The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and now actively progressing through Libya, has been making headlines every week with a new horrific occurrence. The concept of ‘ISIS’ and their horrendous terrorist manipulations breached the minds of millions and left them sleepless with disturbance and terror. How did this all start? It seems as though this now infamous name appeared out of thin air. Ironically, the growth of such barbaric groups could be indirectly traced back to a set of well-known attacks. The attacks that propelled two World Trade Centers plummeting down in a matter of hours left millions traumatized by the scenery. George Bush instantaneously attended to this occurrence in a prevailing manner. The 9/11 attacks, along with Bush’s approach, could be easily explained by the Schachter-Singer psychological theory of emotion. This theory explains that human emotion is experienced through two integrated factors: physiological arousal and cognitional interpretation. The terrorism attacks act as the physiological arousal, which prime emotion. Contrastingly, Bush’s 9/11 speech wrought the superior and ulterior cognition that manipulated millions of people into slamming into a new era of political and social enigmas. Bush escorted the American…
