Archive for April, 2008
“An Open Letter to Riverbend (HW 35)”
Dear Riverbend,
You actually make me mad, in your first blog any way because of your last comment; you wish we would take the oil and leave? That is really ridiculous to say as if that is really the only reason we are there. I obviously understand that you have a whole different view on this war than I do. It’s just aggravating that you only see what your view on the war is. Can you imagine what it’s like for the millions of people here who have their loved ones fighting in these raids? Reading the portion about Maan the 13 year old smoking a cigarette made me realize that you in Iraq are forced to grow up much faster than anyone here in the U.S. I can’t imagine how scary it is for you in Iraq with all the bombings have to go to bed in fear every night. Females can never leave their homes alone you write, I am so sorry for you. Not that I am a huge feminist or anything because trust I am not but I cannot imagine having rights to leave me house. After reading this little portion I have learned a lot from your story and am intrigued to read more.
HW 33 BAGGGDDGAHDAIH
Baghdad Burning: A girl blog from Iraq. New York: Feminist Press, 2005.We are currently reading Baghdad Burning in class. It really applies to our class because it is a blog. Our main focus in class is about blogs. Women also are a marginalized group and reading the story gives us an insight to how that part of the world is oppressed. The story is about middle class women in her mid twenties. Her name is Riverbend and she is in the middle of the war in Iraq. She lives with her mother, father and brother. Sitting and watching the war has become a normalcy in Baghdad. In the beginning of the book it gives us back round of the war and how it relates to the Gulf War. The book also talks about how women are in fear for their lives every time they leave there house. I am very interested in continuing reading this book I would really like to know about how the world lives that I know nothing about.
