HW 27 Baghdad Burning

After prereading and skimming the book “Baghdad Burning” by Riverbend it allowed me to get an idea of what the book may be about and what I may learn from the book. I think that I will learn a lot about the war going on in Iraq. But not just the about the stuff we hear in the everyday news, like the number of causalities or what part of Iraq is being rated next but what its like to be living in these conditions. For example, when skimming the book I found information on how females are not allowed to leave there house alone, they must have two larger males escort them to where ever they may go (Riverbend, pg 16). In the news we don’t hear about the terrible living conditions not only the females have to live in but everyone in Iraq. I also think this book fits into our course because it is about a young women who is blogging. She is using blogging to be able to communicate and show others the difficulties she has to live with that no one from America or any other country can witness.