In our evolving world, we have noticed a change in what kind of material is now being reported in the media and recently, how that material is distributed. Although political bias is supposed to be close to nonexistent in what is being distributed by the media and by the government, the Western opinion of the Arab world and particularly the Arab Spring differs dramatically depending on the relationship it has with the country. For example, Dabashi demonstrates how President Obama often makes the comparison between Israeli children and his own children; but never with Palestinian children when talking about the conflict between Israel and Palestine. (Dabashi, 2012) It is the evolution of media and particularly how we receive our information that is allowing us to recognize the stark difference between how the West presents a situation and what is actually occurring. The creation of the 24-hour news cycle and the need to always be fresh has caused the shift in importance from what is being told, to how much is being sold. It is this Western Bias and the “old” media’s way of distributing the news that has triggered us to question what is being expressed in the media and our own knowledge of world events, opening the door for a new media to step in. In the western world, the Arab spring has become more then a group of people fighting to end oppressive regimes, it has become a political game between the super powers of the world. When chemical weapons were used in the Syrian uprising, President Obama and the United States were one of the first to support military intervention against the regime stating, “When you start seeing chemical weapons used on a large scale... that starts getting to some core national interests that the Unit... ... middle of paper ... ...ved from: http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/28/opinion/ghitis-syria-intervention/ [Accessed: 06 Mar 2014]. Halton, D. (2001). International news in the north american media. International Journal, pp. 499--515. Hurd, I. (2013). Bomb syria, even if it is illegal. [online] August 27. Retrieved from: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/28/opinion/bomb-syria-even-if-it-is-illegal.html?_r=0 [Accessed: 12 Mar 2014]. Levs, J. (2013). Syria 'red line' debate: are chemical weapons in syria worse than conventional attacks?. [online] August 30. Retrieved from: http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/27/world/meast/syria-chemical-weapons-red-line/ [Accessed: 10 Mar 2014]. Pleitgen, F., Levs, J. & Carter, C. (2013). Obama: u.s. concludes syria carried out chemical weapons attacks. [online] August 28. Retrieved from: http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/28/world/meast/syria-civil-war/ [Accessed: 7 Mar 2014].
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In this paper I plan to analyze and compare the Shaklefords in Hard Living on Clay Street and my immediate family. The comparisons include the structre of each family as far as marital arrangements, household arrangements, and kinship arrangments. The comparisons also include the culture of each family. In culture this includes ideas, norms, language and artifacts.The last and most important aspect of my family and the Shalkelforsd that I will analyze is the historical and socail forcs that most influenced both families. This is very important because historical and social forces shape and affects the way the family function as within and outside the family. Sice social forces are things we usually can not control families have no choice but to adapt to that social force, and include it as part of their lives. collecting information from personal interviews from my mother and father I was able to look at my family in depth and I was enlightened to a lot of new information which I plan to reveal through...
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Since the 9/11 attacks, the Bush administration has been calling every citizens and every nations to support his Middle East policy. Nonetheless, the U.S. has been involved in the middle-east struggle for more than half of the century, wars were waged and citizens were killed. Yet, political struggles and ideological conflicts are now worse than they were under Clinton’s presidency. As “President’s Address to the Nation” is a speech asking everybody to support the troops to keep fighting in Iraq, I, as an audience, am not persuaded at all because of his illogical fallacy in the arguments. In this essay, I will analyze how and what are the illogical fallacies he uses in the speech.
The night before the anniversary of 9/11 in 2013, Barack Obama delivered a speech to the United States of America on the subject of Syria’s inhumane use of chemical weapons on its own citizens. The United States’ intelligence analysts estimated that more than 1,400 civilians were killed due to the chemical warheads that were launched on the area right outside of Damascus. In President Barack Obama’s address to the nation on Syria, he attempts to persuade the American people to support his plan of a targeted air strike on Syria. By describing the victims of Syria, giving reasons for the inhumanity of the Syrian government, and reinforcing his credibility,
President Barack Obama delivered an address to the nation on the U.S. Counterterrorism strategy to combat ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) on September 10, 2014. The recent issue, which became the basis for this speech, has been President Obama’s response to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons against diverse civilians. He delivered this speech to prove to the nation that he has an elaborate strategy along with several tactics to destroy the terrorist group. Obama described the ISIL in his speech by stating, “in a region that has known so much bloodshed, these terrorists are unique in their brutality. They execute captured prisoners. They kill children. They enslave, rape, and force women into marriage. They threatened a religious minority with genocide. And in acts of barbarism, they
Terrorist attacks are a major crisis for a state, the attacks can’t only damage the state physically but they can also have an impact on the state’s economy. Nevertheless, state leaders must act accordingly and do their best to defend and protect their state. After experiencing the attack on the American embassies the President of the United States proposed a plan to have military intervention in both Iraq and Syria. The plan requires both Congressional and public approval along with the requirements brought by Just War Theory. As Crawford noted on “Just War Theory and the US Counterterror War,” no matter how bad war might be, it is necessary for there to be rules that can help prevent more harm. Thankfully, the proposed plan to go to war against ISIS can be justified on these moral grounds.
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On 18 April 2013 American allies Britain and France provided letters to the United Nations claiming possession of evidence that chemical weapons have been utilized multiple times in the time ncluding in and around the cities of Aleppo, Homs and possibly Damascus.
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Many people have no interest in current events in the world or even their own country, and are more concerned about matters that are more trivial, and even if they were to pay a deal of attention, common news sources are often biased and don’t release information that would hurt a certain cause. It is in this way that the citizens are kept igno...
Chemical warfare has been used in war for thousands of years as a means to lethally fight the battle. Just to give a few examples of the devastation, chlorine and phosgene gases were used during World War I and were dispensed from canisters causing around 90,000 deaths and over one million casualties during war (Mass, 2013). Apparatus for dispensing these weapons developed tremendously during the first half of the twentieth century, increasing these weapons’ alarming ability to kill. The United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War maintained massive stockpiles of chemical weapons enough to eliminate a large amount of the human race and animal life on Earth. In 1980, Iraq used chemical weapons on Iran during war and in 1988; Iraq used mustard gas and nerve agents on the Kurdish civilians in Northern Iraq. Pictures of the horrific attack on the Kurdish civilians were released and the world was stunned by the horrendous devastation.
In early 2003, the threat of Saddam Hussein and the possibility of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq captured the attention and concern of the world. One nation decided to illegally act on these unsubstantiated claims, invading the country, violating the UN Charter and breaking several international laws in the process. The penalizations that were subject to the invading country, the United States, were never carried out. The United State’s role and influence over the UN and the Security Council, along with the nature of the unenforceable, politics and power-based international laws, allowed them to escape sanctions after their invasion of Iraq. The United States did not have a legitimate reason for invading, and their ability to repudiate international law would be unacceptable for any other country. Their decision to invade Iraq was one based on money and politics, and the US should be subject to penalties just as any other nation would have to face after unnecessarily waging war on a nation.
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The impact of the war was soon to leave a mark in history. The use of chemical weapons adversel...