Meghan Baquet MRKT 1375 Professor Solomon February 19‚ 2013 Homework #1 - “Who in the world are they?” “Who am I” Mohamed Al-Fayed was born on January 27‚ 1929 in Alexandria‚ Egypt where his incredible career began. Mohamed was married twice. From his first marriage to Samira Kashoggi‚ he had his first son‚ Dodi. With his second marriage to a former Finnish model‚ Heini Wathen‚ in 1985 he had four more children‚ Jasmine‚ Karim‚ Camilla and Omar. After this Mohamed and his brothers moved to
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Al Jazeera ENGLISH -Case Study- Introduction and background In the year of 2006 Al Jazeera English Network (sister channel of the Arabic-language Al Jazeera) was launched on November 15 and quickly became viral. “Is the world’s first global English language news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East” with headquartered in Doha‚ Qatar but also rotates around broadcasting centers in London and Washington D.C. It reaches around 40 million households‚ target expended
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The Crimes The first mobster job of Al Capone was a crackdown on racketeering in Chicago that involved moving operations to Cicero. His brothers‚ Frank and Ralph‚ assisted him in infiltrating the police and the government departments. They took leading positions between them within Cicero city government in addition to running gambling clubs‚ brothels‚ and racetracks. Al Capone kidnapped the election workers of the opponents and threatened the voters with violence. Capone’s brother‚ Frank was shot
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Architecture in particular is still very prominent from earlier civilizations such as the case in Al-Andalus. The most important building in Islamic Spain‚ like other centers of Muslim civilizations is the mosque‚ house of worship. The inside of a mosque is empty‚ without seats or altars‚ as the empty space is a surface used for expression of form. All mosques are built to model the Prophet’s mosque in Madinat al Nabi in present day Saudi Arabia. The Prophet’s mosque was a simple rectangular building with
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Al Gore’s documentary‚ "An Inconvenient Truth‚" Last winter‚ it was so warm. It was the time when I could feel that global warming is coming to the world. My friends and other people had a big curiosity that winter was not so cold as usual temperature because the rivers in Korea were not freezing well last year and there were lack of days when we could see the snowy weather. I started to feel that the earth is getting warmer and warmer and have a concern about our earth’s problem as a student
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Al-Qaeda’s origins and links Al-Qaeda‚ meaning "the base"‚ was created in 1989 as Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan and Osama Bin Laden and his colleagues began looking for new jihads. The organisation grew out of the network of Arab volunteers who had gone to Afghanistan in the 1980s to fight under the banner of Islam against Soviet Communism. During the anti-Soviet jihad Bin Laden and his fighters received American and Saudi funding. Some analysts believe Bin Laden himself had security
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Social Studies – CAT What al gore’s theory was saying? There is such an assumption that people have on global warming that just isn’t right. They believe that the earth is so big that we can’t possibly have any lasting harmful impact on it. Maybe it was true at one time‚ however not anymore. One of the reasons it’s not true is that the most vulnerable part of the earth ecological system is the atmosphere. Vulnerable because it is just so thin‚ if you had a big globe with a varnish on it the
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1. Al Capone a. Alphonse "Al" Capone (January 17‚ 1899 – January 25‚ 1947) b. Smuggling and bootlegging liquor‚ and other illegal activities such as prostitution‚ in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931. c. He made various charitable endeavors using the money he made from his activities‚ and was viewed by many to be a "modern-day Robin Hood". d. It was said that Capone ordered the 1929 Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre in the Lincoln \ Park
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Gang Theory Al-Qaeda In 1988‚ one of the most dangerous criminal organizations in the world was formed. They call themselves al-Qaeda‚ which translates from Arabic to “The Base”‚ and originated in Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda is an international terrorist organization and are considered the top threat to the United States of America. The biggest attack that the group has planted was the events of September 11‚ 2001. When the U.S. responded with the War on Terror in Afghanistan‚ al-Qaeda relocated
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radical Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Following the invasion in Iraq in 2003‚ Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his group of militia‚ who will later be known as Isis‚ got plenty of notoriety in the early stages of the war in Iraq for the suicide attacks on Shia Islamic mosques‚ civilians‚ Italian soldiers fighting with the US‚ and Iraqi institutions. In October 2004‚ Al-Zarqawi’s group officially pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda. They then changed their name to what’s known as al-Qaeda in Iraq. Attacks
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