... maintain that some constructions are more truthful than others . John Fiske notes that 'News, of course, can never give a full, accurate objective picture of reality nor should it attempt to, for such an enterprise can only serve to increase its authority and decrease people's opportunity to "argue" with it, to negotiate with it. In a progressive democracy, news should stress its discursive constructedness ... the public. How is a selection presented? You can set up some criteria4: - Camerawork In news programs the newsreaders always directly address to the viewer. Hartley notes in this ...

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... marriage due to many different locations. By Islamic law it is allowed to practice polygamy, but in certain countries polygamy is not allowed and you could be imprisoned for practicing it. While most Kurds practice polygamy, some practice monogamy to keep out of troubling the law. But an unusual fact about ... move into their oldest son's home with his family. This is making his family an extended family causing there to be grandparents involved and living in the household. Now for the other sons or daughters the parents have, they live in a nuclear household. Unless the daughter married ...

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... had a full plate of other terrorism-related legislation to consider; including an airlines bailout package, increased funds and intelligence gathering tools for the CIA and FBI, an economic stimulus package, cyberterrorism prevention, and aid to the insurance industry in coping with damage claims. At the top of the agenda is the ... to examine our own. Each of us reminded that we are here only for a time, and these counted days should be filled with things that last and matter: love for our families, love for our neighbors, and for our country; gratitude for life and to the Giver of life...

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... people of Iraq truly want. According to Ramsay (2005), these wants include the restoration of national infrastructure, and economic security. Democracy is not an issue for the people of Iraq, jobs and food to feed their children with are the major issue. Another major roadblock to Iraq achieving true democracy ... may have been oppressed under the Hussein government much like the Germans under Hitler, they had security and safety for their families. Freedom was no minor price to pay to keep families safe and fed. III: Discussion The thesis that democracy will be hard to achieve in Iraq ...

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... war dragged on the Mission Accomplished speech became a negative symbol of President Bush's failures in Iraq. President Bush had gained American support for the war with the idea that the War with Iraq was going to be quick and over before it started. President Bush was lying to the American people about how long the war with Iraq would take. We now ... of the Iraq War, Iraqis were hesitant to get behind American troops. President Bush's pre-war assumptions continued with the idea that hatred of Hussein would produce automatic support for an invasion and overthrow. With estimates of 650...

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... goal was to create a class of independent farmers. However, this land act only lasted fourteen months. • The new elections were rigged, and funding for farmers was drastically reduced - the people were outraged. • The Shah was responsible for the socioeconomic development from 1963-1977, but its clash with his political system resulted in a revolution. • This can be simplified by ... that a political system was not developed to support this new society. The Shah still focused on the military, and he continued to increase the budget for provisions and arms for the army. The governme...

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... of our military risk there lives every day in places where comforts are few and dangers are many. Men and women of every race, creed and color is in our military risking his or her lives for peace. Sailors aboard the USS Cole were doing their duty, standing guard for peace. The USS Cole was pumping in 2200 gallons a minute of high-test fuel when a bomb ... Aden, Yemen, where American fighting vessels had been using a port on the south coast Yemen as a refueling base every month for the past Two years. "The blast claimed seventeen lives and wounded forty-two sailors of the vessels crew o...

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... States moved into Iraq after it learned that more things could be found in Iraq than just oil. The United States found that American business men admired and accommodated themselves to the nationalism found in Iraq. Also the United States wanted to use Iraq as a missionary field to help Iraqi's find the ... their focus on the oil. Under the 1975 Algiers Agreement, Iraq ceded 518 km2 of oil-rich borderlands along the Shatt al-Arab in exchange for an Iranian agreement to stop supporting Kurdish rebels in Iraq. But after the fall of Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlevi which resulted in a weak Irania...

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... terrorist attack will be completely restored by spring of 2003. More over, a simple bronze box and the memorabilia holding facts from the days and weeks after the September 11 attack on the Pentagon was entombed in the building's reconstructed facade as a permanent reminder of the men and women who died. The Pentagon is virtually a city in itself. Approximately 23,000 employees, contribute ... to the planning and execution of the defense of our country. These people arrive daily from Washington, D.C. and its suburbs over approximately 30 miles of access highways, including express bus l...

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... Mainland North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin. The next day the U.S. destroyer Maddox entered the Gulf of Tonkin with orders to patrol the area near the islands and "stimulate and measure" North Vietnamese and Chinese radar. On August 2, the Maddox reported picking up radio transmissions indicating a possible attack on the ship. The Maddox radioed to the naval headquarters in Hawaii saying that ... several similarities in the way these two resolutions came about. There are similarities in the authority granted to the President, the evidence presented to Congress to back the need for a re...

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... supplies? Other powers were more directly concerned as consumers of Persian Gulf oil, but they were not as eager to commit military force, to risk their youth in battle and to pay for the costs of the war. Critics of President Bush continued to maintain that he was taking advantage of the issue of energy supplies in order to manipulate the U. S. ... months. Lieutenant General Khalid bin Sultan, the commander of the Arab coalition forces, gave Iraq's leader only 40 days, and repeated this prediction many times. Iraq's prospect was dreary. President George Bush waited two days after the UN ...

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... . This began with the wiretapping of Democratic headquarters. These acts engulfed President Richard Nixon and many of his supporters in many illegal acts. A burglary also took place on June 17, 1972 by five men who were caught in the offices of the Democratic Party's headquarters. They're acts were ... Tehran a few months later; this also was not successful. The Iranian hostage crisis had played a huge part in setting the mood for foreign contact between the United States and many other Middle Eastern nations into the 00s, however there were many other events that shaped U.S. involvement ...

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... report something that could seriously put at risk the lives of hundreds of men and women. The way in which to report on government intelligence reports and leaks also creates an ethical dilemma for many journalists. As I mentioned earlier, journalists have an obligation to get news to the people and keep them informed without becoming tools of government propaganda. Alternatively, some ... or the corporate bottom line too dominant."" He defines Sufficiency as "allocating adequate resources to important issues. On the individual level, sufficiency can mean thoroughness, for example, chec...

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... also took over the vast quantities of oil. For months, heads of state and diplomats from many countries tried to persuade Saddam to remove his troops from Kuwait and leave the country peacefully. His stubbornness convinced the United States and the United Nations to use military force against Saddam and his men. On January 16, 1991 United States and other United Nation coalition forces destroyed Iraq's industrial ... went by air. On September 28, 1990, The Desert Shield Operation was at a peak with 90 ships at sea, with 69 more from the United States and Europe were on course for the Mi...

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... the nations within the Security Council. According to the Charter, the UN has four purposes: to maintain international peace and security; to develop friendly relations among nations; to cooperate in solving international problems and in promoting respect for human rights; and to be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations ("How the UN"). Presently there are on hundred ninety one members of the United Nations ... resolutions ("List of Member"). The United Kingdom also concurs that "The Charter of the United Nations is a robust document. It provides in Chapter VII for mandatory ob...

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... communism, which was the answer to social welfare. The world was divided into two different ideologies, one based on social welfare and the other on economic expansionism. This provided an alternative to many third world countries and possibly an answer for their declining standard of living. However, communist nations such as the Soviet Republic of Russia were unable to contend with the economic ... sectors of domestic industry, moving from blue-collar workers to recently white-collar managers with college degrees. Labor is considered a burden to many corporations and the message today...

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... ends? To determine whether an act is morally justified or not requires the knowledge of things that are not always known (such as the attackers real intent) and it relies on perspective. To cope with this the Just War Doctrine was developed. For the war in Iraq to be moral it must be a pre-emptive war, or not threaten Iraq's Territorial Integrity ... . President Bush has the right to commit U.S. soldiers to war without the approval of the U.N. (Land, February 2003, cited Hall, February 2003). The Probability of success for the U.S. is high enough to fulfill that criteria and, putting deb...

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... destruction capabilities untouched." A greater danger was to give Saddam the option to re-invite the inspection teams to diffuse an accumulation of American support for aggressive action towards Iraq. Looking back with historical hindsight, international sanctions and weapons inspections were worth the try. In the immediate aftermath of the Gulf War, both policy tools seemed to be good appropriate avenues that the ... their reestablishment. That was the theory, but in practice, neither end became a reality. After more than a decade of testing, it was time to conclude that sanctions and ...

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... country. One can only imagine the chaos not only in Seoul, which exchanged hands 4 times, but also in every major city in both North and South Korea. Koreans frantically fled their homes in search for refugee camps, safety, shelter, and food. Phase 3 began in April of 1951. The beginning of this phase was marked by a sort of "see-saw" fighting along the thirty ... Kurferstendamm in West Berlin. On November 10, demolition work began with the aim of creating new border crossings. On November 12, a checkpoint at the Potsdamer Platz was opened, and on December 22, a checkpoint for pedestria...

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... almost half of those interviewed had no opinion of its impact. A further quarter were not sure whether it had created or lost jobs for US workers. Americans seem to both believe that free trade is good for the US economy, and fear that it causes the loss of good jobs. But in recent polls only 12% wanted to pull out of NAFTA, while ... a high this summer of 6.4 percent - is expected to still be around 5.7 percent when America votes next November. In addition to the boost from last year's tax cut and low interest rates, analysts are looking for economic strength from increased federal spe...

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... destruction capabilities untouched." A greater danger was to give Saddam the option to re-invite the inspection teams to diffuse an accumulation of American support for aggressive action towards Iraq. Looking back with historical hindsight, international sanctions and weapons inspections were worth the try. In the immediate aftermath of the Gulf War, both policy tools seemed to be good appropriate avenues that the ... their reestablishment. That was the theory, but in practice, neither end became a reality. After more than a decade of testing, it was time to conclude that sanctions and ...

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... the other side of the world in 1945, no country in the world is now "safe" from these weapons. The USA had shown the world that distance and oceans did not matter any more, for mankind had finally harnessed the military capabilities to render this problem obsolete. The fact the USA were forced into the war by the devastating attack at Pearl ... " during the Iraq-Iran war. This is so ironic when America has embarked upon a war with Iraq after specifically citing its" links with international terrorism and for its" development of WMD's. Let it not be forgotten that Britain and America comp...

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... the soldiers, leading to a decisive victory in war. Command of the Air As advocated by Douhet, the key to attaining early air superiority was for the air campaign to be initiated during the onset of war, and for the offensive air campaign to be conducted continuously with mass concentration of firepower onto the enemy targets. The Gulf War began with simultaneous air strikes ... . As such, modern day wars like the Gulf War would employ a variety of aircraft types with different configurations, each accomplishing its own mission. For future wars, although certain advanced aircraft type cou...

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... its neighboring countries. SUPPORTING DETAIL 2: Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons on the citizens of Iraq that tried to over throw Saddam's totalitarian government. SUPPORTING DETAIL 3: Iraq has violated the oil for food program and the resolutions that were past by the United Nations ever since the Gulf war of 1991. SUPPORTING DETAIL 4: Iraq continues to hide their programs of chemical weapons ... who dared to dissent. Iraq has more forced disappearance cases than any other country, tens of thousands of people reported missing in the past decade. Iraq has violated the oil-for food p...

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