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Introduction:
My three questions about the web quest are:
 * 1) Is this web quest really about the war in the middle east? I think it's about media coverage.
 * 2) How does this relate to utopias?
 * 3) What will we be learning about?

Step One:

 * 1) Press, Television, Radio, Internet, Public Advertisement (billboards etc.), Groups of people (like civil rights activists in marches)
 * 2) Entertain, Persuade, Inform
 * 3) What you can/can't say in media, what people want others to know, what people don't want others to know. I also think that it is influenced by nature (i.e. weather)
 * 4) They may be embarrassed or angry to not get any representation in the media.

Step Two:
> Official Languages: Arabic, Kurdish > Population Estimate: 34,220,000 (2011) > Currency: Iraqi Dinar > Religion: 97% Muslim (60-65% Shia, 32-37% Sunni), 3% Christian (<1%: Yazdanism, Mandaeism, Zoroastrianism. Judaism accounts for <100 people)
 * 1) This event is portrayed as a happy ending to the Hussein regime for the Iraqi people.
 * 2) the following is some brief information about Iraq. Capital city (and largest city): Baghdad[[image:iraq_pol96.jpg width="480" height="568" align="right" caption="Map of Iraq" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq"]]
 * 1) Most of the images in this video are shot from a particular angle or distance. I think that it makes crowds look bigger or more powerful. When viewed more closely, however, you can see most of the people standing back from the fallen statue to get pictures and video, while only a small portion of the crowd dives in on it.
 * 2) The media wanted to depict the liberation as a success for America, rather than a success for Iraq.
 * 3) This video makes me look at this event from a different standpoint, and I now know more about the publicity of the event.
 * 4) I think the media had to figure out what the public was going to want to see happening, and then make it look that way to please them. When this happens, you get different journalists wanting different perspectives so that their company can get the "best shot" of the event. The media decided to omit viewing of the soldiers calling people into the square because then the viewers would know what was really going on and might criticize the media for phony stories. They decided to show the statue falling and people jumping on it because that's what the viewers would want to see.
 * 5) The newspaper images were doctored to make the event look bigger and more important so that more people would buy it. I think that they have the super large font on the front pages for the same reason.
 * 6) It got more publicity for the newspaper.
 * 7) The media gains by making more money, and the government gains by getting good publicity from its citizens.
 * 8) An altered image can't change an event that already happened, but it can change peoples ideas about that event, which might have an unexpected outcome.

Step Three:

 * 1) The editors of US newspapers have chosen to portray the war as a huge success for the American government, and the liberation as a celebration of the Iraqi citizens.They choose pictures that make the liberation look happy and much needed, and big fonts and bright colors to make the stories stand out. They have multiple articles on the same topic, or one large article to make the event look very important and newsworthy, and they put it on the front page underneath "Liberation!" or "Freedom at Last" in huge letters.
 * 2) We are the audience of the media. No matter where we are, the media is always there, and we will always be its audience.
 * 3) The victims of most of the newspapers are also the subject of them. The citizens of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and many others have been left out when it comes to media coverage. Of course, you get the occasional interview when they find someone that speaks good English, but otherwise, the point of view of the citizens is forgotten about.

Step Four:

 * 1) It seems like the war is getting a luke-warm response from the citizens of the countries at war. The war has helped some and obviously hurt others, so no one really wins when it comes to war. The war has also caused a prejudice against the middle eastern cultures in the United States, and Muslims are getting mistreated.
 * 2) The media does contribute to the treatment of Muslims and middle eastern culture by telling people what they want to hear. People pick up on stories that say bad things about Muslims or middle eastern culture and spread rumors and prejudice. This causes the media to say bad things about Muslims because they know that's what everyone wants to hear and it starts a vicious cycle.
 * 3) Australia can still be multicultural. Every region has a prejudice of some sort, including the US.
 * 4) Seeing how the events are portrayed makes me fell a little sorry for the people in those countries who don't have access to the information being written about them.
 * 5) This web quest has made me think more about the event and less about the news.
 * 6) The media has shaped a lot of events, I think it had a lot to do with the persistence of the military in the middle east and the killing of Osama Bin Laden.


 * During the discussion, I found out what everyone else thought about the media's affect on history, and this gave me a better understanding of the topic. I started the discussion with only a few questions and left with more questions than I started with.

Media Coverage Table
"Sputnik" (Russian for satellite) ||= The U.S. was actually happy because the subject wasn't nuclear annihilation, but rather something that could help humanity in the future. NASA was a little disappointed, but it was done privately. ||= The Soviet Union kept the sputnik program a secret until they had already launched the first sputnik into space to keep the United States from competing with them for the first "artificial moon", as they called it. ||= media type="youtube" key="9Ic9bVEzoqk" height="315" width="420" ||= 1957 || made it sound like the biggest thing in the world, which in some sense, it was. My mom and dad remember watching it in school on the day it happened. One of the most memorable events seems to be when Richard Nixon "called the moon" from the oval office || The people in the soviet union we're slightly disappointed, but seemed to ignore it. The gov- ernment kept it very quiet, though,so we don't know if they were just ignoring it, or didn't know enough about it. ||= media type="youtube" key="sJv5_y2l5as" height="315" width="420" ||= 1969 || Wall (the Iron Curtain) did not have a large impact on the U.S., but it had a huge impact elsewhere. Some say it was the most important event in the latter half of the twenty-first century. It led to the fall of our biggest enemy, but at the same time, urged the Chinese to change their government to a Free-Market, giving us our new enemy/friend ||= This was, or led to, the end of the United Soviet Socialist Republic, or the U.S.S.R. I'm sure someone was a little bit disappointed... ||= media type="youtube" key="e4kpqKBbdic" height="315" width="420" ||= 1989 ||
 * = === Event: === ||= === U.S. Perspective: === ||= === U.S.S.R. Perspective: === ||= === Media coverage of the event: === ||= === Year of event: === ||
 * = First Artificial Satellite
 * = First Artificial Satellite
 * = First Man on the moon ||= In the U.S., the media
 * = Fall of the Iron Curtain ||= The fall of the Berlin