Voter turnout is an important factor to democracy. Many misconceptions such as one believing their vote won’t affect anything cause eligible voters to stay away from the polls. The dominance of the two-party democratic has created a growing number of voters who don’t identify themselves as being aligned with either major party. Other factors … Read more
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental issue that can happen in individuals who have encountered or seen an awful mishap, for example, a catastrophic event, a car accident, an act of terrorism fear, war/battle, sexual assault or other fierce individual strike like battery. PTSD has been known by numerous names previously, for example, … Read more
Adam Saldana 11/26/2018 Prof. Aguas The Real Hitmen of the World: Sicario Vs. the C.I.A. The Federal Bureau of Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed as one of the main protectors from foreign and at home threats to the United States by many citizens residing in this country. What Sicario portrays these … Read more
Situated on the banks of the Potomac River across from the nation’s capital lies Arlington, Virginia which is one of the most popular cities in the Greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Located less than 5 miles from Washington, D.C., Arlington carries the torch for the best of both urban lifestyle and suburban living. Arlington has something to … Read more
Operation Cyclone was an instrument of US Foreign policy used to push soviet expansionism out of Afghanistan and to protect Western interests in the gulf. The funding and provision of arms allocated under the Carter and Raegan administrations was typical ‘shotgun destabilisation’ whereby the United States funded anyone who had a group- in this … Read more
Sarah Huckabee Sanders once said, "Let's talk about national security. That's what's keeping most Americans up at night." After the traumatic terrorist attacks of 9/11, which impacted a whole nation physically, socially, and economically, all Americans could think about was their safety. The United States of America never saw this attack coming as nothing … Read more
To begin, on September 11, 2001 around 8:45am a terrorist attack against America would change all American’s life’s forever. Prior to this time 19 Militants from a known terrorist group named al- Qaeda hijacked four American Airline’s Boeing 767 airplanes. One plane landed in a field in Pennsylvania and another crashed into the Pentagon in … Read more
Thomas Bischoff 12-12-18 4th, Mr. Cruze An ethnic conflict that is currently going on is the conflict in the beautiful country of Spain is between Basque and the Spanish. The conflict began when the Basque separatists' group formed the ETA in 1959. In the next few years, the ETA started to aim toward creating … Read more
The beginning of what many believe to be the founding of “Anonymous” begins on a cold night of November 5th, 1604; when a man named Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up Parliament and King George the 1st as an act of rebellion and reform from the government’s oppression. Fawkes was involved in a radical … Read more
To express in a creative way what I have learned in Global Feminisms this semester, I have put together a collage of images. This collage is meant to represent what I have learned about privilege and power dynamics across the world. In the upper right quadrant of the collage, I used a Barbara Kruger … Read more
Paste yourAn act of domestic violence occurs every fifteen seconds; more frequent than any other crime in the United States (FBI). This is an alarming statistic because of how common it is. Although domestic violence is not a matter of international interest, such as wars and wars between countries, or the rampant terrorism that … Read more
Terance Hare II Mr. Sunday English 12 11 December 2018 White Fragility and School Shootings In America white men have been directly linked to mass shootings because of many having fragile egos and also entitlement issues which causes them to be the biggest terrorist threat in America today. In the United States we currently … Read more
The events that took place on September 11th, 2001, were some of the most egregious tragedies to ever occur on American soil. On this day, nineteen extremists from the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out attacks on multiple locations within the United States. Two of the planes were flown into … Read more
Across the European Union, several countries have completely banned the covering of the face in public places or have at least put a partial ban in place. Although these bans include any type of garment or headwear that conceals the face, this topic has become a more pressing problem, with international attention, because the … Read more
Essay two Within nineteen months after 9/11, an attack which left America shaken, George W. Bush decided to go to war against Iraq. After the tragic terror attack on the World Trade Center, America felt vulnerable as it had never felt before. At the time, people could scarcely believe that an attack of … Read more
