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

Today's Bartleby

As other have mentioned, the ignorance towards Bartleby in as if the ignorance towards today's wars. Noone seems to know anymore what is going on, as they had initially done in the beginning of the war.

In the beginning of the "war" on Bartleby, the co-workers thought they knew Bartleby well and were adamant towards kicking him out on the street. As time went on they realized how little they know about him and began to receed on their case and want non-involvement towards the situation. Like the universe, the more we learn, the more we realize how little we actually know. In the end it will be left to the reader of history books on today's society to how and why things happened.

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