Katy Perry No Terrorist Barriers

548 Words2 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Analyzing Political Rhetoric

No terrorist barriers or borders- how to become the idiot of the year
People falling and dying as victims of terrorist attacks are always a hard and challenging topic to discuss. Every time we face a tragedy celebrities will come out with words of prayers and support, but sometimes these words don’t really reflect the reality of a situation. They can even be called insensitive and idiotic. Katy Perry’s ‘no barriers, no borders’ political agenda are a perfect example.
Katy Perry is famous for singing pop bubbly songs, which are quite in contrast with her attitude and opinion in everyday life. In case you have forgotten, this pop diva is really good at publicly shaming others. She mocked Britney with her head- shaving joke after her breakdown …show more content…

Yes. Even for someone as obnoxious as Katy Perry, such thoughts seem distant from reality and are rather disturbing. Finally, such statements are a perfect way for someone to be the center stage idiot even after such a tragedy where many children were wounded and died.
The Manchester tragedy recap
Last year a terrible tragedy happened in the Manchester arena on May 22nd after Arianna Grande finished her concert. People were leaving the concert when a massive explosion occurred in the foyer leading to Victoria station around 10.35 pm. According to the Independent, over 200 calls were made to emergency services. A mass panic happened instantly, many people were hurt and 22 people tragically lost their lives.
The Manchester police caught the perpetrator who went on a suicide mission. However, the organization behind the horrible act was the well known extremist group ISIS. Shortly after the event, the organization sent out public statements in more than 100 languages claiming responsibility for the attack. In this statement they praised the man responsible for the explosion, calling him a soldier of the

Show More
Related

  • Station Fire

    1435 Words  | 3 Pages

    Most were killed either in the crash to exit the building or overcome by fumes while trying to find an exit. The immediate cause was well documented due to witness reports and a videotape that was taken during the concert. In the period that followed the tragedy, there were many attempts to fix blame. Following a Grand Jury investigation, several of the parties involved pleaded guilty to violations of the law and served or are currently sentenced in prison. The Station

    Read More

  • Oklahoma City Bombing: Timothy McVeigh

    1217 Words  | 3 Pages

    (CNN.com) The bombing occurred on September 11, 2001, injuring hundreds and damaging $652 of property.... ... middle of paper ... ... Web.

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Bill Clinton's Address Of The Oklahoma Bombing

    413 Words  | 1 Pages

    On April 19, 1995 two former US Soldiers blew up a the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing over 150 people. Bill Clinton, President of the United States at that time, wrote a speech where he shared his sympathy for the friends and family of victims and united the country through his use of parallelism, patriotic language, and inclusive wording.

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Border Patrol Nation By Tod Miller

    1079 Words  | 3 Pages

    A nation without borders is not a nation. Today, every country is making effort to secure its borders not only from terrorists, drugs and smuggling but also from illegal immigration. All these recurring activities have sparked the United States to secure its borders against illegal immigrants and terrorism by creating a special department named the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) headed by the Secretary of Homeland Security. After the terrorist attack of 9/11, terrorism and illegal immigration were two striking issues for the DHS. To solve these issues, the Department of Homeland Security further created two immigration enforcement agencies: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Customs and

    Read More

  • The 1993 Bombing of the World Trade Center

    879 Words  | 2 Pages

    The bombing of the World Trade Center was nicknamed “the Big One”, causing a sixteen alarm fire. FEMA’s Incident Commander (IC) arrived on the scene at 12:48 and began assessing what needed to be done: over 50,000 people needed to be evacuated, thick black smoke was filling the building and could not stopped, numerous people were trapped in elevators and personnel on the top floors were breaking glass raining it down on personnel on the ground.

    Read More

  • The Lockerbie Air Disaster: Pan Am 103

    979 Words  | 2 Pages

    On December 21, 1988, the Pan American flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. This flight was traveling from London Heathrow to New York-JFK when it exploded 31,000 feet above Lockerbie, Scotland just 38 minutes after takeoff. It carried 259 passengers in which all died that tragic day. The airplane was destroyed by a Semtex plastic explosive, which was placed in the forward cargo hold. It was hidden in a Toshiba radio-cassette player. Because the explosion happened in the air, the pieces of the airplane dispersed and did not stay in one place. On Lockerbie, Scotland, the large pieces of the airplane shattered and killed 11 people on the ground.

    Read More

  • Boston Marathon Bombings

    1908 Words  | 4 Pages

    After that blast, the injured are everywhere. Eight year old Martin Richard, 29 year old Krystle Campbell and 23 year old Lu Lingzi lost their lives that day, 14 others lost limbs. A total of 264 people were injured from the explosions (Bodden, 2014, p. 21). As the chaos was going on the Tsarnaev brothers calmly, but quickly, leave the scene. They had completed their dirty deed and probably thought they would get away with it.

    Read More

  • Boston Marathon Bombing Essay

    674 Words  | 2 Pages

    The two victims said that they were not involved in terrorist groups, but during the investigation they had visited some Al- Qaeda websites to plan out the bombing. Al- Qaeda is an Islamist group that was found by Osama bin Laden in the 1980s. Al- Qaeda is the same group that did the terroist attacks on September 11, 2001. Al- Qaeda means "the base". In 2010, the Al- Qaeda's magazine had a step by step to make a pressure cooker bomb. The brothers were planning to do some of the same acts in New York City.

    Read More

  • 11-M: March 11, 2004 Madrid Train Bombings

    1894 Words  | 4 Pages

    The September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States were felt worldwide. All countries feared seeing the tall Twin Towers and strong Pentagon being attacked by Islamist extremist members of Al-Qaeda. Although multiple countries prepared themselves to prevent an attack of such magnitude, Spain was not spared. In the morning of March 11, 2004 during rush hour, a series of 10 explosions in four locations occurred almost simultaneously in the mass transit rail system. This attack was performed by the Europe Al-Qaeda entity due to Spain’s involvement in the Iraq war, per a video release of an Al-Qaeda spokesman. This attack was the worst terrorist attack in Spain’s history, referred as Spain’s nine-eleven. This paper researches the gruesome attacks, the tactics employed by the terrorist, and the reaction by the Spanish and world governments.

    Read More

  • Texas City Disaster Essay

    1000 Words  | 2 Pages

    More than five thousand people attended the funeral. Hundreds of lawsuits were filed and many of them were won. The explosion damaged one hundred million dollars worth of buildings, parks, hospitals, and many other things. Congress granted Texas City seventeen million dollars to repair the town and start to rebuild. And another way that people helped out was by doing fundraisers for the city.

    Read More

  • Illegal Immigrants Should be Granted Citizenship

    1630 Words  | 4 Pages

    However, The United States has one of the safest security systems in the world and that leads to a very good protection of its borders. ‘’In 2006, Congress passed The Secure Fence Act authorizing 700 miles of fencing along the US-Mexico border’’ (Border enforcement 1) creating one of the biggest barriers in the world and disappointing the people that look for a better quality of life. Patrol’s budget in the border with South America, was increased by a 500 percent and its employees by more than 200 percent (Border 1) , which makes difficult the situation for the dreamers who risk their lives to come to America.

    Read More

  • Rap Music Anti Feminist

    1736 Words  | 4 Pages

    'Til the vocal cords don't work in her throat no more? Shut up slut, you're causin' too much chaos.” (Eminem, Kill You) However, these pejorative lyrics are not unique to male rappers. Nicki Minaj could be considered just as obscene, if not more, than any of the top male rappers.

    Read More

  • Britney Spears

    1560 Words  | 4 Pages

    Britney was very successful from 1998 to 2000. During these years, things were changing for her. Britney was telling people about her “remaining a virgin until marriage” yet she was posing in pictures that convinced people to think otherwise. Her albums still continued to sell in the United States as well as in Europe. She embarked on many successful roads through 2003 (Wikipedia, 2011). Her public finally saw her as a woman not a girl.

    Read More

  • Importance of Border Security

    1066 Words  | 3 Pages

    One of the major issues surrounding border security is illegal immigration, “For the past two decades the United States, a country with a strong tradition of limited government, has been pursuing a widely popular initiative that requires one of the most ambitious expansions of government power in modern history: securing the nation’s borders against illegal immigration” (Alden, 2012). Many people are trying to enter the United States without the proper documentation and everyday they risk their lives and others just to make it across these borders. To avoid this law enforcement and other border security has threatened these illegal immigrants with detainment and arrest and different forms of punishment. In the efforts to deter the problem, it has been far beyond feasible because they still manage to get across and it does not change their intention...

    Read More

  • Korean Pop (K-POP)

    1105 Words  | 3 Pages

    While she is an attractive female of the species homo sapiens, while she has a meager autobiography in the opinion of the author (her parents put her through plastic surgery so she could be a K-pop star, and she rose to K-pop stardom thereafter), while her story of rising to fame exists and is certainly unique (but not interesting, in the opinion of the author of this text), what is describable is her first meeting with A-pop star Britney Spears before a joint concert on December 11, 2004. The following was extracted from http://www.kpopmusic.co.uk/article1.html. “Although they only talked for 5 minutes, the two praised each other and wished each other well. Spears greeted BoA with a hug and afterwards said ‘You are really pretty.

    Read More

More about Katy Perry No Terrorist Barriers

Open Document