Cruelty In Syrian Prisons

From Romania, Mircea Eliade, studied religion from the profane to the sacred. His theory of hierophanies is broken into two axioms to be better understood. The first axiom is that religion is its own thing and is not caused by something else. The second axiom relates to describing religion. Unlike other people Eliade believes that “times and places may differ, he would say, but concepts are often the same”(231). Pals’ uses Euclid’s math as an example that Euclid’s math is the same as it was before it's just used in a different time period. From an excerpt of Eliade’s The Sacred and the Profane we are given the difference between the profane and the sacred; the profane is the regular day to day activities however the sacred are out of the ordinary

of Syria have a lot of struggles in their daily life. Some of the people have no home and they can’t do many things because of the bombings that occur.

Syria’s civil war is the worst humanitarian crisis of modern time. The “Syrian Civil war Began in March of 2011, between rebel brigades and government force; economy and infrastructure is destroyed” (Library, 2016). “Divisions between secular and religious fighters, and between ethnic groups, continue to complicate the politics of the conflict” (Corps, 2016). Additionally, the Syrian civil war has taken a significant

Over the past four years, the situation within the Syria has become more and more dangerous. As many as 6.7 million people, have been displaced from their homes within the country alone. Another 4 million have fled the country entirely, in order to get away from the incessant fighting. An estimated 200,000 people have been killed over the course of the war, but the country is so

The Syrian people began taking to the streets in hopes of a peaceful protest against the Assad regime. The Syrian government did not like this one bit and responded with excessive force, resulting in the shooting, killing, and torturing of many innocent peaceful protesters. This soon escalated into an all out civil war where the country was divided into three major groups that are occupied by the regime members, islamic extremists, and rebel fighters. The conflict in this area has become so brutal and entangled with foreign help from many countries, that citizens of the affected war zones needed to evacuate their villages to be

The film 13th gives way to issues that continue to plague our nation. This idea that the worlds prison population is disproportional to that of the overall world population. According to this film, “ Five percent of the worlds population makes up twenty-five percent of the prison population” (DuVernay, 2016). This statistic is astounding and due in part to, according to the film, the exclusion of criminals from the thirteenth amendments abolishment of slavery. The disproportionality in prison population, not only of people but also of the race make up of people, compared to their world population numbers is something that was started many years ago and still to this day, 2016, is an issue worth addressing.

Human nature’s biggest battle can often be associated with Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory known as “Survival of the Fittest”. In depth , the theory means that only the strongest humans will survive. While, on the other hand, the weak will not survive. This can also mean physically,mentally, and emotionally. Those who work to be the fittest or successful, can be characterized as ambitious people.

“The community’s blunt outrage over the children’s arrests and mistreatment, the government’s humiliating and violent reactions to their worries and the people’s refusal to be cowed by security forces embolden and helped spread the Syrian opposition.” This notion demonstrates that the killing of the four protestors was only the first of many deaths to occur continuing into an on-going war that has: “…triggered nationwide protests demanding President Assad’s resignation.” Because of this, the Syrian government decided that in order to handle the issue they must crush this nationwide dissent. This in return only allowed the protestors to push harder for a change within the country of Syria, in hopes of it becoming the wonderful country that it was in the years prior to the war. “Syria’s conflict has devolved from peaceful protests against the government in 2011 to a violent insurgency that has drawn in numerous other countries.” “With neither side able to inflict a decisive defeat on the other, the international community long ago concluded that only a political solution could end the conflict in Syria.”

Syrian Governmental Problems and Refugees: In “For Those Who Remain in Syria, Daily Life is a Nightmare” (2015), Maher Samaan asserts that the Syrian government is creating more chaos for their country than the actual insurgent groups are. Samaan illustrates his view of the Syrian government (they are doing a terrible job of keeping their citizens safe) by citing statistics that illuminate how the governmental air strikes are causing significantly more deaths than the terrorist groups they are supposedly fighting, accomplishing practically nothing aside from killing their own citizens. The examples he gives help to demonstrate the gravity of the situation and provide a sense of reality to his claims.

Syrian civil war started in 2011 was the outcome of the opposition against the President Bashar al-Assad regime. The uprising emerged as a response to the Arab spring movement that lead to regime change in Tunisia and subsequently turned into mass unrest rooted into the discontent with long-term dictatorship and poor economic situation in the country (Manfreda, n.d.). The number of Syrian citizens killed in the civil war reached 140000 since March 2011 (SBS 2014). The European Commission (2014, 2) reports approximately 9.3 million civilians “in need for humanitarian assistance”. The scale of armed rebellion between government and opposition that lead to an increasing number of casualties among civilians did not remain unnoticed by the

The social pressures of a masculine culture that discourages strong emotions other than anger and rage encourages citizens to shut out empathy for the pain of others, both past and present. Women weep over the past, while men look ahead to forge the future. This is quite the significant task, as Western history is filled with the pain of others. This willful amnesia is reckless and enables present and future harm to be inflicted on the other, because we refuse to learn from the lessons of the past and feel guilty about the hundreds of thousands of innocent people we have killed. We can see this in the current Syrian refugee debate. In the late 1930s, Americans were opposed to accepting even a small number of Jewish refugees based on the fear

Syrians have many problems back home and one of them is their government. Syrian government is trying to stop the citizens from protests. “Pro-democracy protests erupted in March 2011 in the southern city of Deraa after the arrest and torture of some teenagers who painted revolutionary slogans on a school wall” (www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east). Protesters then began to take it to the streets and demand that President Assad resigns

The Civil war in Syria is not like typical internal conflicts due to the sheer number of different groups fighting in the same small territory. Primarily, this is a fight for power in the nation of Syria and each group has a special affinity for the land. This has led to a power struggle in the small area, and the people of the nation, whether they are fighting or not, are all suffering in different ways. There are some who have chosen to fight for their cause. They are not the majority, however. Many, half of the country in fact, have been displaced and forced to walk miles, in temperatures estimated more that 120 degrees fahrenheit, from their home country to refugee camps after suffering directly and immensely in their own homes. Not

The Syrian Arab Republic is an Arab country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the North, Iraq to the East, Jordan to the South, and Israel to the Southwest. In March 2011, the Syria conflict has begun due to various reasons and is still going on today. This outbreak is one of the key factors which resulted the Arab Spring (Arab Uprising). Arab Spring refers to the democratic uprisings that arose independently and spread across the Arab world in 2011. The protest originated in Tunisia in December 2010 and quickly took hold in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. In these countries, the citizens intiatied the protests as the ruling families have been

Talking about the renaissance in class these past couple of weeks has made me remember some of the genealogy that my mom has done on my family. And she was able to trace it all the way back to man sitting in the jail cell with the infamous King Arthur. So I decided to write the essay on the situations of the prisons and torture methods of the renaissance.