One way of characterising texts is in terms of the discourse structures on which they appear to be built. Each type of text, or genre, e.g. the sports report, the recipe, the sermon, the proverb, will have associated with it a characteristic organisation of units. In this paper, a general model of the structure of one text type, the story, is described. This model forms the basis of a program w...

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 306 I. ATTACKS ON TERRORIST WEBSITES .......................................... 307 A. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) .......................................... 308 B. Al Qaeda ............................................................................. 309 II. WIKILEAKS ...........................

This paper investigates the ways in which terrorism is linked to education and poverty using data newly culled from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) documentary sources. The paper presents a statistical analysis of the determinants of participation in terrorist activities by members of the Hamas and PIJ between the late 1980s and May 2002. The resulting evidence suggests that both high...

Houses of worship are not places where psychiatrists typically expect to gain insight into forensic issues. But a few years ago, a rabbi’s comments on a familiar passage from Leviticus helped me resolve an intrapsychic conflict that had troubled me for years, ever since I learned about the Tarasoff decisions. When I give first-year residents their introductory lessons on legal issues and psychi...

Objectives: The study aims to reveal the argumentative mechanisms, values, and concepts embedded in Prophet's sermon, its rhetorical impact on enhancing meaning capturing recipient's attention message's text.
 Methods: This analyzes verbal milestones (PBUH) sermon from philosophical, rhetorical, deliberate perspectives. It examines introduction, semi-logical reality-based arguments, as wel...

As its title reveals, Joe’s early book, The Authoritative and the Authoritarian,1 drew an original distinction that is important to all thought about law, and about more than law: to all thought about any form of social organization, from the family to the church—for all human organization requires authority. As for the meaning of the word “authoritative”: in this book, and in his later thinkin...

During the last two decades, growing threat of Islamic terrorism has raised numerous security challenges for both states and non-state actors. Cyberspace is weaponized by actors who conduct malicious activities, in order to achieve their goals. Terrorist organizations reflect darker side cyberspace. Terrorists use cyberspace collect data, raise funds, propaganda, spread radical ideologies hate ...