Gush Thief

SUMMARY OF THE FACTS: An officer from the Vista Lago Police Department pulled over a pickup truck belonging to Mrs. Atwater. The reason for the stop was because the officer witnessed Mrs. Atwater to be conducting her vehicle without her seatbelt on. During the stop, the officer also discovered that not only was she not wearing her seatbelt, but her two children were also not restrained with a seatbelt which is required by the State of Texas. The officer also discovered that Mrs. Atwater was not driving with a valid driver’s license, and failed to produce any type of valid insurance.

Chapter three of Eyal Press’ Beautiful Souls follows Avner Wishnitzer, an Israeli combat soldier serving in the occupied territories during the Second Intifada. In the 6-Day War of 1967, Israel captured the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and has since kept the land under an Israeli military occupation. In 1987 to 1991, a Palestinian uprising involving resistance and civil disobedience, known as the First Intifada, occurred in the occupied territories. Consequently, Israel deployed many soldiers into the occupied territories, and an estimated 1,674 people were killed in total. The Second Intifada, a much more violent Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories, transpired from 2000 until 2005. In response, Israel enacted Operation Defensive Shield, a large-scale military operation, in 2002 to stop the terrorist attacks and suicide bombings of the Second Intifada. An approximate 4,426 people were killed in the Second Intifada. Avner Wishnitzer’s public refusal to serve in the occupied territories was worth getting kicked out of Sayeret Matkal and being disgraced by Israeli society because it made people question the occupation and the treatment towards Palestinians. Even if Avner had been my father, I would have condoned his choices because I could create my own reputation in the military. Additionally, the current controversy over the Israeli occupation legitimizes his stance and actions for many Israeli citizens.

On November 20th, Daniel Eisenberg was driving home when he was stopped by a British officer and re-routed for the fourth time that day. “I would have prefered to know before hand the alternate route,” said the infuriated Eisenberg. The officers were setting up camp in the center of town and blocked many major roads. Eisenberg is not alone in his complaints. Many locals are furious about the British soldiers presence in the town square, one the major streets and posted outside civic buildings. “These standing armies are completely unnecessary here in our small town. People just want to go about their business without being hassled by the soldiers,” said Eisenberg.

A series of stabbings has made the people of Israel restless and afraid. A statistic in the last paragraph of Ori Lewis’s report, “West Bank tensions rise after Palestinian stabbings in Israeli settlements,” stated that 25 people and a U.S. citizen have been killed. Over 148 Palestinians have been killed as well, a majority of them being victims of violent demonstrations (Lewis, 2016.)

“All of my family is happy and out of harm's way. They are living in Israel.” I didn’t know where this magical place called Israel was where people were happy, but I prayed there were safe and away from the war.

Those arrested were civilians against Israel during a siege. As a result, hundreds of vehicles were forced to pass and look for alternative road to heading to the city of

The Thief Lord is a story written by Cornelia Funke which takes place in Venice, Italy as 2 runaway brothers, Prosper and Boniface were taken in by a group of astray orphans who live in an abandoned movie theatre. The runaway brothers' aunt and uncle were extremely worried and asked the detective, Victor Getz, to find about his whereabouts. However, Boniface accidentally lets out a slip out of his mouth that he was staying in an abandoned movie theatre. I find the plot of 'The Thief Lord' extremely nerve-racking and interesting because it gives the feeling of a gang of runaway orphans stranded in Venice, especially the part where the detective, Getz, founds out the orphans' secret hideout. That part was so edgy.

In my first year of high school, I was assignment a reading of the book Burned Alive by Souad for my AP human geography class. This book is written by a Palestinian woman who survived an attempted honor killing as a pregnant teenager. Despite controversy around the book’s authenticity, it had an impact on my naïve mind, and it brought global conditions to my attention.

The occupied people gradually lose their innocence and vulnerability, leaving

A new survey conducted in early 2017, by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, finds that America's teens, from 13 to 17, are almost as politically disillusioned and pessimistic about the nation's divisions as their parents. The future does not seem bright bright but there is always time to make a change. Education destroys ing

When most people of think of war, they generally think of the glorified aspects. Love and violence. Or perhaps their minds are drawn to an image of a soldier’s homecoming: A father embracing his son, crying tears of joy, all while the solider relays his experiences of the war among celebratory decorations. He is now considered a hero. But what difficulties has he faced to get there? This is the side of war that many of us don’t recognize. In the memoir, A Long Way Gone, author and protagonist, Ishmael Beah, experiences civil war and its effects first hand when he is forced into becoming a child soldier in the poor third world country of Sierra Leone. As the novel progresses, Ishmael becomes increasingly addicted to drugs,

During the crisis of Hurricane Katrina many survivors experience forces far beyond natural causes, some may call this animosity. In response to the increasingly desperate survivors search for food and water, the government has issued a defacto martial law, with soldiers and police enforcing a “shoot to kill” policy, forcing the entire New Orleans area to descend into chaos. Disturb by this atrocious outcome, Egger describes these actions as “a legacy of the war on terror, has the mentality that an overwhelming military response was the solution to a humanitarian crisis” (Egger 125) as he shines light on the inhumane behavior of the United States government. Research shows that many government officials and contractors had been sent into New Orleans to re-establish order, and help evacuate survivors, but for most survivors that was not the case. As stated by Eggers, long time Muslim New Orleans resident Zeitoun, was forced out his home by government officials with guns and was threatened to be shot even after he showed his I.D. confirming he is a United States Citizen and a New Orleans resident. Egger gives us a brief taste of government animosity, as Zeitoun arrived on dry land, and was immediately handcuffed and thrown in a white van. As seen in the evidence above, we begin to see the transition Egger is making to expose his point of view that this is no different from a typical Katrina

On May 31, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) assault on the city of Manjib, along with an air assault support of the U.S., had begun. Since that assault began, until Friday, when the last of the ISIS militants had fled the city, it has claimed the lives of thousands of people, whether they were Jihadists militants, SDF fighters, or simply civilians. Along with the liberation of Manbij, more than 2,000 hostages were released, that the SDF and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights report, were used as “human shields."

Barghouti sees Palestine for himself, as well as for them too. His happiness at being back tinged with blame. "We have achieved a state of history where the term 'occupation' is no more an awful or disgraceful word: the US guards its control of Iraq and Afghanistan," according to Barghouti. "Israel has been involving Palestine throughout recent decades and anticipates that the Palestinian individuals will say thanks to her for that. In any case, hold up a moment, not all occupations! Israeli occupation has transformed the lives of each Palestinian into a 'delayed life.' The 'prompt' are demise, jail, uprooting, and attacks. Anybody inspired by insights can backpedal to figures to see the degree of pulverization of the Palestinian economy, training, culture, and property. If you add to that the debasement of the Palestinian Authority and its disappointment, you can envision the wretchedness of life under such conditions. Regardless, history reveals to us that all occupations end. In Ramallah, the occupation is less unmistakable, subtler, less mobilized. Checkpoints are no less than two kilometers outside the city, and capture assaults are for the most part constrained to the confined outcast camps on the city's

Fortune is a business magazine owned by Time Inc. Each year it publishes an article entitled “World’s Most Admired Companies”. Since 1997, the Hay Group division of Korn Ferry has partnered with Fortune magazine to identify and rank the companies through conducting studies. The study is based on surveying the top executives and directors from eligible companies, along with financial analysts, to identify the 10 companies that they admire the most, that enjoy the strongest reputations within their industries and across industries. “They chose from a list made up of the companies that ranked in the top 25% in last year’s surveys, plus those that finished in the top 20% of their industry”. The final results consist of 50 World’s Most Admired