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Drew Nelson Professor Shirk POL357: Global Politics of Terrorism 25 February 2018 Science Behind Terrorism             One major point that many do not consider when they are thinking about terrorism is the science behind it. This does not mean the methods or strategies of the acts, but the new technologies and fields of research that emerged during the period that promoted the acts. This has been seen with the development of the guillotine that fostered the Reign of Terror in the late eighteenth century, the creation of dynamite or TNT that helped the acts committed by the Anarchists of the late nineteenth century, and the science of eugenics was present during the Holocaust enacted by the Nazi Party of Germany in the twentieth century. * List the similarities * *List the differences*             After the French Republic fell deeply in debt, the Committee of Publi...

Taylor White POL 357 Professor Shirk 25 February 2018 While in the Torah God promised the Jewish people that they would receive a land of their own, they remained stateless until 1948. Though they attempted to settle in various places in Europe, including Spain, Germany, and France they were consistently expelled from each state; yet the most significant displacement of Jewish people came in the period after the Holocaust from 1945 to 1952 with more than 250,000 individuals left homeless. While there was growing Zionism among the displaced persons, Europe and America were unwilling to form a nation for the Jewish people. Instead, they found it easier to place these people in displaced persons camps or even refuse them refugee status than help them for the country they yearned for after the loss of so many of their people. A majority of Britain’s policies post WWII, primarily through its continued support of the Arab state of Palestine, served to keep Jewish people oppress...

Comparing the Holocaust to Eugenics of Mental Disorders             While reading about the Holocaust in greater depth for class I was reminded of something I had recently learned in my Abnormal Psychology class. While we were reading about the Holocaust in our class I was learning about the history of mental illness in abnormal psychology. We were touching upon the fact that in the past mental illness was seen as something evil and was not wanted in society. These people were shunned away and put into institutions keeping them from those deemed as “normal”. There was a eugenics movement starting in Connecticut and spreading to the rest of the U.S. in which people with mental illnesses were prohibited from certain things such as marriage so that they would not be able to reproduce offspring with a similar mental disorder. There were even laws created to make sure that this was prohibited. In the abnormal psychology book it ment...