Hw 30 Citizens gone wild

I attended the symposium on Tuesday called “Citizens gone wild” talked by Nancy Tobi. Nancy talked mainly about the government and how and who run it. The name of the presentation was “What kind of democracy do we want”.She talked about taking control over our democracy. Nancy is the founder of blockboxvoting. Nancy grew up in Lexington Ma. The slide show she presented was called citizens gone wild. It was about the two different types of techniques the state of New Hampshire used to count the votes. These were called hand count and Diebold. There were a lot of errors with the method Diebold. Diebold is machine that counted the votes and the hand count method was when the citizens counted each vote by hand. Nancy believes that the votes should be counted by hand. She also talked about how New Hampshire has free and open elections. Nancy really stresses that she wants to change the voting system for the better not only in New Hampshire but in America itself. She explains how there are many crimes that take place in the voting system as of right now. She really says that we need the citizens’ to help make these changes possible.

hw 28 Letter to Riverbend

Dear Riverbend,
I know you wrote your blog for a place to vent about how the war was affecting your life. I know from the reading that you have found comfort in your blog, and that it helps you express your feelings about what is happening around you. I know you never thought you would get so many responses from your blog but since that this war started in our lifetime and we are fully aware of what the circumstances, we can really relate to your blog. We are more likely to want to know what is really going on in Iraq. We know many people who are fighting in Iraq and are risking their lives so your blog really interests us because we want to know about the war coming from an average girl like yourself. You writing about waking up to loud explosives and how the electricity goes off on a regular basis really brings us to feel like we truly understand what is going on. Because I am now a blogger I can really related your blog. I think it really helps many people understand what is truly going on in Iraq. I thank you for writing your blog because most of the things we here on the media is false. Your blog is true and we can interact and listen to your stories.
Thanks again.
Alex Tuttle

Hw 27 Baghdad Burning

Baghdad burning by Riverbend is about a young girl who is growing up in Iraq with the war surrounding her. Riverbend’s blog is about a young girl who is growing up in Iraq while the war is going on. She tells us her day to day life and the horrifying events she has to go through. She writes this blog to share with people the experience of the war in Iraq from first hand experienced. She is very relatable because she is a young normal girl who is going through horrifying times. She writes an online blog that explains her daily life and how the war is affecting her and her family. This blog that Riverbend writes is important to our class because her blog explains what is going on in a different part of the world. Many people can read into what she is saying and feel as if they are really in Iraq. It also shows us the technology of the blogosphere world today.
Baghdad Burning. New York: First Feminist Press, 2005.

Hw 25 Baghdad Burning.

The forward of Baghdad Burning by Soueif gives us information about Riverbend. He explains to us that this blog is closest they could possibly get to without actually being there. Riverbend goes through struggles that her and her family deal with on a day to day basis. Soueif explains to us that English speaking readers are so lucky to have this blog because in a sense it is the only truth they may get. The introduction of Baghdad Burning by Riverbend explains that Riverbend is a girl who lives in a middle class home in Iraq. She writes a blog of the destruction that is revolving around her daily. She is descriptive in her blog that she writes which she called “Baghdad Burning”. She gives us detail by detail of what it is like to live her life. Ridgeway gives us a good background of what has been going on in Iraq over the last four years, such as the gulf war and 9/11. Ridgeway explains how these events have led up to the mess that is occurring in Iraq today. On pg viii it reads how on October 7, 2004 many people felt badly for the troops who were stationed in Iraq did feel bad for these men. This was an awful thing that happened and these men are risking their lives being there.( Viii, Soueif)

Soueif,Ahdaf. Baghda Burning: London: the feminist press, 2004

Hw 23 Feministe

“With apologies to Virginia Woolf” I choose the blog line Feministe which can be found athttp://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/10/17/newsweek-on-feminist-bloggers/#more-5971 to write about. Feministe to me is a very good thing because it shows that the mainstream media is showing feminist bloggers in action. This is a huge step for me because I’m not used to seeing women being treated equally. Of course there is a downside to this blog. I must say that this blog is defiantly an improvement but yet it still shows that there are still many things used against women. First it explains that the blog focused mostly on the activism and blogging of white mostly-middle-class mostly-heterosexual feminists. Than it says that younger feminists don’t really know what they are talking about and that there not focused on the right things. This topic really gets me mad because me myself being a young feminist I no fist hand that this not true. I think that people need to give women a lot more credit than they already do.

Hw 21 Dear Jess

Dear jess:
As you know I also have to read A Room of One’s Own by Virginia wolf for my blog class. I as well thought that the reading was extremely difficult. In chapter one the main character Mary, is attending college at Oxbridge place which is a very good school. It is said it the book that women needs money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. In the story Mary shows her anger towards this. Mary is sitting on a bank near the river thinking about the connection to women and fiction, and how she disagrees with the statement women and needs money and a room to write fiction. Mary gets stopped by Beadle and tells her that women are not allowed on the turf. Throughout this chapter she is not allowed to do certain things because she is a girl such as going into the library. She thinks and expresses her thought about her anger and women and literature. Your teacher might think that this such an important work because it talks a lot about how sex what such a huge issue and it will show us how much has been changes since than. I really did feel that this is an important read but very difficult as well.
Love Alex

hw 22. Virginia Woolf

I strongly agree that England is a patriarchy from Virginia Woolfs reading “A Room of One’s Own.” In this reading the think that made me strongly think England was a patriarchy was when the girl hung herself it seemed like they were happy and that the world would be better without her. Another example is on pg 29 its reads “wise men never say what they think of women? Wise men never say anything else apparently….. What is so unfortunate is that wise men never think the same thing about women. The reading talks about how men don’t think anything of women and how they are not as important as men. They wonder if they are even capable of things such as education. When I looked in the newspaper this past week I was actually surprised to see the newspaper showed many stories of both sexes. There was the movie section, sports section of both male and female, there was also a job section. None of these topics in my opinion were headed in the direction towards male or female. I think it was actually pretty equal.