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…, symbolizes the experiences that befall young soldiers who leave a comfortable life at home and begin a journey into the unknown. They arrive in Vietnam innocent and "clean" and are seduced by the "dirty" terror of war and are ultimately transformed, in varying…

…. It was not until Stine read Something Wicked Comes, a horror book by author Ray Bradbury, that Stine became interested in stories of horror and terror. One day, when Stine was nine, he ventured into the attic to find an old typewriter. Every since that day Stine said he…

…Why now? The question is of course being asked by those opposed to a war against Iraq, and those who have not made up their minds. But it has also been asked by one of the most senior Whitehall officials at the centre of the fight against terrorism…

…has increased significantly since the War with issues of refugees, POWs, Aborigines and 'war on terrorism' causing an upsurge in the precedence of human rights worldwide. Globalisation has meant that importance of human rights has escalated to reassess…

…The gothic literature style is a style which emphases the grotesque, mysterious and desolate. Common components of gothic novels included doom, death, old buildings with ghosts in them, decay, terror, mystery, the supernatural, madness, hereditary…

…and physical search of persons engaged in espionage or international terrorism against the United States on behalf of a foreign power" (Aftergood). On November 18, 2002 FISA gave the green light to a Justice Department bid to broadly expand its powers to spy on U.S…

…attacks, and secret wars would be fought over Palestine and other holy land. The 6-Day war, of 1967 started when Syria was directly sponsoring terrorism against Israel. Israel gave Syria time to crack down on it, but nothing was done, so Israel had to take…

…the imprisonment and execution of millions of Russians. These arrests and executions were carried out by his secret police called the Cheka. The role of the Cheka changed during the civil war into an organ of terror, dispensing summary justice including executions…

…being imprisoned in internment camps could be repeated today, especially with Muslim-Americans in the war against terrorism. The internment of Japanese American citizens and resident aliens was not just an odd, wartime event, but also a climax of a long…

…and the erecting of “barbarous” black governments; many southern whites hung up their gray uniforms and put on white hooded cloaks. The Ku Klux Klan was formed to serve three measures in late rebellious states: to promote social and political terror in the black man…