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 4, 2008

Personal Journal "White Teeth" Parallel- Week 5

White Teeth, in compatiron to my own family, there is only one loose connection I can make to my own family. My oldest brother suddenly picked up and left the east coast and went out to California to try and start his life there. He came back to visit and suddenly had a fiance. She was from a prestigious Mexican family in Los Angeles. It was the most random thing I have ever seen happen in my family. My brother is a druggie and somehow got this attractive girl and eventually got her to move back to the east coast with him. She has all of her teeth though. He told me about when he goes to her strict Catholic family, the younger ones in the family are wannabe "Street Thugs" in LA that wear their Raider jerseys and gold chains with their "souped-Up" Honda Civics and the elders in the family are the "high-class" educated old-school latino type. And then there's my brother, an average white guy from Jersey at these family events. Kinda like the older white english gjuy with the Jamacian immigrant.

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