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    paper attempts to provide a broad description of Bush’s “war on terror” rhetoric. I examined all presidential weekly radio addresses from September 11, 2001 until August 7, 2004, the televised public statement made by the president on September 11, 2001, and the three State of the Union addresses since September 11, 2001 . For purposes of this paper, since I am only interested in the symbolism Bush draws upon when speaking on the war on terror, I limited the public statements I examined to those after

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    INTP 245 – Research Essay What role do Human Rights play in the war on terror? How has this affected the foreign policy of the United States of America when combating this war? When looking internationally over the past decade there has been an emergence of vague definable terms that act as holistic guidelines for how international order should be constructed. One of these terms is “human rights” which acts as a set of overarching guidelines that all States should aim for and achieve. States have

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    The “War on Terror” has become a war against American freedoms Laura Knight AIU Online Abstract The following essay is to address the “War on Terror” and why the Patriot Act should be amended. The first part of changing the Patriot Act would be giving back the legal rights of the American people that are legal citizens. The rights of legal representation, speedy and public trials and rights to liberty also, freedom of speech, information, association and unreasonable searches have been taken away

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    What is going on in the Middle East is very different as to what was happening during the Cold War even though there are some similarities. During the Cold War the goal for The United States was to stop the spread of communism. As The United States and the Soviet Union began competing for influences in the Middle East. President Truman agreed that communism must not spread from those nations that were already under Stalin’s sphere of influence to the rest of the world. ”(Trowbridge 2017) This is

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    Some may say that the Cold War and the War on Terror have many similarities, but they also have some differences too. Both wars have had a huge impact on American society and how we carry out our lives. During these wars, the two have swept the nation with a relentless distress. They are similar in the sense of how the wars have affected the generation during the time of each war, along with the fact that both wars have caused a mass fear of a specific threat against America during their time periods;

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    political commentator, social justice activist, and anarcho-syndicalist advocate does an elaborate job in his speech given at Harvard University, to make us question if there really is a war on terror. Chomsky calls everybody a hypocrite and uses the U.S. Army Manual definition of terrorism to argue that there can’t be a war on terrorism because the U.S. is also a terrorist group itself. We can’t fight something if we ourselves do that same thing. Chomsky backs up his claim with many pieces of evidence

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    The U.S. has had terrorist problems since the 9/11 attacks and that event led to a war. U.S. war on Terrorism started after the 9/11 attacks, planes flew into the twin towers in New York City,one had also crashed into the Pentagon outside of Washington. The president during this time was George W. Bush,he was the one that declared a worldwide “War on Terror”. George W. Bush had told the United States that Osama Bin Laden was the one behind the plane attack and also that he was their main target/priority

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    To create terrorism is to create unlawful violence or war that is intentionally targeted to civilians. It can also be defined as a systematic use of terror to induce violent attacks that often lead to war. The network of Al-Qaeda, created by terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden, was formed by the World Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and their Crusaders. Right after its creation, there were attacks at the US embassies in Kenya in 1998. Bin Laden then planned for the attacks after 2000, as there

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    Was the Terror of 1793/4 inherent from the revolutions outset or was it the product of exceptional circumstance? In this essay I shall try to find whether the Terror was inherent from the French revolutions outset or was it the product of exceptional circumstances. The French revolution is the dividing line between the Ancien Regime and the modern world. After France the hierarchy that societies of the time had been founded on began to change and they began to sweep away the intricate political

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    Carlos M. Fernandez 2/27/2015 P#3 Exploratory Essay The War on Terror is one of the most discussed topics in politics today, however not enough citizens seem to realize how closely it is affecting their daily lives. As witnessed by many living in the developed world, including me, airplane travel can be very drawn out and stressful. This can be seen as a direct effect of the War on Terror, which began in September of 2001 with the U.S invasion of Afghanistan. Since then the U.S. has gotten involved

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