Questions and Topics We Can Help You To Answer:

From the first e-Activity, create your own comprehensive definition of terrorism. Explain the key elements of your definition, and suggest at least one reason why the elements are important to your personal definition of terrorism. Then, use your personal definition of terrorism to determine the following:
Whether or not you believe Hezbollah meets the criteria as a terrorist group. Provide a rationale for your response.
Whether or not the Boston Tea Party of 1773 meets the criteria of a terrorist attack. Provide a rationale for your response.
From the second e-Activity, determine the time period in which the meaning of terrorism at that point in time most closely resembled one meaning of terrorism today. Determine the time period that you believe had a different meaning of terrorism than it does today. Provide a rationale to support your response.
Note: For citing internet sources in your discussion, please see the Web Sources section of the Strayer Writing Standards guide available in the left-hand menu

E-Activities
eActivity 1:

Use your textbook, the Internet, and Strayer databases (located at https://research.strayer.edu) to research various definitions of terrorism. Research Hezbollah and the controversy of whether or not it should be considered a terrorist group as well. Be prepared for discussion.
eActivity 2:

The term “terrorism” was first used in modern Western history to describe the repressive actions of the French government against its people during the so-called “Reign of Terror.” The meaning of terrorism has evolved over time. Use your textbook, the Internet, and Strayer databases (located at https://research.strayer.edu) to research the following major events/time periods in which the meaning of terrorism changed:
The Reign of Terror
The Napoleonic Wars
Revolutionaries and nationalists during the mid-19th century
Communists in the Soviet Union
The Enlightenment
The American Revolution