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| Rich teen didn't serve 20-years in prison, but only 10-years of probation. Money influences the courts decision |
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
May Day (Thoughts)
May day is a very short book that has powerful themes behind it. This story starts off with two college friends. One dean who succeeded in life, and is on top. The other is Gordon, who is not doing so well, he is in pretty bad economical and emotion state. One thing to take about this is, how two people of the same class, start of good but one goes of track, while the other gets to enjoy life and do whatever he wants. Dean throughout the book, we see him enjoying life and showing no real signs of worries or stress, when compared to Gordon. Gordon is a character that fell to the bottom by many different problems, and we get to see his constant struggles and inevitably leading to his suicide at the end. Dean the rich of the two, in the end doesn't commit suicide, but he ends of drinking champagne with another character named peter. Both of these guys seem to be enjoying life and seem to be almost ignorant to what is happening all around them. In this book we get to see how the rich are allowed to make mistakes, and aren't the ones to be punish. They are the ones that could wake up drunk and simply be ignorant to the real world around them. Even if it fictional, it does put into perspective today's society and who are the ones allowed to escape the struggles of the economic system or the criminal justice system.
Caesar's Column
Hey my name is Jorge Cosme and I'm from ENG 195 at LaGuardia Community College. I'm writing about the theme of the class, violence and art.
This book, Caesar's Column becomes more and more interesting. In this book we get to read the experience of a new comer to New York. At first everything looked marvelous, and he, Gabriel, is fond of how "pretty" New York looks with all its lights and streets. He quickly discovers how corrupt the city is, and the division in social classes that stand strong. This system of the rich staying on top and the poor struggling on the bottom leads Gabriel to a character that is very intelligent, book smart and street smart. Throughout the book, we follow the venture these two characters face in order to rescue an young innocent woman, of course of white skin, from the prince who is going to make her, his sex slave. Throughtout the book if you do close reading, we see repeated words, such as hunger, revolution and secret society, that relate to people having power. This strategie of close reading is very important in order to identify themes that even relate to order books that I'm reading in class.
This book, Caesar's Column becomes more and more interesting. In this book we get to read the experience of a new comer to New York. At first everything looked marvelous, and he, Gabriel, is fond of how "pretty" New York looks with all its lights and streets. He quickly discovers how corrupt the city is, and the division in social classes that stand strong. This system of the rich staying on top and the poor struggling on the bottom leads Gabriel to a character that is very intelligent, book smart and street smart. Throughout the book, we follow the venture these two characters face in order to rescue an young innocent woman, of course of white skin, from the prince who is going to make her, his sex slave. Throughtout the book if you do close reading, we see repeated words, such as hunger, revolution and secret society, that relate to people having power. This strategie of close reading is very important in order to identify themes that even relate to order books that I'm reading in class.
The Destruction of Gotham (Thoughts)
Hey my name is Jorge Cosme and I'm from ENG 195 at LaGuardia Community College. I'm writing about the theme of the class, violence and art.
Today I'll be giving my thoughts on the book "The Destruction of Gotham". This book is about individuals in a complex and intertwine situation. A very good read, and excellent example of Sexual tension and the "innocence" a virgin woman has. One important moment in the book is when Donnelly the author writes "where virtue inevitably breaks" (Donnelly 38). In this passage he is trying to say how men and women are different, and how a women will give up her virginity or in this case innocence for survival. This book has many sexual tensions, but the one I feel most compel to focus on is Dottie's sexual relationship. For her she is giving sex for the survival of her self and her young child. It becomes more interesting to know the man that she is having sexual relationships with, is not in it for the pleasure, but he, Walton, get a sense of family from this. This know becomes more interesting to know emotional mental states that Walton wants. I plan to discuss
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Today I'll be giving my thoughts on the book "The Destruction of Gotham". This book is about individuals in a complex and intertwine situation. A very good read, and excellent example of Sexual tension and the "innocence" a virgin woman has. One important moment in the book is when Donnelly the author writes "where virtue inevitably breaks" (Donnelly 38). In this passage he is trying to say how men and women are different, and how a women will give up her virginity or in this case innocence for survival. This book has many sexual tensions, but the one I feel most compel to focus on is Dottie's sexual relationship. For her she is giving sex for the survival of her self and her young child. It becomes more interesting to know the man that she is having sexual relationships with, is not in it for the pleasure, but he, Walton, get a sense of family from this. This know becomes more interesting to know emotional mental states that Walton wants. I plan to discuss
Thematic Patterns Caesars Column
Hey my name is Jorge Cosme and I'm from ENG 195 at LaGuardia Community College. I'm writing about the theme of the class, violence and art.
Some thematic patterns I've noticed were Justification on when to use violence. Violence is something to consider when it's being done for "evil" or "bad" intentions. Another scenario to use violence is in the justifications of self-defense. This becomes a strong point to explain why people would commit acts of violence or even explain riots. Another theme that comes up is the oppression of the poor, that can be explained as Social Darwinism. Social Darwinism would be the practice of people already being chosen by there looks, and blood. These people are the ones that are on top of the social class, and prosper without the hard working a working class person has to do. Both novels, The Destruction of Gotham, and Caesar's Column and all the articles we have read, talk directly and indirectly about the poor staying poor and the rich staying rich. In the novel Caesar's Column, we get to read about these type of themes. One example is the difference in class between he beggar and the driver in the beginning of the book. Another example would be the use of the knife by Estella to kill Jachim, the big guy that serves the ruler of New York. Themes are very important to identify because it gives us an idea of the authors prospective on society and the way it is ran.
Some thematic patterns I've noticed were Justification on when to use violence. Violence is something to consider when it's being done for "evil" or "bad" intentions. Another scenario to use violence is in the justifications of self-defense. This becomes a strong point to explain why people would commit acts of violence or even explain riots. Another theme that comes up is the oppression of the poor, that can be explained as Social Darwinism. Social Darwinism would be the practice of people already being chosen by there looks, and blood. These people are the ones that are on top of the social class, and prosper without the hard working a working class person has to do. Both novels, The Destruction of Gotham, and Caesar's Column and all the articles we have read, talk directly and indirectly about the poor staying poor and the rich staying rich. In the novel Caesar's Column, we get to read about these type of themes. One example is the difference in class between he beggar and the driver in the beginning of the book. Another example would be the use of the knife by Estella to kill Jachim, the big guy that serves the ruler of New York. Themes are very important to identify because it gives us an idea of the authors prospective on society and the way it is ran.
Friday, October 24, 2014
Caesar's Column (Deceiving Character)
Hey my name is Jorge Cosme and I'm from ENG 195 at LaGuardia Community College. I'm writing about the theme of the class, violence and art. In the book Caesar's Column we get to read about one brother Gabriel Weltstein the writer in NYC, to his brother Heinrich Weltstein is the receiver in Africa. Gabriel writes to his brother about this Wonderful City, he has arrived to, and describes all the magnificent sights he is seeing in the city. For him, this city is a city of opportunities, and a way to make more money from his goods. As he is in the city he meets this other character, who as first seems like a beggar that doesn't fit with all the other people on the street. This beggar who soon is found to be named Max, is just acting that way, for unknown reasons. Gabriel saves him from a beating of a high class driver, soon finds out how corrupt the justice system is in the city. Max later reveals himself more to Gabriel, because of this "trust" he has for him. Max is a very street smart person, and knows how the city operates, he is part of the world wide secret society, which for me doesn't make sense on how easily he friends Gabriel. This friendship seems too be true at first, but I feel some sort of betrayed will happen between them. In this city filled with corruption and deceptions, I think Max is just going to use that innocence Gabriel has. Max is very smart with the way he talks and makes sure he says "just enough" to Gabriel in the beginning.
Max presenting Gabriel to his mother could be a genuine hospitable act, or pure evil.
Max presenting Gabriel to his mother could be a genuine hospitable act, or pure evil.
Friday, October 3, 2014
The Destruction Of Gotham
Hey my name is Jorge Cosme and I'm from ENG 195 at La Guardia Community College. I'm writing about the theme of the class, violence and art. This week we discussed about the novel "The Destruction of Gotham" by Joaquin Miller. We talked about the importance of breaking down a passage to identify the potential of a single word. The article I focused on was on page 8 of the prologue, it talks about the "people" and how the majority of the people are the poor. The word people could be interpret as the poor and the effort they have made to build the city. This word, tries to empathize that the city is getting bigger and better by the labor of the poor and the rich thriving on that. You can also relate this passage to the upcoming character "the girl" from the first chapter. We read of her experience as a new comer to the city. We follow her journey to find out that she had plans to meet her rich cousin who lives in Fifth Ave, but soon finds out that her cousin had not responded to her letter or will open the door for her. She than was forced to be part of the people that is talked in the prologue passage. With her having no job or people to rely on, she has to work in jobs that underpay her. According to the passage there a thin fine line between the poor and rich, meaning that a person statues could easily be changed.
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Flour Riots of 1837
Hey my name is Jorge Cosme and I'm from ENG 195 at La Guardia Community College. I'm writing about the theme of the class, violence and art. These past two weeks we have talked about an article called the Flour Riot of 1837. This article talks about the increase of cost on supplies, in this case flour and how it affected the poor lower class. This author uses the word "starvation" in a powerful way. He empathizes that the poor aren't actually starving but just suffering. We get to read by the tone he uses to describe the poor who riot, how he is not sympathetic towards them. He is aware of what is going on with the increase of flour, but he still justifies it by saying they are just suffering NOT starving. He believes the poor don't have the right to riot until they are starving, until they are on the verge of death. His fine line between starvation and suffering on the poor is a moral issue that they are stuck with.
The poor are left to suffer and can't justify there riots, until they are actually "starving" which by the author, seems to be is when a person boney and weak.
The poor are left to suffer and can't justify there riots, until they are actually "starving" which by the author, seems to be is when a person boney and weak.
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