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bibliography

  Bibliography:     Beyond terror, gender, narrative, human rights; Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg; page 114; British Cataloging in Publication Data Bignell, J. (2002), Media Semiotics: An Introduction (2nd ed.), Manchester University Press civilliberty.about.com/od/waronterror/p/manadelaljamadi.htmhttp://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/sabrina-harman/   Deleuze, Gilles. 2002. “How Do We Recognise Structuralism?” In Desert Islands and Other Texts 1953-1974. Trans. David Lapoujade. Ed. Michael Taormina. … Continue reading

Critical Review

The aim of this Critical Review is to analyze and understand Lynndie England’s case in the context of the war in Iraq and in its media representation. In order to define the case, we need to analyze first Lynndie England’s background. Lynndie England joined the army in 2002, as a U.S. reserve private soldier. In … Continue reading

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writing plan

In order to define the case we need to analyse first the background of Lynndie England. Lynndie England is a U.S. reserve private soldier; who joined the army in 2002 and in October 2003 was serving as an administrator specialist with the 372nd Military Police Company at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad during the … Continue reading

research findings

I have spent the last two months researching about Lynndie England. The initial image, which was given as starting point, does not tell me exactly what I found out during my research process. The two characters of the image look quite confident and happy, also they look quite close to each other and the big … Continue reading

bad apples

What did happen to the  soldiers involved in the case? Charles Graner: 10 years of prison Ivan Frederick: 8 years and 6 months of prison Lynndie England: 3 years of prison Roman Krol: 10 months of prison Sabrina Harmann: 6 months of prison Javiel Davies: 6 months of prison   This is the story of … Continue reading

photojournalism

It is a form of journalism that creates images to tell a news story to make the facts re able regards a specific news and the image  takes only at the time the news has been published. Some of the images taken by photojournalist can became very important or even a piece of art, it … Continue reading

domestic photography

The picture about Abu Ghraib prisoners with U.S.A Military are considered domestic photographs, because they are mostly ‘family snaps’ taken to remember their memories. Domestic photography as been used by Euro American as a tradition, during the celebration of important events inside the nuclear family; a memory of a success and happiness. The family photographs … Continue reading

Sabrina Harmann

who is Sabrina Harmann? source from http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-05/18/xin_290502181555121785430.jpg accessed 27/11/2010 She was also convicted of abuse and torture in Abu Ghraib prison. One of the most shocking image taken from her, is another domestic photograph, while she is smiling next to a dead body. source from http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Sabrina-Harman.jpg, accessed 27/11/2010 the story behind this photograph started on october … Continue reading

“They stripped me of all my clothes, even my underwear. They gave me woman’s underwear that was rose color with flowers in it, and they put the bag over my face. One of them whispered in my ear, ‘Today I am going to f_ck you,’ and he said this in Arabic. I faced more harsh … Continue reading