In our project we will be analyzing the media’s rhetoric of the “war on terror” and the word terrorism. We will also be examining how this rhetoric forms our perception of the word terrorist. Our goals are to explore different aspects in the rhetoric surrounding terrorism and their effects on the viewer 's perception. We will focus on three different topics and each group member will be tasked with mastering one. The first topic will focus on the use of the term terrorist in reference to select individuals. The media often tries to look for underlying conditions with white mass shooters while discarding other groups of people as terrorists. How does this instill racism and skew the view of terrorists in the direction of Muslims? The second topic