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 The Iran Hostage Crisis The Iran Hostage Crisis was displayed as one of the first incidents that involved radical Islam. The September 11th attacks were some of the first big terrorist attacks on the United States of America that involved Muslim extremists. The first attack occurred at the pentagon around 8 or 9am, by … Read more

The streets are buzzing with whispers. Newscasters and journalists are sprinting through the streets in search of the truth—or perhaps just a satisfying story for the day. Word around the street is that some great teacher who claimed to be God and as a consequence was gruesomely executed just a few days ago has appeared … Read more

 Out of all the temperate fruits, apple is the most ubiquitous. It was known to the Greeks and Romans, and was mentioned by Theophrastus in the third century B.C. (Janick & Moore, 1996) It has been cultivated in Europe and Asia from antiquity and since then it has been distributed into almost all parts … Read more

 After the French Revolution, France was launched into complete and utter chaos; however, out of the ashes of the French Revolution rose one of the most prominent leaders in history: Napoleón Bonaparte. Napoleón’s various military successes quickly raised him as a national hero and a fervent defender of the revolution; however, it wasn’t until … Read more

 Haley More Professor Eric Wyse 27 November 2017 First Year Seminar Concerning Whether or not God exists “In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth” (Genesis 1:1) and in the beginning He created the Earth, the Moon and the Stars. He created everything you are surrounded by and everything that is needed … Read more

 In March of 2014, Crimea was hastily annexed back into Russia and Putin delivered a nationalistic speech to Russian Federation and Federal Council to rally their continued support and provide them with Russian’s rational for proceeding with such an aggressive act. Fortunately, for all involved there was minimal military involvement and little bloodshed was … Read more

 WW2 Film Study Asher Baykitch Chosen Film: Downfall Part 1 This world war two film, Downfall begins with a documentary of Hitlers Secretary Trudi Junges and the story progresses as the army and the air force of the Russian Soviet ‘s begin to attack Berlin. It was the battle of Berlin when Hitler swore … Read more

 Brian Gallery Mr. Kaplan English IV November 8, 2017 Themes, Styles, and Techniques of Toni Morrison    Toni Morrison’s novels all seem to tell different, unrelated stories, but upon further, more in depth reading, you start to notice a defined pattern among her themes, styles, and techniques. For example, each of her books has … Read more

 For the final project, I went to the Samurai Museum in Dallas and analyzed five pieces of Samurai armor and weaponry.  Observing Samurai artifacts in real life for the first time was an astonishing experience. I first analyzed a full set of armors from the late Momoyama period. Next, I examined a sword of … Read more

 What Is Freedom? Almost all the thinkers in human intellectual history have sung the praises of “freedom”, but the exact meaning of this concept varies in each of these thinkers. Debating on the definition of freedom for a long time, the central conflict of various political theories on the notion of freedom in a … Read more

 Whether or not the League of Nations was a success in the 1920’s is debatable; however, there is no doubt that the League of Nations completely failed in the 1930’s. There is no doubt that the Great Depression cause problems and helped to spark the second World War. The Depression caused unemployment, poverty and … Read more

 INTRO: As many of you might not know, for the past 10 weeks I have had the privilege of interning at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office under the supervisor of ADA Derick Riker in the Diversion’s Court Division. Lack of knowledge/awareness as well as misconceptions that surround the subject of diversions court is what … Read more

 I believe that the rise of the surveillance state is a definite threat to democracy; although I believe it has a variety of positive aspects, the negatives greatly outdo the positives.   The meaning of “Surveillance State” that we are led to passively accept is one of safety in which our own personal information … Read more

 I am so confused it wasn’t supposed to be like this of all the places of all the countries all the years of traveling it’s here in Iran that I am greeted most warmly by total strangers. The other stuff is there, the Iran we’ve read about, heard about, have seen in the news. … Read more

 Even though the concept of the atom has existed for many decades, we only recently began to understand the enormous power contained in it. In the years just before and during World War II, nuclear research was only concentrated on the development of defence weapons devising The Manhattan Project creating the world’s first nuclear … Read more