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    A Comparison of Christian and Islamic Architecture in Spain By the 6th century a Germanic tribe called the Visigoths, converts to Arian Christianity, had established themselves as the aristocratic elite. The Christians built many monumental basilica-plan churches. The Santa Maria de Quintanilla de las Vinas, Burgos, Spain and San Juan de Banos de Cerrato are two such churches that still remain today. In the beginning of the 8th century Islamic Muslims conquered Spain and ended Visigothic rule

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    The Untouchables      The author of this book was Eliot Ness. He was a prohibition agent given the special assignment of cracking down on the Chicago mob and illegal liquor sales. He was six feet tall, 180 pounds. Graduated in the top third of his class in both highschool and at the University of Chicago. Both his parents were from Norway, and he was raised in the traditional way. His reasoning behind writing this book was to tell the inside story of what really happened

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    Essay on Music Therarpy

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    Music therapy is the prescribed use of music and musical interventions in order to restore, maintain, and improve emotional, physical, physiological, and spiritual health as well as a person’s well being. Music Therapy facilitates the creative process of moving toward wholeness in the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual self in areas such as: independence, freedom to change, adaptability, balance and integration. The implementation of Music Therapy involves interactions of the therapist,

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    extremist group, Al- Qaeda. Bin Laden has caused many problems throughout the world by his terrorism and this all came to an end on May 2, 2011. Seal Team Six was sent into his bunker and put an end to his life and his 10-year hide out after the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center. Osama has been the leader of Al-Qaeda since 1988 and since then has committed numerous amounts of terror attacks on all parts of the world. Osama bin Laden has developed over time as a leader of Al-Qaeda, and through

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    Foreign and domestic policies are not linear, rather the policies are connected in a circle, with each policy reinforcing the values of another. Domestic American terrorism in the prison and detention systems and governmental reforms are influenced by the mobilization and ethnocentrism abroad. The militarization internationally is justified by the domestic handling of the same cultural issues within the United State borders. The United States has strangely used a near Catch-22 to handle dilemmas

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    Movies are something that people of all color, religion and race watch. Directors of movies have a big influence in the way they portray certain kind of people in films. It is obvious that these people have a motive in bringing down a certain race or religion from the many accounts we see. Arab and Muslims have been given stereotypical labels and have been looked upon as the monster for many years even before the September 11th attacks. Film after film you see many incidents were there is someone

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    Evolution of Terrorism since the Attacks of 2001 Specificity and the level of modern civilization are characterized by the existence of vexed global problems, affecting not only the fate of individuals, social groups, nations, classes, regions and continents, but of all mankind. Therefore, in the present-day reality, the most urgent conflicts, requiring an immediate resolution that can escalate into an engrossing civil strife, are put forward to the fore. Alongside with them, there are separate,

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    Terrorism is a Chamaleon

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    forty-five days after the 9/11 terrorist attack. The Patriot Act was created to prosecute any international terrorists operating on American soil. Al Qaeda practiced an extreme version of the religion of Islam. The group opposed of the United States and other Western, other democratic nations. The Taliban loathed the military countries. In the 1980’s, Al Qaeda has helped fund many bombings worldwide.

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    Osama bin Laden was the mastermind behind one of the worst acts of terrorism the world has ever known. On September 11 2001 in New York City the world trade center was attacked by hijacked Boeing 747 airplanes. One plane crashed into each tower. Another plane crashed into the Pentagon. The fourth plane was sabotaged by the passengers and crashed into a rural field in Pennsylvania. Just under 3000 people were killed. It took ten years to hunt bin Laden down. These are the details of how we did it

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    Terrorism in the World

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    On February 26, 1993, Islamic extremists bombed the World Trade Center killing six people and injuring over 1,000 people. The terrorists set off the bomb in the tower’s underground public parking. The suspected mastermind of the bombing was Ramzi Yousef. The suspected intent of the “1,500-pound urea-nitrate bomb” was to generate hydrogen cyanide gas that would kill everyone within the tower. “The terrorists apparently selected the World Trade Center as a target not because it was a symbol of

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