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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.

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I intend this blog to manage our discussions and track our collective investigation.

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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Jersey

A lot of people have this idea about people from Jersey, i don't know exactly what it is... but i know exactly what they're talking about. See, my high school is full of dumb people. People who make drama out of little things, and people who just have this obscure idea that they're supposed to be treated like kings. It's true what you think about Jersey people, at least for the most part. But imagine kids like me, growing up around all this dumb crap. I am the person i am today because i had to put up with all of it. I think that makes me stronger in a way.

So fact is, not everyone from Jersey, is like everyone from Jersey (if that makes any sense) There are really cool people that come from this place. It is unfortunate that i had to grow up in such an environment, but through this i had a large understand of how people work, how they think. I became the person i am today because i observed this intense environment and understand people the way i do because of it. So coming from jersey isn't that bad, the weather is nice when it can be, and things smell good. Plus it's only some towns in jersey that stink. Where my cousins grew up (only a fourteen minute drive from me) their town was way cooler. They had REAL gay guys and everything. I loved hanging out there...

By the way you can't catch an STD called "the Jerz." That just doesn't exist.

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