Talia al Ghul

Introduction In 1916, Pancho Villa conducted a raid that killed 18 Americans and in the process enraged Americans to the extent that a war with the United States and Mexico became an extremely real possibility. 500 Mexican Guerrilla soldiers crossed the United States border and brought down terror in a small New Mexico town. Many do not understand why he was considered to be a hero when in reality he had killed countless people. Today, there is even a state park, a café a lounge and a motel…

Ask Me No Questions Final After the attacks on September 11, a number of people who lived in the United States were faced with infringements on their rights in the United states. As Americans, a number of us just sat and watched this take place while those who we should have taken worry for were nearly prosecuted. Marina Budhos, the author of Ask Me No Questions gives us insight to the consequences that this had on the Hossain family, who originate from Bangladesh. This book is an accurate…

In the documentary film Collapse (2009) by Michael Ruppert, he explains how human civilization is heading more and more to our own doomsday. Michael Ruppert is considered a conspiracy theorist. He gives a very detailed explanation about how we have reached our peak in almost all of our recourses. As a matter of fact, he states several times that we are running out of oil in our society which will bring a collapse to us worldwide since we depend on it so much. Also, we are running out of money…

Background/ Early Years Louis “Louie” Zamperini, “the son of Italian immigrants, who had come into the world of Olean, New York on January 26, 1917” was “eleven and a half pounds of baby under black hair as coarse as barbed wire” (5 Hillenbrand). The Zamperinis soon decided to move to Torrance, California when Louie was three for his father’s job as a railroad electrician. Louie grew up in Torrance with his parents, older brother, and two younger sisters. Louie was the second of four…

A suicide bomber is a person, a man or woman, who execute bomb attacks in different areas, and they know that they will kill themselves in the process of doing so. Suicide bombers are also called homicide bombers. In the history of suicide bombing, people have been used by other people as a building block of their success and are thought and treated to be living tools (Lewis, 2013). They usually target places where there are numerous people and then blow themselves up, causing mass panic all…

history of the city during this Gangster Tour of Chicago. You and your friends will dive deep into the infamous history of gangsters in America 's heartland. Chicago has a long history of organized crime and is famously home to the American mafia figure Al Capone. During this walking tour, your guide will take you through a chronological account of Chicago 's stories gangster past and sites. You 'll hear and learn all about the stories and secrets of Chicago dating back to 1850.…

the bombing of Marine barracks in Beirut. Reagan, later, sent weapons onto Afghanistan. Which, within weeks of receiving, the mujahedeen and their Arab supporters started firing at Soviet aircrafts. This lead for Arabia’s Secret Service, Prince Turki al-Faisal, to request that Usama bin Laden systematize a Saudi response to the Soviet’s…

The Land of the Hypocrisy and the Home of the Ignorance Arundhati Roy, a well-known Indian author, spoke on the issue of America’s relation with foreign countries and immigrants in her famous speech, “Come September”, about a year after the devastating 9/11 terrorist attacks. Although she briefly mentions that event, she first starts out by warning the audience of the dark subjects that lie ahead of them, followed by her thesis, which states, “I believe that the accumulation of vast unfettered…

Atul Gawande’s Look on the Normalcy of Terrorism in The United States in His Article “Why Boston’s Hospitals Were Ready” Atul Gawande, a literary writer and doctor in Boston, portrays the devastation of the bombings at the Boston Marathon and the heroic acts performed by emergency medical teams, nurses, and doctors alike. However, there is one primary element that Gawande focuses on throughout the article: terrorism is becoming a normalcy in The United States. To explain further, since 9/11…

Violence is the aggressive behaviour showcased by an individual. In general, being violent will always create more problems hence, lead to self-destruction. In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s the European especially the British were at peak of its power. They were controlling half of the world. By that time Africa was one of the major continents that was colonized by the Europeans. However, there were people who was very upset with the practice of colonization, which they reacted to with…