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I read pages 70-79 in Baghdad Burning and those pages did not answer the questions that I was asked to answer for homework 41. The post on September 19, 2003 talked about the raids. It sounded absolutely horrible. Troops coming into your house and tearing it apart. Riverbend talked about how sometimes it would be in the middle of the night and so sometimes the owner of the house might think it was a robber or something and pick up a gun for protection. Apparently that was the worst thing to do. She talked about how people were being killed in these raids and it just seemed really wrong to me. Even one of her neighbors was raided in the middle of the night. Riverbend watched from her roof while reminiscing about the last time she had seen her neighbor. The grandfather of their house was taken away and Riverbend wasn’t sure why. Her neighbor still hasn’t returned and she feels bad for the family. The post on September 21, 2003 talked about how a member of the governing council, Akila Al-Hashimi, was killed. This was a big upset because she was apparently a good member of the council, not to mention a female member of the council. The post on September 24, 2003 she talked about oil and such. This post was confusing and I didn’t understand it. I’m sorry that I couldn’t answer the questions you had asked.

I watched “Iraqi Teens Work to Help their Families” from Alive in Baghdad 10/15/07http://aliveinbaghdad.org/2007/10/15/iraqi-teens-work-to-help-their-families/. The podcast was about a few different teens that work to help their families. It said that 50% of Iraqis are jobless so a lot of teens need to help their families with work. They do things such as build or paint furniture. Some have been doing it since they were really young. One of the teens in the video was Hussein Kamal. Hussein is a fifteen year old who helps his dad with carpentry and furniture painting. It takes him an hour to get to work when it use to only take thirty minutes because the ride has become so dangerous. The video didn’t show much scenery, but the little scenery I saw wasn’t too bright or cheerful. It was sandy and plain. People viewing this video will become educated on what its like for an Iraqi teen. It will show the viewer some of the differences that the war is putting on their country verse ours. This was different from news clippings that I have seen previously about Iraq. It showed it from an Iraqi’s view rather than an American in Iraq filming Iraq. I think the most memorable part of the podcast was the teens call to action at the end of the video.

Works Cited Riverbend. Bagdad Burning. New York: The Feminist P At the City University of New York, 2005. 1-286.  Baghdad Burning is about a twenty four year old woman living in Iraq with her mother, father and brother in present day. Every day she constantly has to deal with the war. She hears and sees it from her rooftop. Her and her brother sit on the roof and identify ammunitions from their sound. If they need to go to the store to get crayons they need to gather up a crew of friendly soldiers to help. The woman calls herself Riverbend and she blogs when she has electricity, which can sometimes mean the middle of the night. The book is made up of her blogs. She will blog about her feelings about the war and what has gone on that day. If she felt sick, or she saw something crazy that day. Baghdad Burning is a great way to get a different side of story you haven’t heard yet.