Osama bin Laden believes that the US army wishes to control Jerusalem, which was the goal for all previous crusades. ... The Arabs nations will soon be overrun with Western ideas and beliefs and the assimilation of Arabs will occur. ... Many civil wars began and until now quite a number of Muslims believe that it was US fault for not maintaining stability and peace. ... When America sent troops to Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraq from invading Kuwait. ... Muslims have caricatured the West (especially America) as the "Great Satan" because the worldly pleasures of Western culture are lur...

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There are many countries that other countries take ideals from American culture and make it into their own. ... Jazz music originated in New Orleans in the nineteenth century.2 Slaves around the time all met in an area called the "Congo Square," known today as Louis Armstrong Park where they danced publically simply to enjoy themselves. After research on the documents in the history of African-American music, sketches have shown these people playing percussion instruments with string as well.3 There are many unanswered questions to how it started there, but architects are quite certa...

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Post modern caused a tsunami of change among popular style and challenged the term modernism as only a continuation of the parent it "rebelled" from. ... Although it was quite a popular wave of thinking, like any trend and all movements of the last two hundreds years, it has also produced its fair share (and perhaps a little more) of bad, tactless art. ... Its slight changes in name such as post -Modern, postmodern and Post-Modern Movement have isolated it from other advents such as Pop art and feminism, which took place quite independently, (hence the lack of the word "post"). ... After mo...

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Cultural changes in America inclined many to seek alternatives to Western traditions, and some of the disillusioned found their way to Asian religious communities (Tweed, 2). ... For example, there are numerous "Zen of this and that" books, several yoga videos, and quite a few movies that have come out in the past few years, all relating to the popular Buddhism craze. ... The American version of Buddhism is a package of traditional forms of monastic practice wrapped in Western philosophy and psychology. ... Gays and lesbians have been attracted to Buddhism as a refuge from constant discriminat...

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These two conflicts are different but are both quite important to the formation of our country. ... One section was the North--23 Northern and Western states that supported the federal government. ... The American Civil War lasted from April 1861 to April 1865). ... An economic revolution also occurred from the Civil War. ... It was greatest in the South; it climbed all the way up to 9,000%. ...

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Whether it is shutting down schools because of terroristic threats, refusing to allow Muslims to travel on an airplane, or some of the American populous harassing Syrian refugees, America has become more fearful than it has been in quite some time. ... In November of 2015, the University of Chicago cancelled classes and activities for a day, after discovering a social media post that talked of killing "16 white male students and or staff" and "any number of white policemen"; Western Washington University suspended classes after a post suggested lynching a student leader; an...

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The donkey is indeed quite annoying with its "door-hinge" bray, but that cannot be a supportive argument claiming this animal as useless. ... Four-legged, hoofed mammals such as the mule, zebra, and horse are all part of the Equidae family. ... So all in all, though the donkey, mule, and burro may all look alike, they are far from the same thing. ... If you talked to the people of Western Somalia, located on the eastern coast of Africa, most of them would say they do not have the money to buy a car. ... Both the person and the donkey know they are special together and the bond that dev...

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It certainly isn't the case that America has already achieved an ideal level of social cohesion, far from it. ... "American workers enjoy much less vacation time than nearly all other industrialized countries."" ... To most Europeans, the notion of not taking vacation time when it is entitled to them would sound quite absurd. ... Americans are much more prone to becoming burnt-out' from working excessively leading to less quality work hours. ... It is the ideal place to locate for the European market given its unique position as the western-most country in the European Union. ...

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