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    The Eastern Juggernauts Terrorism is like a forest fire; if you let it burn the fire spreads rapidly without concern for harming humans that get in its way. Terrorism is defined by four major goals. As stated in Terrorism the Bottom Line the first goals is “To bring awareness to an alleged grievance by performing shocking acts that create attention.”. The second is “To use the media to maximize people’s knowledge of the cause.”. The third goal is “To influence the public’s reaction to acts…

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    Opportunity Commission. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Nov. 2016. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 prohibits the discrimination of pay based on sex. An employer must pay an individual based on skill, performance, and effort in the given field of occupation. Subsection one states that three exceptions are made when it comes to pay: seniority, merit, or quality of production. Subsection two act says that no organization representing a labor force can cause or provoke an employer to discriminate against a worker.…

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    1.1 Occurrences Once the underlying issues become intolerable to the aggressor, the situation escalates and they generate a plan to either harm others or themselves. This plan is normally executed using a weapon in the case of mass murders. These events occur in many different places. The aggressor chooses a place that links them to the source of their problems. For example, in the case of Columbine, the aggressors shot up the school that victimized them. The people that bullied them attended…

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    Supporters, planners and perpetrators of terrorist activities, women have been involved in terrorism since a long time. Traditionally perceived as victims of violence, women have not been identified as key players until the late 1970s. Important protagonists in the conflict across the world, women have carried suicide attacks and hold operational positions in some groups. The masculinity of armed conflicts and the gradual modernization of gender roles in societies conditioned women roles’ in…

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    Boko Haram On January 20th, Boko Haram walked into a Nigerian Village, raiding, and eventually burning it to the ground. The attack was recorded to have taken 65 lives, but the people of Dalori Nigeria, reported as many as 100 casualties, and abducted many more. Boko Haram is a radical Islamic group. Boko Haram is a terrorist origination operating primarily in Nigeria. Founded in 2002 by Muhammad Yusuf, the organizations reasoning for the attacks are the historical imbalance between the north…

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    The Irish Republican Army’s Struggle The IRA or Irish Republican Army. The IRA was founded in 1917 and their main goal was to unite Northern Ireland (which belongs to the UK) with Ireland. They tried to do this through suppression, violence and, assassinations to cause fear and panic. They usually targeted British governmental figures but have also targeted agents from British intelligence agencies like MI5 (Irish Republican Army And Censorship). In 1969, the IRA split into the Official IRA…

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    Terrorism In Canada

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    It is not a delicate subject but unfortunately on the face of reality is that their terrorist groups, called the Levant and Middle Eastern groups called the Islamic State of Iraq that engage in extremist and violent acts to promote their causes in order to gain supporters to their ideology. Ironically, these groups are neither a state nor an Islamic one by their titles, but rather called as Daesh by the Arabic tongue. The fundamental ideology among them is to encourage hateful providing…

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    Bias Stereotypes

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    Reporting News – The Consequences of Stereotypes News media is fundamentally the main source of information for many worldwide. A simple yet powerful tool that can shape our values and beliefs. Unfortunately, with this comes various consequences as the media, in many aspects, has biased power. The news item used in this essay is a 2015 piece on Refugees presented by Fox News (The real story of Syrian refugees). The station is recognized for its Republican biased and stereotypical reporting. In…

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    There are many different types of mass destruction that have and can kill individuals. The four chemical agents include nerve, blood, choking, and blistering agents. The first type of well-known chemical agent is nerve agents. Nerve agents affects individual’s nervous system within the body and that is how it gets its name. Nerve agents were heavy used during the second World War (“Nerve Agents,”2017). According to “Nerve Agents” (2017), nerve agents are within the group of organo-phosphorus…

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    The Case for Torture People struggle to determine the acceptability of torture. Each one has his opinion regarding torture depending on his point of view. Sometimes the importance of information outweighs the importance of morals. Therefore, it is important to put aside morals and sympathy especially in situations where thousands of innocent lives are at stake. Saving many lives at the expense of a single individual who is orchestrating matter is more permissible.Torture, an advanced…

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