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Bill Gates once said “The internet is becoming the town square of the village of tomorrow.” We now live in this age of tomorrow. The internet now acts as an extension of the growing global community. It provides a medium for individuals to access information, express their beliefs and opinions, and organize peaceful assembly. But should it be considered a human right? Human rights are defined as being undeniable, inherent rights for all individuals. Some define internet access as a human right,…

Social media is still being developed and enhanced for millions of people to use, and it is affecting humanity in many ways. In Mona Eltahawy’s “Twitterholics Anonymous,” she explains how Twitter affects her life as a reporter, both helping and hurting her. Eltahawy informs the reader that Twitter is a double-edged sword that can be both critical and addictive. As a columnist, Eltahawy uses Twitter as an essential platform to receive information to write a column before other columnists…

Women’s rights are a controversial topic in the Middle East. Many have spoken out against Arab’s strict laws regarding women, but little action has been taken to improve the lives of Arab women. However, some Arab countries have women’s rights that are fairly similar to those in Western countries. In other parts of the world, many people are against these harsh laws, but they don’t truly know what cruel realities women in the Middle East face and how minimal action has been taken to combat these…

The Black Death, as it was most commonly called, was renowned as the most devastating pandemic to have even swept over the Eastern Hemisphere during the fourteenth century. It was the cause of over tens of millions of deaths throughout Europe and Asia and went by many names, including the “Great Mortality,” and “Universal Plague.” The widespread plague originated in Central Asia and was most likely variants of the bubonic and pneumonic plagues. The bubonic plague, which was the most common…

Though, all these advantages are most enjoyed in the First World countries that are not only economically, socially and politically developed but also technologically advanced and modernized states of the globe. On the other hand women of the developing countries (Third World Countries) are not as privileged and lack basic social, economical and political rights, varying from country to country depending upon the social and religious culture of these countries. The women of Africa have endured…

World War II started in September, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. The attack was not provoked by Poland in any way. This upset Britain and France; which ultimately led them to declare war on Germany. Both Japan and Italy joined Germany and created the axis powers. These three countries attacked other countries (unprovoked) just for the sake of acquiring more land and gaining power. Around 1942, it seemed that Japan and Germany were invincible. However, things soon changed. There…

Causes From The 21st Century Although many of the surges in Islamic Fundamentalism happened during the 19th and 20th century, Islamic fundamentalism has gained many of its members through different attributes and advantages of the 21th century. A comprehensive demographic study of more than 200 countries finds that there are 1.57 billion Muslims of all ages living in the world today, representing 23% of an estimated 2009 world population of 6.8 billion (Pew Research Center). Some of these causes…

Imagine you’re a girl in Iraq with big dreams. You’ve got a plan for your life: get through high school, go to college, then have a successful career. But what happens if you can’t even finish high school because your parents can’t afford it? What do you do when you are forced into marriage just for the money? Unfortunately, this happens to be reality for many girls and women in Iraq. The treatment of women in society in Iraq differs from the treatment of women in society in the US in the sense…

and parts of North Africa. It bordered the Mediterranean, Caspian, Black, and Red seas. It was comprised of countries that would later exist as modern-day Greece, Serbia, Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia, Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Tunisia as well as parts of modern-day Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, Libya, and Ukraine. Physically, much of the Ottoman Empire was very mountainous with plains and deserts being the only other notable features. The region was dry climate-wise, receiving…

Fear: One major similarity between The Crucible and ISIS is that there is a considerable amount of fear, which causes people to act in ways they normally wouldn’t act. One example of this is that in both situations the arrest rates rose greatly because the people’s fear increased. After ISIS captured major cities in Syria, “the frequency of arrests in the United States accelerated from an average rate of just over one per month… to an average rate of over seven per month ...” (ISIS Cases in the…