A Blog

Baghdad Burning is about a girl in her mid twenties who is living in the middle of the Iraqi war.  She tells “her readers” on her blog about how she sees the war, and how it affects her family.  She shows what it’s like for Iraqi women when their rights and freedom are taken away.  In the introduction she gives a brief background on what events Iraq has been through, such as how it changed after the Gulf War and how her life has changed since 2003 when the American troops invaded.  She also calls the American Troops puppets, because she says that the American troops wanna make the Iraqi government like a “pro-American puppet government”(xx).  She also discusses what it was like before the troops get to Iraq.  She states that gangs were starting to form and that kidnapping for ransom became a regular every day thing. 

Virginia Woolf describes her room and womanly and domestic.  I would say that my dorm room is domestic, and i try to make it feel like home as best I can.  But there is a certain line you cant cross in a dorm room to make it “domestic and womanly”.  Although the pictures, colorful bed spreads, and posters make the room look more feminine.  My room at home looks much more domestic it has walls that are painted with warm inviting colors, books and magazines, pictures hung on the walls, and a chair by the window.  When I walk into my room it feels like mine and it’s just so comforting.  Everyone should be able to have thisfeeling with their own room. 

It’s so sad that there is actually a game out there that encourages young teens that the bigger the “Bimbo” you are the more pretty and smart you’ll be.  What has this society come to.  Having games online for teenage girls to make their “Bimbo” the hottest and dumbest and most popular.  As if those are the most important things for a woman.  How degrading.  This is what this new online game “Miss Bimbo” does for woman, it shows them as inferior and weak.  http://jezebel.com/371788/new-game-encourages-young-girls-to-embrace-their-inner-bimbo .  The game even goes as far as to be able to purchase anything to make them hotter, such as breast implants, liposuction, and plastic surgery.  It shows young teens that its okay to do these things and that it’s cool to take diet pills and get breast implants.  It sets them up for failure when they get older. 

Irony is defined as the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of it’s literal meaning.  I had a very hard time finding irony in the second chapter of ” A Room Of One’s Own” because her style of writing is still confusing to me.  Although I am starting to get used to it it is still taking em a while to comprehend things.  Also the way she describes things and relates thing to each other is very confusing to me.  All in all I am starting to connect things with each other and realize how inferior women really were to men. 

I think an important statement made in this reading is that “Blogs are beginning to emerge in countries where there are few other outlets for political expression.”  It also states that blogs are much harder to control than media such as newspapers, television, and magazines because blogging is freedom of expression.  I think this paragraph makes and interesting point that blogs may be using filtering technologies so that blogger cannot gain access to foreign blogs.  I agree with this completely because they may be able to influence foreign media and politics from their homes.  Although the filtering only occurs now in Saudi Arabia and China i think it would be beneficial for more “foreign” countries to get programs like this one.