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- 8681: Th Threat of Terrorism
- ... they were planning additional terrorist attacks against our citizens and others. They are seeking to acquire chemical weapons and other dangerous weapons."4 The attacks will not stop there. A terrorist group known as the World Islamic Fornt for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders, presented a warning to the U.S. for the Retaliation saying, "strikes will continue from everywhere against American targets, Both military and civilian."4 However, terrorist threats ... 5 Nuclear Terrorism is a big concern of different countries, although the threat is not here quite yet. No non-governmental group has come close to attaining "nuclear capability." A concern of governments around the world is the chance of a terrorist group attaining nuclear weapons through thief or even home made devices. The design to make nuclear weapons is pretty well known. Gifted physics students or scientist could possibly design ... will do their job and find the people responsible for it. By finding these people they can stubble onto a greater future plan of terrorism by these same terrorist. Much like the case after the World Trade Building was bomb, the FBI found the people responsible and retrieved a future plan to bomb the United Nations building and the Lincoln Tunnel. This has happen all over the world where intelligence ...
- 8682: U.S. Wage Trends
- ... competition, technology, deregulation, the decline of unions and defense cuts – technology is probably the most critical. It has favored the educated and the skilled,” says M. B. Zuckerman, editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report (7/31/95). Since 1973, wages adjusted for inflation have declined by about a quarter for high school dropouts, by a sixth for high school graduates, and by about 7% for those with some ... under the age of 18. This government policy was conducive to our economic markets, and allowed our country to prosper from 1950 through 1970. Now, our own prosperity has moved us into a highly technical world, that requires highly skilled labor. The natural answer to this problem, is that the U.S. Government’s education policy must keep pace with the demands of the highly technical job market. If a middle ... a college diploma, as it was for the children of the 70’s to get a high school diploma. This brings me to the issue of our country’s political process, in a technologically advanced world. Voting & Poisoned Political Process in The U.S. The advance of mass communication is natural in a technologically advanced society. In our country’s short history, we have seen the development of the printing ...
- 8683: The Philosophy of Truth Making You Free
- ... Therefore the truth cannot make you free, because the truth can do more harm than good. Next is the statement, man is condemned to be free. That is that man is free to ruin the world. Everyone has the choice of doing something helpful or harmful in their everyday life. We are free to make others suffer and life a bit harder than it already is now. The freedom that runs ... restrict harmful behavior, the more rules are established to get in the way of enforcement. First, it is unthinkable that man can be condemned to be free. Man has made great efforts to make the world better by spreading freedom. The freedom to choose what is right for you is the most fundamental freedom that exists. Rather than being weighed down by restriction of what you can and cannot do with ... life is not decided for us. We have the freedom to make a mistake and the freedom of whether we want to learn from it. This can only free a society, not condemn it. A world does not become ruined by making those who enforce the law use a bit of human decency when dealing with those people whom have made bad decisions. Laws and regulations are made to stop ...
- 8684: Historical Relations Between T
- Historical Relations Between the Metis Nation & Canada The origin of the Metis Nation is rooted in the historical fabric of Canada. It was in the Canadian Northwest that they evolved into a new and distinct Aboriginal Nation. The mixed-blood offspring of French fur traders from the North West Company or Scottish and English fur traders from the Hudson's Bay Company and Cree, Ojibway or Saulteaux women ... possible to transport large volumes of goods and supplies to and from the far flung outposts of the fur trade. As people of mixed ancestry increased in number and married amongst themselves, they developed a new culture, neither European nor Indian, but a fusion of the two and a new identity as Metis. By the mid 19th century, Metis villages had appeared in and around fur trade posts from the Great Lakes to the Mackenzie Delta. Then, as now, Metis communities shared a common ...
- 8685: Feminism And Gender Equality In The 1990’s
- ... A Weekend with Daddy." A little girl who lives a lonely life with her mother, divorced, an intellectual know-it-all psychologist, goes to the country to spend a weekend with her father and his new wife, who is wholesome, happy, and a good cook and gardener. And there is love and laughter and growing flowers and hot clams and a gourmet cheese omelet and square dancing, and she doesn’t ... 6. The Ethnic Moment, By P. L. Fetzer. Page 234. 7. Constitutional Law Cases & Essays, By S. Goldman. Page 784. Bibliography: Fetzer, Philip L. The Ethnic Moment, The Search For Equality In The American Experience. New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1997. Goldman, Sheldon. Constitutional Law Cases & Essays, Second Edition. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. Marable, Manning. Beyond Black & White. New York: Verso, 1995. Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of The United States. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1980
- 8686: Prophet Muhammad
- ... with money and power including an Offer to make him King if he were to abandon his message. Muhammad (s) would say no without thinking about it. For this is only something small that are world things given by man. For Muhammad (s) knew that the true gift would be given to him by Allah (swt) at the end. When this did not work, they tried to convince his uncle Abu ... he invoked special blessings on the martyrs of Uhud, and then addressed the Muslims: “There is a slave among the slaves of Allah (The One God) to whom God has offered the choice between this world and that which is with Him, and the slave has chosen that which is with God.” Upon hearing this Abu Bakr r.a. wept as he understood that the Prophet was talking about himself and ... Muhammad (s) best friend, companion, and father-in-law, Abu Bakr r.a. The death of the Prophet Muhammad (s) was just the beginning of Islam. Now, Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world today and is the second biggest religion in the world. Muhammad (s) was a man and a messenger of Allah (The One God). He is the last of the prophets sent by Allah to ...
- 8687: The Last Wave
- ... what the film/director is trying to tell us. The darkness in the film can be seen as unconsciousness. It can also be seen as a prediction of the darkness that will occur in the world when the last wave comes. The last wave meaning a giant tidal wave that will cover the earth , killing humanity. This idea is similar to the Christian belief in the flood that was sent down centuries ago to destroy all the evil in the world. Also, all the modern aspects of the movie (courtroom, David's office..etc) are filmed in light. While, all of the Aborigines' scenes are filmed in darkness or shadows. Giving me the impression of something ... and premonitions. This is stressing the idea of mind power and mystical strength that the Aborigines have. In that way they can be seen as the dominant culture. David is stuck between two worlds. The world he knows and understands and the other world that he is definitely a part of but does not understand. As he tries to grapple with the idea that he may be linked to the ...
- 8688: Jim Jones
- ... absolute power. They were left with few options, being surrounded by armed guards and by the jungle, having given their passports and various documents and confessions to Jones, and believing that conditions in the outside world were even more threatening. The members poor diet, heavy workload, lack of sleep, and constant exposure to Jones's diatribes exacerbated the coerciveness of their predicament; tremendous pressures encouraged them to obey. By the time ... is accessible and that anything done in the name of that purity is moral. By defining and manipulating the criteria of purity and conducting an assault on impurity (Discord especially) the organization creates a narrow world of guilt and shame. This is maintained by a belief of constant reform, the demand that one aspire permanently and painfully for something which not only does not exist but is alien to the human ... to manipulate and control members. The organization becomes an authority without limit in the eyes of members and their power is nowhere more evident that in their capacity to "forgive". We live in a dangerous world, a world often caught in the midst of disastrous group dynamics. Cult leaders use their knowledge to bemire the minds of unsuspecting victims. Until, recently cult's were able to run freely in public ...
- 8689: Spin Cycle
- ... is the most investigated president since Richard Nixon--facing inquiries into Whitewater, campaign fundraising abuses, and sexual misconduct--and yet improbably began 1998 with approval ratings as high as those of Ronald Reagan. But the new year has brought a barrage of new allegations, and the president and his advisers face once again the challenge of spinning news to their advantage, a challenge they have mastered many times before. In Spin Cycle, Kurtz reveals the inside workings of ... President about the various scandals because they don’t want to learn information they might have to reveal to prosecutors or the press. the secret meeting between a Clinton operative and the editor of The New York times that led to a presidential interview in which Clinton knew the questions in advance. Bill Clinton’s success in reaping favorable publicity by secretly courting selected reporters and columnists in off-the- ...
- 8690: America's Bad Choice In Leaders
- ... mean I hate everyone that comes from the U.S. . I’m sure there’s plenty of good people that live in the U.S. they just live under the most arrogant government in the world. The thing that makes me take notice to the U.S. is there extremely bad choice in leaders, and their udder dependence on them. Just look at the morons that they have had in office ... drugs like heroin to go up. It’s kind of hypocritical of George Bush to be against the use of hemp for goods like rope, clothes, paper, and fuel, considering that when he was in world war II the parachute he used to jump out of a plane was made of hemp. If you want to hear this story better told and in more detail, get a hold of the Jello ... biggest problem that I have with Clinton is that he continues to build up the army. Who is he preparing to fight? Saddam Hussien? Maybe. Or maybe he arrogantly thinks that he is somehow preventing World War III by taking charge of world affairs, by threatening smaller countries and acting as the worlds police. Perhaps he doesn’t realize that he might actually be the cause of World War III ...
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