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Questions for tomorrow: 1. In the first article it had mentioned that the officers had to get everyone evacuated out of the city, did they get most people out? 2.In the the second article I got confused if the young Sikh boy was surrounded by American boys and if was them that made him feel insecure, or the teachers?

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=//**Working Document**//=
 * **Step 1** || **1.** Newspaper, Magazine, Video, Internet, Television, Blogs, Radio, Billboards, Posters, Press.
 * 2.** Media is out there to inform people about what is going on with the world; it gives key information that is otherwise misleading if tried to be learned through invalid sources. Sometimes media is out there to persuade people to believe what the majority thinks is right which is false information itself. Also, it can give emergency notices in a short amount of time saving people's life. But, there is also the entertaining form of media such as in magazines the press uses celebrities personal life for others to read even though it should be private.
 * 3.** Media is influenced by social, political, and economic factors in many ways such as this society tends to judge people the wrong way depending on if they are rich or poor, high or low class, or republicans or democrats. In this day and age since America is so used to our customs we believe that others are weird and should not be done even though we should be paying no attention to the previous factors.
 * 4.** I think that the effects on the groups of people who are not represented by the media stories are discriminated against and possibly ignored and don't have a say in things because they are not the high class rich people. It is sort of like high school in the big world, if you aren't popular your voice doesn't get heard as much. ||
 * Step 2 || **1.**Both sides of the war are represented harshly in these images depending on who was the author, when the statue was falling they altered the image to make it look like there were tons of people including soldiers there. On the Iraq side the media makes it sound they attacked us on 9/11 for no apparent reason which is why the war started which is false. On the American side, it makes it sound like Iraq attacked us on 9/11 which is why we attacked them; we were being attacked on 9/11 but not by Iraq, Al Qaeda. After seeing these images and videos when searching for images, it's hard to know what is real because so many of the images were altered.

**2.** Iraqi Culture: Major Cities-Baghdad, Mosul, Basrah, and Irbil. Religion- Most are muslim meaning they follow Islam. Social Structure- In Iraq there are Arabs and Kurds in the social structure but they are equal, not one is greater than the other on the scale. Government- "Iraq is a republic divided into eighteen provinces, which are then divided into districts. There's a National Assembly chosen or elected every four years, and they meet two time annually and work with the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) to make legislative decisions.


 * 3.** In these images they show two sides, one making the Iraqis look bad and the others making us look bad. In the one video it shows Iraqis pulling down and abusing a statue of ours while showing our soldiers in the crowd that weren't actually there. In the other one, it showed us barging into an innocent Iraqi home and making them do exactly what we say while closing up on a little girl crying. They also doubled people to make the crowds look larger than they actually were when the statue was falling to make it seem like more of a riot.


 * 4**.Many choices were made in depicting the event in a certain way, first you have to consider what seems true, even though it's hard to believe everything you see or hear, you have to trust some of it because it's partially true. You also have to consider the event and evidence, you have to pay close attention to the fine details in order to get the right story. You also have to look at what was proven, if it wasn't that doesn't mean it wasn't true but it isn't 100% positive truth about the event.


 * 5.**This information affected my understanding of the event a lot because I didn't know which side to believe, turns out they were both fake. Most Americans including myself want to believe our media because we think we are the honest ones and that we can trust ourselves but actually in this situation we are liars making ourselves seem better and right. It's extremely hard to learn about this now because you don't know if an image was altered or if a story was altered. This is kind of like the old stories, every person that tells it tells it differently and changes parts of it.


 * 6.**The choices the media had to make were very crucial, they had to make us look good while still making it believe to the viewers out there. The selections that the media showed were very convincing and persuading that being said I didn't know they were fake until further research. Some of the key elements that they focused on were emotions of both sides, and the roughness I should say of what they did to our things and what we did to theirs. I don't think that all the intentions were to make people hate one another but just to make themselves seem not the ones to blame, they were somewhat selfish because they didn't think of the others that would be affected by it.

7.I think the newspaper images were doctored or changed to provide us with an excuse of why the war started, Iraq had no significant connections with Al Qaeda who were the ones who actually started 9/11. These images were just changed to make us look better since we basically started a war for no reason; of course we thought we had a reason but it was just a misunderstanding. Also, they wanted the crowds to look bigger when the statue fell to make it seem like more of a big deal and a riot when actually it was a small crowd.


 * 8**.It served the purpose that was stated above, to make us look better and to seem like we didn't start something that needed to be. I'm not being biased towards Iraq at all because they indeed fought back and did try to harm us therefore they were to blame just as much as we are.


 * 9**.Usually two people gain from altering the image, one is the media because that is that much more attention that they get for showing what they show. The other person that gains depends on the picture, for example if someone changed a picture and made an Iraqi looks bad Americans would gain, or the opposite.

|| In our seminar we discussed mostly of what people in America thought after we were attacked and we discussed the Iraq side to clear some things up. Also, we discussed some of Americas traits that always seem to get us in trouble or start wars. Our seminar was very controlled and on topic compared to all of the bad ones that I have participated in in the past. ||
 * 10**.An altered image can surely change history because if the whole world sees the wrong image, that produces the wrong thought that's in everyone's head. Anyone can create or alter an image of an Iraqi or an American person, show the world and then the world chooses their view on that person or group and it sticks and changes the way people think of things. ||
 * Step 3 || Power point
 * Step 4 || Socratic Seminar

=__// **Essay** //__=

** Truth in my opinion is always the first casualty of history meaning truth is the first thing killed. In this essay you will learn about how Iraq interpreted the war and how they may have stretched the truth when their media showed it. Also, how us as the Americans portrayed the war and why our media showed the things we did. Another thing you will learn is why we picked Iraq to start the war with after we were attacked on September 11th. This essay and topic is pretty confusing and could be taken many different ways but that is ok because everyone is entitled to their own opinion and thoughts. Just as we and Iraq were when fighting in the war, we were able to choose our strategies and reasons. One thing you should know before reading this is that I am trying to be as unbiased as possible while still providing my opinion. Another thing you will learn about is what a propaganda is and my opinion on the war. You will now read all about the war and reasons about why things happened and learn what an altered image is. **

** First, the American side of the story, we were attacked on September 11th otherwise known as 9-11 by terrorists. They were in planes and they crashed purposely into our New York twin towers; many people died and we were filled with many emotions such as sorrow, anger, and pain. The terrorists that attacked us were al Qaeda who we thought were in connection with Iraq and we didn’t think and made it sound like it was all of the middle east that attacked us when really it was just a few individuals. It turned out that Iraq hated al Qaeda just as much as we did making the war that we started pointless. Suddenly, all Americans were afraid of all people wearing a turban or people with dark skin tones because we were paranoid that they were all terrorists. In our media we portrayed things such as that Iraq fired the first shots and while we were in war with Iraq, we found the terrorists and caught them and stopped them. We sent out dozens of troops and killed lots of our own innocent people for basically no reason other than we wanted to fight and gain revenge. It turned out that we won the war because even though we aim after we shoot; we are pretty strategic and Iraq was overwhelmed. Even though the war is over, there is still combat between us and Iraq just not as noticeable or harsh. To sum things up, that is the misunderstood American side. **

** Second, the Iraqi side of the story, they were being somewhat discriminated against when we were all paranoid and questioning about everyone that looked like they were from the middle east. They were not the ones that attacked us on September as stated in the paragraph above, and they didn’t have connection with al Qaeda or weapons of mass destruction. They fought back in the war because they were so mad that America was invading their home for something that they didn’t do, and could prove that they didn’t do. Even though we were on the wrong for starting the war their media didn’t help by altering images and changing stories. One thing that their media changed was when their statue fell, they doubled to amount of crowds to make it sound and look like a big huge riot when there was hardly a crowd at all. When the media does things just like this it’s called a propaganda meaning that you are using someone else to make yourself or a group look better. Also, when the media does this it’s referring to the topic of the essay; truth is always the first casualty of history meaning that when all these different media sources lie it changes history because no one knows what is true and what’s the right story. These stories of the two sides, when looking at the truth, aren’t that different and if I found the truth right away I would have probably been able to find the other based off of one. All in all, Iraq fought back to show us physically that they would stand up for themselves and not back down and say they did it just to make it stop. **

** Third, my opinion of the two sides, isn’t that different from the real stories but I have things to add. I think that American loves to pick fights and wants control over everybody, more than they can handle. We are very quick to jump to conclusions and start things right away without thinking first, as others put is we aim after we shoot when it consequently too late. To me it seems like we attacked them because we wanted to take our anger out on someone and show everyone else not to mess with us. Iraqis are very down to earth, caring, considerate people when not being blamed for something that they didn’t partake in; meaning that they aren’t just mad for no reason looking for war. Also, while this was all in play, we didn’t have the best president ever Bush; not excusing us from our actions but it is a factor that goes into it. One thing that people with dark skin were doing to make us suspicious of them was sending us letters with Ajax and other deadly chemicals on them so then people would die after opening them. But that’s another thing that American needs to work on, we tend to label a group depending on individuals or small groups. My overall opinion is that this war between us was pointless and a waste of too much time and too many lives. **

** In conclusion, I hope you have a better understanding of how us Americans started the war and how our media portrayed it. As you can see, there are two stories to every situation sometimes that can be almost matching or they can be completely different. Before reading this you might not have known exactly what a propaganda was, or maybe even what an example of one is. You can also see that most people in the world can be very childlike, making fast unthought decisions and then regretting them when it’s too late. Resulting from that, the media is almost never telling the truth just to get a rise out of people and to get more viewers for their company. You hopefully also learned a little bit about my opinion about the war, the sides, the real stories which may help you form your own thoughts. One more I hope you gained from this is that you have to be patient, caring, and not quick at making vulnerable decisions by yourself. Hopefully you enjoyed my essay and learned way more than you did before about the American and Iraq war. **

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= Timeline ||| **Tonight** and the weekend : Learn about all the specific details of the war and the relationship before and the war between us and Iraq. Also try to answer most of the questions on the webquest page and if I am getting really ahead make a rough draft of my essay. ** Monday **||| In class set up a table and try to fill it out in my page about all the stuff that I learned throughout the weekend and what I learn in class. Tuesday ||| Complete what I was doing on Monday and start on my powerpoint or possibly prezi depending on what I come up with. Wednesday || Complete the project and make sure my web quest page is visual and complete, finish project Thursday at the very latest since Friday is the due date.=

1.Analytical writing task, what does the work analytical mean? 2.Are we actually going to be doing this project in a group of four people? I don't think so because there are only 7 eighth graders not enough for two groups of four. 3.Will we be able to make a powerpoint and have our essay on that? =Citation: Wikipedia.com /google.books.com= "After 9/11: NYPD monitored where Muslims ate, shopped, prayed"

"Everyone loses if hatred prevails"

"9/11: Two Perspectives" http://www.everyculture.com/Ge-It/Iraq.html http://www.moviesonline.ca/2010/11/iraq-war-documentary/