10th Grade Research Project 2010

“They have been involved in the area for a long time and they know how to intimidate people. They threaten them with beheadings, cutting off hands and feet, all the things they did when they were the government.”

Journalists have still not been allowed to visit Marja independently, however; they must be embedded with the American military

Marja is meant to be a template for a similar campaign aimed for spring in neighboring Kandahar Province, the Taliban’s heartland

“They will find people have returned, security is stronger, and they will not be able to come back,”

ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan — Gen. David H. Petraeus, the overall commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, is moving to sharply increase Afghan police forces drawn from villages in southern provinces, and is employing the help of former mujahedeen commanders to recruit them

NATO officials

The mujahedeen

While MTV tries desperately to portray “Teen Mom” and “16 and Pregnant” as simply day-in-the-life type shows, like glorified episodes of “True Life,” it is evident that these shows are every bit as preachy as “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” an ABC Family show that is just raging with pro-life messages and Christian value undertones.

While MTV’s tactic is meant to be a subliminal public service announcement, having the teen moms repeatedly talk about their inability to practice safe sex (with most girls blaming their boyfriends for not wanting to use condoms) and crying about how they just want to party like regular teens just makes the girls look like buffoons and exposes them for the naïve children they really are.

That's why the American Academy of Pediatrics created the Media Matters campaign more than a decade ago to promote awareness within the industry of how influential its TV shows and movies are to youngsters and to alert parents to the critical role they play in monitoring and mediating what their children watch.