Welcome...and initial guidelines...

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.

Weekly plans and other materials will always be posted in Vista, not this blog. So go to Bb Vista to get the discussion prompts and other instructions.

I intend this blog to manage our discussions and track our collective investigation.

You should have received an email from me inviting you to become a contributor to this blog. The email was sent Monday afternoon to your official Drexel email address.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Anger

There is a new post talking about comparing peoples breaking point in Bartelby and comparing that to the people of America about war. I agree but I believe they went in the worng direction. Going along with what was said the American people have finally reached their tipping point with the way but it wasn't because of the death toll alone. From personal experience, I've heard people really begin to be upset over the lies that were fed through the media. This also goes back to post talking about what the media lets us, the people, hear about the war. The media initially said that there was weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that was the reason we were going in. Later it was found to be false and this is what I saw a lot of people getting getting angry and, reaching that tipping point. The people can only take so much frm the govenment until they will hit another tipping point which hopefully will lead to the end of this war.

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