http://keeneweb.org/secret Just another Keeneweb.org weblog Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:42:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.gabcast.com/index.php?a=episodes&query=&b=play&id=8538&cast=73014&castPage= http://keeneweb.org/secret/2008/04/22/hw-44-second-podcast/ http://www.gabcast.com/index.php?a=episodes&query=&b=play&id=8538&cast=73011&castPage= http://keeneweb.org/secret/2008/04/22/hw-42first-podcast/ “Iraqi Teens Work to Help Their Families” Alive in Baghdad October 15, 2007 The podcast covers the topic of unemployment in Iraq and how teenagers are getting work in order to help their families.  The people that appear in the podcasts are teenagers who have gone out to get work.  For example, 15 ... http://keeneweb.org/secret/2008/04/13/hw-40-responding-to-a-podcast/ Dear Riverbend,   Even though you give us much information on the war I still find it hard to relate to some things mainly because I am on the opposite side of it.  Each day you are able to look out your window and see live footage of a war, where I ... http://keeneweb.org/secret/2008/04/06/hw35a-an-open-letter-to-riverbend/ Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog From Iraq. Feminist Press at the City University of New York. 2005.   Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq is based on the life of an Iraqi woman from the city of Baghdad.  In the book she doesn’t tell us details from her personal life, but when ... http://keeneweb.org/secret/2008/04/01/hw-33-annotated-bibliography-entry/ Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog From Iraq. Feminist Press at the City University of New York. 2005.   Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq is based on the life of an Iraqi woman from the city of Baghdad.  In the book she doesn’t tell us details from her personal life, but when ... http://keeneweb.org/secret/2008/04/01/hw-33-annotated-bibliography-entry/ Baghdad Burning starts off with a short description written by Ahdaf Soueif explaining the blog of Riverbend.  Soueif focuses on the blog, “Baghdad Burning” written by Riverbend.  As the foreword goes on the author gives the reader a chance to take in what is going on physically and emotionally with ... http://keeneweb.org/secret/2008/03/27/hw32-responding-to-riverbend-foreword-introduction/ I believe that I do have my own room.    I knew this when I read the following quote from chapter 5, "For women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force" (Woolf, 87).  Woman are granted ... http://keeneweb.org/secret/2008/03/27/hw-30-my-own-room/ With Apologies to Virginia Woolf While scrolling through www.jezebel.com I came across an article titled, “If That Is Awkward For You, Please Do Not Apply, I Don’t Like Awkwardness.”   I was quite surprised at what this gentleman, or so called “Professional Poker Player” was proposing as a job for a young ... http://keeneweb.org/secret/2008/03/27/hw28-responding-as-virginia-woolf/ A patriarchy is a society in which the men hold the most power over women.  After reading chapter 2 my basic interpretation was that women are beneath men.  Virginia Woolf looks through books at the library about women and finds an interesting topic; it deals with the physical inferiority of ... http://keeneweb.org/secret/2008/03/11/hw26-responding-to-virginia-woolf-chapter-2/