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This blog will be used in the spring of 2008 by 80+ students at Drexel University to investigate the effects of Iraq on culture and the reverse. Our goal will be to better understand why the US is in Iraq, and to question whether literature can help us on this journey.

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Thursday, April 10, 2008

1989 , The Fall of the Wall

Something that brought fear and frustration was the fall communism in the year 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall, which divided a city into a communist east and anon communist west, and was the most tangible symbol of a Cold War that divided the whole world. When it came down, it was proof that the war was over, and that the communists who built the wall had lost. This is something that people were very worried about to basically a panic state with the whole world. Everyone had it running through their head at some point and the fear and frustration that came from it, was what to do next and would people revert back to communism.



A response to an earlier post on communism by Rory Laroca, which was basically all about communism and the red scare. He gets to the point at the end of his blog where he says that terrorism doesn't belong to any one country where Communism even know was in different countries started with one country. He say's Barack Obama is being accused of being a terrorist because of one unfortunate photo opportunity. The thing that really strikes me, is that he says global terror will someday be gone from the headlines only to replaced by some new threat. Now I don't really agree because terrorism is a global thing and isn't necessarily from one country and over with. For example, we had Japan with Pearl Harbor and world war 2, and then into communism, and now instead of communism, we have a threat of Islam. So the threat of Islam has been going on before 9/11. Each other replaced the other, yes, but Global terror as a whole will never cease because it is such a broad topic or area of the world. Hence the word Global.

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