Take 2

So I guess I might as well jump on the wagon and try this! So here goes nothing!

 

Last fall I learned a lot in this class. I have always been curious about the events around September 11^th. Last year I learned a lot about the people who had survived the attacks and it did give me a different perspective on things. All of us are lucky to be where we are at in our lives. Last fall I learned to seriously consider sources from outside the United States. Some of these sources can put totally different spins on the event or story being covered. I will say that in the last year being busy as always I have not followed the Middle East as closely as I would have liked to. I am the type of person if something confuses me I am going to try twice as hard to figure it out.

 

            This time around I am still puzzled by some of the things that go on in the Middle East. I think that one thing I would enjoy focusing on is the culture. I think back to this fall and how former President Bush had the shoes thrown at him. It is one of the biggest insults that you can receive in the Arab world. Culture is extremely interesting to me. I think that understanding the culture of a country is the first step in truly understanding the country. I think that there is so much that we don’t know about the Middle East that we are forced sometimes to make uninformed judgments about the people and often times the religion. So many of the feelings that people have toward Muslims are based off of ideas that are as extreme as the feelings that many people generate.

 

Religion is another thing that I have always been interested in. I think it comes back to the Idea of having a deeper understanding. The last thing that I expect to learn some more about is the attacks themselves, and the actions that led up to them. At the end of the semester last year I feel like we had only begun to see the web of events that led up to 9/11. I think that there is more to be learned about the people, and the events that led up to the attacks.  I think it would be interesting to see how the attacks affected other countries outside of the US and countries other than one in the Middle East. I would like to know how the rest of Asia and Europe saw the attacks and what it caused in those countries. I think back the Madrid train bombings and the London bombs that took place shortly after the 9/11 attacks.

 

Ok so like everyone else I have no idea how long these are supposed to be so I hope this is good enough.

See you all in class. Take Care!