Hello everyone and welcome to my blog! My name is Oscar Bermejo and I'm currently a student who is currently enrolled at LaGuardia Community College. This semester one of the class I currently enrolled in is Violence in American Art and Culture or better known at the college as ENN195, who is currently being taught by the professor Dr. Justin Rogers-Cooper this semester.
One of the themes I decided to select that we were discussing during class was about the "Secert Society" that is shown through Caesar's Column.One of the passages I decide to choose about the secret society is "You have no idea," said Andrew,"the difficulty of obtaining information.It is a terrible organization. I do not think that anything like it has existed before on the earth...This organization he continued is called The Brotherhood of Destruction.It extends all over Europe and America,and numbers, I am told, one hundred million members. Can it be possible asked one gentleman , in astonishment?".(page 96-97)This passage really shows about how this secret society ,is keeping there organization to a secret. The people from the top had to send a spy in hope to get information about the people that are going to rebel against them. Even if the spy was among their ranks of the Brotherhood, he still couldn't lots of info about the people that were in it that were in demand.Even came down to one of the leaders were surprise to find out something like this existed in their society.There the reason on why it called a secret society, that it doesn't have to catch the attention of the people that they are going to go against. "I will blindfold you-- not that I mistrust you,but that I have to satisfy the laws of our society and scruples of others...Every man present wore a black mask and a long cloak of dark material."(page 113-115) There are a couple of things that you must give up in order to be in society and there are rules that you must follow or there will be consequences. This organization has set a couple of ground rules, they also have tried there best attempted to keep them in secrets in order to succeed in there mission , so other organization can pick them off one by one. There hidden tactics and not making them know are ways to make it sound that this secret organization is a made up story to scare them so it doesn't alarm there enemy. They had to send people in to find out if this place exists, only way to find that is by going inside the organization and they don't take kind to spies or anyone that betrays them. I believe that this is sort of relate to our society, where there are certain things that you can do to be in, but once you in it, you can't talk about the security society to the public or they will have to take you out .One example could be such as the Illuminati ( don't say it true but anything is possible) where they are secretly in power taking control of people and power in the shadow or once you get into this society you have everything you want but once you don't obey what they tell you to do, they eliminate you. Nobody really knows that these secret society exist, but there are things that go around stating that it true, such like Brotherhood in the story.
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog! My name is Oscar Bermejo and I'm currently a student who is currently enrolled at LaGuardia Community College. This semester one of the class I currently enrolled in is Violence in American Art and Culture or better known at the college as ENN195, who is currently being taught by the professor Dr. Justin Rogers-Cooper this semester.
Today blog will be focusing on passage from Caesar's Column by Ignatius Donnelly and reflect on it. The quote I reflect on is "that money ruled everything in this great country" (Donnelly pg 26). In the book Gabriel helps defend Maximilian against Prince Cabano from getting whipped as Gabriel snatches the whip from the prince and flees the scene. Later in the newspaper there is an announcement where the Prince Cabano frauds Gabriel of his kind act of helping Maximiliam and tell everyone the cruel lie of what he actually did that never took place. Sometime to media can be a lie, you don't have to believe everything they say because there is always someone behind it all that are willing to pay big bucks to make them self look innocent ,while the other person look guilty. In a sense I do see this being applied in our society today and this being true somewhat. It is usually the elite or the people in office that have power that are usually wealthy. Also when people of high social status or people that have money get in trouble with the law, they usually suffer less of a consequence or usually can buy there way out. Also when let say celebrities or other people with power get in trouble with drugs addiction or in possession of drugs, they sometime are put into rehab to get "better", while someone of a lower class are automatically sentence to serve years in prison. I'm not saying this is the case for all people but it look like people with money have some sort of privilege in this society that runs on money.
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog! My name is Oscar Bermejo and I'm currently a student who is currently enrolled at LaGuardia Community College. This semester one of the class I currently enrolled in is Violence in American Art and Culture or better known at the college as ENN195, who is currently being taught by the professor Dr. Justin Rogers-Cooper this semester. In this class the themes we will be looking into are violence that happen through American History and the changes that took place when these sorts of act of violence occurred.
"The Civilization of years can be overthrown in almost any human being in a few days. In a little time we return to our real nature". What I believe this quote is trying to say is that when a person is introduce to a new environment or new to place that they have never been in before, they most likely
lose their sense of being a normal person and be consumed by fear and terror of this unknown place that they haven't visit. How the story uses the quote, they would think similar to a wild beast in the wild, who is afraid of human kind and seem to wonder endlessly without an exact destination. Since the woman is trying to help her to go a right way, the girl is terrified similar as a wild animal in the wilderness when encounter with a human , so she runs off exactly what a animal from the wilderness would do, either run away in a fear or attack back."The girl pushed on confused,frightened, lost in the wild of civilization...To one who, familiar only with woods, wilds, the face of nature..." Any person can become consumed by fear or turn into a "wild" person if they are being introduce to a new environment without the help of someone they know that could guide them through the new area they are visiting. They don't know what these strangers could possibly do to you, the massive amount of people that are walking around and the new setting that you have to get use to all at the same time could be a lot to a person mental state. Also I think that there is people that look for person such as this girl, that are confuse in this big city and see them as easy targets to manipulate them for person usage or advantages.
