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.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

American Hajji

The blog I read was published by Amber Todd, a 47 year old female, interested in goth culture, tattoos, and "being a pagan". I was kind of weirded out by her interests especially at her age, but I guess everyone has their individual preferences. When I read her blog there were only four entries. I thought that when people blogged it was suppose to be a daily or maybe weekly task. I read her first post and I had no idea what she was talking about, there were pronouns and nouns missing so I was lost in a sea of fragmented sentences and random thoughts. What I did get from her first entry was something about a freshman orientation, I have no idea what this is referring to. After reading her second entry, I think she may be from Wisconsin, but again that is a little snippet of information I picked up from her entire entry. When I read the blog, I feel like there are things missing, Like the blog picks up in the middle of an entry. I didn't like thisblog at all, I was lost, confused, and quite frankly, annoyed with the lack of structure.

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