Priest, Dana, and R. Jeffrey Smith. “Memo Offered Justification for Use of Torture: Justice Department Gave Advice in 2002.” The Washington Post 7 June 2004. 24 Mar. 2008 <http://www.texscience.org/reform/torture/>. ***Try to get the actual memo here to use as a primary source rather than a secondary source. If a government employee were [...]
Archive for March, 2008
secondary source (possibly primary if I use the memo itself) Justice Dept. memo to the CIA
Posted in Uncategorized on March 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
http://www.texscience.org/reform/torture/
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Secondary source – Michael Isikoff’s article about the double standard for laws of war
Posted in Uncategorized on March 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Isikoff, Michael. “Double Standards? a Justice Department Memo Proposes That the United States Hold Others Accountable for International Laws on Detainees – But That Washington Did Not Have to Follow Them Itself.” Newsweek 21 May 2004. 24 Mar. 2008 <http://www.texscience.org/reform/torture/>. In a crucial memo written four months after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, [...]
“Outsourcing Torture”
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This image was posted online with Jane Mayar’s article, “Outsourcing Torture,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2005. By using a very recognizable photo of the torture at Abu Ghraib and superimposing it as the Statue of Liberty, this is making the argument that this (torture of Iraqi prisoners) is what the US [...]
“Torture Etiquette”
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This image was provided on a user’s blog along with a link to a an article about how US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia defended torture saying it is not necessarily illegal according to the constitution. Though this 2006 cartoon by Mike Luckovich was not drawn as a reaction to that specific incident, it [...]
Response to “The Psychology of Rhetorical Images” by Charles Hill
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What I found most fascinating about Hill’s essay was the part about vividness and the debate over whether or not it enhances persuasiveness. The most fascinating part was when Hill states that “Vividness itself, like any single persuasive trait, will not make a bad argument convincing, but it will, if properly employed, enhance the persuasiveness [...]
Formulating my Research Hypothesis
Posted in Uncategorized on March 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Please describe the inquiry question you began this research project with and the inquiry question that is now guiding your research and your thinking. Why has your inquiry questions changed or not changed? I began this research process with the research question: Why/How is it that the US military uses the protection of [...]
Annotated secondary source – a 2003 linking GCIII to the war on terror (before we knew about Abu Ghraib)
Posted in Uncategorized on March 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“The Geneva Conventions and Prisoners of War.” Global Policy Forum (2003). 10 Mar. 2008 <http://www.globalpolicy.org/intljustice/general/2003/0324tv.htm>. Rhetorical Situation: This article was published on March 24, 2003 in a global policy forum online. There is no author listed on the website, so I looked into the general Global Policy Forum as the author. On the website [...]
Annotated primary source – The Third Geneva Convention
Posted in Uncategorized on March 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of International Conventions for the Protection of Victims of War, 12 Aug. 1949. 10 Mar. 2008 <http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/91.htm>. Rhetorical Situation: This document is a treaty agreement that was drafted and agreed upon by many of the civilization nations in the world. [...]
Starters for my primary research – surveys/questionnaires
Posted in Uncategorized on March 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
a. What do I want to discover? I want to discover the American public’s views of torture, especially in the context of war. I want to see if peoples’ perceptions of torture change depending on the situation and why. I also want to find out how much people know about what happened at Abu Ghraib [...]
