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    Internment Camps Setting During the late 1930s and early 1940s the world was in disarray‚ the Germans attacked the Polish igniting World War II. The Japanese General of the Imperial Army allied with the Axis‚ and was directly responsible for the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7‚ 1941. This completely altered American citizens’ outlook on Japanese-Americans and led to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s retort of signing the Executive Order 9066.CITATION Wor12 \l 1036 (World War Two - Japanese

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    1982 Lebanon War

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    reaching the outskirts of Beirut. By June 14‚ IDF forces were surrounding Beirut. Their plan was to impose a “new order” in Lebanon. Israel was to help Lebanon become free of Syrian and Palestinian influences‚ thus securing peace for both sides. Christian forces leader Bashir Gemayel was soon elected president of Lebanon‚ but just several weeks later he was assassinated in Beirut. Shortly after the news of the assassination broke‚ IDF and Christian forces entered western Beirut. The Christian Phalangists

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    Lebanese Handicrafts “Keep Lebanon in your mind” A handicraft‚ sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft‚ is one among a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by hand or by using only simple tools with an esthetic sense born of historical‚ social and environmental influences. Blown glass It is a very ancient technique‚ the oldest among the handicrafts‚ where the glassmaker blows air into the hot molten glass and the art of transformation

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    Lebanon is a very beautiful country and an important destination for tourism. Lebanon or as the bible called it once “The land of milk and honey”. Beirut is the capital of the country and it’s also nicknamed “Paris of the East”. Famous people are originally half Lebanese such as the well known Columbian artist “Shakira”. There are five countries which surround Lebanon which are: Turkey‚ Syria‚ Jordan‚ Cyprus & Palestine (Israel). Several problems started to appear in Lebanon. In 1943-1948 after

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    character Brita treats the image from an individualist perspective illustrating the difference between reality and how the image was represented. The treatment of Beirut by the capitalists‚ and by Abu Rashid‚ a terrorist leader‚ fragments their ability to affect change. The capitalist represents the mass merger of two separate cultures—Beirut and the West. The capitalist’s merger‚ or mass consciousness‚ only comes at the death of individuality. In contrast‚ Abu Rashid places his

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    Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? The word terrorism carries a very negative connotation in the western world. The attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City‚ the Unabomber‚ and countless atrocities the modern news is plagued with frequently skews what terrorism is and what terrorists are. During the American Revolution‚ the colonist rebels used terrorist tactics to win the war and secure their freedom. They were considered freedom fighters‚ not terrorists. However‚ when opinions are taken

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    men decide is important enough for the western world to know about. Most of the time we only hear about issues that relate to us or an ally of the U.S. For instance‚ when the tragedy in Paris happened‚ there were no other news reports on the bombing in Beirut that ended up killing 40 and injuring 200 more. A tragedy is a tragedy‚ and all of them should be reported to the world. Society as a whole is dominated by men. Before

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    purpose of this paper is to discuss the internment of Japanese Americans on the West coast of the United States. On going tension between the United States and Japan rose in the 1930’s due to Japan’s increasing power and because of this tension the bombing at Pearl Harbor occurred. This event then led the United States to join World War II. However it was the Executive Order of 9066 that officially led to the internment of Japanese Americans. Japanese Americans‚ some legal and illegal residents‚ were

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    different ethnicities with the claims that one race was superior. Germany was not the only racist country‚ with North America particularly subject to racial acts of injustice. One of them was the Japanese internment camps created in 1942‚ after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The ’relocation centers’ were the most hypocritical act of WWII‚ a war fought because of prejudice and racism. These camps denied the Japanese rights and freedoms of other citizens of non-Japanese descent‚ and

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    References: - Abdussal m‚ A. (1996). Tafseer ul- ’Izzi Bini Abdissal m. Beirut: Dar ubni Hazm. - Abu- Chacra‚ Far k (2007). Arabic: An Essential Grammar. London: Routledge. - Ad-Dimashqiyy‚ A. (1999). Tafseer ul-Qur ’ n il- ’Adheem. Daru Teba for Publishing & Distribution. - Ahmed‚ M. J. and Ahmed S. (1995). The Koran‚ Complete

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