Waltz With Bashir

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NAME: Catherine Wairimu Wahome Manning

ID NUMBER: 649598

COURSE: Composition II

COURSE CODE: ENG 2206

LECTURER: Milton Obote

MEETING PLACE: Room O

DATE SUBMITTED: 4 August 2016 WORD COUNT: 1,433

REASERACH QUESTION: How effectively does the film ‘Waltz with Bashir’ depict Israeli involvement in the 16th September 1982 events at ‘Sabra and Shatila’?

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Tittle Page 1
Table of contents …………………………………………………………………………….. 2
Plan of investigation …………………………………………………………………………. 3
Summary of evidence ………………………………………………………………………. 4-5
Analysis 6-8
Guarding the exits 6
Firing the flares 6-7 Lack of Action to prevent massacre ……………………………………………………7-8
Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………. ………….. 8
Works Cited …………………………………………………………………………….. ….. 9

How effectively does the film ‘Waltz with Bashir’ depict Israeli involvement in the 16th September 1982 events at ‘Sabra and Shatila’?
PLAN OF INVESTIGATION:
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I have chosen this topic because the movie is a significant source of historical evidence with a powerful depiction of the psychological trauma caused to witnesses of the First Lebanese war in 1982. Additionally, the events were significant then because they marked the failure of the Israeli defence force in ‘Operation peace for

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