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

Just Another Soldier

With this blog Just Another Soldier the topics of the blogs really depend on whats going on at that time. Like when its Halloween he shows his friend who won the costume competition. When its very cold out side he takes some pictures and tells how they handle the cold. And when he was bored he shows what his friend Ray is like. Like Ray made a sock full of sand and named it "Socky" made it its own uniform and says he keeps his hand steady with it and also him kissing his sniper rifle "Melissa". The tone of this blog I would say is generally all around depending on the mood he is in that day. Sometimes he is happy, sad, indifferent , or angry. I would characterize the author as the follower of the group. Reading this it seems he is never the one doing the wild and crazy things that his good friend Ray has done. The author seems to be the one that sits in the background and is unseen because of the attention his friend gets. While reading this blog it made me feel a bit indifferent. It had some funny things well sections I found funny and some dull parts that I just wanted to skip over.

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