... training and recruitment and training. The U.S army used this recruitment poster of 'Uncle Sam' as a way to resemble the image of President A. Lincoln. The above poster would have been the ideal way of recruiting people for the U.S army during the Second World War. We also often see the government using 'loaded language', which can be described as being biased, to persuade the reader to a particular point of view. One phrase that has been frequently used in recent years is 'collateral damage', a phrase used to refer to accidental civilian casualties. The above image and caption is from the newspaper Independent. Here is an ideal example shown in the media of what 'collateral damage' is. It shows an incident occurring in a market place, whilst the U.S army states that it was an accident, and is very sympathetic to the people who lost their lives. So, by using this kind ...

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