Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

9/11: The World's Perspective

- Tracing the Inner World of Suspicion
Bower, Bruce. "Tracing the Inner World of Suspicion." Academic Search Complete. EBSCO, 20 June 2009. Web. 26 Sep. 2011. <http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=7&hid=104&sid=69e50e6e-ec374209b2c0463130c85d2f%40sessionmgr114&bdata=JmxvZ2luLmFzcCZzaXRlPWVob3N0LWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=41785852>.

Summary of main ideas: The article discusses a report by psychologist Viren Swami and colleagues to be published in "Applied Cognitive Psychology," offering the preliminary psychological profile of people who believe in 9/11 conspiracies. Topics include the traits that Swami's team associated with conspiracy theories among British people including cynicism toward politics, a mistrust of authority, and the endorsement of democratic practices.

Key terms:

• ·         Personality

• ·         Behavior

• ·         Conspiracy

• ·         Traits

• ·         Belief

• ·         Government

Perspective: The author seems to be siding with the willingness people have to believe one thing and then build off of that one thing and so on. He makes it known that it’s just not specific to one incident or issue, but is used to justify a general pattern of conspiracy ideas in general. This source will help me out because I’m trying to deliberate the many questions of “why” people have on and about 9/11 as long with the conspiracy factors many take into account on this topic.

- Conspiracies Continue to Abound Surrounding 9/11
Asquith, Christina. "Conspiracies Continue to Abound Surrounding 9/11." Academic Search Complete. EBSCO, 7 July 2011. Web. 2 Oct. 2011. <http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/ehost/detail?sid=c20c9ef4-c1d0-4433-85a0-0a389018df3c%40sessionmgr114&vid=1&hid=110&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=22354225>.

Summary of main ideas: The article deals with the conspiracy theories concerning the September 11 attack in the U.S. According to the 9/11 Scholars for Truth, the attack appears to have been orchestrated by U.S. officials. The group believes little of the government's official version of events, and says the smoking gun is the collapse of World Trade Center 7. 

Key terms:

•       Conspiracy

•       Theory

•       Attacks

•       Government

•       Scholars

Perspective: A group of professors believe that the attacks on 9/11 were an "inside job" and that we (Americans) were lied to by our government. They believe little of the government's official version of events, and say the "smoking gun" was the collapse of World Trade Center 7, the 47-story building next to the twin towers that buckled under at about 5 p.m. on Sept. 11. The group said the collapse is scientifically unexplainable, and they claim to have evidence that the building was imploded intentionally, as were the twin towers.

- 9/11: Ten years later

Century, Christian. "9/11: Ten years later." Academic Search Complete. EBSCO, 23 August 2011. Web. 2 Oct. 2011. <http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/ehost/detail?sid=ca5ea64e-7be4-4673-9d99-c628d94c76f2%40sessionmgr104&vid=1&hid=110&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=64757497>.

Summary of main ideas: The article presents multiple brief responses by Christian pastors, teachers and leaders in response to the 10-year anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S. Comments are given discussing subjects such as the importance of memorials as tools to cope with grief and remember the events, the extent to which Americans are still unified on the issue of anti-terrorism, and how to address enmity from a Christian perspective. 

Key terms:

•       Innocence

•       Victim

•       Moral

•       Christian

•       God

Perspective: Ten years after 9/11, the church must offer and embody the alternatives that our political leaders have refused. The church's capacity to respond to an event like 9/11 is formed long before the event in all the small ways we learn to practice patience, love, kindness, compassion and forgiveness. It is these practices that we needed on 9/11 to give light in the dusty darkness, and it is these practices that we need ten years later to empower our witness for peace and reconciliation.

- The war on terror 10 years on
Coyne, Andrew. Wells, Paul. "The war on terror 10 years on." Academic Search Complete. EBSCO, 12 September 2011. Web. 2 Oct. 2011. <http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/ehost/detail?sid=3acfb16d-cd1a-4292-ab3e-c7f2f70e4aa9%40sessionmgr111&vid=1&hid=110&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=65325074>.

Summary of main ideas: The article presents two counterpoints regarding the war on terror 10 years after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Andrew Coyne feels governments have largely done well in preventing terror, and supports the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Paul Wells believes that 9/11 skewed people's perspectives about global threats. He compares the tolls of Islamic extremist terrorism and the actions of dictators Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin in the 1940s. 

Key terms:

•       Attack

•       Powerful

•       Immune

•       Metaphor

•       Counter-terrorism

Perspective: We (Americans) have been able to avoid a terrorist attack on our soil since 9/11; as such, we have come to expect that to continue, and to demand to be protected from any risk of an attack. This is not possible, or not at an acceptable cost, especially if civil liberties are also to be preserved.

- A nation challenged: The impact of foreign threat on America’s tolerance for diversity

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. “A nation challenged: The impact of foreign threat on America's tolerance for diversity.” Academic Search Complete. EBSCO, 18 October 2007. Web. 4 Oct. 2011.
<http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/ehost/detail?sid=7ead0101-3a6d-4c1e-97ca-e3485a6fe29f%40sessionmgr110&vid=1&hid=125&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=pdh&AN=psp-95-2-308>.

Assignment 9

Assignment 9

Summary:

The article, A nation challenged: The impact of foreign threat on America's tolerance for diversity, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, conducted a study which included three experiments that investigated how perceived foreign threats to the United States can influence Americans' endorsement of assimilation and multiculturalism as models for foreign and domestic intergroup relations.  The initial study, conducted during the 6-month anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks (9/11), discovered that a diverse group of Americans preferred assimilation as a foreign policy and multiculturalism as a domestic policy.  After reading that foreigners were supporting the dominant global status of the United States; however, Americans in Experiment 2 no longer expressed this preference for assimilation as a model for foreign intergroup relations.  Experiment 3 discovered that Americans primed with 9/11 revealed higher levels of national identity than did those primed with the Columbine massacre; moreover, level of national identity predicted support for multiculturalism as a domestic policy and assimilation as a foreign policy.

Assignment 12: Part 1 & 2

Part 1:

According to Christina Asquith's article, "Conspiracies Continue to Abound Surrounding 9/11", a group of professors believe that the attacks on 9/11 were an inside job and that we (Americans) were lied to by our government.

In Bruce Bower's article, "Tracing the Inner World of Suspicion", a report by psychologist Viren Swami and colleagues offer the preliminary psychological profile of people who believe in 9/11 conspiracies.

Part 2:

1. Conspiracies continue to abound surrounding 9/11

• Perspective - Conspiracy theories
• Helps -  Gives an important view about who might consider conspiracy theories and ties into one of my main purposes in my paper: the belief of theories surrounding the attacks.

2. Tracing the inner world of suspicion

• Perspective - Psychological
• Helps - Gives information on what theories are and how they are started. Also guidelines the paragraph before it because relates that info to give meaning and understanding.

3. 9/11: Ten years later

• Perspective - Religious
• Helps - Gives an interesting view on religion dealing with the attacks and how the religion (Christianity) focused on moving forward. Ties into my paper because it's merely one perspective of religion and I'm going for a couple more.

4. A nation challenged: The impact of foreign threat on America's tolerance for diversity

• Perspective - Cultural
• Helps -  Gives important information regarding the way American's viewed different cultures before the attacks and then how they view them after. Ties into my paper because it's a perspective of one part of the world: America.

5. The war on terror 10 years on

•  Perspective - For/against counterparts
• Helps - Gives great debates relating to how our government reacted tot he attacks and how they could've done things better to have prevented them. Ties into my paper because it shows both sides of what was done and what should've been done before and after the attacks.

Assignment 8b: Part 3

Sandwich Model
When looking into the attack on 9/11, it’s important to not only examine all the real evidence, but also all the potential evidence.  According to Christina Asquiths’ article, Conspiracies Continue to Abound Surrounding 9/11, the article deals with the conspiracy theories concerning the September 11^th attack in the United States.  According to the 9/11 Scholars for Truth, the attack appears to have been orchestrated by U.S. officials.  The group believes little of the government's official version of events, and says the smoking gun is the collapse of World Trade Center 7.  In other words, a group of professors believe that the attacks on 9/11 were an "inside job" and that we (Americans) were lied to by our government.  They believe little of the government's official version of events, and say the "smoking gun" was the collapse of World Trade Center 7, the 47-story building next to the twin towers that buckled under at about 5 p.m. on September 11^th.  The group said the collapse is scientifically unexplainable, and they claim to have evidence that the building was imploded intentionally, as were the twin towers.  Rather if this evidence is true or not, it hasn’t been proven which makes their case merely nothing more than what it is; a theory.

Assignment 11

Part 2

I didn't get to see the feedback from my group due to illness, but I still can give slight revisions from what I saw re-reading my paper. The main areas I believe I need to work on are with my paragraphs (I need to put all the material I have into them so they can be finished), direct quoting more sources with maybe including something such as a block quote, gaining further sources for the world's perspective view on my paper, and make a strong intro and conclusion to set my paper apart. I need to focus on exactly how I want my paper to flow without making it seem cluttered; I'll do this by using better and smoother transitions from paragraph to paragraph. As for developing my ideas, it all comes down to finding other perspectives on 9/11 as in, from other cultures besides ours and Muslims; which is turning out to be harder than I thought. I want to find maybe the Chinese or Japanese and also like Europeans.

Part 3 

The main purpose I want to state is that I will elaborate on the world’s perspective of 9/11 and look into the belief of conspiracy theories surrounding the attack. I will also look into how this tragic event changed not only how Americans view different cultures, but how all cultures around the world view each other; religious views are tied into this as well. It's important because this is what my paper is based on and not stating the purpose will give readers no direction when going over it. I tried to use as much peer-reviewed journals I could find because then I know it's scholarly and came from some study or professor, etc. that knows what they're talking about and the information is and can be completely proven. I'm going to look for cultural related sources for my next draft and therefore, I'll be seeking some kind of article that relates but not from a newspaper source. I need these views so I can finish my main purpose for this paper, so they will be of extreme importance (this is the backbone of my essay). I've set up my sources dealing with my main purpose and then going down the line from there to my last purpose; from perspective ideas I thought this would be best. In order to fully get the perspective of my sources, I need to relate to them in a way i can fully understand and then by doing that, I'll be able to give the best perspective I possibly can.

Assignment 8: Part 2

Passage - "The group believes little of the government's official version of events, and says the 'smoking gun' is the collapse of World Trade Center 7. The group also says the collapse is scientifically unexplainable."

Summary - A group of professors believe that the attacks on 9/11 were an "inside job" and that we (Americans) were lied to by our government. They believe little of the government's official version of events, and say the "smoking gun" was the collapse of World Trade Center 7, the 47-story building next to the twin towers that buckled under at about 5 p.m. on Sept. 11. The group said the collapse is scientifically unexplainable, and they claim to have evidence that the building was imploded intentionally, as were the twin towers. 

Interpretation - I think that they have strong theories but that's exactly it, they only have theories. They can be proven right and/or wrong but that seems unlikely from the lack of evidence the government has released and will ever release. The only information that is relevant is the Commission Report on 9/11 and even that leaves out much information that is key to determining what really happened. The belief of conspiracies are seen to the fullest with this passage because we have professionals in their respective field accusing our own government of being responsible for the worst event in the United States history.

Assignment 7

Ruzich’s overall claim and argument in this essay is that she will "examine the ways in which Starbucks' use of language appeals to more than people's craving for coffee" (428). The kind of sources Ruzich uses are what seem to be mostly authors or authors of new papers and so forth. For example, The Devil's Cup: Coffee, the Driving Force in History, was written by Stewart Allen who is an author. I think she draws from areas where people can relate and maybe have been. As in, relating to Dunken Dounts and quotes that relate to specific countries or regions. I think she uses these sources to not only relate but to give the audience better understanding of her main goal, which is to examine the language appeal of Starbucks. She uses her sources in ways to give her essay more support and to give certain information most people wouldn't know. For example, she says that "coffee is second in the world to oil as the most valuable trading commodity in the world". I think that her essay was very interesting and gave me more information about the background of a substance that I drink everyday that I probably would've never researched by myself or found out about. Overall, I liked it very much.