So far and i can already tell that im going to like this book. I cant wait to hear more about her stories from Iraq. They begining of the introduction starts off saying about Riverband and that she lives with her mother,father, and brother. She also says that her and her brother can tell different types of weapons when they go off, which is such a scary though. Also some of the daily things that she has to live with everyday, like some days not having electricity. The rest of the indroduction explains different wars and the problems that they face with oil, and the start of was in Iraq. Towards the end Riverband starts to explain how things have changed so much, women have a hard time keeping jobs, most women fear walking in the streets without men. Thats just so scary to think that women are scared to walk out of their own houses, it like almost being in jail. For me when we started to enter Iraq I had mixed emotions about it, I personaly dont think that we went into the war for any good reasone and I dont understand why were still in Iraq.

In response to the question I feel as if I have my own room, any time I am alone whether it be at home or at school I have the freedom to write and say whatever I please. No one can tell me that my feelings and opinons arent vauled. People have the freedom of speech and it my write to write down anything that im feeling, whether someone sees it or not I know that i have stayed true to myself. In chapter five she says, “but and unknow girl writing her first novel in a bed-sitting room, with out enough of those desirable things, time, money, and idleness, she did not do so badly, i thought.” (woolf, page 94) I feel as if though for virgina woolf to say that that is must have been a pretty good novel, but this is everything that she preeches saying for women to be heard you really need your own room. As for chapter six the quote I found i felt as though she was going against what she says how she likes the way women write and how its hard to find women authors. She says, “it was delightful to read a man’s writing again. It was so direct, so straight foward after the writing of women.” (Woolf, page 99)

With Apologies to Virgina Woolf,
The Blog I choose was brazil-blogs-banned-from-the-2008-elections, I feel Virgina would feel as though this is closely related to her book and how talking away someones right to speak freely is almost a crme. In the Blog only candidates’ purpose-built web pages will be allowed. All others have been suspened for the time of the coming election. Im sure though people will find other was to voice their opinon. As vigina would say having your own space and standing up for the way you feel is the only way to have people hear you. People cant silence your voice and act like your not as important as others, the same way went for her book women are just as important as men and men shouldnt be allowed to control women.

After reading chapter two of A Room of ones Own, it was hard for me to find irony in it because the two examples that you gave us were hard to find. This book I feel like is a great book to read but it is very confusing just because of the way she writes about different issues. But everything she talks about it true with how women are treated different compared to men, in the respect of writing. They way she writes I feel is at such a high level and she tries not to blame men for the way women have been treated over the years. So I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the book.

After reading “Web of Influence” by, Daniel W. Drezner and Henry Farrell I chose a paragraph on page 85. The passage talks about Blogs and how over the years from 1999 to now have grown so much through out the years. It started in 1999 with an estimated 50 blogs and now according to the book there is 2.4 million to 4.1 million blogs. What this really means is that over time blogs will continue to grow. Also blogs can act as personal diaries, political analysis, advice columns, and much more. Blogs, for instance, demonstrate another way of getting your message out there. My point is that blogs have changed our way of thinking.

After reading both Blogs and both passages, I found myself more drawn to the Daily Kos. For me that blog would influence my choice of whom I’ m going to vote for in this upcoming election. Comparing the two Blogs, the Daily Kos had a lot more to say. There was more statistics to follow as well as information from both sides. Reading the Wonkette Blog I felt that it was either one side or the other. When reading Markos Moulitsas Zuniga interview “Blogging the Presidency” I loved how honest he was by saying that by getting some much attention to his blog he doesn’t really get to happy now. For him that means buying more equipment, more servers, and he has to hire more people. But he does love the success of how much his blog has grown. For the upcoming election I feel by reading the Daily Kos blog I will find out more information about each candidate and about the over all election itself.