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

blog 8

i choose to read the blog called "Kurdo's world". this blog site is associated with bloging about life in kurdistan. many of the articles i came across were from poeple from iraq or had freinds in iraq. the general subjects of the posts i read was about the elections that they had. many people posted if and what they voted for. the tone of the posts were varried. one post had a sympathetic tone where they author was trying to tell a story of how the kurdish man could not vote. other posts were about how people were cheating in the voting process. reading this blog made me realize how big and diverse this world is, there is a whole other wolrd in the middle east, much diffrent from the one we know here. i felt that the life over there is definatly not one for me, while i was reading these blogs.

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