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

Peace Blogs.org

PeaceBlogs.org shows many different blogs from all over the world uniting people who oppose the war. On the homepage there is a map of the countries that participate in the site and you can click on a country and then a huge list of anti-war blogs pop up. One of the ones I clicked on was called "War Must End or Humanity Will." The blog concerns itself with different aspects of the war with all the authors concerned with peace or against the war. Some write about friends that are going to the war, others write about Bush and his antics, while others just comment on the news. The tone of the blog is very straight forward with people just writing about different aspects of the war and peace. By reading the blog I felt a common theme of peace and I learned a lot because many people post news stories of interesting things about the war. I feel like the authors are rather young, maybe 18-30.

No comments: