These aren’t the reflections you’re looking for

My thoughts mirror what everyone else has already said, which is wierd but at the same time pretty freakin’ awesome.
The Rusted Iron Curtain was nothing exciting, and I felt it wasn’t powerful at all. Everyone knows that living conditions in Mexico are bad, and while Kaplan uses more examples than I’ve seen before, its still [...]

10/7 Readings

I suppose I’ll go along with what most people have already said. The first reading was somewhat interesting. The Author does seem to do a good job at making us visualize the difference in landscape and culture a few miles can bring. However like most of the human race no one really cares until they [...]

Reactions for 10/7

I’d have to agree with previous postings in saying that the first reading was when you get down to it, leaving aside all technical and other aspects, just not very interesting.  I did on the other hand completely fall in love with the second reading.  When I first began reading I began to quetion wheter [...]

Visions of a Rusted Iron Curtain, Feelings on a Champion

Robert Kaplan did an excellent job of painting a mental picture of the places he saw. The details on random plants – juniper, sage brush, and maquiladora – discriptions of the geometry involved in buildings, and when speaking of boys kicking a soccer ball on a roof, he points out that it was a scrap-metal [...]