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 20, 2008

Paintball-War Reenactment

A popular sport in today's society is paintball. A sport in which players have guns powered by Co2 in which they shoot little balls of paint at the opposing team. Once hit by a paintball, the player is out as if he were shot by a bullet, "your dead". Is this sport one that promotes war? There are also paint bazookas and launchers that throw large amounts of paint. All of the things incorporated with paintball show evidence of war. The accuracy of shooting becomes better and better with practice and the players who play paintball could probably be accurate with an actual firearm. It may even be safe to say that players who play paintball may also be interested in joining the army so they can shoot at real people. For paintball, their are tournaments on the beach, which is similar to the invasion of Normandy. I will say that paintball is a strong reason why many join the war or want to be involved in war.

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