The Insecurity Rampant Of The Nation

Then, I heard footsteps getting louder and louder, so quickly hid in the closet. I could hear my heart beating faster and faster as the person kept getting closer. About an hour later, I saw a shadow of a strangely shaped person leaving the room and locking the door. I was relieved and scared at the same time, I didn't know how to get out. So, I first tried to escape out of the black and blue colored window. It was very hard to open,

My imagination took over my sense of reason because I thought someone was outside as i was home alone but in reality it was my little sister outside knocking. It was on Friday night all of my family went to my aunt’s house around 7pm. I was doing my homework in the living room and the only noise that was in the house my music but it was very low and i was finishing up my homework i kept hearing banging noises. At this point my

As I was sleeping all I could hear was loud noises and screams, at first, I taught it was my annoying brother watching another horror movie, but then I could feel grains of sand falling on my face. Then I felt very hot and it felt like I was sleeping on something very hard and cold. I was too tired to wake up so I thought it was a dream at first, but then I could feel a hand shaking me and screaming for me to wake up. When I finally opened my eyes, I was beyond shocked. I was surrounded by men, women, and children running for their lives, bullets going through their bodies and a woman screaming at me in a language I've never heard but weirdly could understand. She was telling me to get up and run for my life that the enemies have arrived and that they were killing them. Funny enough that is what I did, but in the process, so many things were going through my mind, like how

Although here in the United States we are free to form opinions, feelings of national insecurity are shaped by cultural myths that trespass into our ways of thinking. Society is constantly told by the powerful that our country has enemies in other parts of the world and they will not leave us alone unless we take forceful action or else our existence is at stake. Our nation has faced a cycle of wars, each initiated for different declared reasons. In the beginning, most people express patriotic support only to realize in the end that they and their friends, family, and politicians have made a horrible mistake which took the lives of many. The fact that Americans are living in fear because they believe their security is diminishing has economic,

I woke with a start. My eyes sprung open, but I could not see anything. It was pitch black. My eyes began to adjust and I heard very loud, unfamiliar voices. They were yelling at my parents. I don’t know exactly what they were saying, but we were in trouble. My mother started to cry, and there was

The United States has a population of 323,100,000 people as of 2016, however 42,238,000 people are at risk of going hungry giving a 13.4% rate. The average meal cost $2.94 in the US with $22,267,592,013 as the annual food budget shortfall. (“Map the Meal Gap”) On average, US households experience the risk of going hungry seven months out of the year. (“How We Got the Map Data”) Feeding America found that food insecurity varies by geographic regions and status. It found that counties in the South have the highest rate at 16.1%, while the West has 13.7%, Midwest is 12.1% and Northeast regions at 11.8% of food insecurity. (“Food Insecurity by Region”)

There was no answer as I got to the bottom of the staircase I felt someone's breath on my neck I turned around no one was there. I walked into the kitchen and multiple plates were broken on the floor. I started to clean it up, but as I was I kept hearing noises and the wind rushing past me. I got up to check if a door was open and it was closed. As I was walking back to the kitchen to finish cleaning I saw a woman in black standing in my kitchen.

with a pound in my chest i darted as fast as i could with them close behind . i had to find a way to get away. i turned abruptly down an alley and hid. as they dashed past the alley i crept out slowly to be cautious . suddenley somthing seized my arm i saw a red and blue lights and everything went black. i awoke not knowing the time were i was or anything . i was scared suddenly i heard a voice a deep husky voice asking how i got in to this horrible place my vision started to become clear realizing i was in a dark cold cell i asked the strange voice who he was he i heard footsteps slowly walking toward me asking again how did you get in here. just as i started to answer there was a bang i lurched foward realizing it was just a gaurd. he took my arm and took me into a room the lights were dim but it was bright enough to see the mans face. he threw me to the ground and started to pace he spoke to me saying " the rules around here are simple

When I was three years old we moved to our current home in Hartford South Dakota. The only thing that was left for our to keep in our new home was an old Piano. After a few weeks of being settled in my mom would often be kept up at night with people being loud out side. She described the voices sounding like they were always just right outside our house on the street. She would just try to ignore it and go back to sleep. But one night they voices were way louder, but they conversations weren't so clear where she could make out what they were saying. It was mostly mumbling. She got out of bed and looked out side but there was no one outside, but voices got quieter. That is when she noticed it sounded as if they were coming from the vent on the floor, like from the down stairs. By brother, who was 7 or 8 at the time had his room in the basement so she thought to her self maybe he just had something playing in him room, would be very weird at this time of night, but its a possibility.

I seen the adick door was slung open though so i went to go cloes it and then, i felt something. I felt a cold chill down my spine. I ignoed it and i just closed the door,i went back to my bed room and then i heard a bang'i just thought it was my sister getting mad and throwuing things agin'but then i heard it agin so i went back out side and the adick door was slung open agin,and it keep on happining so i cep on closeing it this happedn for the reast of the night.Know that i think about it it seems like the ghoust was playing games with me.

This seemed odd, but I didn't want my parents to worry so I kept it to myself. As Friday came along it was a unusally hotter day so we opened a window. My parents left around 6:30 pm and It was starting to get dark so I went into my room to play on my computer with some friends. It got chilly unexpectdly so I stood up to find out why. I found a open window down the hall which I didn't recall opening but I dissmissesd it and went back into my room. I got onto skype with some friends and sat and talked with them for awhile, I heard some strange tapping in my room, but I just assumed it was the wood creaking. I heard my little sister scream downstairs, so I threw off my headset and ran downstairs. I heard a shuffle in my room but I didn't agknowlege it and went straight downstairs. I called out for my sister-"Julie?! JULIE!??" she was just watching televison, It scared me half to death. I sent her right to bed and went back up

Lying in bed in the middle of the night while sleep eludes me, a noise breaks through the silence. Oh my God! What was that!? Maybe it was just my imagination, or maybe it was just the house settling. There it is again! I must be hearing things. I get cold and my body starts to shiver uncontrollably. I peek to where the sound comes from and I could swear I see something through the dark room; it appears even darker than the surrounding area. Oh my! I think it just moved. My breathing becomes labored and I pull the covers over my head, trying to calm myself down while making my brain work through what just happened. Was I dreaming? Or did I just see a ghost?

Since the execution of Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders, international terrorism seems to be on the decline with some even arguing that terrorism will end sooner than we expected. However, through waves of recent bombings, bloody kidnappings, and remorseless assassinations, Nigeria has proven that while terrorism may be on the decline, local terrorist groups seem to still be on the rise and the unprecedented terrorist operations of Boko Haram have shattered the hope that peace is returning to Africa’s most populous country any time soon (“Boko Haram”).

Nigeria’s heterogeneity has at some point been regarded as her strength but it currently is perceived to be the crack which may cause a predicted break-down. The religious cum cultural diversity has always threatened the continued existence of the Nigerian nation as one entity. In the past, various opinion leaders have proffered secession as the permanent solution to internal crisis and terrorism in the country. Although Nigeria, the giant of Africa, describes her heterogeneity as a situation of “Unity in Diversity”, it has become one of violence and terror (Agbiboa). The various lines of division in the country have given rise to the current situation of terrorism – Boko Haram, and the end is not in sight yet.

To find the root causes of insecurity, one must look at society as a whole, and in Nigeria it is not necessary to dig very deep: increases in unemployment, poverty, and inequality have created frustration and alienation amongst large sections of the population, which in turn has led to social division. The lack of