May Day! May Day!

Hello! and welcome to my blog. My name is Sunny and I'm currently a student at LaGuardia Community College. This semester, I am enrolled in a class known at this college as: ENN195.0962: Violence in American Art and Culture, taught by Dr. Justin Rogers-Cooper.

This week, our class was asked to reflect on some of the reading we were assigned. We recently finished reading a short story entitled: "May Day" written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published in 1920.

My thoughts: In my opinion, this novel reflects the world we live in today. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about war veterans returning home with nothing, to nothing. These war veterans were treated like lower class civilians, not praised and glorified like they thought they would be. These guys just came back from a victory and yet they themselves cannot even get their hands on some alcohol.  To me, it just seemed like these men were used and discarded, Much like the world we live in today. Society dictates that if you cannot be used for something, you get left behind. Basically, if you don't have anything to offer anyone, you're useless. I think this idea stems from the concept of Social Darwinism.

Other well written blogs.

Hello! and welcome to my blog. My name is Sunny and I'm currently a student at LaGuardia Community College. This semester, I am enrolled in a class known at this college as: ENN195.0962: Violence in American Art and Culture, taught by Dr. Justin Rogers-Cooper.

This week, our class had to analyze some of our other peer's blogs. The blogs I chose to peruse are written by Kenia Cuenca and Eddie Lopez.

In Kenia's blog, she discusses the issue of morality which actually surfaces a lot in class whenever we read a novel. I liked her blog because it offers a different perspective on the subject. She proposes that not only do the rich suffer from the lack of morals, but so do the poor at times. Her blog is a paradigm changer for sure.

In Eddie's blog, he analayzes the issue of Social Darwinism. I liked his blog because it got me to start asking questions such as: what if money did not exist? In today's society, people of all color have money. The richest man in the world is Mexican. Just because the rich were able to take advantage of certain situations to accumulate wealth, does this really mean they are the "best"? What if society was not based on the amount of one's wealth, but on the amount of one's skill set?

In conclusion, both of my classmates present great ideas in their blogs and provide sufficient evidence to back up their claims.