HW first Podcasting

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HW: 31 Responding to Riverbend

During the past reading assignment from Baghdad Burning, there was one person who's story seemed to stick out to me. Abu Ra'ad was a an who lived in Baghdad and worked as a lawyer with his own private office. When i searched his name on the internet not much came up about him. Most of the information discussed his death. As a lawyer Ra'ad's office was very small and only had three desks in it. He had a wife and three children and was always a busy worker. Until one day he went out in his car and never came back. He was missing for many days and his family finally morned his death later on after he had left.

HW: 30 Citizenship Symposium

This past week I attended two of the speeches that were held at the Citizenship Symposium at my college. The one that I attended on tuesday was a woman born in the birthplace of america, Lexington, Massachusetts. Her name was Nancy Tobi and during her speech she spoke about the different kinds of voting methods in the state of New Hampshire. There are two different kinds. One is called the Diebold and they are machines that count the votes for you and the other is just plain old hand counted voting. She was very determined in getting her point across about the different types of voting in the state and she wants it to get easier.
The one speech that I went to on thursday was with US representative and Holocaust survivor, Tom Lantos. In his speech he told of his experiences while growing up and how he only moved to the United States at the age of 19 right after World War II. His main point was to tell us that reputations are now not as important as they used to be and he has hope for the United States of America.

HW: 28 Open Letter to riverbend.

Dear Riverbend,

lately i have been reading and following your blogs from Baghdad Burning very closely and I feel very bad for you. When you are blogging, telling how much tragedy and violence is going on in Iraq it scares me a lot and i can only imagine how you are feeling right now. I don't even think that I would be able to handle everything that you go through because i sit here in America feeling comfortable that nothing will happen over here, when there is so much going on where you are. My heart breaks over and over when i read your blogs. I wish i was able to comfort you so I am hoping that you are doing okay and continue to be that way.
From,
Hayleyy