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

Bartleby the Scrivener

My thoughts on peoples post is that now people are mad that we went to war. In class we were talking about how everyone reaches a breaking point where they are forced to act and that the author of the story Bartleby had finnaly reached his breaking point after a long time of putting up with all of Bartelbys antics. When we first went to war people weren't as angry about it. We had just been attacked by terrorists and this was our response to those attacks. After a while of fighting during the war after the death toll started rising it seemed that many people started reaching that limit where they didn't feel that the war was as neccesary as it was a few years ago. Maybe people who were por war before are now anit war. Much the same way that the feelings for Bartleby changed. The post seemed to be all anti war becaused it has been long enough for peoples opinions and feelings to change. This is the big relationship between the posts and the Story Bartleby the Scrivener.

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