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 11, 2008

blog 7

a myth of our country that propagates is in my opinion it is too materialistic. we as americans are very caught up with our materials and much to often forget about the intangable things. this myth exsisted way before i was born but i feel it has propagted through the decades and is now at an unreasonable level. the american culture is one that is rich with materialism. vedio games, music, ipods, and many other things that have completely warped the minds of our youth. there are stories taht i hear from older geneteration people from diffrent contries that make me reflect on what our contry has become and what it will futhur develop into. my mather and mother grew in in soviet russia and often remind me of how they had nothing more than their neighbors and everyone was equal. no one had an ipod better than the next, no one had the newest vedio game. people valued their families and the things that they worked for. today kids do not care to sit down with their mothers and fathers to eat family dinner, they are too busy playing vedio games and caught up in their mateiralistc fantaices. hopefully family values will be restored to our country and people will realize that materials will never replace real people

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