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

Reflecting

Looking back to week one, I realized that so many of us have the same opinion. There are many people that do not actively participate in the news aspect of the war, myself included. I do not take advantage of all the information that is out there-- instead I choose just to ignore it. I believe that since we have all made this acknowledgment, maybe we should try to be a more active participant in all that is going on around us. If each of us watches the news or reads a newspaper, we would all be more aware of what is going on in our daily lives, thus allowing us to be more worldly in our knowledge.

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