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.

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Sunday, May 11, 2008

A Floating Tire

One myth, that is really more of a stereotype that I have to put up with is the assumption that since I am Cuban my family came over on a floating tire. This is false, we came over on a raft. I'm joking of course but ever since the whole Elio Gonzales incident Cubans have had to deal with this myth for a while. My family came over on one of the last planes before Castro closed off Cuba. My family worked hard to get up the money to purchase a plane ticket during those rough times and deserves the proper respect. On a side not my uncle actually did have to flee Cuba on a BOAT because Castro learned about a regime he was starting.

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