http://keeneweb.org/pinkie This blog was created for the KeeneState ITW course, "A Blog of One's Own". Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:36:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A podcast I've recently viewed is "Challenges at a Girls' School in Baghdad" from the Alive in Baghdad online series, published 5/21/2007. The episode investigates the middle school of Al-Safina located in Adhamiya, Iraq, which serves young girls from all over Baghdad. It focuses on the hardships and continuing violence in the area, ... http://keeneweb.org/pinkie/2008/04/17/hw-40-the-harships-of-iraqi-students/ In numerous entries of Baghdad Burning now, Riverbend has mentioned another Iraqi blogger, Salam Pax, who she sometimes disagrees with but respects. I was curious who he was, and what his blog was all about. Considering I’d never before heard of him until I read this book, I was surprised ... http://keeneweb.org/pinkie/2008/04/15/hw-35b-who-is-salam-pax/ Dear Riverbend, I will not pretend to understand what it is like to be you. I grew up in middle class suburbia in northeastern America. Therefore, I will never know what it’s like to be constantly checking the water tank, electricity, and cooking gas…I’ll never know what it’s like to live ... http://keeneweb.org/pinkie/2008/04/15/hw-35a-an-open-letter-for-riverbend/ Riverbend. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq. New York: The Feminist Press, 2005. This book is an autobiography, except it is uniquely formed from live blog entries. Written by a young woman who herself grew up in Iraq, it truly sheds light into not only the young, weak, and unstable government ... http://keeneweb.org/pinkie/2008/04/15/hw-33-annotating-iraq/ I've been fortunate enough to have already read a bit of the book Baghdad Burning by the blogger only known to her audiences as 'Riverbend'. After scanning the book and reading the foreword and introduction, I think I’ve jogged most of my memory and brought up some of the same ... http://keeneweb.org/pinkie/2008/04/15/hw-32-meeting-riverbend/ In Virginia Woolf’s last chapters in her book "A Room of One’s Own" she thoroughly examines women writers throughout history, as well as examining their societal role in the era she was living in (early 1920s). As she mentioned earlier in the novel, she restates how a woman can’t write ... http://keeneweb.org/pinkie/2008/03/31/hw-30-females-in-the-21st-century/  With apologies to Virginia Woolf " Upon awakening from my decrepit grave, I saw it fit to investigate the modern culture of women across the world. I have since discovered a whole new world of technology in which women may utilize, to take charge of their lives, and rightfully fill their ... http://keeneweb.org/pinkie/2008/03/31/hw-28-woolf-aint-no-jezebel/ Something I've noticed throughout Virginia Woolf's writing is that she tends to be very cynical and ironic, and uses very eloquent and elaborate figurative language as she writes. Finding specific examples of this irony, however, proved to be a bit more challenging than I previously thought. Though I picked up ... http://keeneweb.org/pinkie/2008/03/31/hw-26-the-irony-of-feminism/ I was looking through the recent posts of some of my favorite blogs (which as you may already know include TreeHugger, LifeHacker, and Jezebel) and I found LifeHacker's most recent post to be very helpful. Being a bit of a computer-addict and being interested in going into a more technological ... http://keeneweb.org/pinkie/2008/03/13/hw-23-lifehackers-life-advice/ In Kline and Burstein's Blog! there is an article by 2 assistant college professors that really led me to stop and think. Appropriately entitled "Web of Influence", the authors Daniel W. Drezner and Henry Farrell have certainly influenced me. The article was extremely professional, which isn't surprising considering their backgrounds. Drezner is ... http://keeneweb.org/pinkie/2008/03/13/hw-22-a-more-brooding-look-into-international-blogging/