the meaning of terrorism

The author of "Terrorism" stephen sloan, gave a more delibrate meaning to what terrorism is. when we think "terrorism", we think of hijacking, suicide bombers, assasssinations and other forms of evil carnage. he tells us that there are many definitions for terrorism and shows us how the meaning and use of terrorism has evolved. A terrorist's main goal is to frighten people and set panic amongst a society. therefore, anybody can be a terrorist and scare people. terrorism can have a physical or emotional effect on a person or a community. The media is an example of terrorism because in every news hour there has to be some kind of warning or causion to the public, this is some form of terrorism because it alarmed the people. Terrorism can be from an individual or from a group of people who want to send a message to the people they are terrorizing, and will not stop the terror untill their needs have been accomplished. some people might think that people in terrorist groups are insane and just plain crazy, but in fact terrorists groups only choose smart, brave people that are confident to do the job right; why would you hire an idiot to do a very serious job for you?.. some people might say that al-qa'ida is the world's number one terrorist group, and some people might say that George w. Bush is the number one terrorist in the world. some people have different opinions on the views of terrorism.

who to blame?

"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events"(WC). the purpose of sanctions is to isolate a nation economically and politically as a disciplinary measure short of war. the sanctions on iraq are in force untill it complies with all terms of surrender listed in the UN security council resolution. the united nations ordered these sanctions to cripple iraq's economy, which relies mostly on the export of oil. As saddam Hussien is to blame for the disasters that erupted during and after the gulf war, the coalition forces; mostly American should have the same amount of blame. American forces led major air strikes that blew up some oil fields and fired depleted uranium from tanks that later started oil fires and led to mostly civilian casualties. on top of that, they are trying to starve the iraqi people by setting sanctions that should be a violation to human rights.

redundant deaths in Gulf war

No matter how one feels about the gulf war, its brutality should be a matter of some reflection for the governments of both the coalition countries and Iraq. the coalition armies did not suffer many casualties in the gulf war. Of the nearly two million coalition troops, only 355 died and 343 out of the 355 deaaths resulted from noncombat accidents. The iraqi government claimed that around 8,000 civilian lives were lost and around 100,000 military casualties due to the coalition air bombing. The Iraqi ministry of health attributed 41,000 deaths, including 13,000 children to direct impact of sanctions in the first four months of 1992, after the war had ended. The post-war casualties were greater than those during the war because of the economic and cultural sanctions that the united states have placed on the Iraqi people.

hidden casualties of the gulf war

In the past, wars were fought without regard to their potential environmental effects. Then nuclear power shocked us into realizing that we have the technological ability to destroy our planet. wars have always harmed the environment and killed or wounded noncombatants. The gulf war has endangered the environment and and set a long term affect on the atmosphere and the people living in that atmosphere. the Iraqi troops set fire to over six hundred kuwaiti wells. researchers have hypothesized that rising smoke to the atmosphere might cause some changes in the earth's weather pattern. The Kuwaiti land were mostly abused from the movemnet of heavy artillery and movement of troops across the lands.

The Guilt of Survival!!

The relationship between Vladek and his son Art is the central narrattive that mostly deals with feelings of guilt. Art primarily has three feelings of guilt: Art's feeling of guilt over not being a good son, his feeling of guilt over the death of his mother, and his feeling of guilt regarding the publication of maus. in the start of the book art mentions how he and his father do not get along, they are always arguing on simple stuff. Also Art feels responsible for the death of his mother, believing it to be a sample of his neglect, Art shows us this in the "prisoner on the hell planet" in chap5, book I. Vladek too has a deep feeling of guilt about surviving the holocaust. Art somehow wishes he was with his parents in the holocaust so he could really know what they lived through, and feels guilty of having an easier life than they did!!

Anja's Suicide

Anjas suicide was caused by her internal problems and the Holocaust. This led to most of Vladek’s mental and physical sicknesses. Also Vladek noticed that she took many pills and wondered if his fiancé had a sickness that he had no clue about Later, his friend, a druggist, told him the pills were only because she was so skinny and nervous. Anja, Vladek and the rest of their family were very happy but the only abstacle they faced was the holocaust and its horrific events. A suicide does not only affect the individual but it also deeply affects the people around them. Anja failed to understand that no matter how big the problem was, there would always be an answer or a way out. After death, there is no turning back, Anja was one of the few survivors left and even though the holocaust did not kill her physically, it did emotionally!!

A conceited proposal

Swift's "proposal" is that Ireland's overpopulation problem could be solved by selling a large portion if its one-year-old children on the market to be used as food, among other things, thereby providing income for poor peasant mothers and rendering them useful to society as a whole. swift's proposal is anything but modest, he creates a skillfull irony to compare his proposal as equivalent as to what the British is doing to the Irish people. then swift goes deep in explaining the different recipes to cook the kids in, which sounds really disjusting! In my opinion his proposal is really decent, in a poor unstable country implementing swift's proposal would be a good idea.. if the parents cant provide for themselfs and their kids then eventually they will die and the kids will start stealing and killing each other for food, and Everybody loses But if the parents sell their fresh, young 1 year olds to rich people Everybodys a WINNER!! The parents get money for their kid(s), the rich eat fresh, and the kids got spared the torture and hunger they would of faced and prevented them from causing crime and being a burden to society. “The first step to eternal life, is you have to die.”

letter that changed history

In his letter from a Birmingham jail martin luther king does a an outstanding role in trying to bring peace amongst his people. Dr. King responds to a letter he got from clergymen of the white church. The city of Birmingham is heating up with violence as young blacks sacrifice all they got for individual freedom. In the letter the clergymen proposed that Dr. King should not perform direct action in his civil rights movement. Martin luther king is a great example of a leader that will never give up hope and try relentlessly to accomplish his goals. King had four basic steps for his nonviolent campaign: 1.collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist, 2.negotiation 3.self purification; and 4.direct action. " We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom."

Project Mayhem

Tyler eventually gathers the most devoted fight club members and forms Project Mayhem. project mayhem is a cult like organization that trains itself as an army to bring down modern civilization. This organization is kind of similar to fight club and it has a set of rules that everyone must follow: 1.You don't ask questions.
2.You don't ask questions.
3.No excuses.
4.No lies.
5.You have to trust Tyler.
Tyler wanted project mayhem to be an upgrade to fight club, but with common purpose to erase history by destroying the museum. the narrator that later finds out he is tyler wants to get out of the troubles but he's making them worst. tyler thinks that by doing all this they will become legends..

fight club and violence

In my opinion, i think that the book fight club indeed glorifies violence. When i read the title i immediatley assumed that the book will have an intense atmosphere. As i have read along the chapters i came across a couple of ways that the author Palahniuk asserts.. one way that fight club elevates violence is during the fights, all the fighters in the club obtained an immense beating and what motivates the beating to continue is the Rules OF Fight Club. The rules say that the fights go as long as they need to and no shirts and no shoes. If there is no time limit to a fight then someone is gonna get seriously injured or killed, to prohibit shirts and shoes in a fight is like a sword fight with no armor. With the examples given i think that there is no objection with the fact that fight club does glorify violence!