Merchant Of Venice Essays (1257 words) - Film, Literature

Merchant Of Venice "How little is the cost I have bestowed in purchasing the semblance of my soul,"(3.5.19-20) is where the heart of this play is in my eyes. Portia doing what she can for her one true love, Bassanio. Money is of no importance to her especially when it comes to the happiness or unhappiness of Bassanio. There are many places in the Merchant of Venice that show Portia and Bassanio's indifference, and what seems to be apathy toward wealth. Many are hidden and many are as clear as day to the reader. I found that reading into The Merchant of Venice was a fun and interesting experience. The way Shakespeare wrote his plays makes people really think about what they are reading; it reminded me of a maze. Portia, an unspoiled Princess to riches, a Princess that doesn't need to think or worry about money. It is something she has an unimaginable amount of, yet it doesn't change who she is or what her values are. Her father seemed to instill in her that money isn't everything to everybody; how you care about people and values are what matter the most in life. When we first see Bassanio, he is telling Antonio of a secret trip he plans to take to win the heart of Portia; yet he has no means to get there due to his extravagant living which has left him in debt to others. At first money seems to be of some importance to Bassanio, but towards the middle of the play his thoughts seem to change. Although Portia's father does not have a so-called character in The Merchant of Venice; his presence is definitely felt through Portia's character, as well as the scrolls on the caskets. In doing this, Portia's father in a way still had a hand helping to choose the right husband for his daughter. When each of the princes come to woo Portia and go into the casket room, they look for what would be the most creative answer in picking out the casket. The gold casket scroll reads "Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire." (2.7.4-5). When the reader first sees this, he thinks the gold casket would make the most sense. Portia's father would have put her picture in there, because it is gold and full of riches as is Portia. Reading into this the reader might think that Portia's father would not put her picture in this one, because love is richer than gold. The prince that would pick this one is not interested in love only Portia's wealth. The second casket made of silver states "Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves." (2.7.7) I have yet to think why any Prince with half a brain would pick this casket over gold or lead. To pick this, deep inside, they did not want to marry Portia. Apparently, the gold wasn't intriguing enough for them yet the lead was too poor. The lead casket would be the most appealing to the Prince who really wants to win Portia's heart and not her riches. This scroll reads "Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath." (2.7.9) When Bassanio and Portia discuss his choices she asks him to think about his choices carefully because it will determine their future forever. Bassanio although deeply in debt to moneylenders, can see past the gold and silver of the first two caskets, and hazards his chance with the lead casket. The scroll inside this casket proves this point;" You that chose not by the view, Chance as fair, and choose as true: Since this fortune falls to you, Be content, and seek no new. If you be well pleas'd with this, And hold your fortune for your bliss, Turn you where your lady is, and claim her with a loving kiss."(3.2.130-138) From the beginning of the play, Portia seems for those times more or less of a free spirit. She has been in Belmont all of her life and knows little about Venice and its residents lifestyles. Portia's father seemed to have instilled values and love in Portia from a very young age. She was taught to love and to be kind and that money could not buy love and happiness. Earlier in the play Bassanio borrows 3,000 ducats from Shylock on Antonio's word that it will be paid back in full. Shylock is a stereotypical Jew who is a moneylender that insists on charging interest on monies loaned out. He needed

Lady Macbeth is The Embodiment of Evil

Lady Macbeth is The Embodiment of Evil Free Online Research Papers We are studying Shakespeare’s famous play about the tragic down fall of a great hero. Macbeth. Macbeth was written during the Renaissance Period 1606-1611. I think it was written to show people that even the greatest hero can become very weak and break down. You could also say it was written to show James I of England and VI of Scotland hatred and determination to drive out the species known as witches as witchcraft is the main theme of Macbeth. We could see Lady Macbeth as the embodiment of evil as she tricks, manipulates and deceives people and kills the people she’s close to, to get her husband a higher state. Lady Macbeth struggles when Macbeth is away fighting to stay a stereotypical Jacobean woman but to also gain power over the country. Her darker side starts to show when she tell Macbeth to kill several people as they stand in his way of getting his ambition of king, we know when her dark side comes out when she starts calling the spirits of the under world â€Å"Make thick my blood†, â€Å"And take my milk for gall† in this she is telling them to make her blood thick so she will be able to commit a murder. On the other hand Lady Macbeth paid for what she did in the end by going mad and finally dying. Macbeth was written during the Renaissance Period. At this time in history it was Jacobean times, these were when men were usually away fighting, men were the only ones that were educated women weren’t seen as anything else but people who had babies and stayed at home. At this time men were seen as superior to women, women were seen as submissive, and inferior regardless to their class or wealth. However at this time James I of England and VI of Scotland was king, and he led a personal crusade against the practice of witchcraft. When he became king, Scotland lagged behind England in the culling of witches, during his reign over 8,000 witches were killed in Scotland. People believed greatly in the Bible and in it, it said that women should look after the children, care for their husbands, cook and clean the house but if they didn’t do all of these tasks they were seen as incapable of being a wife, they were basically seen as no good. This means that they didn’t be long in the Garden of Eden as Adam (Macbeth) was tempted into sin by Eve (Lady Macbeth) and with this God said that men should rule over women. This is linked with the themes with Macbeth as Lady Macbeth tempts him into evil. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s relationship is seen as a normal Jacobean relationship but in reality Lady Macbeth is the one who orders her husband around. They act like a normal stereotypical Jacobean couple, when they have guests they make sure the castle is tidy to try and hide their real home life. Lady Macbeth stays at home while Macbeth is away fighting. The themes of love and marriage is shown when Macbeth first returns home from fighting, Lady Macbeth gives him a kiss but as soon as the subject of the witches prophecies comes up their relationship turns sour and Lady Macbeth takes over the role of wearing the ‘trousers’. When they are talking about the witches Lady Macbeth’s mind quickly turns to killing king Duncan, and the themes ‘love’ and ‘marriage’ slowly deteriorates. It becomes an obsession with Lady Macbeth to kill king Duncan and to add another title to her name, she vows to â€Å"murder Duncan while he is staying wit h them†, here she is urging Macbeth to follow his ambition of becoming king sooner rather than later. Us the audience can plainly see L Macbeth is superior to her husband. When writes to his wife telling her about what has happened and he tells her about the three witches’ prophecies her reaction is to help him achieve his ambition by murdering the one person who stood in his way†¦ King Duncan. To ensure the prophecies come true she contacts the spirits of the underworld â€Å"Come, you spirits, that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here† by this she wants to become a man, she wants to have everything that makes her a woman taken away so she can act, and think like a man, and be strong like a man so she won’t feel guilty about killing someone. Lady Macbeth’s language throughout the play is very harsh she uses negative language â€Å"The raven himself is a hoarse† this is a negative symbol of death, she uses this when she is calling the spirits of the underworld. Lady Macbeth’s choice of soliloquies while she is speaking to the spirits of the underworld are very dramatic, we start to see her evil side comi ng through â€Å"Come to my woman’s breasts, and take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers† her evil side is definitely showing and we can see her trying to help her husband by having all her female organs â€Å"breasts† taken away and become a man. Following this Lady Macbeth cruelly insults her husband by calling him a coward, Lady Macbeth does this by using Rhetorical Questions, she does this by calling him weak trying to undermine his reasons for backing out of the murder of the king. The questions she fires at him are â€Å" was the hope drunk when you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?† by firing these at him she isn’t giving him time to answer and saying he isn’t up to being a man, and that he gave her false hopes by not keeping his word. While firing these at her aim is to make him feel guilty and to make him angry so he’ll want to prove himself to her, make him prove he’s strong, valiant and go and kill him like he was going to in the first place. The effect it has on Macbeth is that he feels he has to prove himself to his wife so he kills Duncan to prove he is still a strong, valiant fighter. At the beginning Macbeth holds the balance of their relationship as Lady Macbeth is a nor mal Jacobean wife but as soon as she reads about the witches prophecies the tables turn and all the power of the relationship falls onto her. We know this as she increasingly pressures her husband to do what she tells him†¦ to murder king Duncan and achieve a sense of power. Lady Macbeth achieves this goal by manipulating him to get him angry and make him want to commit a murder to prove he is a man and show his wife he can take the strain of being a king, and maybe doing it out of love to make her love him by doing what she says. In the play Lady Macbeth choice of language is very violent as she starts to compare different situations from his to hers, â€Å"Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out† Lady Macbeth starts to compare that if she promised Macbeth that she would kill a child then she would see it through, she makes him feel guilty that he is breaking his promise to her. At this point in the play I think her motives were to make h im angry so that he would prove her wrong and kill Duncan and take his title. I think her motives were fuelled by genuine desire to help her husband as she ahs nothing to gain or loose from him killing him. On the other hand she may be demonstrating her love for him as she know how much he wants to be king so she helps him achieve this. However it may be the start of her evil side starting to come through by telling her husband to murder to get what he wants, manipulating deceiving him to do as he’s told. The themes fate and freewill are very important as in those days people believed that your fate was mapped out for you even before you were born. The theme free will applies to the play as it means you aren’t forced into anything, you do it off your own ‘back’ this is linked with the play as Macbeth was manipulated into killing Duncan by his wife and you choose your own destiny. While tackling Macbeth’s reasons about not killing Duncan she makes a reference to a baby, by saying â€Å"Have plucked my nipple its from boneless gums and dashed its brains out† the reference she makes is a negative one, as us the audience do not no whether she is telling the truth or deliberately saying it to make Macbeth feel guilty. It is kept vague, as she doesn’t want to show her husband she is weak and give him all the power again. Her speech is shown with dedication to her husband as she is describing to her she loves him that much she would never give him false hopes or false promises. Her speech to persuade him to kill Duncan is that of a desperate woman to try to help her husband, she uses her own ‘history’ to make him think about what his will say. Her speech starts off positively by her describing her â€Å"babe† as a normal baby who was beautiful, but her language turns nasty she uses violent language like â€Å"dashed its brai ns out† which means she would kill her own baby for her husband. This means that she is an unsuitable mother, as any normal woman wouldn’t think about killing her baby, as a woman’s main function in life is to produce heirs to carry on the family name. Lady Macbeth goes against this by saying she would kill the baby she longed for, for her husband if he told her to. The morning after they committed the deed, Duncan has been discovered by Lennox, when Macbeth is told of this he acts shocked whereas Lady Macbeth faints; I think the audience will see this as a way of taking all the attention off who killed Duncan and to make people think she is truly shocked and distraught by his murder. I think this as she describes Duncan as â€Å"sleeping Duncan reminded her of her father† maybe she’s acting for the other people to show she isn’t strong and is weak in her body and mind to show she is a conventional woman and can be ‘broken’. I think that in some ways you can say that Lady Macbeth is a conventional woman as she is putting everything on the line for her husband’s happiness she urges for him to go for what he wants and not to hold back. I think she loves him so much that she will help him get his goal of being king in whatever way she can. Lady Macbeth is a very persuasive woman when she hears about the witches’ predictions she wants to help her beloved husband to get a higher state sooner rather than later on in his life. On the other hand she defiantly can be seen as the embodiment of evil as she manipulates Macbeth into killing the king but when he tells her the witches predicted Banquo’s sons would become king there after she tell him to kill his best friend to stop that for ever happening. Macbeth is then paid a visit by Banquo’s ghost while hosting a banquet, which makes Macbeth get scared that his secret will be found out. Lady Macbeth is the strong person in their relatio nship but nearer the end she starts to hallucinating spots of Duncan’s blood on her hands, which could also fall on her side of being a conventional woman that can’t always be strong. I think she did it out of love for her husband and that she got what she deserved in the end. 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The Life and Accomplishments of Marcus Aurelius

The Life and Accomplishments of Marcus Aurelius Marcus Aurelius (r. A.D. 161-180) was a Stoic philosopher and one of the five good Roman emperors (r. A.D. 161-180). He was born on April 26, A.D. 121, according to DIR Marcus Aurelius, or perhaps April 6 or 21. He died on March 17, 180. His Stoic philosophical writings are known as the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, which were written in Greek. He was succeeded by his son the infamous Roman emperor Commodus. It was during the reign of Marcus Aurelius that the Marcomannic War broke out at the northern frontier of the empire. It was also the time of the important physician Galen who wrote about a particularly virulent pandemic that was given Marcus Aurelius family name. Quick Facts Name at birth: Marcus Annius VerusName as emperor: Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus AugustusDates: April 26, 121 - March 17, 180Parents: Annius Verus and Domitia Lucilla;Adoptive father: (Emperor) Antoninus PiusWife: Faustina, daughter of Hadrian; 13 children, including Commodus Family History and Background Marcus Aurelius, originally Marcus Annius Verus, was the son of the Spanish Annius Verus, who had received patrician rank from Emperor Vespasian, and Domitia Calvilla or Lucilla. Marcus father died when he was three months old, at which time his grandfather adopted him. Later, Titus Antoninus Pius adopted Marcus Aurelius at the age of 17 or 18 as part of an agreement he had made with Emperor Hadrian promoting Antoninus Pius to the status of heir. Career The Augustan History says that it was when Marcus was adopted as heir that he was first called Aurelius instead of Annius. Antoninus Pius made Marcus consul and caesar in A.D. 139. In 145, Aurelius married his sister by adoption, Faustina, daughter of Pius. After they had a daughter, he was granted tribunician power and imperium outside Rome. When Antoninus Pius died in 161, the Senate awarded the imperial power to Marcus Aurelius; however, Marcus Aurelius gave joint power to his brother (by adoption) and called him Lucius Aurelius Verus Commodus. The two co-ruling brothers are referred to as Antonines as in the Antonine plague of 165–180. Marcus Aurelius ruled from A.D. 161-180. Imperial Hotspots SyriaArmenia (Marcus Aurelius took the name Armeniacus)Parthia (took the name Parthicus)Chatti (took the name Germanicus by 172 since the name appears in inscriptions then [Cassius Dio])BritonsMarcomanni (when Aurelius defeated them and freed the Pannonian provinces, he and his son Commodus celebrated a triumph) Plague As Marcus Aurelius was preparing for the Marcommanic War (along the Danube, between Germanic tribes and Rome), a plague broke out killing thousands. The Antonini (Marcus Aurelius and his co-emperor/brother-by adoption) helped with burials expenses. Marcus Aurelius also aided the Romans in time of famine and so is thought of as a particularly benevolent rule. Death Marcus Aurelius died in March 180. Before his funeral, he had been declared a god. When his wife, Faustina, had died in 176, Marcus Aurelius asked the Senate to deify her and built her a temple. The gossipy Augustan History says that Faustina had not been a chaste wife and that it was considered a stain on Marcus Aurelius reputation that he promoted her lovers. Marcus Aurelius ashes were put in Hadrians mausoleum. Marcus Aurelius was succeeded by his biological heir, in contradistinction to the previous four good emperors. Marcus Aurelius son was Commodus. The Column of Marcus Aurelius The Column of Marcus Aurelius had a spiral staircase leading to a top from which one could view the Antonine funerary monuments in the Campus Martius. Marcus Aurelius German and Sarmatian campaigns were shown in relief sculptures spiraling up the 100-Roman-foot column. 'The Meditations' Between 170 and 180, Marcus Aurelians wrote 12 books of generally pithy observations from what is considered a Stoic perspective while emperor, in Greek. These are known as his Meditations. Source â€Å"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica - Bible Encyclopedia.†Ã‚  StudyLight.org, www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/bri/m/marcus-aurelius-antoninus.html.

COURSEWORK 2 Assignment Example | Topics and Well Written Essays - 2500 words

COURSEWORK 2 - Assignment Example Owner-occupied housing includes property that is owned by private entities and have those private owners as the occupiers of the housing. Of the total number of households in the United Kingdom in the year 2010, about 17.8 million were households that were properties occupied by their owners, the biggest slice of the pie in comparison to privately rented households, households rented by the local authorities, and the households that are managed by the housing associations. The rise in owner-occupied housing is reflected in the fact that those figures for this categories represent about 65.5 percent of all households in the UK, up from about 70 percent in the initial part of the current century. This figure represents an elevation from the average percentage of owner-occupied housing for all of the European Union. These figures are reflected in the chart below (Economics Online 2013). Graph Source: Economics Online 2013 On the other hand we get a glimpse of the total picture of the ho using market in the UK at present from several proxy indicators of health, including for instance the affordability of housing relative to the income or earnings of UK workers. This latter figure is a representation of the potential demand for housing, where for instance higher ratios of house prices to worker earnings translate to lower affordability owing to the reduced capacity of workers to purchase homes, and therefore lowered demand, and lowered ratios conversely translating to higher demand owing to the increased capacity of workers to purchase houses, all other things being equal. Of course in reality there are other factors that impinge on the ability of workers to purchase houses, such as the availability and affordability of credit to finance the housing purchases. That said, and more into that later, the following is a chart of the house prices to worker earnings ratios in the United Kingdom from 2002 to 2012 (Riley 2012): Graph Source: Riley 2012 In the plot above, we s ee that the prices to earnings ratios for property in the UK spiked from 2005 to its peak towards the end of 2006 and the beginning of 2007, before sharply declining from that point to 2009, where prices to earnings have been in the doldrums. On the one hand we see that the ratios should indicate a higher uptick in ownership from the lowered ratios, but we also get from the literature that the financial crisis in 2007 and the continued weakness in the UK economy from that time all the way to the present has generally resulted in a subdued interest in housing purchases in the country. Those two factors together has kept access to credit difficult, for one, while a generally depressed economy has affected consumer sentiment negatively (Riley 2013; Thomson and Bryan-Low 2013; BBC 2013; Ranscombe 2013). Graph Source: BBC News Following up on the last line of though, in the plot above, we see that the economy has not been doing well as of the past several years, contracting for five stra ight quarters on the tail of the severe financial crisis in 2007 and 2008, and barely avoiding a triple-dip recession in the most recent quarter. This general state of affairs has a heavy bearing on the supply and demand dynamics for owner-occupied property in the United Kingdom, as this paper will demonstrate in greater detail. Taking a step back, we see

Latin America and the Catholic Church Case Study - 2

Latin America and the Catholic Church - Case Study Example At the conclusion of the lackluster oration, a BBC reporter stated, that the Pope gave,†Ã¢â‚¬ ¦the most unusual mass of his career.†(qtd in Hoyt,1983) Why were so many Catholics so disappointed? What were the reasons for the Pope’s behaviors? What were the consequences in Nicaragua after the papal visit? These are all issues that will be discussed in the course of this essay. Nicaragua in the late 1970s and 1980s was a land of revolution. Many citizens felt that their existing leader, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, was a tyrant. They saw the immense poverty, the hunger, the poor living conditions, the lack of employment available was directly related to the exploitation and oppression by their government; that this is the reason the poor suffered without relief. The plight of the poor Christians brought them to the rebel militias formed by the Sandinistas, who opposed Somoza, encouraged rebellion, and promoted the teaching of â€Å"liberation theology.†(Dillon,1999) This, sometimes, controversial interpretation of Christianity, relies heavily on the need to care for the poor and heavily rebukes traditional capitalist economic systems. These differing spiritual interpretations and differing political perspectives left Nicaragua, as a whole, at odds. Many, likely, thought that the Pope’s visit would aid in resolution and more potential peaceful ou tcomes. Just one day before the Pope’s arrival in the country 17 members of a Sandinistas Youth Group riding a bus were ambushed and killed. Many people cried out for him to say something in regards to the young lives lost, but he did not. Generally speaking whenever a foreign head of state visits another country, where youths have been tragically killed, regardless of the reasons,†Ã¢â‚¬ ¦he is expected to say SOME sympathetic remarks.†(Hoyt,1983) Not only did he refrain from such condolences, he, in fact, had scolded members of the clergy for participating in the

Video game speech Essay Example for Free

Video game speech Essay Murder, assault, theft and even rape. This is the type of degenerate criminal influences shown to YOUR children on a regular daily basis. Series of dangerous, virtual and physical violence our preserved society has tolerated for far too long, but I say NO MORE. NO MORE influenced violence being shown upon our youths. NO MORE increased crime rates in our society and most definitely NO MORE children being denied their protected safety rights because as parents and guardians we OWE them at least this. I am not here today to tell you what you should and should not be showing to your child. I know that I have no right in telling you this. However I am here today to remind you of what YOU have already acknowledged, what YOU have been too afraid to admit to. Something YOU have been hiding from your children for a far more devastating way than you think†¦ a progressing life of freedom that is not bound to immoral games that are far below the approved age limit. I know, personally, that raising a child in a society maintained by constant evolving technology is hard and it can be beyond tempting to engage your child in the latest video games and games consoles. Nevertheless, I want to tell what the impact of you succumbing to your temptations have done to your children and potentially the generations after. Did you know that 70% of young children aged between 6 – 10 years old that regularly play any type of video game are mentally and physically inflicted by video games which can create a chain reaction to an aggressive and violent behavior? It is within these aggravating behaviors that your child is becoming more and more dangerous in this reality as well as in the virtual world. They are given the impressions that their life is relatable to the video games they are playing and that they must react to their life issues with violence the way the characters within the video games would react. An example of what I am initially trying to explain is the Norway massacre of 2012. One man. One man, who had become so mentally inflicted by playing violent video games and brutal games consoles since the young age of 9, had brutally massacred 77 people on the isolated island of Utoya, Norway. He became so mentally inflicted and attached to violent video games that he stated â€Å"I had trained and prepared by playing ‘call of duty’ for an average of 6 hours and 50 minutes every day to get ready for this day†. Imagine is this was your child doing these disgusting, ruthless and vicious actions. Many of you may not see the outstanding effect and impact of video games on your child right at this moment, but you WILL see the impact on your child in the nearby future and I can guarantee you will not like it. I know it is a terrible thought to think of your child acting as that man once did, but it is a potential circumstance. Video games are one of the key links between anger and violence most definitively with young children. Violent images and audio, brutal story backgrounds, realistic assassin characters are the main problems as they are most effective. The only thing stopping our society from becoming a brutal, vicious town run by mentally afflicted and aggressive people are YOU. You can change not only our future, not only our town but the entire world and even the generations to come. Not only is your child becoming mentally inflicted by video games by also physically inflicted. The whole body internally and externally are becoming more and more damaged through the constant use of video game consoles. With the lack of social interaction your child’s mind is being affected as it will slowly deteriorate and will become illiterately desensitized. This will impact them in their daily routines such as brushing their teeth, memory loss and even with their school performance. The amount of sleep will also become majorly affected for your child due to the constant use of video games resulting in the lack of sleep. The internal organs can also become majorly affected as the lack of outside oxygen, lack of essential foods and drinks, lack of daily exercise and even lack of basic body movements can deprive the body of the necessary requirements needed to obtain it. The internal organs can become numb and slowly wither away. This will make your child weaker and less protected internally leaving them open to all kinds of viruses and diseases that can potentially kill them. Alongside the internal organs becoming damaged, the external body can become immensely damaged as well. This can include vital parts of the body such as the eyes – as they are continuously focused upon a bright screen, they will become weaker and damaged. This can cause your child to become visually impaired and potentially blind, which would make life much more difficult for them especially at such as young age. Another body part which would become physically inflicted includes the hands and wrist area. With the hands constantly being used on the console controls, the thumbs and fingers would regularly cramp giving your child the increasing chance of arthritis. This includes the wrists cramping up also. This physically inflicted impairment can also create an unusual shape for your child’s hand and can cause disfigurement that can make it harder for them to write and use them for other regular duties such as picking up and holding items. A final and most important body part that is physically inflicted includes the entire lower body. With the lack of movement, your child’s body will slowly start to stiffen and cramp up again much like the hands and wrists and can lead to lower body arthritis which is known to be much worse. To conclude, I would like to make sure you have all acknowledged the major effects of children constantly playing violent video games and games consoles. I want you all to remember these effects and think of your child’s needs and benefits first before succumbing to your temptations. Think of the life your child would have to endure if they were sucked into the world of brutal and violent video games, but instead they could be living in a much healthier and less violent world of their own. Remember to live in a world with NO MORE influenced violence being shown upon our youths. NO MORE increased crime rates in our society and most definitely NO MORE children being denied their protected safety rights because as parents and guardians we OWE them at least this.

The War on Terrorism Essay -- Religion, Islam, Taliban

Before the September 11 attacks many Americans believed the United States, a country founded upon its bravery and freedom, was untouchable. On that dreadful day, America was knocked off its pedestal and forced into the war on terror. Inadvertently to many Americans, they fail to realize why this war was unique and not like any other conflict the United States has come across before. America now faced a new type of enemy the Taliban, an organization known for its ruthless behavior and severe attacks and driven by the true nation of Islam. Many Americans wondered why such a violent organization would attack the United States, as well as, what would drive an organization to revert to such evil tactics. Upon research to answers to these questions all too often religion came into play. The nation of Islam seems to be the driving force into the war on terrorism. Religion has always been a controversial subject. Many had suffered and loss their lives because of their personal beliefs. Strangely, what’s even more revealing is that the nation of Islam has an integral role in the war on terror. The nation of Islam has ties to some of the most dangerous and violent groups of people. Within the nation of Islam there are a couple of groups that are notorious for their terrorist behavior. The Taliban, Hamas, and the Hezbollah are the most lethal and violent. For example, the Taliban was founded in 1994, which is pretty young for organization that is notoriously known for violence. The Taliban began as a small group of students that studied Islam from Afghan refugee camps (Berman 4). The Taliban members were poor and started off originally with good intentions. They sought to provide services, both spiritual and tangible to local residents... ...fer about the idea of religion having its role on terrorist organizations. As stated by Professor John Esposito of Georgetown University, he says† So, is it religion that causes terrorism? Does Islam in particular have a terrorism problem?† The question is simple but the answer is difficult to define. Of course religion has its role on terrorist organizations but the concept of terrorists groups having just radical members is absurd. Many of the members of these organizations are moderate and believe that such attacks like the September 11 attacks are justifiable (Esposito 1). The point that many fail to realize is that radicals simply wield religion instrumentally (Esposito 1). Members of these organizations used religion to make the things they do justifiable. Comparably many of the members of the Taliban and other organizations are considered to be fanatics.