Caesar's Column

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.