be committed. These elements include opportunity, pressure or perceived pressure and rationalization. In the very publicized FIFA court case that included charges such as fraud, racketeering and bribery these elements were clearly present. According to The U.S Department of Justice (2015) , there was a total of nine FIFA Officials and five Corporate Marketing Executives who…

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