Title of Document: JAPANESE AND U.S. MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE IRAQ WAR: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS Kazuhiro Maeshima, Ph.D., 2007 Directed By: Professor Miranda Schreurs, Department of Government and Politics This study investigates the relationship between the media and politics by analyzing the Iraq War coverage of two leading U.S. and Japanese newspapers: the New York Times and the Asahi. This diss...

a collection of numerous and diverse works has been published in the field of the iran-iraq war by the center for holy defense documentation and research. according to the researchers acknowledgement , the negin iran quarterly is one of the most documented publications in the field of history of the iran-iraq war which studies the historical facts and realities of the eight-year war and attempt...

this article aims to analyze the imposed war between iran and iraq from a new standpoint. here, we look at the war from the viewpoint of women who were involved in the war as nurses, doctors, or reporters and etc. they lost their homes and families, or even got armed and battled against enemy. their experiences are categorized into six concepts including dis-embedding, explosion in family struc...

This case study examines how traditional and Internet news use, as well as face-to-face and online political discussion, contributed to political participation during the period leading up to the Iraq War. A Web-based survey of political dissenters (N=307) conducted at the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq provides the data used to examine the relationships among informational media use, o...

“US military offi cials are expecting that Iraq will use chemical and biological weapons against US and allied forces in the event of war”, wrote our American correspondent, Michael McCarthy, on Feb 22, 2003. He reported on preparations by US forces, which seem surreal now, to protect troops in Iraq from nerve agents, anthrax, botulinum toxin, and even smallpox. Just a few weeks earlier, 500 pu...

  Abstract   Background: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurological   disorder with high mortality and morbidity. Some risk factors have been implicated for   ALS such as exposure to high magnetic fields, and trace elements like selenium, cadmium and lead. Afew studies have been carried out throughout the world to evaluate   the prevalence of ALS among veterans. This stud...

The present study attempts to analyze Iraq war against Iran based on Parsons' subsystems. The main question aims at finding the social positive/negative functions of the war. According to the studies, the first effect of the war was damaging behavioral organism subsystem so that it couldn't realize its functions. Subsequently, the chaos spread to the personality subsystem. Except for the qualit...