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.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Blog week 9

This weekend I went to Boston to the see the NCAA lacrosse championship. The drive was a bit long but my buddy has a sister who lives up there and we had made the trip a bunch of times. When I read the blog before I left I didn’t know how to integrate lacrosse with war but as I saw the players in action it came to me. Lacrosse is a quick speedy game with hard hitting and amazing stick work. The teams fight for a common goal to win the victor. As they played or battled I thought of this blog and made the connection of the player to the soldiers. I understand they are very different from each other but they both fight for something. They give all they have to get this and in the end there is a winner and a loser. Then we Syracuse won I thought about how each team or college or country will be remembered. It will be cataloged under lacrosse or war. People will know who won or lost.

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