I concluded my internship on the last day of class at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, commonly referred to as START. Within START, I worked on the INSPIRE team. The INSPIRE research team looks at how civilians utilize social media to share sentiments about political elections in sub-Saharan African countries in the past two years. Each intern at START is required to complete a final project or research paper, applying the knowledge we have learned from working with our supervisors this semester. There are four interns on the INSPIRE team, so we paired into groups of two for the final project. My partner, Brooke, and I conducted a smaller scale visual sentiment analysis of the US election using …show more content…
This semester, I was able to view issues affecting the region through citizens’ sentiments on social media. My initial goal, starting the internship, was to get exposure to research and see what the work life of a researcher looks like. As an economics major, I have taken quantitative courses, including statistics, but never had the opportunity to see the real world applications. Overall, I got to refine and practice my writing skills. I learned the about the overlap between writing in academia and research reports. Because of the lessons I learned over the past few months, I would consider the internship a success. I learned to make the best of it, even during times when I was not pleased with different issues in the office. Having other interns working on my project helped me cope with the deadlines because we would help each other with any tasks that we were stuck on.
There were many frustrating times where I felt that I was not making the best of my time as an intern. During the first few weeks of my internship, before learning to work with my co-interns, I was not knowledgeable on some of the terminology. I felt that I did not have the skills necessary to be a good intern. I found that I needed more technical knowledge than I had, but felt that I was not at fault because I made that clear during my interview with my supervisor, Erin. From my previous internship and classes on campus, I knew
My internship experience proved to be valuable in terms of exposure and knowledge. Attending the M-1 Rail Community Advisory Council meetings were very rewarding. I was able to observe and interact with the public on their thoughts about M-1 Rail. The internship has taught me that it is important to learn how to demonstrate professionalism but courteous behavior at all times. My internship has definitely given me a better understanding of my skill, but most importantly, I’ve come to learn that I am not alone. This job has taught me that almost everybody is in my same position. Thanks to my I know that if I continue to work hard things will fall into place. Being my first position in an office atmosphere, I didn’t know exactly what to expect.
The main task of my internship was to gain more experience and knowledge of our respective field. Overall, the experience proved to be both enjoyable and rewarding. During this internship I used the skills that I learned from my Medical Assistant class and used them in the real world scenarios at the hospital. Also while I there I was exposed to new experiences. Such as performing Urine test on Drug and alcohol patients. For this procedure I had to stand in the restroom with the patient's and watch them urinate into a cup. I had to stand in the restroom with the patients because in the past they try and cheat the system. For example
Ever since 9/11 when both World Trade Center buildings were attacked by an Islamic Group, attacks by Islamic Terrorist on U.S. soil have been less of a threat than Domestic Terrorists. Domestic Terrorism has been shown these passed for years but yet again most of these cases have not been classified as acts of Domestic Terrorism they most likely fall into the category. Now the definition of Domestic Terrorism is basically "the committing of terrorist acts in the perpetrator 's own country against their fellow citizens". Now personally I don 't know how our government is working with these popular cases like Charlottesville, Las Vegas, and a new that just happened recently actually two but I 'll just say one, the New York attack that
After speaking to people, I often had a time to reflect on what I heard. The product was a much greater understanding of the complexity of the American political system. I grew up thinking that that one side was right, and the other was full of irrational arguments. However, people sharing bits of their lives with me taught me that is not true. The support and opposition for every policy makes sense, and deciding which is right is far more of a value judgment than a facts-based judgment than I could have imagined. I feel less sure about what I believe politically after the internship, but again, I do not think that is a bad thing. For the first time, I know how to enter into a thought process without a bias, and able to listen to both sides. This skill is critical for any studies or career in the social sciences.
Domestic Terrorism can be described as many things. The FBI describes domestic terrorism as, “Perpetrated by individuals and/or groups inspired by or associated with primarily U.S.-based movements that espouse extremist ideologies of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.” People who commit domestic terrorism crimes often have different motives such as: religion, political, and even race. A specific case that resembles this, is the shooting in Las Vegas which occurred on June 8, 2014.
Although world hunger and threat of nuclear war are among the highest issues in our world today, none rings more true with many people then the issue of domestic terrorism. As defined by the Oxford dictionary, domestic terrorism is “The committing of terrorist acts in the perpetrator's own country against their fellow citizens.” (Oxford dictionary, 2018) Right after the nine-eleven attacks of September 2001 President Bush initiated the war on terror (The Washington Post, 2001) which has attempted to put an end to domestic terrorism. Unfortunately it has really not made much of an impact when we look at events like the Boston Marathon bombing and the Las Vegas shooting.
The operational problems with terrorism are associated with the primary needs of secrecy, communication, and funding. Three fundamentals we can call them for now. In small arms marksmanship where you can still hit your target accurately by having only two basic fundamentals properly engaged; however with terrorism a weakness in one our more of these fundamentals means failure in long term success.
The study of terrorism and the terrorist is not something belonging to any particular discipline. What does forensic psychology have to offer?
Terrorism manifests itself in many forms. Ideological terrorism, national terrorism and religious terrorism are some forms of terrorism that became common after the Second World War. Several theories and hypotheses have been put forward to explain the causes of terrorism. Among these the negative identity hypothesis explains how frustration with social norms and roles combined with restricted channels of expression can lead people to group together to engage in terrorist activities to assert themselves. This essay discusses the Baader-Meinhof activities, the LTTE terrorist activities and the state-sponsored terrorist activities of Iran in the light of the negative identity hypothesis.
Not surprisingly, this semester’s internship has posed the most obstacles and challenges but coupled with many new understandings, it has been my most productive. The end of any school year is busy and adding 45 additional hours of responsibility poses an arduous mission. In reflecting on my understandings, I realized that my internship experience could be compared to McTighe’s Understanding by Design concept. Ultimately, the goal of the internship experiences was to able to apply the knowledge and skills acquired during the semester, combined with that of past semesters, and demonstrate who I am as a professional teacher leader.
Have you ever had a fear for your family, your town, your country, or your world. How about the fear to have everything taken from you, destroyed, and not caring if it has hurt you or not? What about your fear and pain is, and can be someone else’s happiness? The fear of you being terrorized? That is terrorism. Someone else bringing fear and terrorizing you. That is a terrorist’s goal. Terrorism is common and is very difficult to stop. The government promises protection for the people, and their home, but they can not give that protection if they can not stop terrorism. Terrorism needs to stop to protect the live of the people, and their country.
In the last century, terrorism seems not just more lethal but more common, but more widespread. This is leaving Citizens overwhelmingly in fear of their lives as they distress a Paris-style terror massacre will occur on our shores. With a news poll from “The Australian”, stating that more than half of the Australian population believing a large-scale event is likely and one- quarter convinced it is unavoidable. With a wide spread of events occurring this year, it is petrifying people across the globe.
That was an accomplishment that I was very proud of, because I was able to make a useful tool that had a real, positive impact on the project, and it was in Python, a language in which I had almost no experience with prior to my internship. That was a big boost to my confidence, because I was able to extrapolate from the core concepts that I had picked up in my computer science classes at Mizzou, like CS1050, in order to understand the structure of a new language and gain proficiency in a short period of time.
A man is running a marathon and finally begins to see the outskirts of the city which holds the finish line, his goal and only focus at this moment. He pushes through the aches in his legs and chest, continuing onwards, slowly picking up his pace, when suddenly there is a bright flash. The man feels pain like he has never felt shoot up his leg, slowly falling in and out of consciousness, unable to process what had happened. He awakes out of his trance to see himself, wounded and deafened by the blast. It was an act of terrorism, yet only one side of the whole story. Surprisingly, there may be more to acts of terrorism than that which meets the eye. Throughout time, especially recently, terrorism has been present around the world, and as such, the question of its justifiability and morality is a common topic, but it is clear terrorist’s actions cannot be justified when observing organized terrorism, what causes terrorism, its past, and its effects on other people in the world.
The civilian casualties pile up in what seems to be an endless war for peace. Mothers mourn the loss of their loved ones while children cry rivers of pain that never seems to stop flowing. Such a purge is occurring in many foreign countries being struck with the deadly plague known as terrorism. One would think it’s blasphemy that the United States does not help other countries to prevent such a polluted river from flowing, but we must take action because we are all humans and we deserve to live peacefully. Ignorance pours into people 's blood by not even noticing how terrorism is beginning to give many presidential candidates a “boost.” While our government believes that it is better to not become more involved with the terrorism occurring in foreign countries due to the chance of getting caught in a ground war and putting at risk many of our soldiers, I argue that the U.S. should become more involved to establish a sense of peace and eliminate the threat of terrorism from the world. Our government is responsible for what we actually do and they need a good moment to think. Have we as a country done enough to help the people of this world who need it? Have we actually done enough if mothers are still mourning and children are wondering if they 're siblings are coming back anytime soon? Picture this in your mind. Is it not heartbreaking? Because in the end we all bleed the same blood and the key to fixing these problems begins within the government who needs to put their