Modern day piracy is mostly found today in Somalia, and trust me it is not what you think it is. The pirates of Somalia are ruthless, and they use gorilla warfare tactics. They bombard people on cargo ships; they either hold them captive or have them for ransom, or they will just kill all of them. The reason why I picked this topic is to give you the hard truth about today pirates, and they go along about doing their business in the Indian Ocean East of Somalia. Skull and crossbones buccaneers have resurfaced with "Terminator"-style tactics, shining a spotlight on an age-old crime that some experts warn could inspire terrorists “The Carnival-owned cruise liner Sea bourn” Spirit recently fended off a pirate attack along Africa's eastern coast, with one person sustaining injuries.
Barbary Pirates and American Captives In 1804 American ships set out of Maryland headed to a Spanish port. On their way the encountered a ship full of Barbary pirates, a North African Muslim based crew. The Pirates jumped over and boarded the American shipped with weapons, forcing the Americans to strip to shirts and draws. By the end of the year the Pirates had taken over more than ten ships and vessels. The pirates enslaved and killed the crews.
Other causes of the bombing of Pearl Harbour consist of the harsh impact the Great Depression (1929-1939) and the freezing of assets and exports from USA on Japan. Significant consequences on people and groups in society include the most apparent- the loss of naval vessels, aircraft and life as an immediate response of the bombing. The war in the Pacific was as a result of the bombing of Pearl Harbour making that a second consequence. This meant that New Zealand was threatened which caused us to revaluate our international relations, another consequence. The final and quite possibly the most damaging consequence of the bombing of Pearl Harbour was the USA nuclear attack on Japanese cities Nagasaki and Hiroshima which in theory resulted in the end of the second world war.
Germany went back to unrestricted U-boat attacks in a desperate attempt to win the war, after the blockade of Germany. German naval intelligence believed that this method would result in the loss of 600,000 tons of food and other supplies that were being shipped into Britain per month; this would lead to major food shortages and Britain would be starved into defeat. From the source, I can gather that unrestricted submarine warfare did have a significant impact on British trading, in view of the fact that the subma rine warfare not only affected the men that were on ships and fighting upfront, but the whole of the British nation
The increase in power within the drug cartels makes the future of organized crime seem bleak regarding society, but positive for the OC units themselves. The 1980s brought about many changes in the world of drug trade. The United States government began blocking trades routes from the Caribbean, forcing drug smugglers to take different routes. The new routes ran through the Pacific and Central American isthmus which led smugglers straight to Mexico. Mexicans can smuggle just about anything across the border and upon this realization came the Mexican drug cartel boom.
One event that created a good platform and story for Yellow Journalism was the maine. This started a motive for revenge. The Maine was sent to Havana to protect American Property. Mysteriously the ship exploded killing 260 men. There was no explanation but this angered American casuring them to want to go to war.
Bath Salts, Moral Panic, and the Media Moral panic is a concept that exists due to the relationship between the media and society; when the mass media, usually led by press, define a group or act as ‘deviant’ and focus on it to the exclusion of almost everything else (Jewkes, p. 74). In recent news, synthetic cathinone, colloquially known as bath salts became an issue that developed into moral panic, mainly due to the media sensationalizing one incident down in Florida. The story went like this: Rudy Eugene, seemingly without provocation, gnawed off a homeless man’s face in some sort of zombie-like cannibalism you’d only see in a movie, even possessing superhuman strength after being shot by a police officer. The reason? Bath salts – or so they claimed.
After an initial wave of conquistadors, Spain advantages was that the military had aided and infected diseases that decimated the native populations and defeated the pre-Columbian civilizations of the Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas. Spain organized a huge imperial system to exploit the land, labor, and mineral wealth of the New World. Their disadvantage was that when they were conquering Maya, because of the Yucatan jungle, their metal weapons would rust. Spain treated the Native American very badly like they were animals. For example, altogether, they execute a large group of people such as the Natives in Cuba, Dominica, and Mexico, and those who weren’t in the massacre was turned into slaves; and those whoever refused to convert to Christianity.
counterterror efforts and was the focus of several military operations against its leadership following the release of a video that showed a large gathering of the group and its senior leadership. Terror attacks on the rise The report cited 9,707 terrorist attacks in 2013, a 43% increase from 2012, according to statistics compiled by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. Attacks resulted in more than 17,800 deaths and more than 32,500 injuries. The majority took place in Afghanistan, India, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Somalia, Syria, Thailand and Yemen. Last year's most lethal incidents were carried out by the Taliban in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, Nigeria's Boko Haram, al Qaeda in Iraq, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and ISIL, according to the report.
There was the incident at the Gulf of Tonkin, North Vietnamese torpedo boats supposedly attacked the USS. There were Escalation and finally the US pulls out. Most people, found this event senseless. A form of protest to the war came through pop culture and songs. “War” was first recorded with The Temptations.