Over 6,000 lives, most of them American, have been lost because of his actions. Many Muslims have now been given a stereo type of being “violent terrorists,” just because of the alacrities of a handful of extremists. Due to bin Laden’s interfering with the United States, they abortively invaded Afghanistan, punching a dent in President Bush’s presidency, and throwing the economy into turmoil. Any hope of returning to the former lifestyle that Americans had once enjoyed has been long dissipated. Al-Qaeda, the terrorist group that he founded in the early 1980’s, has been encouraging other minor terrorists to take action, making the world an over-all more dangerous place to live.
C. The way to offend 308 million people in one act is to burn the American flag. II. [Reveal Topic and Relate to Audience] The burning of American flags is a affront to our country and each and every one of us. A. Everyone here is a citizen of the United States of America and when that flag is burned it is an attack on the visible symbol of our nation.
Corrupt idealistic governments, assembled individual men like pawns and threw them into trenches of hell with their enemies. All for the sake of political gain and false patriotism, the Great War robbed a generation of men of their freedom and future. Today individuals involve themselves in a perpetual conflict against powers outside of their control: technology, death, social convention,
If my search for justice has led to various injustices that I cannot correct, that I offer no apology for, then what have I really achieved in destroying a person, if the process has duplicated the mind state that gave birth to him a thousand fold? Zbigniew Brzezinski, the man who called for any means or method of attacking the Russians during the Afghan Jihad, was heavily criticized after the attacks of 9/11 for his callous looking down upon the issues that could arise from U.S. support for Islamic militants. But he left a quote that resonated with me, “Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.” To quote Tupac, “this be the realest shit I ever
Adam Erskine ENG 143 Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is written during a period of momentous social and political discontent in the United States. The Cold War signified a clash of powers which both condemned the other to be evil; the communists, for instance, marked the capitalists and all of their conspirators as evil by means of depriving the whole of the freedoms of economy through exploitation; the capitalists denounced the communists as evil by means of depriving everyone freedom to participate in an open economy. Both sides, however, had striking similarities in how they conducted their searches for what both believed to be traitors to humanity. Both conducted a series of “witch hunts”, the product of which
The CIA’s motive to kill the president became apparent when his faith in the agency was diminished after the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion this monumental failure was followed by the firing of agency staff most notably CIA director Allan Dulles, although Kennedy accepted responsibility publically, behind closed doors blamed the CIA for the mishap. The ongoing conflict between JFK and the CIA grew as they became aggravated by one another, the blame privately placed on the CIA resulted in a growing anger towards Kennedy, whom in return despised the agency stating he wanted to ‘splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds’, thus presenting a growing motive for an assassination attempt. Kennedys softer attitude on communism was also criticized by the gung-ho anti-communist CIA. Kennedys political resolution with Cuba and the Soviet Union during the Cuban missile crisis angered the agency as they did not agree with befriending such communist countries this is supported by Garrison who believed that JFK’s assassination was due to his administration seeking an accord with foreign nuclear powers that would see an end to the cold war. The pairings different views on the handling of communism saw a resolution that would only result in the disbandment of the CIA or an end to Kennedy’s administration, The CIA’s motive was
This particular phase in history of the United States is referred to as either ‘The Red Scare’ or ‘McCarthyism’ because of the government-initiated propaganda against Communism. This era’s anti-communist hearings destroyed lives and friendships as paranoia swept America, according to Arthur Miller (Miller “Are You”). “The Crucible” evokes a lethal brew of illicit sexuality, and a fear of the supernatural and political manipulation, a combination that was similar to McCarthyism. When Miller wrote it, Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities wanted him to sign an anti-communist declaration because the object was to destroy the least credibility of any and all ideas associated with socialism and communism (Miller “Why I”). Whether McCarthy was right or wrong, people can learn some important lessons from the past, present, and future.
What was the point in this attack? Exactly, there was no direct purpose! The only thing that Osama Bin Laden did was kill innocent people for no reason at all and to me that just does not seem right. "America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings,” quoted Osama Bin Laden. Really, was this attack necessary?
Walter Staples HIST-1301-171 February 14, 2012 Paul Revere A simple definition of the word propaganda is to manipulate the public opinion in a biased or misleading way, usually to promote a political cause or point of view. According to Paul Revere’s painting of the Boston Massacre, the actual event in 1770 was a slaughter, with Americans having no ability to defend themselves. The British appear to have simply fired on the crowd without provocation and in an orderly fashion. They are portrayed to be tyrannical monsters that would kill without reason. In reports from the trial of the eight soldiers however, we learn that the massacre was chaos.
Climate of Denial Analysis Al Gore's article Climate of Denial provides the general public with a horrifying true story on how we as a collective people are working in unison to slowly destroy our planet. It is not one single person's fault, it takes the power of many to pollute this planet. Gore just touches on the base of some issues like, how the media is controlled by the rich who often times happen to be corrupt politicians trying to pass on misleading information for personal gain. He also includes the shocking effects of Global warming that have already occurred and President Obama's fleeting effort to put a stop to it all. There is no doubt that the effects of global warming are right in front of the faces of the public but most