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Amygdala Dbq Analysis

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Fear is just an Illusion; One that most innocent people can not control. Fear comes to a person when the person does not know what to do and is in an helpless position or in other words insecure.Unfortunately according to many sources a lot of human fear is based on social anxieties and threats. When someone puts one in a situation the person receiving the situation can not control it triggers hyperactivity in the amygdala which causes them to think irrationally. Without knowing what to do these innocent souls end up making the wrong decision and possibly ruin their lives. Through the use of fear, many totalitarian leaders obtain and maintain control over others by using intimidation seeing as when one possesses this emotion it is not possible …show more content…

Hussein is a great example of a person that uses this technique. Neil Macfarquhar of New York Times describes Hussein as “defiant, dictator who ruled Iraq with violence and fear”(MacFARQUHAR). This guy did anything basically to keep control. He killed,tortured,raped and terrorized the Iraqi people and neighbors for over 20 years. Documented chemical attacks by the Iraqi regime caused some 30,000 Iraqi and Iranian deaths. Some examples are chemical attacks on the Kurdish village of Halabja which killed around 5000 people.
Hussain was obsessed with security and force.(Neil). He put fear into anyone that objected him. Everything was named after him like Mosques and airports. After oppressing Iraq for over 30 years he was overthrown in April 2003 as the American tanks penetrated the Iraqi capital in a bloody …show more content…

During August of 2014, President Barack Obama did authorize airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq. Obama said in a September 10th speech recorded by Jim Sciutto, Mariano Castillo and Holly Yan, CNN. "I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL. This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven." Even with the amount of confidence the 44th president of the United States had, ISIS still found a way to make them back down. Obama’s original intent of the airstrikes as to prevent the fall of the Kurdish city of Erbil and break the siege on Mount Sinjar, where thousands of Yazidis had fled to after being threatened with genocide. Their response to this act was releasing a video of James Foley, an American journalist, being beheaded by a ISIS operative. They warned of more beheadings to come if the United States airstrikes weren’t called

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