Michael Dale
assignment eleven: all the news that fits
news articles:
1 the associated press on ABC Iraq Bombings Kill Three U.S. Soldiers
2 Aljazeera.net Bremer vows no Sharia law in Iraq
Color coding: article 1 both articles article 2
List of actors or
groups:
L. Paul Bremer
Roadside bombs
American lives
Task Force Iron Horse
A soldier from Task Force Olympia
President Bush
Mohsen Abdel-Hamid, the current president of the Iraqi Governing Council
Iraqi leaders
Iraqi Governing Council
post-Saddam Hussein administration
former speaker of the
Iraqi parliament
many Iraqi women's
groups
Iraqi women
US-picked Iraqi leaders and their
advisers,
US lawmakers
the White House
US observers
the council
List of roles:
Islamic law
Sunni Muslim hard-liner
using drugs
Bombings
the attacks
Sharia (Islamic law)
Islam
Americans
liberal reforms
Three role
definitions:
?actor
?role kill ?number ?actor
?actor have claimed more ?actor lives
However, ?actor currently ?actors role, has proposed making ?role the "principal basis" of legislation, which many ?actors fear will threaten their legal rights.
Metaphor or story
casting:
In the associated press article we see a world of violence drugs and attacks on Americans/ American soldiers. Then we see the story of The US saving the rights of woman from Islamic law and “Sunni Muslim hard-liners”. We see woman groups supporting secular rule out of “fear. [that Islamic law].. will threaten their legal rights”
In the second article from Aljazeera
we have Bremer saying Sharia can’t be law until he sign it. We have the Shia clergy
demanding the constitution be approved by elected legislators as opposed to
us-picked leaders. And see Bremer appealing to woman groups for support in
taking a larger role in ‘new’ the government of