http://keeneweb.org/1strong Just another Keeneweb.org weblog Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:12:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The attached link is to podcast number 3. The last one ! Thanks for reading my blog! Gabcast! <a href="http://www.gabcast.com/index.php?a=episodes&b=play&id=8538&cast=73900" target="_BLANK">A Blog of One's Own #129</a><br><br><a href="http://www.gabcast.com/index.php?a=episodes&b=play&id=8538&cast=73900" target="new"><img src="http://www.gabcast.com/images/linkplayer.jpg" border=0></a> http://keeneweb.org/1strong/2008/04/27/hw-45-final-podcast/  I have attached the link to my second podcast in which I talk about the holiday of Eid and my new views of the war in Iraq. Gabcast! <a href="http://www.gabcast.com/index.php?a=episodes&b=play&id=8538&cast=73010" target="_BLANK">A Blog of One's Own #104</a><br><br><a href="http://www.gabcast.com/index.php?a=episodes&b=play&id=8538&cast=73010" target="new"><img src="http://www.gabcast.com/images/linkplayer.jpg" border=0></a>    http://keeneweb.org/1strong/2008/04/22/hw-44-second-podcast-eid-and-my-new-view-of-iraq/ The link below is my first podcast responding to homework 42 although I accidently call it homework 36... Enjoy! It is # 89 on the list! Gabcast! <a href="http://www.gabcast.com/index.php?a=episodes&b=play&id=8538&cast=72657" target="_BLANK">A Blog of One's Own #89</a><br><br><a href="http://www.gabcast.com/index.php?a=episodes&b=play&id=8538&cast=72657" target="new"><img src="http://www.gabcast.com/images/linkplayer.jpg" border=0></a> http://keeneweb.org/1strong/2008/04/20/hw-42-first-podcast-about-riverbend/ Reading about Riverbend’s culture is intriguing as you learn what items Iraqi’s value. Tea is especially important to them as they drink it throughout the day and always have a nightly tea time. (Riverbend 109). They do not use the typical American tea where you boil water and dumb it ... http://keeneweb.org/1strong/2008/04/15/hw-41-a-palm-tree-to-an-iraqi-is-a-maple-tree-to-a-new-englander/ The podcast I watched was titled “Iraqi teens work to help their families” and it was on the blog of Alive in Baghdad. It is Iraqi teens discussing their typical life style and work they must help do in order for their families to survive. There are several boys that ... http://keeneweb.org/1strong/2008/04/13/hw-40-iraq%e2%80%99s-practical-youth/ I looked up Ahmad Al-Chalabi, who according to Riverbend, was one of the people involved with the new cabinet’s swearing in process (Riverbend 49). I choose to research Al-Chalabi because there was not much written about him in Riverbend’s blog. According to Wikipedia he is a sixty- three year old ... http://keeneweb.org/1strong/2008/04/08/hw-35b-ahmad-al-chalabi-crooked-politican/ Dear Riverbend, As I read your well articulated posts I tried to think how my emotions would be in your circumstances and if I could be as strong as you have proven yourself to be. I cannot vision myself surviving as well as you are doing however it is hard to ... http://keeneweb.org/1strong/2008/04/05/an-open-letter-to-riverbend-hw-35/ Riverbend. Baghdad Burning. 1st. New York: Feminist Press, 2005. This book suits our class very well because first off it is a book with text from an online blog. It is also has a female Iraqi author who is speaking out which fits well with the feminist tone of the course. It shows ... http://keeneweb.org/1strong/2008/04/01/hw-33-annotated-bibliography/ A girl only a few years older than myself has written a book reflecting like if Baghdad. She wrote this not in attempt for a book to be published or sympathy rather for sanity of living day in and day out in the midst of a brutal war. When it ... http://keeneweb.org/1strong/2008/03/30/hw-32-a-face-from-the-other-side-of-the-war/ Virginia Woolf examines that throughout time women eventually were able to express themselves without even having to use fiction. As women became able to express themselves it was evident that they were more than domestic items as Virginia notes, “Also, I continued, looking down at the page again, it is ... http://keeneweb.org/1strong/2008/03/25/hw-30-the-world-has-changed-since-woolfs-times/