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

The Change

As I looked back at the Week 1 posts about all our thoughts on the war I found some things that are very similar. Other than the fact that everyone commented on their personal experience, I think there is more of a connection between "Why are we in Iraq?". Just like in the real world, everyone is going to have their personal connections, but the one thing that links us all together is the question of "Why?". When I stopped to take a look at what some had to say to why, I couldn't find a definite answer. The answers to why we are in Iraq are so unique, it makes me wonder if anyone really has an answer to that question.
When I stopped to really think about it, everyone has there own analysis of why we are in Iraq, but there is no right answer. We are over there because that was our country's decision, that's all we know. To find a similarity in opinions is basically impossible because the opinions aren't closely related. Just like everyone has their personal preferences, everyone also has their own opinion of why we are in Iraq. To answer the question, I couldn't find a definite similarity from week 1 responses, but I can comment and say that everyone does ask the same question, why?

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