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    and the Pentagon scarred America by killing thousands of innocent citizens, tearing apart families, and highlighting how vulnerable we are to random acts of violence. September 11th was the first time since Pearl Harbor in 1941 that the United States was attacked on its own soil. The attackers really had two goals in mind in executing this terrorist act. First, they wanted to kill as many people as possible and damage some of the nation’s most influential and symbolic buildings. However, more…

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    one that needs to happen. In “Some Reflections”, Nomani stated “We have to talk about the taboo topic of profiling because terrorism experts are increasingly recognizing that religious ideology makes terrorist organizations and terrorists more likely to commit heinous crimes against civilians, such as blowing an airliner out of the sky,” (2). Due to the increase of terrorism, islamophobia has also increased. To begin with, the reason why most people don’t bring up islamophobia is either because…

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    Terrorism is a popular and controversial topic in America. Therefore, we as a country have spent millions of dollars on finding ways to protect ourselves and creating programs to protect us against future terrorism. A lot of this has to do with calming the hysteria of the American people. Policing Terrorism is a newer idea were as most articles starting popping up around 2005 and later. 9/11 required us to open our eyes and start to brainstorm new ideas. People began to realize these terrorist…

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    Mitigation Plan

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    Orleans, that can benefit from HMGP. The HMGP has changed the emergency management at the local and state municipalities. 5. What is the Pre Disaster Mitigation Program (PDM)? The Pre-Disaster Mitigation was created through the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000. The PDM was to establish for mitigation and not to relying on disaster declaration. Hazards in that area have to custom fitted for the hazards in the community. The communities have taken a long time to recover from these disasters.…

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    Essay On Groupthink

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    On the morning of September 11th 2001 the United States was struck with the biggest terrorist strike in the history of the nation. Ultimately this attack changed the way we look at and fight terrorism. The 9/11 attacks were carefully plotted out, using very sophisticated measures to complete the objective. Since this attack, many have pondered how they received the training it takes to pull off an attack of this magnitude. When you are able to kill over 3000 people through a series of…

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    In this paper I 'm going to discuss the ways that terrorism has affected the police mission in the United States, with a specific end goal to do as such I will gave noteworthy samples of these ways. Second I will clarify the two noteworthy differences that exist with respect to the proper law implementation conduct to battle terrorism and keep up individual freedoms. Next I will clarify the part of social shame play in police morals. At that point I will take a gander at the moral strengths…

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    Based on the table above, McGoldrick & Lynch (McGoldrick & Lynch 2000, 30-33), prescribed several practical points for media practitioners and it 'd be helpful to the current discussion to highlight a couple of these points to have a clearer understanding of the philosophy of Peace Journalism: A. Avoid portraying a conflict as consisting of only two parties. This is fairly common practice in media, the portrayal of only two sides to a conflict that are pitted against one another. Naturally,…

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    The Origins Of Boko Haram

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    refers to itself as “Jama‘atu Ahl as-Sunnah li-Da‘awati wal-Jihad” (JASDJ; Group of the Sunni People for the Calling and Jihad). Controversial origins and grievances, scholars argue that Boko Haram either emerges in the mid- 1990s either in the early 2000s by a small Sunni Islamic Sect. International concerns over Islamic groups operating in northern Nigeria are nothing new, in the mid-1920s under British rules the international community already raised concern about the activities of Tijani…

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    against terrorism (“The War,” 2018). Since then, various laws and regulations have been put in place to help provide a feeling of security to American Society. Moreover, to aid in the relief efforts that follow events that are considered emergencies, such as terrorist attacks and natural disasters. Consequently, of these various enactments, the following has been found to be hurtful to American society: Homeland Security, the USA Patriot Act, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. This…

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    The main effect as to the depiction of targets of the counter-terrorism action as “barbarious”, “evil” is to dehumanize terrorists. Dehumanization refers to the socially constructed process of depriving humans of their human character. As Bar Tal defines it, it is characterised by the process of “(attributing) extremely negative characteristics to another group, with the purpose of excluding it from acceptable human groups and denying it humanity” or “labelling a group as inhuman, either by…

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