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.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Kurdos World

I read a blog that is mostly concentrated on Kurdistan. Much of his blog was based off of the elections that took place. He talked about how on election day, the government voted for the people, instead of allowing each individual person to vote for who they wanted. He also talked about a Dr. Qadir, that was sentenced prison time for writing a book that was against the government and their decisions. Most of the authors blogs are somewhat laid back. His tone is more of a less serious tone, than one would think one should have with writing about these kinds of issues. In addition, I felt like very disappointed in the blogs themselves. They weren't very thought out, just seemed as if the author wrote these blogs in a span of 5 seconds. As far as the blog with the elections, i thought it was very interesting that a government allows there to be an election, but yet doesn't allow the citizens to vote for themselves and instead for the citizens. That is taking away from the purpose of having an election.

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