Essays on Terrorism

The film “Footprint: Where the Towers Stood” by Sara Newens is a short documentary submitted to The New York Times Op-Docs series. Op-Docs is a forum created by The New York Times editorial department where artists submit short opinionated documentaries. In this film, Newens covers activities at the site of...

Comparison and Contrast of "The Child by Tiger" and "The Lottery" Thomas Wolfe wrote a short tale called The Child by Tiger in the 1930s. The black community was subjected to severe discrimination by white people during the time the tale is set, which was characterized by high levels of racism....

Every community aspires to have social control. In our societies, it aids in achieving societal order. There is a traditional theory that seeks to instill both positive thinkers and societal order. Although the two ideas are somewhat dissimilar, they both aim to bring about social order as their end goal....

As nations around the world work to create policies that will counter the escalating threat to the security of their citizens, terrorism has emerged as a global threat. Although every country has a different strategy for combating terrorism, most have specialized groups tasked with preventing and reducing the harm caused...

The research in question focuses primarily on how the terrorist organization ISIS operates and how it uses propaganda to further its goals on a global scale. In the first part of the essay, different definitions of ISIS are presented, along with examples of other terror organizations that are connected to...

Terrorism and National Security Terrorism is an issue for international security as well as domestic security. Terrorists carry out their operations within organized groups and systems that are aware of their objectives. Therefore, it is important to research the causes and ideologies of the different acts of terrorism. In order to...

The Case of Richard Reid The case study focuses on a man named Richard Reid, a terrorist who used signal detection theory to his benefit to get past the French airport security system. His main objective was to use homemade bombs to destroy a Boeing 767 airplane. With the explosives concealed...

The goal of terrorist activities is to intimidate people into complying with requests by posing as threats. Since Antifa uses tactics like using violence and vandalism, being an enemy of speech, acting without a legal identity, and threatening people while recording their voices, it is classified as a terrorist group....

The fight against terrorists The fight against terrorists can be waged using a variety of strategies. The primary financing sources for terrorists are reduced, the military is strengthened in terms of resources and intelligence, and international organizations work together to address terrorism-related issues as some of the methods used to combat...

A physical assault One of the three types of cyber-terrorism, aims to compromise hardware dependability by employing conventional weapons. The technique targets machinery and installations like computer facilities and transmission lines. The deliberate action is primarily motivated by a political goal to obstruct information processing and flow. The goal of the second...

From the standpoint of organized crime, transnational organized crime (TOC) can be comprehended. Crimes committed in an organized manner, such as acts of terrorism, property devastation, or environmental harm, are those that are planned, coordinated, and carried out by people with a specific goal in mind. (Miraglia, Ochoa & Briscoe,...

Western culture and the reliance on visual images Western culture has evolved into a civilization that conveys concepts and ideas primarily through the use of visual images. With the development of imaging technologies, the reliance on visual information has significantly increased. Therefore, according to Porter (2009), the widespread use of CCTV...