Border Police Flying Analysis

To show that man is surrounded by good and evil no matter where they are, Steinbeck describes the setting in a contrasting way to represent the good side and the bad side of nature. He

Etgar Keret’s “Not human beings” illustrates the loss of conscience as a result of war, and portrays Stein as uncorrupt and humane in comparison to the Border Police. Stein is considered an optimistic compassionate man, with morales about his wits, misguided of the behaviors of the Border Police. Stein immediately identifies the Border Police’s misdeeds when Scar Face ran over an Arab man and the subsequent grotesque actions, however he didn’t anticipate the succeeding response. Zanzuri discloses an important trait that Stein fears when he said, “He didn’t run over a human being, he ran over an Arab” (78).

In "Fortress LA", Mike Davis discusses society's fixation with 'security', whether it's the rich neighbourhood with guarded walls, surveillance and private police or poor neighbourhood with patrols of "'Berlin Wall' quality" (Davis, 248) This "obsession" (Davis, 223)with security and social boundary is embodied, reflected and proliferated through architecture in post-liberal LA characterized by fortress-like exterior. The ability to 'afford' security eventually became a sign of wealth, privatized security service . In the text, Davis introduces LA as a Fortress city that segregates the rich and the poor, "we live in 'fortress cities' brutally divided between 'fortified cells' of affluent society and 'places of terror' where the police battles

The United States Border Patrol is a police force located all over America. Most people think the only job Border Patrol has is chasing down immigrants due to the media coverage on the Mexican border. Although it is a big part of the job it is not the only thing done. The main position for agents is in Mexico, another main location is Canada. Between the two locations 21,000 agents patrol 6,000 miles. (Department of Homeland Security, n.d.) The Border Patrol’s keeps illegal people, drugs, and weapons of mass destruction from entering our country. Another major responsibility is to prevent terrorist from trying to cross the border. In order to prevent this from happening Border Patrol have check points with man power alert at all times. Equipped with the best equipment from the government they stop virtually everything crossing. I along with most of the country feel that this is a very important job in the United States.

Israel and Palestine have been battling over territory, dominance, and political freedom for many years. After the Second World War, Israeli forces occupied Palestinian territory, ridding the land of Arabs. In response, the Palestinian people demanded control over their historic land, but the Israelis refused to relinquish power over the territory. In a matter of six days, the Jewish Israeli people conquered the West Bank all the way through to the Sinai Peninsula. After the war, the Israeli forces continued to take over Palestinian land by putting pressure on them to abandon their nation. Due to this ongoing conflict, Sahar Khalifeh utilizes violence and social constraints to explore the lives of Israeli and Palestinian men through vivid diction and descriptive imagery in the 1985 novel Wild Thorns.

Border Patrol and U.S. CustomsBoth Border Patrol and U.S. Customs work together under the same agency, and worktowards the same goal, yet they perform their duty tasks differently. Protecting the nationsborders from drug smuggling, human trafficking, and terrorism is not an easy task to perform.Border Patrol agents and U.S. Customs officers perform this risky task on the front line of ourcountry by putting their lives in danger on a daily basis. Although Border Patrol (BP), and U.S.Customs and Border Protection (CBP) differ in work location, and work duties they also sharevarious similarities in pay, benefits, and outcome.The officers working as CBP and agentsworking as BP risk their lives at their work of duty, and they both work towards the

The most obvious is Zeitoun and his friends’ unfair arrest and cruel treatment. In Camp Greyhound, Zeitoun and Nasser were strip searched and especially segregated among the prisoners by the National Guard because of their race; they were also labelled as terrorists without any proof. Eggers keenly picked details of Zeitoun comparing Camp Greyhound to Guantanamo Bay, which would undoubtedly provoke uneasy feelings after just reading about Zeitoun’s innocent and selfless actions. Eggers even noted Zeitoun comparing the guards and prisoners at Camp Greyhound to a dog kennel, which contrasts with Zeitoun’s relationship with the abandoned dog, Eggers points out the worst of human nature like the desperateness of the arresting officers and the callous reactions of National Guardsmen when Zeitoun asked them for help. The harsh conditions Zeitoun had to endure juxtapose how Zeitoun should have been treated after doing honorable deeds. Eggers, by distinctly contradicting Zeitoun’s good actions and unfair consequences, shows how he intended to have the audience feel anger and frustration to Zeitoun’s unfair treatment and eventually even shame after realizing it happened at

The book begins with the author’s Jewish community witnessing a different community being taken away by the hungarian police. “Crammed into cattle cars by the hungarian police, they cried silently. Standing on the station platform, we too were left crying. The train disappearded over the horizon. Hehind me, someone sighed, ‘What do you expect? That’s war…’ The depotees were quickly forgotten. Days went by and life was normal agian”(6). This quote demonstates how fast people are willing to move on and ignore obvious signs of their own oppression. If someone ignores something for long enough, it could eventualy turn into somehting horrible like the

Ever since, Palestinians have had to adapt to new places and cultures in order to survive, which makes it more difficult for them to preserve their own. Said presents several examples of transculturation throughout the essay. For instance, the use of the Mercedes, even though Said describes it in negative terms, the use of the Mercedes has come in handy for Palestinians. Enduring one disaster after another, Palestinian identity is arduous to preserve in exile. It is a struggle of having no country. Our country is a big part of who we are. As we are born, we are destined to become a part of it. It becomes part of our identity. Things that we grew up with meant something to us. We usually treasure things that became part of our lives. Even unconsciously, we take hold of it. Home brings us memories, memories that we want to hold on up to our last breath.

The conflict between the mother and border guards continues as the family “… drove to the Canadian border” (King 139). Readers may expect Canadian guards to ask the same questions. However, the Canadian guard first introduces herself with her name as Carol and greetings as follows: “you folks sure have a great day for a trip.” (140). This quickly establishes a warm and welcoming atmosphere; specifically, Carol’s words made her seem more approachable in comparison to U.S. guards. However, Canadian guard still reinforces citizenship laws where it prevented the family to cross borders as the mother continue responding to the question of her citizenship as “Blackfoot”. Hence, the question of citizenship became ineffective in determining the mother’s

Furthermore, the Israeli occupation of Palestine that the film depicts is a part of the 2000-2005 second intifada between the two nations (Manekin, 2013). Nablus, in Palestine is where Said and Khaled are based, and the mission is to take place in Tel Aviv across the border. A noticeable feature of the movie is the concept of deadness, the two main characters are not suicidal but the life they are trapped in has created a sense of them being dead already (Nashef, 2016) this is represented by the oppression and the lack of opportunity that is present. This theme can be further seen in their town – Nablus. Due to the conflict, the landscape and infrastructure is bleak, destroyed and very much discarded. The depiction of the lifestyle experienced during that period of conflict, highlighted to me potential motivations.

The surveillance plane is an amazing new invention. This plane give the authorities surveillance capabilities that they have never had before. I do not think the plane is too much, however I do think that the people in the community should be informed that there is a plane watching their community. People do have the right to know when they’re being watched. Most stores have signs letting their customers know that they are under surveillance. People do not get upset over that. People are going to be less upset if they are informed that they are being watch and the reason why they are being watched.

The graphic novel Palestine, published by Maltan journalist Joe Sacco in the early ‘90s, is a journalistic piece that represents his recollections of two months spent talking to and living with Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. The casual narrative style, which some might say is too shallow for such heavy subject matter, in fact allows Sacco to avoid many of the pit falls that have made Western reporting on non-Western conflicts unhelpful at the very least and more often incredibly damaging.

The tension that is prevalent in deeply divided nations has been associated with unfair and unbalance policing that often targets minorities (Weitzer, 1995). The tension between Arabs and the police in Israel have been shown in extreme examples such as during the riots at the Al-Aksa Mosque in the year 2000 (Brym, R. J., & Araj, B., 2008). This resulted in 12 Arab Israelis being shot dead in 8 days by police. Cases like this have not happened with Jewish Israeli citizens.

“Photography endows place with a certain freedom, liberating place from the commitment to a specific point in time and space, exposing some generic dimension that exists there, enables place to be a ‘sort of place’ (…).” Taking into account the sentence of Miki Kratsman, I would like to present his photographs entitled Territory and the way in which they relate to the concepts of space and time. First, it is necessary to emphasize that the author, born in Argentina and later having immigrated to Israel, during his career has often documented the difficult Israeli-Palestinian situation. Moreover, his interest in reporting from this area of conflict is significant since he appears as “one of the few Israeli journalists who still cross the border today” The project “Territory” was realized in 2005, seven months before the evacuation of Israeli settlements present in the South of the Gaza Strip. Thus, the photos do not show the direct conflict between two populations or what remains of a place tormented by war, on the contrary, they exhibit a zone, an agglomerate of houses and lives about to disappear forever. Although when Kratzman has reached Gush Katif only a small part of the inhabitants has already left their home, what emerges through the images is a feeling of absolute desolation and emptiness. Therefore, despite its being populated, this piece of land seems to be