Tamil people

On a Saturday morning I decided to do a family tree project for my English class. On one of the websites I went to an ad popped up on the screen telling me I can learn more about my family history through my DNA and it was for free. I decided to try it because I was curious about my family history, so I had applied for it. Three days later I had gotten a DNA testing kit. I had put the tooth cotton swab in my mouth and moved it around to get my saliva on it. After that I had sent my DNA back and…

mainly in the year 2007 when the Srilankan government was taking high measures to eradicate the terrorism in the country. The Srilankan Civil War was an ethnic conflict between the Sinhalese and the Tamils in the Island. The Tamils in North and East of the Island fought to create an independent Tamil state. It was one of the longest running civil war for nearly three decades which eventually ended in May 2009 after a yearlong fierce battle. What triggered my political interest during the…

All over the world, people have different values and beliefs on how they assess and weigh the impact of individual choices. Yet not only does this vary incredibly from country to country, or city to city, but even in the same community two people of different backgrounds may believe the other is completely immoral and insensitive. In the novel Island of a Thousand Mirrors, Nayomi Munaweera, 2012, paints the stories of intertwining characters, one of which who becomes a suicide bomber in Sri…

When the Charlie Hebdo attack happened, people were shocked and angered by the actions of the shooters, though, to the shooters, the acts they committed were just. In Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera, when Saraswathi bombed the bus, she did it to find justice for herself. To those who are negatively affected by it, suicide bombings and mass killings are never justifiable. People have their own idea of what is right or wrong and once a person has made up their mind, it’s hard to…

start, the panel focused on why people undertake the decision to join terrorist groups. Sandra Johansson explained that in Colombia, researchers came to the conclusion that they entered, for instance, the FARC and paramilitary groups, because they needed a job; they were looking for adventure, survival or because they were abused at home. In fact, ideology was the second to last of their reasons. In Sri Lanka, Dennis McGilvray commented that The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), call…

country of Nigeria located in a west part of Africa. The Islamic terror group over the past years has being operating around the Nigeria and Niger boarder; also between Nigerian and Cameroon boarder. Nigerian has a population of about 170 million people and it is a multi-ethnic country with different religious groups. The country had witnessed various forms of violent for many decades; however, Boko Haram activities in Northern Nigeria in recent times have become the major source of disaster and…

political action. Terrorist groups using the networked structure, are organized in cells so that the loss of a cell would not compromise the identity, location or actions of other cells or the organization. Hezbollah, Palestine Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and Tamil Tigers are politically motivated and their attacks are focused on their governments. Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Boko Haram, ISIS and Lashkar E Taiba are all motivated by religion and their targets are…

States would have likely got involved. This is a good example of a conflict with limited involvement by the United States. For a more current and rising threat this essay will look at ISIS since it has now become the biggest terrorist threat that faces the United States and has the most potential to grow. They have control over a large territory that stretches across the border of Syria and Iraq and has over 30,000 fighters with military capabilities (Cronin, 2015). It has gained enough power…

Throughout the 21st century Somali terrorists have terrorized the land and sea of the horn of Africa. Somalia is a country that has been plagued with civil war since 1986. In Somalia right now there are two major Islamic terrorist groups. Theses groups are known as Al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda. From what these terrorist groups have done, Somalia is ;left with close to nothing to build it back up. Somalia cannot overcome this issue of terrorism because of Al-Shabaab, terrorists taking over the nation,…

last meal she will eat. The diction used and phrasing techniques lead the reader to believe that she is of importance. Specifically “let them come” as in she was okaying the people to be summoned to her to then serve her. The next line “Let me die but let them come, “ implies that she may leave the earth, but let the people come to resonate in her death and from the tone of seeming queen-like, let them mourn her. The next line of the poem, “and bring me treats,” brings thought to that she is…