ELLEN WILBORG

1. I haven't learned much about the Middle East. I've learned that they have a lot of conflict with their surrounding countries and also the United States. I have also learned that they are very religious. They have a very strong hatred for different religions and political views. I have learned that they think suicide and killing other people is basically ok to do, where as in the US most people think it's wrong, but still we continue to do it. I learned that on my 6th birthday, September 11th, 2001 terrorists took over different planes in the United States and crashed into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and somewhere in Pennsylvania.

1. 2. I have heard people say so many different things about the Middle East. I have heard them say that the Middle East is horrible and they have a corrupt government and that we should just take them over. I have heard on the news that bombs have been found in different places in the world. I have heard that Osama bin Laden is alive hiding somewhere, and I have also heard that he's dead.

3. My definition of terrorism is when a group or even one person, goes somewhere and tries to kill people and may try to take over the government because of many different reasons.

4. The Middle East and terrorism have to do with one another because most of the terrrorism that has happened to the US has come from the Middle East. There is terrorism almost everywhere in the Middle East and that is also a link to why they are connected. We see pictures of people from the Middle East and they have "towel heads" and the people that have their arms or legs blown off from the suicide bombs. The news is focused on the terrorists from the Middle East so we think most of them are from there.