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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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Saturday, April 19, 2008

The Nintendo Wii: Ultimate Solider Training

In the last year we have encountered a great new gaming system in the Nintendo Wii. It is such a great interactive system that allows gaming to become virtually realistic. It also allows many to get some sort of exercise that we didn't believe was possible. What we don't know is that it's a plan by the US military to "shape up" Americans in order for a possible draft.
Little do we pay attention to certain details, but consider some of these possibilities. It is a known issue that Americans have been getting less exercise and more overweight as technology has increased. The military also has been getting less applicants and unfit men and women for the job. In order to fix this problem, what does the military do? Well they pressure Nintendo into coming out with a gaming system that can put a little exercise and skill in the everyday life. Why else did you think the Wii was so affordable? Now we have a new generation of gaming where many are getting exercise and training for military purposes and we didn't even see it coming. With games like Call of Duty, the military is basically putting a rifle in the average Americans hands and getting him ready for what there is to come, a draft.
The popularity of the Wii is so great that the military has basically solved the unfit American problem. In the near future they are going to be reaping the benefits with soldiers that are fit and trained to go into battle a lot faster than what it is taking now. That is the type of influence the military is deeming on us now.

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