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    wife. He was as thin as a grain of rice, had night black hair, worked at the University of Tehran, and just like him, the rest of his extended family lived in Tehran too. In Iran, many people were mad at the “Shah”, or King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi for being too westernized, so in 1979, the Shah was overthrown by an Islamist extremist named Ayatollah Khomeini. This opened the gates for the Islamic Republic to be established, and for Khomeini to become the supreme ruler.…

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    within the country and it turning to comunism and the Shah taking over. After the Shah took power they let the people have more freedome and become more westernized. This scared the people because they new little to nothing about becoming more western. The shah saw theis and tightend there grip on them again not wanting to loose power. They set up secret police and killed, exiled, tortured anybody going against there rules. Now a days the Shah do not rule and the Iranians have more freedoms yet…

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    The Iranian Revolution In 1954, an Iranian party supported by the United States overthrew the government and implemented its own emperor, Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi. In the 1970s in Iran, which resulted in a revolution at the end of the decade, had a few critical events prior to it. Despite the fact that oil incomes kept on being a noteworthy wellspring of pay for Iran in the 1970s, world money related unsteadiness and changes in Western oil utilization genuinely debilitated the nation's…

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    “Take the case of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a senior al Qaeda operative and the alleged principal architect of the 9/11 attacks. He was captured in Pakistan in 2003 and interrogated by U.S. intelligence agents — reportedly using waterboarding — before being transferred to military custody…

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    Jose Padilla. The use of torture was conducted on al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah. Khalid Sheik Muhammed and Jose Padilla are two international terrorists that have committed terrorist actions m42k.p against the United States. When Khalid Sheik Mohammed was taken by the US in Pakistan, the use of torture gave the US new intel on new crimes that were being planned against the US. ISIS has 3,500 slaves in their possession right now. Over a five year period, more than 250,000 people have died in…

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    Geneva Convention. The detainees have and will try anything in order to resist and escape, for example, kill guards. Also, details about past attacks like those on September 11 and future attacks can be revealed from detainees like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Since the camp is outside the U.S. and the detainees are not categorized as POW’s, everything happening in Guantanamo Bay is completely legal. For the sake of the United State’s security and the safety of its people, Guantanamo Bay should…

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    In the minds of many American’s Malcolm X is a great example when it come to evolution. Most particularly all race can relate to him until this day because of his empowerment. In the early life of Malcolm his father was murdered by the Ku-Klux-Klan, known as a supremacist cult. After the death of his father his mother was sent to a mental hospital which it effected Malcolm, he felt powerless to change his condition. When Malcolm x went to prison it had amazing impact in his life, he read every…

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    Guantanamo bay is a prison camp built by the United States to hold and interrogate suspected terrorists, extremists and prisoners of war from other countries, with these interrogations we have received valuable information that has helped us prevent and stop terrorist attacks that would have taken many innocent lives, this is why i believe it would be a mistake to shut down guantanamo bay or change the interrogation methods that we have used over the years to gather the valuable information we…

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    The Fascinatingly Lone Survivor A rush of adrenaline enters your body, making the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Shivers run down and through out your whole body as those first few pictures appear on the screen. Every bit of attention is dragged from within realizing its all real life, and not another fiction movie. Thus, making it that much more exciting. The build up of emotions for our military personnel, The Loan Survivor instills deep down while your sitting on the tip of that…

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    The ethnography of Meddle East by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea in the story of “Guests of the Sheik” remind me my own town in my home country. Being from Medial East most of the cultural norms and Islamic roles in the story looked quite familiar with the cultural norms and Islamic roles back in my country. Lived all the way down on the other side of the ocean, I personal experienced most of the life experience of Fernea, which she mentioned in her story “Guests of the Sheik”. Elizabeth Warnock…

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