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History of U.S. Aviation and Terrorism

a little less safe. While talk of terrorism when a passenger jet went down in Lockerbie, Scotland was in the air, no one expected ...

Why Was America Targeted on 9-11-01?

Gaza; --the US has been openly hostile toward the very concept of Islamic government replacing secular ones. --the US is perceive...

Terrorism Has a Face, Osama Bin Laden

World Trade Center and the partial destruction of the U.S. Pentagon. Bin Laden has taken a deliberate and planned attack on the U...

NATO and the Role Played by Turkey

or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded in 1949. Since that time there had been a multitude of changes. During the...

Terrorism and Colombia

South America and is the only South American country that has coasts on both the Pacific (1350 km long) and the Atlantic (over 160...

Saddam Hussein and the Vendetta of George W. Bush

In five pages this paper discusses how the terrorism war is being fought as a way of satisfying the personal agenda of U.S. Presid...

Airline Industry in the Future

More and more wealthy people are traveling and those who now have extra retirement bucks are putting it back into the business. ...

Poverty, Political Violence, and Global Terrorism

(Wilkinson, 1996, p. 12). Terrorism is a reaction against something, usually political oppression, and although it received its n...

The American Press and Its Bias Against Arabs

practice the religion? Why is there an anti-Middle East sentiment? By and large, Americans get the news from American media and it...

Why the U.S. Should Have Bombed Afghanistan After September 11th

power and international relations is a task that draws its conclusion upon a very fine line; indeed, while both of these entities ...

American Embassies and Terrorism

thoroughly, we can look at the book by Schmidt and Youngman entitled Political Terrorism, in which the authors listed "109 differe...

Terrorism and U.S. Military Retaliation

halt the terrorist behavior of bin Laden. Clearly, President Clinton ordered the bombing as a means by which to send a message to...

The Seventies and 2000s Compared

lib became quite the rage and Gloria Steinham spoke about issues which many thought were radical, obscene, and downright anti-fami...

Examination of Bioterrorism

have been a number of instances of the IRA targeting British politicians, for example - but because attacks on civilians can be mo...

Brave New World Philosophical Analysis

when they heard the ringing of the bells, for they would associate this with being fed. In Brave New World, behaviorism takes the...

Changing Times and Unchanging Philosophical Themes

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

Literature and Philosophical Themes

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

Philosophical Conjecture and Morality

exist myriad philosophies by which people live their lives, which help maintain order and a sense of direction that otherwise woul...

Identity in the Novel as a Philosophical Exploration

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

Philosophical Concepts

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

Legal Positivism and the Philosophical Contribution of Hart

the idea that there are reasons for implementing law beyond the idea of just maintaining law and order. Other supporters of positi...

Pre Socratic and Socratic Philosophical Differences

the soul. In understanding the influence the pre-Socratics had, it is beneficial to consider some of the major questions and the ...

Journeys and Their Philosophical Meaning in 'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

student who is writing about this topic should consider the ways in which the each author develops the philosophical journey of ea...

2 Philosophical Questions Examined

the belief that God created all plants and animals, as well as the universe itself, as recounted in the Old Testament. Evolutioni...

Philosophical Theory, Causality, and Substance

said that one can easily recognize in an educated mind the ability to entertain a thought without accepting it; Aristotle taught t...

Causation and the Philosophical Differences Between David Hume and Immanuel Kant

In six pages this paper discusses causation and knowledge in a consideration of the differences between the philosophies of David ...

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder and Philosophical Education

In nineteen pages this paper discusses the philosophical education of teenager Sophie Amundsen in Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder'...

Corporate Culture Perspectives

In three pages this paper discusses corporate culture manifestations and the perspectives of Edgar Schein's fragmentation, differe...

Western and Eastern Philosophical Differences

In seven pages differences that exist between Eastern and Western philosophies are considered with references made to Zen and the ...

Plato's Life and Philosophical Dialogues

in the Peloponnesian War, which ended in a resounding defeat for Athens in 404 B.C. (Levinson ix-x). While it can be assumed that...