Sunday, May 4, 2008

Melissa's sourses for research

Raviv, Amiram, Sadeh, Avi, Raviv, Alona, Selberstein, Ora and Diver, Orna. "Young Israelis' Reactions to National Trauma: The Rabin Assassination and Terror Attacks."
<http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/3791792.pdf>
Summary of Article
This article was a study conducted on Israelis’ students following the Rabin assassination and terror attacks. The article dealt with the trauma of tragedies.
Relevance to Argument
This article helps to show the effects of tragedies on people. It reinforces the emotions and reactions of people.


Taylor, Diana; Elam, Harry J. "A Forum on Theatre and Tragedy: A Response to September 11, 2001 Volume 54, Number 1, March 2002."
<http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theatre_journal/v054/54.1forum.html>
Summary of Article
This article was about the September 11th attack and it was linked with tragedies of the theatre. It also mentioned the country that that carried out and discrimination against the people of that country and anyone who’s not with the Americans.
Relevance to Argument
This article dealt with the fact that others are blamed after a tragic event. It shows that not only the people that caused the event are blamed but also innocent people.

Koopman, Cheryl “Political Psychology as a Lens for Viewing Traumatic Events Vol. 18, No. 4 (Dec., 1997)”
<http://www.jstor.org.central.ezproxy.cuny.edu:2048/stable/pdfplus/3792212.pdf>
Summary of Article
This article is about understanding “traumatic events” in a psychological perspective. It deals with all kinds of tragedies, wars, holocaust and international events and the forms of trauma.
Relevance to Argument
This article helps the reader to understand the types of trauma and the psychological effects that it have on people in different situations.

Haider-Markel, Donald P and Joslyn, Mark R. “Gun Policy, Opinion, Tragedy and Blame Attribution: The Conditional Influence of Issue Frames.”

Summary of Article
This articles deals with different type of tragedies and how it happened, what could have been done and who or what should be blamed for the event.
Relevance to Argument
This article reinforces my argument that after tragic event occurs people tend to find something or someone to blame.

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