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    According to a study in 2014 by the Brookings Institute about 46,000 to 90,000 ISIS accounts are registered on Twitter, and one out of five of those accounts have selected English as its primary language (Moore). ISIS is a dangerous and threatening terrorist organization that has taken over Syria and Iraq by force and is expanding its power over the internet. Although ISIS is based in the Middle East, the organization identifies, radicalizes, and recruits isolated citizens from all over the world

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    Information has the power to either unite or divide us. Some nations take advantage of this simple fact by controlling the flow of information, which allows them to weaken other countries by spreading controversial information that divides their population. For hundreds of years in the past, governments have manipulated the flow of information that other countries received through the use of propaganda. However, with the advent of modern innovations such as telephones, emails, and social media, many

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    generation’s characteristics. However, as a typical group, they have similarities. A generation has responsibilities to the one which precedes because they are the ones who have been left with problems such as, poverty, rapid climate change, international terrorism, and are responsible

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    What makes a person great? It is necessary to know what great means to decide and according to Webster’s 1828 dictionary great means large in number; expressing a large extensive or an unusual degree of anything, long continued, important, chief; of vast power and intelligence(94). Almost all the things in this definition are external and I think that we should look at the internal things too. I believe that to be great you must have a good heart and godly character. I also think that you have

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    The beginnings of ISIS,a Sunni jihadist group,can be traced back to 1999, when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian jihadist, started the group . In 2010, after ISIS’s second leader was assassinated, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,a former scholar of Islamic studies and a US war prisoner back in 2004,took over and got the group back on track. He replenished their partially-killed-off leadership with dozens of Saddam’s old Ba’athist military personnel, who brought key experience to the group. Then in 2011, when

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    Bruce Ivin Guilty

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    Dr. Bruce Ivin’s is guilty because there is enough evidence to be proven guilty. He was upfront with the government by alerting them that he had several variant of the Ames strain of anthrax. Evidence was found that the letters were mailed from a location just a few hundred feet from a sorority that he was obsessed with. He tried to cover evidence by sending the FBI several strands of false samples of anthrax spores. It was also stated that he suffered from some mental illness. The military also

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    Summary: Omar Mateen

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    On June 12, 2016, American born citizen Omar Mateen walked into Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida and opened fire with 2 weapons killing forty-nine people and injuring fifty- three others.At around 2:00 am Omar placed a call to 911 and said pledged his loyalty to al-Baghdadi and to ISIS.Then shortly after placing another call, Mateen said, “It’s me, it’s me, I’m the shooter.” Presently, Mateen’s motives are unknown. However, past mass shooters have been motivated by mental instability, terroristic

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    Growing up in post 9/11 America, terrorism seemed to be a topic on everyone’s mind and constantly a topic of media attention. The popular media made it seem as though terrorism was something that only occurred in the Middle East or by those of Middle Eastern descent. However, when I was sixteen I learned about the conflict in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is a first world country with many historic, cultural, and religious connections to the United States. Yet despite its first world status

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    The rise of terrorism in the United States reveals one of the biggest challenges our nation faces today. Since the terrorist assault that occurred on September 11, 2001, the view on terrorism has changed radically across the world particularly in the United States. Clearly, it woke people up to that idea, and not just did concerns come up. Despite of the ascent in terrorism, securing our country has requested at a a huge concern for protection at different levels. Protecting the people from terrorist

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    After that occurrence I seen many more unusual occurrences on the news. One Most notable a brigand by the name ‘Misanthropo’. He was criminal that would go around killing any humans he could. One thing I noticed was he kept saying the same incantation as Amy. Then, there was the spaceship landing in Oklahoma began a metamorphosis for the world. The ship remained idle for months being constantly watched from afar by news crews. The camera crews had to stay far away because government prevented them

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