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.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Sod's and Murphy Laws

A simple law of something happens to me, for me. For instance if someone was to have made some toast with butter that it would fall on the butter side on the floor. The law is very simple but it is an adage that has been used in America since the 1950's. The law has two view points. One side is that everything will happen and it will be bad the other one has the point that if you plan ahead for this law that you can slow it down or not even have the problem arise. Many people can attest that something went horribly wrong for them in some event. Planing is required for the law to be slowed down and stopped. The law can also be viewed as a philosophy that whens something goes wrong that it happens in life.

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