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

Logical Feeling

Reflecting upon the posts from the first week I started to notice that many people were indirectly affected by Iraq War. Many people knew friends or neighbors who were in the military, however, not their immediate family. Majority of the bloggers probably felt sympathy for the ones affectly directly by the war, and through apathy were they indirectly affected, very much similar to the relationship between Bartleby and the Lawyer. As an individual living in this nation at war, most people wouldn't say that the Iraq has not affected them a bit or that they don't care about the issues related to the War, thinking that way would make them feel very unpatriotic. I think it's this feeling that is controling the logic that people use to describe their relationship to the war.

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