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    According to the Human Rights Website‚ the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is an international document that states basic rights and fundamental freedoms to which all human beings are entitled. There are 30 basic rights that every human should be entitled to. Out of the 30 laws‚ 3 of them stood out the most to me. Article 9 which is that no one should be forced to be arrested or detention if there is no evidence that they committed the crime or should not be exiled from their native country

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    Walt Whitman is most certainly the forefather of contemporary American prose and poetry. Whitman’s most celebrated work; Leaves of Grass has left a mark not only on American society but also on the work of Allen Ginsberg who is vastly reminiscent of Walt Whitman. I will begin this essay by paralleling the Leaves of Grass to Ginsberg’s Howl while incorporating the work and ideas of other contemporary Amesrican poets. To take one Allen Ginsberg poem as an example‚ we will be able to draw a corollary

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    Image pair 1: Four statues of Pharaoh Ramesses II (with smaller royal family figures)‚ 20m high‚ Exterior: Abu Simbel temple‚ Egypt‚ 1279-1213 BCE Gian Lorenzo Bernini‚ David‚ marble‚ 1.7m high‚
Galleria Borghese‚ Rome 1623-4‚ At the exterior to the Abu Simbel Temple‚ in the small village of Nubia in Southern Egypt‚ there lies the ‘Four statues of Pharaoh Ramesses II’. These 20 metre tall‚ statues were carved into the bare stone at around 1279- 1213 BCE‚ and were an exaggeration of Ramesses II’s

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    * 1. Politics of Representation Terrorism Index 1. Introduction 2 2. Defining ‘Terrorism’ 3 3. Understanding ‘Terrorists’ 6 Gerrits‟ Seven „Terrorists‟‟ Tactics of Publicity 8 The Role of the Media in the „Terrorist Crusade‟ 8 Violence as a Central Feature of „Terrorism‟ 9 4. The Construction of the „Terrorist Threat‟ – ‘Counterterrorism’ vs. ‘Terrorism’ / ’Terrorism’ vs. ‘Counterterrorism 10 5. Conclusion 12 6. Bibliography 14 Student – João Cotrim 1 * 2. Politics of Representation Terrorism

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    Q: “What are the perceived causes of 9/11 and was this justification for the War on Terror?”Q: “What are the perceived causes of 9/11 and was this justification for the War on Terror?” The terrorist attacks of 11th September 2001 and the interventional events of the ‘War on Terror’ that followed are among the most controversial in U.S. political and moral history. An abyss of opinions involving the U.S. government‚ American public‚ responsible terrorists‚ historians‚ human rights activists and notable

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    Waterboarding Torture has long been used by law enforcement agencies and governments to questions criminals and terrorists. It is used to coax confessions or to find out any sort of information that may lead to the arrest or capture of other criminals. Although the torturing of prisoners in the United States is strictly prohibited by the constitution‚ the government started using the tactic waterboarding against terrorists. Although the government says waterboarding has led to prevention on

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    “In July 2003‚ about 680 alleged Taliban members and suspected Al-Qaeda terrorists from 42 different countries were incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay. On July 23‚ 2003‚ U.S. Major General Geoffrey Miller said that three-quarters of the roughly 660 detainees had confessed to some involvement in terrorism. Many have informed about friends and colleagues”. For the unknowing‚ “Guantanamo Bay detainment camp serves as a joint military prison and interrogation camp under the leadership of Joint Task Force

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     Lesser Harms: The Morality of Risk in Medical Research.Chicago: University of Chicago Press‚ 2006. Moreno‚ Jonathan D. Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans. New York: Psychology Press‚ 2001. Otterman‚ Michael. American torture: from the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and beyond. Melbourne: Melbourne Univ. Publishing‚ 2007. Perni‚ Holliston. A Heritage of Hypocrisy. CA: Pleasant Mount Press‚ 2005. Washington‚ Harriet A. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans

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    chief editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology and he received the European Association of Social Psychology’s Lewin Medal for research in social psychology. 1In the article they are detailing how their research speaks to recent events in Abu Ghirab and also complicates earlier interpretation of the Zimbardo experiment. These earlier interpretations essentially contend something like “if we all shared the same circumstances as the soldiers working the prison‚ we all would have ended up

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    Explain the impact of the Stanford prison experiment on psychology and behaviour. The Stanford prison experiment ‚led by professor Philip Zimbardo‚ was aimed at seeing the effect on people on becoming prisoners or prison guards. The idea was to see what happens to people when they are put in relatively ‘evil’ places. Do the people themselves become evil or is there no net effect? The results indicated that in fact people adapt to their role exceptionally well. It was observed that the prison guards

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