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Step 1
1. Types of Media:
  • Television
  • Internet
  • Radio
  • Newspaper
  • Billboard
  • Magazine
  • Movies

2. Purposes:
  • to entertain
  • to inform
  • to encourage
  • to influence
  • to persuade

3. Influences:
  • A company's opinion
  • The viewers' opinions
  • Freedoms of press
  • Government filters
  • Popular people

4. Effects:
  • Not familiar to the public
  • Public could have wrong info. about them

Step 2
1. The U.S. is portrayed as a hero. Iraq is portrayed as
2. Iraqi Culture:
Gov't
Parliamentary Democracy
Religion
Islam
Major Cities
Bagdad, Mosul, Irbil, Basrah

3. Each picture tells of an important point. The U.S. pictures stay focused on their positives, whereas other countries tell of Iraq falling.
4. The countries other than the U.S. have pictures and titles that reflect more violence.
5. The U.S. papers try to convince me that everything is okay; the other papers say that Iraq is in big trouble.
6. The U.S. showed only positive effects for them to keep panic down, but the others show the negatives to keep their people away from America.
7. The newspaper editors want to get the effects they want for their country.
8. The government wants to limit what the population knows.
9. The government
10. Yes; history is a record of what WE [think we] know happened.

Step 3
1. The photo is said to be doctored to make the crowd appear larger.
2. Australians
3. This picture does not show the large amount of reporters and military.

Step 4
1. These people are looked down upon because many people combine all the groups in the Middle East even when only one was responsible for 9/11.
2. Yes.
3. Multicultural communities should be accepting of others.
4. I believe that there is no reliable way to know the truth about these things.
5. I never really thought about how the Iraqis felt.
6. I think that a lot of people don't really know the truth about what is going on in the world.