Rhetoric and Terrorism, Section 1

Michael J. Lee’s article, “Us, them, and the war on terror: reassessing George W. Bush’s rhetorical legacy,” discussed the reframing

Sakr’s article, ‘Challenger or Lackey? The Politics of News on Al-Jazeera” discussed the Qatar-based news channel Al-Jazeera and how it

One of the broadest categories we have not yet looked at in detail this semester is gender and the different

For this week’s readings, we read three different articles that all depicted different forms of the body and how it

In the first essay Politics of Resentment, Jeremy Engels explores how the the concept of a democratic public has been

The readings this week discussed how war rhetoric has become deeply embedded into our society. Through the use of rhetoric

The texts for this week discuss America’s pre-9/11 longing for an “epic struggle” combined with a World War II nostalgia

In these readings, the focus was on America’s heightened fear of terrorism and terrorism attacks, and the Right-Wing responses to

I think the questions posed at the end are very intriguing when considering America’s history of participation in wars. In

The authors of this week’s readings bring into question america’s tradition of continual war. For many of us this is