... the camera. - Editing With editing the sharp cuts and the television techniques vanish. So there is created an illusion of realism. With editing there are also things added, for instance historical footage or linked information, to get "authenticity". - Language All language is subjective, it produces the values of a institution or individual. There are choices to be made of which metaphors to use, you can bring a story as drama ... time it's broadcast and what is scheduled before and after? - Setting: what is the setting: desk, location, etc. - Structure/ narrative: is the story brough...

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... well as fostering scientific and technical progress in industry, mining, agriculture, water and animal resources, establishing scientific research centres, setting up joint ventures, and encouraging cooperation of the private sector. Sources: - www.encyclopedia.com - www.cia.gov Iran; Pre-Revolution The Iranian Revolution is one of the major socio-political upheavals in recent history. The transformation of the state from a secular and nationalist monarchy to a theocracy has led over ... three islands, so that Iran may be able to safeguard its security in the Gulf. The arguments in favo...

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... we create, a system of knowledge that we use to survive and satisfy basic needs, we use it to adapt and communicate to other members of our culture and finally, to understand each other. There are five main parts to culture, Language, Marriage, Family, Art, and Religion. Language is a system of public knowledge used to send and receive precise messages that are understood by both the sender and receiver, and can be written or ... society. The geological factors that can influence a culture are climate, topography, and natural resources. Since Kurdistan is a very diverse region there are...

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... is the use of violence to achieve political change. Opponents of a war in Iraq claim that we have no right to overthrow an independent government. In fact, under international law of historical authority we have every right. Iraq has violated the terms of an agreed cease-fire. Additionally, Saddam Hussein presents a clear and present danger to the security of the United States, and the world. Saddam ... Hussein's regime is a menace to the entire civilized world. He has been brutal to his own people. He has led wars ... half a million liters of chemical weapons, including mustard gas, V...

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... who by the promiscuous use of violence has seized unfettered control of a technologically advanced country with a vast oil reserves. He has murdered all his political opponents, sometimes squeezing the trigger in person. He has subdued his Kurdish minority by razing their villages and spraying them with the poison gas. In 1979 he invaded Iran, thus setting off an eight-year war that ... squandered more then 1million lives. In 1990 he invaded and annexed Kuwait, pronouncing it his "19th province-. When an American coalition started to push him out, and though knowing Israel to be a nucle...

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... under for nearly thirty years. This will make the transition to a democratic government difficult because first the Iraqi people need to be educated on the workings of a democratic government. The various problems that Iraq will face as it works to become a more democratic nation have been a topic of great debate both in political and historical fields. According the Ramsay (2005) there are several ... issues that need to be looked at when discussing the potential success of a democratic Iraqi government. First ... , when the elections occurred in 2005 none of the parties who ran candida...

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... the Administration could not fight the War on Terror effectively they could not guarantee the American peoples safety. The American people were quick to support a war that was seen as patriotic and an extension of the War on Terror. Talking heads and pundits ran with this idea, even suggesting those who oppose the war were un-American, weak, or somehow terrorist sympathizers. President Bush ... Hussein once before, in 1990. President H.W. Bush waged the Gulf War in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. America's past with Iraq had been one of violence and war. Talking points were mostl...

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... operations with other services. Douhet viewed that the first priority in air operations was to gain command of the air. In fact, to Douhet, command of the air was essential to attaining victory in war. With command of the air, one's own air force would be free to operate whenever and wherever it desired, while the enemy's air arm was rendered permanently helpless. ... in blinding the detection capability of the Iraqi military and eliminated its ability to detect movement and massing of coalition ground forces. The air campaign served either to fix the Iraqi military troops or to prepare ...

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... this misery inflicted by those in power, "far-off" doesn't matter, for people will still continue to die. And the World will still continue to watch on CNN. Some question what gives the west, in particular America, the right to "police" the rest of the world and to attempt to control governments in other far-off countries. If indeed Saddam has the weapons that America claims he does ... ferociously condemn, do we not have a duty to clear up the mess that we chose to ignore for so long? Surely it is worth the life of a British soldier to try and stop the oppression of millions of innocen...

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... discover only what Saddam wanted them to, or at best marginally improve the West's knowledge of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs, leaving Iraq's existing weapons of mass 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 ... ...

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... discover only what Saddam wanted them to, or at best marginally improve the West's knowledge of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs, leaving Iraq's existing weapons of mass 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 ... ...

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... warlords since the nation gained its independence. The nations mortality rate as of 2002 is 17.99 deaths per 1,000 persons annually. Diseases such as cholera and malaria continue to plague this ravaged nation. Death tolls rise each day as rival factions continue to kill each other in Mogadishu as well as the outlying areas. In early 1993 the UN began sending peacekeepers as well ... as U.S. soldiers into the Mogadishu region to help relieve the crisis which engulfed Somalia. In June ... and July 1993 UN peacekeepers and Somali citizens were killed in Mogadishu when the UN, encouraged ....

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... night of the war, within hours of the cease-fire, two U.S. Air force bombers dropped specially design ed 5,000-pound bombs on a command bunker fifteen miles northwest of Baghdad in a deliberate attempt to kill Saddam Hussein. President Bush's decision to terminate the ground war at midnight February 28, 1991 was criticized, because it allowed Baghdad to rescue a large amount of military equipment and personnel that were later used to suppress ... the postwar rebellions of its Shiite and Kurdish citizens. In his own defense, the president asserted that ... ...

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... previous leader, his returning to the country to face trial, and the return of billions of dollars that he was said to have stashed. Negotiations between Iran and the United States did not succeed in releasing the hostages. The U.S. launched a commando raid on 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 in the Middle East. In 1970 duri...

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... Iraqis have been liberated. The alternative of war was therefore really one of if not the best way to accomplishing the American leaders" goals. Moral Evaluation Is killing 10 people to save 100 morally justified? What if the killer only used the plight of the 100 people as an excuse and wanted to kill the 10 to further his own 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 ... ...

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... shares plunged in the spring, foretelling a sharp economic slowdown later that year. The Fed, led by Alan Greenspan, slashed interest rates. But the economy failed to pick up and was in recession before the devastating terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001. Its health took another knock in December when Enron's collapse shook investor confidence. Yet once again America's economy defied the pessimists. On ... W Bush is facing in 2004 are overwhelming. The way the White House deals with them will not only help establish America's position in the world and its chances of winning the war ...

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... , but rather as a battleground for conflicting bureaucratic and other interests, subject to the pressures of both domestic and transnational interest groups (Viotti and Kauppi 508). Directly opposing the realist perspective, pluralists see the concept of national security as concerning the "security of groups and individuals" compared to the "security of [the] state and territory" (Viotti and Kauppi 25). These differences show the variety of concepts of war. The United Nations was formed on October ... in the Security Council so much that we wanted its words to have meaning. The global t...

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... bankrupt while the U.S. and Britain attempted to demonstrate the benefits of democracy throughout the world. The elimination of the communist threat to capitalism gave international corporations the ability to exploit third world countries and diminish social states once again, however, the same mistakes of imperialism would not be made again. The ability of democracy to evolve and its habit of appeasing international corporations brought the beginning of a new era of economic expansion. After World ... in the periphery is the main actor in destabilizing the democratic process in these ...

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... of an "axis of evil." The President listed Iraq's failures to comply with U.N. resolutions, the use of chemical weapons against the Iraqi people, and Iraq's failure to allow weapon inspectors complete and total access to the country stating that "this is a regime that has something to hide from the civilized world." The President continued to speak of the growing threat the Iraq posed to the peace of the world because of its ties to terrorism and ... the possibility that the Iraqi regime may provide weapons of mass destruction to ... many differences. The problem leading up to the Vietna...

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... ever since the 1991 Gulf War. The Iraqi government continued to smuggle goods out of Iraq to get revenue for its illicit activities. In addition to illegally exporting oil and gas oil, ships have been caught trying to smuggle tons of food and nursing supplies out of Iraq to get hard currency for the Iraqi regime. Although the primary ... continuous basis (Lizza 10+). 9 The Iraqi regime broke the agreement to destroy and stop developing all weapons of mass destruction and long range missiles and to prove to the world it has done so by allowing weapon inspector to inspect the country. Iraq ...

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... the United States has been involved in one would not have to look far to find reasons to be skeptical of intelligence reports given by the government. Specifically, the Gulf of Tonkin and the Bay of Pigs fiasco come to mind. "Back in 1962, Lyndon Johnson went on TV to tell the nation that North Vietnamese gunboats had launched unprovoked attacks ... greatest good by keeping audience informed. The interest of society outweighs that of the victim's family. • Step four: Articulation of loyalties. Patriotic loyalty to the government. Loyalty to the audience to provide them with as much cr...

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... emerge from the war as a regional threat to the region. The United States decided to supply the Iraqis with intelligence, and committed the US Navy to safeguarding the flow of oil out of (and the flow of money and arms into) Iraq, but secretly sold arms to Iran in order to fund anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua, and gain influence with hostage-holding Muslim militias in ... this time, however, was to liberate the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein's rule and disarm his collection of weapons of mass destruction. Iraq was failing to abide by the terms of the 1991 cease-fire, which was not...

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... (Richardson, 5C).The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense in Washington, DC. It consists of five concentric pentagons of corridors and offices, with the rings labeled "A" through "E." These rings are interconnected and enable employees to walk to other sections without ever going outside. The area of work covers the outer three rings of the Pentagon (E, D, and C) between Corridors 4 and 5. According to Fred Holliday, approximately 400,000 square feet ... of space required complete structural demolition and reconstruction. Half of this area rests in the...

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... into exile. He 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 ... were in American banks. He also persuaded France and Britain to do the same. He did this to try to get Sadam out of Kuwait and back to Iraq. Next, Bush banne...

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