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Strained positions for long hours, sleep deprivation and waterboarding, with the occasional punch or slap, may sound worth it in order to save thousands of innocent Americans lives from the ongoing war of terror. It is a known fact that the American government used the term “enhanced interrogation” loosely in order to cover up their questionable actions to get any little piece of information about any terrorist motives with torture. Enhanced interrogation has been described as systematic torture…

Heroic First Responders On the tenth anniversary of the attacks on September 11, the most important people were not invited to the ceremony. The first responders that were present on 9/11 were not invited. Days before the ceremony, “No Firemen at Ground Zero This 9/11” by Michael Burke was published discussing the importance of the first responders, how much they should be respected and how they need be invited to the anniversary ceremony. He felt as if that they needed more recognition than…

No Hero’s at Ground Zero In the article, “ No Firemen at Ground Zero This 9/11?”, Michael Burke reaches out to the influential people of Wall Street to get their support. The tenth anniversary of 9/11 was held at Ground Zero and Mayor Bloomberg claimed there was no room for the firemen, yet he invited politicians. September 11, 2001 was an unimaginable event, and the firemen and first responders of New York were heroic and they are more deserving than anyone to be at the tenth anniversary.…

Adam Gopnik in the article, “The City and the Pillars”, explains that there are different methods of coping when reacting to a tragedy like the one that occurred on September 11th, 2001. Gopnik supports his explanation by using extended metaphors, rhetorical questions, and allusions to describe the moments leading up to the attack, and the attack itself. The author’s purpose is to portray different forms of grieving in order to show people vary in response to catastrophic events. The author…

Stevie Matthews November 12, 2017 This paper will be a critique about the book Terrorism and the Politics of Fear by David L Altheide. The critique of the book will be extremely itemized and I will likewise give understanding about the gathering of people the book was gone to for. All through this book it discusses social power. It clarifies how the media can assume an essential part with regards to developing social life. Fear is one of the scariest themes to examine to anybody. With regards…

The two story lines between the movie “13 Hours: Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” and the novel “Lord of the Flies” both share similar plot characteristics such as survival and bravery. The main characters are put into unpredictable situations throughout the story and are forced to overcome the conflicts given the circumstance and fix the situation by working with each other and figuring out ways of surviving. In the events of the movie “13 Hours: Secret Soldiers of Benghazi”, 6 ex-military…

Attacked on the United states aviation as always been a target for terrorist to carry out their violence disasters exploit against the United States calling fear and economy breakdown. And of such attacked was the Richard Reid failed shoe plot. Richard Reid board flight 63 an American Airlines flight carrying 197 people from Paris, France to Miami, United states on December 22, 2001 with sophisticated bombs made of plastic explosive, detonating cord, a homemade detonator and a safety fuse with…

“Guilty”. Guilty: it was that one, six letter word that would forever shake and destroy Adnan Syed’s entire world. In an instance, he would go from a high school honours student with a propitious track career to just another name on the long list of the nearly ten thousand Americans who are wrongly convicted each year. Adnan is innocent, and Serial, a popular podcast series narrated by Sarah Koenig, puts light on Adnan’s tragic story of how such a promising young man can be stripped of his…

Political extremes have always been a part of the American system, but when these outliers are allowed to take center stage it can cause a multitude of problems. These extremists pray upon Americans fears often prompting mass hysteria. In his book, American Hysteria, Andrew Burt explains why these hysterias occur and uses five historical examples. His thesis is that political extremism is used as a coping mechanism for Americans who have lost social status and their sense of national identity…

In 2008, a woman from Anderson, Indiana set fire to her ex’s clothes and burned his storage unit. There was “more than $100,000 in damage” (NBC). The woman’s ex most likely did not do anything to deserve this and she was simply just overreacting. Naturally, society expects the girl to get over her ex and move onto another guy; in extreme circumstances, the woman will not move on, but instead kill herself. Welcome to The Aeneid: Book four. Written by Virgil in 19 BC, the twisted love story of…