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.

Monday, April 28, 2008

My current views on the war

I do not think my views on the war have changed since my week 1 post. I see no difference in where I stood then and where I stand now.This can be attributed to some extent to the fact that I do not really have anyone who is directly involved in the war. There were many similarities between Bartleby and the war in Iraq. The lawyer was trying his best to make Bartleby's life better which is what the troops were trying to for the people of Iraq. During the beginning ,Bartleby's co-workers did not know him properly and wanted him to be punished when he "preferred not to" do something but they later softened towards him.This can be likened to reaction of the masses when U.S. went into war as the people did not actually know what was going on in Iraq.At the end Bartleby's dies which is something which we hope happens to the war too and the war endsr

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