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.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

SAW VS SCREAM

Society today has this infatuation with how much blood can spill from the human body. Ironic that civil rights laws are so strict now and the bar of being "humane", for example on death row. I feel that the reason that we love this bloodiness is because now it seem taboo. Killing is a big no no in society today. Yet another things to think of is in roman time and gladiators. Romans loved the blood spilling and yet they lived in a society that killed and conquered everything, it was their way of life. Now a days we don't live in a world like that but yet in a way we are not that different because as Rome had rules and laws that said one could not just kill another, we have the same rules. The movie Gladiator has a lot of blood, gore, and killing. Is it really any different than Saw and Scream? I feel its the taboo feeling that, If i cant kill then I will Watch it on the TV. The Saw and Scream movies are just that. But i understand that some people want to kill or some weird shit like that but that's a long and different path to look at.

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