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 11, 2008

Misfortune

It is a strong myth in my family that we are incredibly unlucky. It seems to hold rather true, expect in war, everyone whos been in war in my family has lived, but thats more so on the other side of my family than the one considered unlucky.

I am the first person in my family to go to college. Most of my family has either been to jail numerous times or grew up during the depression or some sort of horrible time or place. Its more so that Murphy's Law takes full effect and likes to mess with us. It may not be entirely dooming but incredibly unfortunate. We are all hardworking and work to overcome this but no matter what it reappears. Unfortunely enough, but sometimes entertaining, we tend to get nutcase women. Many people can relate to this, it is rather universal. An uncle of mine has been married 20 years but has had more wars with her than the Middle East has had throughout time. This also shows that no matter what happens that we are hardworking and are strongly commited to what we do have.

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