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, May 18, 2008

Birding Babylon

This blog is about a soldiers time in Iraq and the wildlife he encountered around him. The tone of this blog is hope especially in his posts about the geese. There were these geese that traveled over 3000 miles through the chaos and war in Iraq. The author I felt like he looked toward these animals for comfort in knowing if they can survive then he can make it too. Reading this blog made me feel good that at least this soldier had something to look towards as oppose to seeing all the bad he was using these animals to look toward the good.
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