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

Review of Week 1

In order to expand on others opinions looking back we all do have a lot of the same opinions. Alot of the time it is to ignore the war and we do not actively participate. However to delve deeper what is the reason that we do not participate, is it because we are getting lied to by the government. Or is it that we find war so horrendous that we do not want to deal with the atrocities going on around us. Or is it that we want to think that the world is perfect. I think it is the last one. I think we ignore purposely, I think we want to see the world as a perfect place and we ignore the happening around us in order to achieve that sense. It seems that everyone is realizing that we need to pay more attention but is it actually going to happen. Is everyone who said they were going to pay more attention actually going do it? My guess is probably not.

To respond to my first post, my views have not changed while I am taking to time to look forward to the next administration I am going to research each of the candidates and vote for who I feel will make the best president. I am going to vote in the election and actually participate in who is going to run this country. For now all I can say is that I did not vote for the current administration. 1.20.09

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