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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.

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Monday, May 12, 2008

All Boys Schools

I went to an all boys school in India.People usually think its not a lot of fun to be in an all boys
school but believe me, an all boys environment is so much better than having girls around. The brotherhood which existed among everybody in my class was amazing. We would pull off the most dangerous of pranks without being caught.If we were ever questioned about the pranks,everybody kept quiet and made sure the guy who pulled off the prank never got caught.What usually used to happen was that all the students used to get punished and since the number was large,the magnitude of the punishment used to be small. Everybody also made sure that there wasn't any bad blood among students. There was a healthy atmosphere academically too and the bright students always helped the weaker ones. If any student ever got into a fight with anyone from any other school, the whole school used to go and fight on his side.I personally enjoyed that a lot. Every student also made sure that nobody did anything that would give the school a bad name. Studying in an all boys school was the best thing that ever happened to me and is a unique experience. I wish I could go back to high school.

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