http://keeneweb.org/qtkel101 Just another Keeneweb.org weblog Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:01:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.gabcast.com/index.php?a=episodes&query=&b=play&id=8538&cast=74156&castPage=&autoplay=true http://keeneweb.org/qtkel101/2008/04/28/hw-45-rd-and-final-podcast/ http://www.gabcast.com/index.php?a=episodes&query=&b=play&id=8538&cast=73357&castPage=&autoplay=true http://keeneweb.org/qtkel101/2008/04/23/hw-44-podcast-2/ http://www.gabcast.com/index.php?a=episodes&query=&b=play&id=8538&cast=72888&castPage=&autoplay=true http://keeneweb.org/qtkel101/2008/04/21/hw-42-my-first-podcast/ After reading the assigned reading for homework 41, I was unable to answer the question. But I did however find the reading about Date Palms and their importance to the Iraqi people. Date palms are almost like oases in a desert. They are green in color and you can see them ... http://keeneweb.org/qtkel101/2008/04/16/hw-41-date-palms/ Live in Baghdad "Iraqi Teens Work to Help Their Families" 10/15/2007 http://aliveinbaghdad.org/2007/10/15/iraqi-teens-work-to-help-their-families/ This podcast on Alive in Baghdad was about many young children, specifically young boys helping their families by working. Most of them have learned their skills from their fathers or uncles. These kids are beginning to learn these skills at ... http://keeneweb.org/qtkel101/2008/04/14/hw-40-live-in-baghdad/ Al-Hakim was the leader of the supreme council for the Islamic revolution in Iraq. He was a very important figure and he was assassinated on August 29, 2003. There was a massive terrorist car bomb and Hakim along with about 126 others were killed and about 300 more were injured from this attack. ... http://keeneweb.org/qtkel101/2008/04/09/hw-35b-al-hakim/ After reading the first couple of entries, I became very interested. Hearing your point of view about what is going on between my country and yours, makes me more sad about this whole thing. The only time I hear about what is going on in Iraq, is when I hear ... http://keeneweb.org/qtkel101/2008/04/09/hw-35a-open-letter/ Riverbend. Baghdad Burning (2005) New York, New York This novel is basically a web blog that tells the story of a woman during the Iraqi war that began in 2003. This book relates to the course because although we are reading it in novel form, it started from a blog. Riverbend is ... http://keeneweb.org/qtkel101/2008/04/01/hw-33-annotated-bibliography/ The foreward of the novel Baghdad Burningby Ahdaf Soueif is and introduction of the blogger named Riverbend and her experience with the Iraq war. She is a women living in the mist of all the action. She is experiencing the war first hand yet she is quite often receiving e ... http://keeneweb.org/qtkel101/2008/03/31/hw-32-baghdad-burning/ "They shared a laboratory together..." (Woolf 83) is a quote from Virginia Woolf's, A Room of One's Own. In this novel, Woolf  is describing some of the lives of women through the years and their ability to have freedom or in other words, a room of one's own. I live ... http://keeneweb.org/qtkel101/2008/03/26/hw-30-a-room-of-my-own/