In the article “Drugs: America’s Holy War‚” Arthur Benavie speaks of the social problems that can arise with the use and supply of illicit and illegal drugs. He begins asking the reader‚ who’s the enemy in this war on drugs? I asked myself in the beginning if is it even realistic to assume there is an actual war on drugs. Benavie explains that society is constantly reminded of the harmful effects of certain drugs such as marijuana‚ heroin‚ LSD‚ ecstasy‚ cocaine‚ morphine‚ methamphetamine‚ amphetamines
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In Peter Bergen’s Holy War‚ Inc‚ the reader is ushered through a head-spinning trip around the globe that serves to highlight the far-reaching effects of Al Qaeda‚ a terrorist organization that Bergen likens to a Multi-national holding company. While Bergen makes reference to similarities between the management of a Multi-national Corporation and that of al-Qaeda‚ it is seemingly not the primary focus of the book nor does it serve as a particularly suitable metaphor‚ especially in light of the events
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from it. But before then‚ Christians should not kill Muslims as pastor Suleiman urged them to do. Life is so precious. We must protect it. There is no basis for taking another man’s life. The only allowance is if you are trying to protect your own life as natural law dictates. No one should allow pastors to deceive them to kill fellow Nigerians. All religions‚ traditions and conventional wisdom forbid murder. The clerics should do the killings by themselves and face the consequences therefrom
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Challenges Muslims in Europe Have to Face With The Globalization Today The increasing number of Muslim population in Europe is no longer an issue that can be viewed as a small matter today. In 2010‚ there were 44.1 million Muslims in Europe and this number is estimated to grow up approximately to 58 million by 2030‚ which is 8% of Europe’s population (The Future of the Global Muslim Population‚ 2011). Miller (2005) suggests that Europe’s Muslims are mostly consisted of the post-World War II immigrants
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Name: Danisa Ezukuse Student #: 212297792 Tutorial#: Tutorial 07 T.A: Nadir Virjee The Two Faces of American Freedom: A Reply 1) Authors main arguments The author Aziz Rana pose different key arguments in this article‚ however the arguments are split up to the three main concerns brought up by commentators on her book titled The Two Faces of American freedom. The three main concern or challenges that arose from the book is firstly the worry about historical persuasiveness and completeness
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The Two Faces of My Father Children model their habits and characteristics through what they usually see and hear from their parents. The influence of parents on their offspring’s values can be the most important influence given to a child in life. Positive and negative parental behavior is remembered even by grown children‚ no matter if their parents have passed away. Scott Russell Sanders‚ a professor of English at Indiana University‚ has written many works based on his own life and experience
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In the mid-12th century‚ the tide began to turn in the Crusades. The Muslim world had become more united under effective leaders such as Saladin‚ and dissension arose among Christian factions in and concerning the Holy Land. The Knights Templar were occasionally at odds with the two other Christian military orders‚ the Knights Hospitaller and the Teutonic Knights‚ and decades of internecine feuds weakened Christian positions‚ politically and militarily. After the Templars were involved in several
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develop a main idea. Writing Use your notes to write a first draft. Use parallelism in a concluding sentence. Revising Revise your paper using the checklist on page 514. Concentrate on improving coherence and unity Two Faces Beyond the Future There are two faces beyond the future (year 3000)-the negative and positive. Relax and close your eyes. Have you ever imagined the brisk and vast changes in the year 3000? Positive or negative? Hmmmm cities are modernized; clothing lifestyle
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Final Paper How did Christians justify their claim to the Holy Land before and during the Crusades? One of the most significant and remarkable incidents of the Middle Ages was the series of conflicts known collectively as the Crusades. Generally these conflicts were militant pilgrimages to the Levant (though sometimes elsewhere) undertaken by medieval Europeans in the name of Christendom. Though there were many political and social issues involved in the whole affair‚ the primary theme
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Islamic law and non-Muslims Some pro-Israeli opinion cite traditional interpretations of sharia (Islamic law) which requires‚ among other things‚ that Muslim territory encompass all land that was ever under Muslim control‚ as a source for the Arab-Israeli conflict. Since the territory of Israel‚ prior to being the British Mandate of Palestine‚ was once part of the Ottoman caliphate‚ some Islamic clerics believe it is unlawful for any portion of it to remain ’usurped’ by non-Muslims. By contrast‚ pro-Arab
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