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Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11", 2005.
An analysis of Michael Moore's film, "Fahrenheit 9/11" using the theories of Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, APA, £ 39.95
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This paper uses Michael Moore's documentary film, "Fahrenheit 9/11" to discuss the theories of Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx. The paper discusses Moore's portrayal of President George W. Bush and his response to 9/11 and contends that Weber's theories are the most relevant ones to the film since they can best be applied to Moore's central concept in the film.
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"Michael Moore's film, "Fahrenheit 9/11", has been described as an attempt on the part of the filmmaker to unseat a president. The film stresses what Moore saw as President George W. Bush's ineptitude in responding to the September 11th terrorist attack against the United States. As film critic John Petrakis puts it, Moore portrays the president as village idiot, a man who is in so far over his head that his only recourse is to take vacation after vacation, leaving the day-to-day running of the office..."
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A review of "Fahrenheit 9/11", 2008.
A critique of the documentary film "Fahrenheit 9/11" made by Michael Moore after the terrorist attack in the USA.
1,273 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 30.95
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This paper describes Michael Moore's documentary film, "Fahrenheit 9/11", which dissects the most sensitive incident to have affected the United States. The author gives a comprehensive overview of the content of the film and illustrates how viewers can become vulnerable to Moore's propaganda and readily accept his interpretation of truth.
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"Credited authors tell of their knowledge of the departure of many Saudis from the US after the attack. The film then defines the rationale behind the Afghan war, which Moore claims to be for an oil pipeline. The Iraq war is based far more upon oil and power then it is freedom. Seemingly, the Bush Administration and their corporate allies saw an opportunity to control the world's second largest supply of oil and thus, like any savvy businessman would do, exploited it. George Bush as Moore states in his documentary used the war on Terror as a smokescreen to exercise a plan, which he and his associates had awaited since the first gulf war. Moore finely incorporates comic relief into the documentary by showing the ridiculous items bought by Americans. People were so drawn in by the media messages that conveyed danger, that many excessive items were being purchased. In addition, the film portrayed Iraq as a peaceful nation that had no ill intentions towards the United States. Bush was shown being a tyrant that only wanted to conquer Iraq and strip its people emotionally and physically. Moore explains the failures of American intelligence as there were no whole weapons of mass destruction. Moore then explores the mourning mothers and family members who have lost young ones in Iraq. Moore then calculates the numbers of deaths due to the war, his findings conclude a death toll rise from about a hundred to nearly a thousand people dead. The Lipcomb family is featured given that their son died in the Iraqi war. The distraught mother tells of her suffering from President Bush's economic polices. Moore's interview with Lila Lipscomb provides an insight into the pain felt by mothers whose children had died during the war. Moore effectively moves the audience when the screen goes completely black and a soundtrack of persistent cries, sirens and radio communications sorrowfully project. This is followed by the image of faces filled with discomfort and fear of formerly happy New Yorkers because they are terrified by the indescribable horror of the collapse of the towers."
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Michael Moore, 2005.
A discussion about the controversial opinions of American far-Left spokesperson and film maker, Michael Moore.
4,587 words (approx. 18.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 84.95
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This paper looks at some of the controversial and shocking statements and publications that are attributed to left-wing director, Michael Moore. The writer argues that, although many people in America hold the same views as Michael Moore and may discuss them among themselves, there are very few, far left-wing spokespersons in America. The paper looks at some of his most popular films and questions whether they are true documentaries or simple propaganda for his political views.
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"To consider this accusation let us use an example. FOX News?a clear right-wing mouthpiece?every hour of every day claims to be presenting America with a ?fair and balanced? account of the news. No honest person would ever believe that Fox News is unbiased. So, if we are to admit that FOX News is biased, are we then also forced to admit that what FOX News covers is not real news? No. Although FOX News may be very selective, and indeed biased in what news stories they choose to cover, it would be irrational to conclude that what they do cover is not the news. Similarly, just because Michael Moore chooses to reveal some facts in his films and not others, does not make it logical to conclude that his films are anything other than documentaries."
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Michael Moore's "Downsize This", 2000.
How Michael Moore takes on the arrogance of some of America's largest corporations.
1,163 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 0 sources, £ 28.95
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"In a society where everything has to be supported in order to have a value, one can never have too much evidence. This is the case in Michael Moore?s The Big One. It is a filmed diary of a book signing tour Moore embarked upon to promote his 1997 bestseller, Downsize This. His theme throughout his tour, masked through humor, is always that corporate America is raping the common man. It is all about greed. In the course of his romp through capitalist America, he ?pulls down the pants? of some of the most arrogant and reckless companies in the nation. In order to do this, he uses hard core evidence to prove his point. "
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America's Post 9/11 Self-Image, 2005.
This paper discusses the effect the events of 9/11 and post 9/11 measures on America's view of itself in terms of its own might, its ability to secure its own citizens and to detect new kinds of enemies.
3,275 words (approx. 13.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 66.95
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This paper explains that, as much as America would like to believe that its own self-image has not changed as a result of the events of 9/11, Americans, who saw themselves as the supreme force in the world, are now forced to acknowledge that their might has significant limitations. The author points out that, in the aftermath of the destruction, the United States came to realize that it had prepared for the wrong war by having anticipated another conventional war in which enemies with uniforms from specific nations would square off against U.S. military personnel in armed combat. The paper contends that the manner in which the US attempted to garner support for the war in Iraq is evidence that America's vision of itself has been modified as suggested by President Bush's frequent inclusive of other countries and the U.N. and his moderate tones with international diplomacy.
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Introduction
American Dominance
Attacking the Image
Image Altering Changes
Conclusion
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"Prior to the bloody and vicious attacks against the United States on that bright September morning in 2001 the American self-view of superiority, might and some may even say invincibility, were as solid and as unshakable as the World Trade Towers themselves. Americans saw their own might in the context of previous victories during the prior century and in the light that that was naturally cast by the sole super power in the world. Hence, the Americans viewed their own status as nearly incapable of being challenged let alone defeated. Symptomatic of this self-aggrandizing view was the almost complete ignorance and utter lack of understanding regarding the hate that was directed at the West and in particular directed at the United States. Indeed, the sleeping giant seemed wholly unaware of the growing anger and resentment toward the country. However, with the destruction of the Twin Towers and the resulting actions that were taken after the terrible events of that day, it has been incumbent on the American people to compulsorily revaluate themselves and to make serious changes in the way the nation viewed its own levels of strength that had clearly been at least partially complicit in facilitating the terrorist attacks against the U.S."
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Carl Jung and 9/11, 2006.
An explanation of 9/11 in the eyes of Carl Jung.
987 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 24.95
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In this article the author looks at the events of 9/11 and its aftermath through the eyes of Carl Jung. He examines how Jung would have reacted to the events of 9/11. He points out that Jung believed very strongly in coincidence. But, would he have thought that 9/11 was a coincidence, something hidden in the collective unconsciousness. Maybe the unconscious beliefs of government officials, the CIA and FBI who knew that there was something going to happen, but didn't know when or where or even how. The paper goes on to describe how Jung would have categorized the different reactions of the American people after 9/11 in his terms of introvert and extrovert personalities. The author examines the different archetypes that Jung proposed in terms of 9/11. The paper concludes with the statement that even Jung would have not have been able to explain the "why?" of the terrorist attacks and what they hoped to accomplish.
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"Jung dreamt a great deal about the dead, the land of the dead, and the rising of the dead. These represented the unconscious itself -- not the "little" personal unconscious that Freud made such a big deal out of, but a new collective unconscious of humanity itself. It would be interesting to assume that the thousands who died at the World Trade Center, the Pennsylvania field and at the Pentagon were somehow part of a Jungian dream. But, while we might think of Freud and Jung as seeing psychosis in dreams, Jung was more realistic. "Jung felt that, if you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem" (Boeree 1)."
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Michael Moore?s "Bowling for Columbine", 2006.
A review and analysis of the film "Bowling for Columbine" and its portrayal of gun violence.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 22.95
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This paper studies Michael Moore's award winning docudrama "Bowling for Columbine" (2002), which provided an eye-opening look at the social problem of violence in the United States, particularly violence with guns. The film focused on events leading up to the Columbine High School shootings. The paper demonstrates how, from a sociological perspective, Moore effectively showed that both social institutions (e.g., the community, the school) and social relationships (e.g., within the community, between students) played a role in the Columbine tragedy. The paper also lauds Moore for effectively presenting the causes and consequences of this recurring social problem (i.e. gun violence) in an effective manner.
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"One portion of the film that I found extremely revealing was when Michael Moore went up to Canada with his film crew for this movie, and interviewed people up there, who seemed less afraid, and said they were less afraid, than Americans he had interviewed for the film earlier. These two sets of interviews illustrated the point, very convincingly, that America has far more general fear bred into its culture, in terms of anxieties people feel just living life, than does Canada. For that reason, Moore implies, many Americans feel they need guns simply to protect themselves against the frightening elements "out there", a feeling that then feeds on itself, with more fear and more gun ownership. In contrast, Canadians who were interviewed for the film do not even lock their front doors, and most do not own guns or feel any need to own guns. Moore convincingly explored, also, how the mythology of the Wild West (e.g., Western movies starring actors like John Wayne and Clint Eastwood) are so much a part of the American identity that Americans actually also identify with guns and gun ownership as if it were needed in order to feel safe."
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After 9-11, 2008.
Looks at attitudes and events leading up to 9-11 and the changes in the U.S. after this terrorism.
3,220 words (approx. 12.9 pages), 11 sources, APA, £ 65.95
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This paper states that 9-11 should not have been such a surprise because the country really should have expected that something like this would happen especially given the World Trade Center attack in 1992. The paper relates several reasons for 9-11, including the U.S. support for Israel, the U.S. failure to understand Islam and the first Gulf War. The paper also identifies responses to 9-11, such as attacking the terrorists wherever they can be found, the Patriot Act and other powers that the Bush administration have taken. The paper then examines the Patriot Act as the primary legislation designed in part to correct perceived lapses in law enforcement, to fill holes in security, to stop terrorists from getting the funding they need, and to alter certain laws in order to make the job of law enforcement easier in terms of fighting terrorism.
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"The attitude that McAlister (2001) identifies is orientalism, the image of the "Orient" expressed as an entire system of thought and scholarship and as seen in popular media during any given era. McAlister writes well and has shaped her argument in a logical and chronological fashion at one and the same time. In the popular media, such an attitude serves as a kind of shorthand that also has pernicious effects. The use of the Arab as a villain seems to have increased in recent years in a way that shows that Americans have an antipathy to Muslims, fueled, no doubt, by certain events on the international scene."
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The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks, 2004.
An analysis of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and what they have taught America.
1,948 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 44.95
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This paper discusses and analyzes the topic of terrorism. Specifically, it examines the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks (9/11) that destroyed the World Trade Center and caused thousands of deaths. The paper attempts to determine what we have learned from the attacks and what has been done since 9/11 to prevent future attacks.
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"Few Americans will dispute that the nation, and even the world, has changed since the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Two researchers into terrorism wrote, "Since September 11, America has been on a war footing, with armed soldiers standing guard at our nation's airports, enhanced security at nuclear power plants and other vulnerable locations, and military jets flying combat air patrols in order to intercept and shoot down hijacked commercial aircraft" (Klinger & Grossman, 2002). Before the terrorist attacks many Americans felt that something as devastating as the 9/11 attacks could never occur here. They were wrong, and the attacks proved the country is indeed vulnerable and open to attack from afar. The country learned the hard way that there is much more that can be done to prevent terrorist attacks, and that sometimes personal freedom has to come second to national security. As the aftermath of the attacks overtook the country, American learned that many industries, such as the airline industry, were also vulnerable to lost business because of the attacks, and thousands of people lost their jobs as industries cut back to cut costs."
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The Effects of 9/11 as a Crisis on Policy-Making, 2007.
An analysis of the long and short-term effects of 9/11 on policy-making in the United States.
1,585 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 11 sources, MLA, £ 36.95
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This paper looks at the effects of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 upon policy-making in the short and long-term in the United States. It focuses on the roles of the media, public opinion, the Congress and the White House. The paper suggests that 9/11 has profoundly changed the relationship between the President and Congress and has, at the same time, presented unique challenges for policy-makers who must deal with a hostile press and public opinion.
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"The first of the groups to be discussed is the media. While it is commonplace to argue that the media does not really have any "great" impact upon policy-making decisions - chiefly because it tends to lurch quickly from one crisis to another in response to what it perceives to the public's short attention span (Kingdon, 62; Downs, 38-50) - the reality might be somewhat different. For one thing, as Bernard C. Cohen wrote long ago, the media has historically been the chief means by which people who might otherwise have little contact with one another communicate with one another - simply because the public coverage devoted to a topic brings that topic to the attention of otherwise disparate groups (Cohen, 39-45; see also Kingdon, 63)."
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Changes Since 9/11, 2006.
This paper discusses changes in the U.S. society following 9/11.
759 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 19.95
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In this article, the writer discusses three changes in the U.S. society present following the horrifying terrorist attacks of 9/11. The writer examines the subject of new airline security measures. The writer concludes that the changes post-9/11 have been profound, both in a political and a cultural sense. The writer notes that the only marginally acceptable changes among the three types discussed in this paper are those involving air travel. Even so, the writer maintains that while they make travel safer theoretically, they have also made it less convenient and more costly, and the jury is still out on whether the added layers of security are really useful or just psychologically comforting.
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"Airport security seemed to be the most visible venue for implementing new 'security' measures post-9/11. It must be said; both the USA Patriot Act and the airport security measures seem a lot like shutting the barn door after the horse has already escaped. Moreover, in the case of airport security, the additional measures were both too late, and necessary.
That they were too late is obvious. Had there been reinforced cockpit doors in all aircraft pre-9/11, perhaps the hijackers could not have taken over the planes and crashed them. However, in the 1970s, hijackers were content to simply threaten passengers and pilots and kill off one or two while sitting on the tarmac in some developing nation until their demands were met. Without the free and easy access that had returned to aircraft after the heyday of 1970s hijackings had passed, perhaps the hijackers on 9/11 might have returned to the modus operandi of those earlier days."
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"The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11", 2008.
A critical book review of Lawrence Wright's "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11."
2,595 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 55.95
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This paper discusses how Lawrence Wright's "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 "contains a wealth of information and gives some real insight into just what on earth caused the horrifying terrorist attack of 9/11. The paper looks at how the book includes key themes such as the origins of the extremist Islamist ideology that would fuel Al-Qaeda, and the way it was fanned into extremism by the horrors of torture in Egyptian jails in the 1980s. The paper also examines how the book describes how it was possible for American intelligence to fail so utterly to foresee or prevent the disaster.
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"Wright traces the origins of Al-Qaeda all the way back to Egypt, beginning in 1948 in Alexandria with Sayyid Qutb, foreign student in the USA - who would later write some of the books that would inspire and inflame those Muslim radicals who were turning to Takfir (the mirror image of Islam, which purports to be orthodox, while at the same time encouraging murder). Geographically his extensive background spans universities in Egypt, building construction sites in Saudi Arabia, the war in Afghanistan, the rise of the Taliban, the setting up of radical Muslim cells in Pakistan - not to mention Qutb's happy days in Greeley, Colorado."
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9/11 Official Report, 2007.
An examination of the 9/11 Commission Report, which investigated the September 11 terrorist attack on the US and makes recommendations for preventing further such attacks in the future.
1,872 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 41.95
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This paper examines the 9/11 Commission Report: "Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States". It explains all the problems and intelligence failures leading up to the attack. The writer discusses the Commission's recommendations on how to improve intelligence gathering and sharing so as to prevent a future attack. The writer also looks at the Commission's recommendations on how to improve the response of authorities so that if an attack did take place, damage could be minimized.
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"The attacks on America on September 11, 2001 caused a major national trauma in addition to the deaths of thousands of people. Two major questions were raised immediately, the first how did this happen, and the second, how can it be prevented in the future? The two questions are related so that finding what went wrong the first time points to what needs to be corrected before any recurrence. To answer these questions, the 9-11 Commission was formed and charged with investigating the attack and making recommendations for the future. The Commission was bipartisan and made up of ten members who issued the required report, which has since been widely disseminated so that the public can judge the job done, can understand the problems found, and can weigh in on efforts made to correct those problems for the future."
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The 9/11 Commission Report, 2004.
An assessment of the 9/11 final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States.
1,038 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 25.95
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The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 represented an event of such enormity that it demanded a full and timely investigation and the U.S. government's Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States ('Final Report') attempts to do just that. This paper provides the background of the events of September 11, 2001. The paper discusses what the significant impacts of the report are to the nation and what lessons have been learned from the report. An assessment of the Final Report's effectiveness in addressing the issues it identified is followed by an analysis of what role Homeland Security authorities should play in the future to prevent a recurrence of the barbaric attacks of 9/11. The author's personal views on the report and a summary of the research is provided in the conclusion.
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"The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks drastically changed attitudes about personal freedom in the United States; fears that a terrorist could strike at anytime, anyplace made individuals more willing to endure personal inconveniences, such as longer lines at airport security and baggage checks in subway stations. This fear also compelled the U.S. government to implement measures that it believed would help track down terrorists and prevent future attacks (Schaffer 2003). The 9-11 Commission's Final Report purports to provide a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks, including the level of preparedness for and the quality of the immediate response to the attacks; the report also includes recommendations designed to guard against future attacks (The 9-11 Commission Report 2004). The report states that authorities in the United States knew, or should have known, that Islamic fundamentalist terrorists would attack the U.S. at some point, and that the World Trade Centers represented a favorite target, having been attacked once before already. "
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