Fahrenheit 9/11

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    In the documentary “BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE”, Michael Moore uses the South Park cartoon “A brief history of the United States” to momentarily illustrate how fear has driven the history of the United States. The narrator of the film is a bullet cartoon character and he explains how the Pilgrims were afraid of being persecuted and sailed to the New World. When they arrived in the New World they encountered Natives and were again afraid of them so they killed them all. After the Pilgrims killed all the

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    Problems with Our America Gunshots shriek through the school of Columbine. On April 20th, 1999 this terrible massacre occurred. Michael Moore created a documentary called Bowling for Columbine. His film highlights gun issues America has today. Also Moore shows how the news and reports are what has helped to cause most of America’s problems. Documentaries such as this one are must see films. Michael Moore is a precise, driven man who helps give this documentary a storyline. Bowling for Columbine

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    Michael Moore’s documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 is a visual that critiques President George W. Bush’s regime, particularly with regard to the handling of the “war on terror.” Moore stresses the questionable ethical nature of the post-9/11 policies put in place by the Bush administration, particularly as they give a new meaning to the U.S. relationship between censorship and freedom. In this manner, the documentary challenges the Bush’s administration construction of America’s morality as self-serving

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    their belief’s I found to be contradictable based on what our country claims it stands for justice and freedom they mention and plan to “Dismantle existing forces of order and regulation.” Reconstruct all existing institutions.” Which brings me to the 9/11situation which has 100’s of Firefighters and witness testimony to BOMBS/EXPLOSIONS ignored by the

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    12DB Conspiracy Event: 9/11 US World Trade Centre Terror Attacks Possible focusing questions which will guide my inquiry are: 1. What is the official story that surrounds the events on the day of the 9/11 attacks? 2. What are some of the main conspiracy theories that revolve around 9/11? 3. Which of the accounts seem to the most plausible and why is that account more plausible than the other? 4. What significance does the events surrounding 9/11, and the connected conspiracy theories

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    The chapters (5-7) of Timothy Sellnow and Matthew Seeger’s book, Theorizing Crisis Communication, discusses the theories of communication (or human nature) in relation to emergency response as well as the strengths and weaknesses of different theories. In their writings, the assumptions that guide the emergency response approaches to communications are stuck in the basic problem of communication during a crisis to elicit the wanted response. If the emergency manager was not to be able to persuade

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    attack on Pearl Harbor, and September 11, 2001. On these dates, two surprise attacks on American civilians and military personnel showcased U.S. vulnerability to outside forces and united a nation against those that wished to harm her. Both horrific events have many similarities and many differences in regards to who carried out the attacks, what the objectives were for the attacks, and the American response after these infamous dates occurred. Unlike September 11, 2011, where a terrorist organization

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    Aidyn Research 9/11 Attacks, 2001. Official version: On September 11, 2001, nineteen militants associated with the Islamic extremist group Al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks in the United States. Two planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Centre in New York City. A third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Often referred to as 9/11, the attack resulted in extensive death and destruction

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    Adherents of the 9/11 Truth movement are conspiracy theorists who dispute the mainstream account of the September 11 attacks of 2001. Referred to as the "truthers", sometimes pejoratively, the group disputes the commonly accepted account that Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four airliners, crashed them into the Pentagon and New York's Twin Towers, whereupon the crisis led to the collapse of the Twin Towers. Truthers primarily focus on missed information that isn't explained in the official NIST theory

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    In Jon Ronson’s “The Spokesperson,” there is a definite lack of respect for Shayler’s side of the argument, making my perception of North's appear more favorable and evoking an ethos appeal to her emotional re-telling of a brush with death. “Jon Ronson One morning two years ago, Rachel North, who works in advertising, got on the Piccadilly Line tube at Finsbury Park, in north London.” (Ronson 1). Ronson clearly wanted to provide background information to get you well acquainted with her and her story

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