Archive for April, 2008
HW45 podcast link 3
Saturday, April 26th, 2008Here is the link to my third podcast, enjoy!
http://www.archive.org/details/Podcast3Hw45
again, click on the left column MP3 via M3U or listen to it online if you click under Individual files, then Audio Files: Podcast 3 HW45
HW44 Eid celebrations
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Yay! this link should definitely be successful (hopefully!) this second podcast is in MP3 format (yes! yes!) it took some sorting out and a trial and error experiment to get things straightened out, but here it is! So, what to do: go to this link here:
http://www.archive.org/details/Hw44MeliasPodcast1
look to the left side of the page and under [...]
HW42 podcast link
Saturday, April 19th, 2008Here is a link to my first podcast, hope you can find it!
Go to individual files and then other files, its there, click on it. It took some sweat and tears to get it here so enjoy it, that’s an order, haha. But seriously, enjoy it.
http://ia360914.us.archive.org/2/items/Hw42MeliasPodcast1/Hw42Podcast1.m4a
if this above address doesn’t work try this one below:
http://www.archive.org/details/Hw42MeliasPodcast1
Extra: took a trip to the USHMM
Monday, April 14th, 2008This past weekend I went along with a group of people to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. Some people were Holocaust Studies Minors, while others were simply going along for the ride, the adventure and the new experience. I have now taken one full class in Holocaust studies and will complete [...]
HW40 3 Brothers Sacrifice their teenage years to Help their Family Survive
Monday, April 14th, 2008Iraqi Teens Work to Help their Families
Alive in Baghdad
October 15, 2007
Visit the video here: http://aliveinbaghdad.org/2007/10/15/iraqi-teens-work-to-help-their-families/
This video portrayed life in Iraq for teenagers that must work to help support their families. Three brothers describe their daily work schedule and school situation in wartime Iraq. Who appears in this video? Three brothers. The first brother is fifteen [...]
HW35B Response to River
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008In this reading of Baghdad Burning, (blog posts August 31 to September 16, 2003), Riverbend mentions the bombing of a bomb shelter in 1991 during the Gulf War in Al- Amiriya. This was a “mistake” later by America, but in fact it was very unlikely that this place would have held any questionable items at [...]
HW35 An Open Letter to Riverbend
Saturday, April 5th, 2008Dear Riverbend,
As I read your blog posts from August 19 through the 30, 2003, it made me think of other such events that have happened. You recounted the unnecessary deaths of children and teens and people simply trying to make a living. You mentioned how a group of 12 and 15 year olds were killed [...]
HW33 Baghdad Burning
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Riverbend. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq. New York, NY: The Feminist Press, 2005.
(underlined: Baghdad…Iraq)
Baghdad Burning is a compilation of blogs by an anonymous Iraqi woman in her early twenties. She writes with true non-bias and an understandable logic regarding the war in Iraq. Her book was meant to vent her anger at the way [...]