... instance in which racial profiling failed is the case of the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Immediately after the bombing of the Murrah Building, police assumed the perpetrator was Middle Eastern. While officials interrogated Arab American suspects, Timothy McVeigh drove away from the crime scene (Davis 1). Before September 11th, the bombing of the Murrah Building was the worst ... of "any involvement in any terrorist activities, or of any criminal activity, or any violation of immigration laws (Strossen 5). The Department of Justice is discriminating against thousands of Middle Ea...

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... world learned that it was men from the Taliban group that were responsible for the attacks, many turned their sorrows into hate. Hate towards every Middle-Eastern person, hate towards every Muslim, hate towards every person that looked like they may resemble or fit into the category of being a Muslim. Suddenly ... easily targeted, women were by far the biggest targets of discrimination. By wearing the hijab women were clearly showing that they were of Middle-Eastern decent or of the Muslim religion (Stodolska 18). Many of those people discriminating found it easier to do so because it wa...

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... over and over again. Others took their aggression out by attacking and in some cases murdering those who looked like they were of Middle Eastern descent. When the World Trade Centers came tumbling down, the news broadcasters publicly stated that this has been the biggest attack on ... the few months following the World Trade Center disaster, the newspapers were filled with stories of brutal beatings that the innocent people of Middle Eastern decent received in cities and towns all across the United States. On September 13, 2001 The New York Times reported that the backlash ... majority...

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... the French controlled West Germany and the Russians controlled East Germany. The Berlin Wall divided Berlin into east and West. West Germany prospered while the Eastern Germans were left behind. West Germany historically Europe's industrial hub had to be rebuilt as a buffer against Soviet expansion; European fears of their ... Western Europe against attack. The Soviet response came only in 1955, when the significantly placed West Germany joined NATO. The Warsaw Pact of the Eastern European Mutual Assistance Treaty overseen by the USSR, kept strict control over other countries in the pac...

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... begin to recognize. At point in their history they experienced trouble with political transformation. In the late 1700's, the thirteen colonies of the eastern United States struggled to gain independence from Britain. After gaining independence there was a period of time where citizens were unhappy with the US ... be made by the Iraqi people. The United States has attempted to impose democracy based upon traditions that are foreign to Middle Eastern cultures. According to Day (2006), Middle Eastern ideas of how a democratic government should work are entirely different from how the West...

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... a huge part in setting the mood for foreign contact between the United States and many other Middle Eastern nations into the 00s, however there were many other events that shaped U.S. involvement in the Middle East. In 1970 during the civil war between Jordan and the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization), the ... began to reduce its forces in Europe, and in 1989 pulled all its troops out of Afghanistan. That same year many communist nations in Eastern Europe began to fall and the Berlin wall that divided East and West Germany was torn down. In 1990 Germany returned to being a unified...

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... for the Jews. They questioned if they should maintain tradition when the entire non-Jewish world demanded its abandonment. Different solutions were reached. In Eastern Europe, the Haskalah or the Jewish enlightenment movement tried to revitalize Jewish life by adding elements of the best in European life. But eventually, ... derived from God and therefore rules to live by, while reform Jew see it only as binding in its ethical content. Conservative Jews take the middle road, keeping most of the old rituals and beliefs but admitting that change is needed because of the modernization and ...

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... There is a huge concept of "diversity" in American History. There was not one single kind of Native American, but many. The Southwest, Eastern Woodlands, Great Plains, Great Basin, Pacific Northwest, and Arctic and Subarctic are all areas in which the Native Americans that lived that made up the ... . Corn is the dominant part of the mosaic and the men harvesting the corn are working hard. Since it is the largest piece and in the middle of the mosaic, it conveys how vital corn was as a food source (Slideshow 1: 8). Therefore, corn (maize) meant a lot to the Southwest ... people and they...

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... the control of one dictator and then went under the control of another. They had Hitler during the war and then in the post war Eastern Germany had Stalin in charge. Some people would argue that Stalin was worse than Hitler, but that is a completely different story. The East took ... the United States and the U.S.S.R. The ideological differences of these to countries would be played out on German soil. This furthered the spilt between the Eastern and Western halves of Germany. The difference of the ideological values of the United States and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics came to a...

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... culture; Japanese culture; the culture of poverty. These patterns, traits, and products considered with respect to a particular category, such as a field, subject, or mode of expression: religious culture in the Middle Ages; musical culture; oral culture. The communication styles in today's world are so vast in difference it sets barriers in communication, and the impacts are so complex; it makes communicating ... communication may not be received as well. In the Muslim Arab culture it is forbidden for a man to look at the body of a woman he is not married to. In Middle Eastern cultures...

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... , Israel invested heavily in developing a strong military machine. David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, knew that building a militarily strong country was extremely important to survive in the Middle East: "Israel stood up by its own strength and will stand firm only if it trusts first and foremost in itself as a power of growing greatness." Despite this fierce independent ... that Israel had a stockpile of 100 to 200 nuclear devices, a far greater nuclear capability than had been previously estimated. A nuclear attack directed against targets almost anywhere in the Middle Eas...

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... used to extend its influence in Europe was NATO. In the 90s, just after the fall of communism, the countries of central and eastern Europe received the promise of their inclusion in the structure of NATO in exchange for full support of the US political aspirations. The common ... the thing on which Gorbachev based his foreign policy. "The Clinton administration reneged on that commitment when it decided to expand NATO to Eastern Europe". The controversy surrounding this matter abated briefly after the initial round of NATO enlargement in 1997-1999 that led to the admission of ... Cold W...

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... -in within specific society. In all cultures around the world it creates stereotypes. "The strongest effects observed were income on stereotypes of Middle Eastern and Asian immigrants and concerns about the problem of unauthorized immigration on stereotypes of Latin American and Middle Eastern immigrants" (Timberlake 867). Not only stereotypes make people think of one person one way or another. Media makes people to think ... ...

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... delves further into the cause for isolationism, it becomes clear that the war held different meanings for different interest and ethnic groups. Many Irish and Eastern European immigrants had grievances against some of the allied powers and were unwilling to sacrifice lives for such an unworthy cause. Interests groups such as ... with the Germans and bow out of the war completely. This distrust heightened at the end of the war when Russia took over parts of Eastern Europe. With Russia already firmly planted in these areas, President Roosevelt saw it as an easy means to appeasement to endor...

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... , Missouri, Ohio, and Tennessee -while stay laws were enacted in eight, two of them in the East (Maryland and Vermont). Some other eastern states (e.g., New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania) modified their procedures to ease the strain on insolvent debtors. The reasoning of the relief forces was ... dormant, only to revive in the depression in its more modern form as an active, almost evangelical, movement. The movement centered in the Middle Atlantic states and was led by cotton and woolen manufacturers. A determined drive for a high tariff was narrowly defeated in the Senate in 1820 .....

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... communism was to remain strong, it needed to form an alliance with other communist countries. Also after the war, Germany was divided right through the middle of Berlin, Germany. West Germany was democratic and East Germany was communist. In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created under U.S. ... intervention in the internal affairs of its allies. With these two different pacts, Europe was torn in half, Western Europe being with NATO and Eastern Europe with the Warsaw Pact. This just caused more tension between the two superpowers, the United States and The Soviet...

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... idea of where they were going to continue their "war on terrorism-; as there are twenty-two Arab states. And terrorists "are Islamic extremists aggregating in the Middle Eastern and North African regions; devising plans to wreak terror in the lives of innocent people. America; has already focused a center of attention to Iraq and Afghanistan, ... Islamic extremists assassinated President Sadat. Presently, Egypt remains a partner of the U.S. by means of a strong military; of strategic importance and remaining central to American interest, in the Middle East. Egypt's Current State: Egypt's...

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... hand, the groundwork was laid for a civilization. Increase in the population; larger families - larger societies. While farming was slowly spreading from the Middle East, where it originated in around 8000 BC. It was also spreading independently in other parts of the ancient world. During the next 4000 years ... and china people were learning to cultivate different plants native to their regions. Although the earliest evidences of farming have come from the Middle East, there were first farmers in other parts of the world, especially in the East Asia and Central and South America. While...

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... the Wall was built, refugees entering West Berlin and West Germany fell by huge numbers. The Soviets also tried to prevent Allied access to the eastern half of the city. In response, on July 25 President Kennedy announced an increase in the US Army's total manpower from 900,000 to approximately ... answers to these questions are highly debatable and clouded with skepticism. Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson Lyndon Johnson took a substantial role in the conflicts in the Middle East. He looked at these conflicts in a totally different way than Kennedy did. Johnson took a stiffer stance on...

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... this study. In this chapter the concepts of discourse and their detailed specification are provided. The second chapter outlines the cultural-historical background of United States' involvement in the Middle East. It primarily describes the history of relations the U.S. has had with Iraq and Egypt. The third and fourth chapters are devoted to the analysis of U.S. foreign policy ... It aims to conduct a critical discourse analysis of proclamations made by the two most recent American administrations, those of Bush and Obama, regarding their foreign policy decisions towards the Middle Eas...

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... Hudson River. While he failed to discover a shortcut to Asia, he helped stake Dutch claims to land with great natural resources. 3. Dutch West India Company was less powerful than its eastern counterpart, but nonetheless profitable. It operated mainly in the Caribbean, raiding Spanish ships laden with goods but it also ran sugar plantations. 4. New Netherland was founded in 1623-1624, in ... on civil and religious liberty, a rarity in its time. 5. 1664- New Jersey created. It was also a Quaker state as was Delaware. Q. The Middle Way in the Middle Colonies 1. New York, New Jersey, Delaw...

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... country is home of two prestigious cities in the development of becoming international hubs within the business and social world. Dubai is developing as the significant commercial gateway to the Middle East. As stated by Mike Davis, in his article called, "Sand, Fear, and Money in Dubai " he says, "Dubai is a prototype of the new post-global city, which creates appetites ... with the production of gigantic skyscrapers. Dubai also ambitions to develop as a prominent centre in the international economy, and position itself as a centre for institutional business and a gateway to the Middle...

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... world validity would be portrayed through the United States instilling their western culture and values upon the Muslims and people of the Islamic faith. The Gulf War was fought on Middle Eastern soil and is the home of the Islamic faith. Muslims felt disrespected by the Americans when they came over during the Gulf War and settled in Saudi Arabia. To rid ... of Americans and their beliefs, the acts of terrorism were morally justified. The subjunctive experience could be portrayed through the United States" presence in the Middle East. As stated before, Saudi Arabia is the home of Mecca...

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... seeks a return to Islamic values and Islamic law (Shari"ah) in the face of modernism, which is seen as corrupt and atheistic. Though popularly associated in the West with Middle Eastern terrorists, only a few Islamic fundamentalists are terrorists, and not all Arab terrorists are fundamentalists. The Iranian revolution of 1979, established an Islamic fundamentalist state, and the Taliban has established ... Baktiari, a political science proffesor at the American University in Cairo states that "Islamic fundamentalism is a purely Western construct used to describe the rise of Islamic forc...

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... agency conflict, which led to such a reversal of attitudes following the revolution. THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION Iran, at the head of the Persian Gulf and stretching along its northern and eastern shores, has long served the western powers as a barrier against Russian ambitions toward the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Peninsula. In the nineteeenth century Persia, as Iran was formerly ... as the spiritual leader of the Islamic Republican Party, a party fundamentally opposed to western influence, and American influence in particular. On November 4th 1979, the U.S. embassy was seized and America...

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