A New Place To Call Home Since the founding of the United States, immigration has been a government concern. The United States has had immigrants from various parts of the world, ranging from Hungary to Cuba (Singh). Now the United States appears to be taking in a significant amount of Syrians immigrants. This has caused a lot of conflict within our government and on the streets. Because of the unrest in the Middle East and shaky relations between the United States and that region, these…
It’s 1994, in the country of Rwanda; the Hutu’s and Tutsi’s, two ethnic groups are allies, but not for long. Mass killings abruptly begin, as the President of Rwanda is shot down from his plane. The Hutu’s and the Tutsi’s begin rallying against one another, eliminating each other aggressively (Pells). Hardship clouds over Rwandan citizens, causing every corner they turn to be unsafe. 800,000 people are slaughtered over three months, leaving each Rwandan citizen afraid of their own people and…
ISIS Indoctrination of Children ISIS, also known as IS or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, is a large and powerful terrorist group that originated from Iraq and Syria. Members in ISIS are known as jihadists. Jihad means “holy war” and is not a violent concept, but in this context, the word Jihad stands for people who are severely against nonbelievers. ISIS was founded in 1999 and is currently lead by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Very little is known about the ISIS leader except that he was born…
“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.” Those are words the late great Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the holocaust said in 1996. Now people of the United States are divided over the rejection of the refugees from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and Libya. People are comparing it to when the United states reject all of the Jews who escaped persecution in Germany. The United States was built on immigration. From the toys you give to your kids to the clothes you wear…
Chechnya, Libya, The Philippines, Sudan, Syria and Yemen”. (67) The ideology of the terrorism is creating fear, and usually against innocent people, or people who think and act in a different way of any ideology which terrorists believe. The main goal of terrorism is creating changes into the society, but using the violence, and most of the time, involving death and injures to innocent people. This is the case Al-Qaeda, and also ISIS, or Islamic State of Syria and Iraq, also as well-known as…
Richard Beer is originally from London, United Kingdom. He is a Word nerd, storyteller and Creative Director, who Loves creating content to touch people’s heart. The purpose of Beer’s video is to make people all over the world aware of the war in Syria, which has going on for over five years and has claimed the lives of more than a quarter of a million people, including children. Since mothers have maternal instincts, and they can not imagine their children being abused or their lives at risk,…
citizens from many nations to live in fear from what's coming next. Over the past few years the United States have been receiving threats from a militant group in the Middle East called ISIS. The group named ISIS stands for “ Islamic state of Iraq and Syria.” Citizens in the United States are scared and don’t understand why our country isn’t doing anything about it. The United States military should act more aggressively to stop the ongoing threats and attacks from ISIS because they’re growing…
Later on, I had to attend my first American school. Everything was so much different from what I was used to. The classrooms were bigger and more modern. In Syria, the students would stay in one place and the teachers would go from room to room. I was also not used to the idea of group activities and open discussions because in Syria it was strictly lecture style. The people here spoke an unfamiliar language to me and dressed differently. In this moment,…
is a good thing to show versatility, but shows uncertainty for the public. That is because the public do not know how he would respond to certain situation. For example, during his campaigning he renounced the use of violence on Syria but he then dropped a bomb on Syria in early April. Leaving the public in uncertainty is what he is doing wrong. In a word, Trump is pissing everyone off. There are countries who are vocal about their hatred of the United States and are putting their nuclear…
Seljuks were Turkic nomads from Turkmenistan, related to the Uighurs, who entered the Abbasid empire around 950 AD and gradually converted to Sunni Islam. By 1030 AD the Seljuks were beginning to try to get power for themselves, and they soon conquered the Ghaznavids (who were also Turkic) and controlled most of Persia (modern Iran). Their capital was at Isfahan. Like the Ghaznavids, the Seljuks spoke Persian and encouraged Persian culture. By 1055, the Seljuk king Togrul Beg had conquered Iraq…