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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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Monday, April 14, 2008

A Mighty Heart

“The Mighty Heart” came out in 2007, which was based on the true story of the murder of Daniel Pearl. Daniel Pearl was a American journalist, who was kidnapped and beheaded by Muslim extremists when he went to interview one extremist in Pakistan. According to critic, Benjamin Breich, from aish.com, he feels that a legit movie is to have to have a plot that has to be full of suprises and the audience shouldn’t be easily to figure out the ending. This movie was a flaw, since the movie repeated an incident that was a barbaric butchery and it was used as a way of entertainment.
In the Scream, the whole point of the series was really to say that history repeats itself in several ways. However, the Mighty Heart really didn’t have any point that taught movie viewers a lesson about society. It basically repeated the incident of Daniel Pearl’s death and showed how he was brutally killed. To be completely honest, it was a way for viewers to get the sympathy of the viewers. On the other hand, Scream taught viewers that sexuality and gender affect woman’s role in society.

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