Hello Everyone. This is Marcela, I am currently taking ENN
195 class with Prof. Rogers-Copper at LaGuardia Community College. In class we
staring to talk about the Harlem riots. Today’s blog is to talk about the
Harlem riots of 1943. According to many articles the Harlem riots of 1943 was
due to a race issue. A wounded African American solider Robert Bandy wanted to
know why an African American women was being arrested for disorderly conduct. When
he approach the officer and alleged victim he was shot by a white police
officer, before this the solider and officer throw a couple punches, because the
solider believe the women was being arrested on unfair grounds. All the
commotion between the officer and solider lead to a crowd gathering around them
and someone miss understood what was going on. They believe that the officer
shot and killed Bandy, and a riot erupted which was held for two days. Many
people were left injured and some die, there was a lot of property damage. All this
lead to New York City Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia go to the scene to restore
order.
Saturday, November 22, 2014
Monday, November 17, 2014
Free Blog
Hello Everyone, my name is Marcela Romero. I am currently taking Prof. Rogers-Copper class,Violence in American Art and Culture. In class we are going to start talking about the Harlem riots of 1935. last week Prof. Rogers-Copper ask us to check some websites to have an idea of what are the Harlem riots and we also visited the Archive room at LaGuardia Community College to see artifact and primary sources of the Harlem Riots. I was checking one of the websites he posted and one of them was in Wikipedia. it gave a brief discussion about the Harlem riots. It says that the riots started on March 19,1935 at 2:30 pm in the Kress Five and Ten Store. An employee there caught a black Puerto Rican 16- year old kid stealing a candy bar, his captor threaten the kid whose name is Lino that he was going to take him to the basement and beat the hell out of him. Such comment made the kid bit the employers hand in an attempted to ran away , but the manger intervene and call the police. while they waited for the police to arrive a woman was yelling that they've beaten the child up and ambulance came and treated the employees wounds, this had confirm the woman story and that the kid was beaten to death. This woman was arrested for disorderly conduct and the Kress Five and Ten store was closed early. Later in the early evening a group called Young Liberators started a demonstration [like a strike] outside the store, drawing thousands of people and they started a distribution of papers with the headline "Child Brutally Beaten" and another one said a 12 year old got beaten to death for taking a piece of candy. Chaos erupted an at some point some one throw a rock at the store window, glass shattering and a riot has began.
This incident reminded me of what going on today. For example what's happening in Ferguson, Missouri. with the guy Mike Brown, who allegedly had an argument with a police officer Darren Wilson and things heated up and a shooting happen where Brown was shot and died there. After the the incident was broadcast through news, newspapers and social media, riots started striking all over Ferguson and the united states.
Another incident was what happen to Trevon Martin who was shot by a neighborhood watcher, Zimmerman who claimed the teen was beating him up and believe he was armed, He called the police and the police told him not to follow him that help was on its way, Zimmerman refuse and shot Martin, Killing him.
My point is that it seem many things that happen in the past are staring to happen in the present. Its like history is repeating it self. riots always happen in Florida[ were this incident took place] and also nation wide. Riots are something people do to protest for what going on, the injustice that happening to them and riots help specially with social media now, it shows the world know what going on.
This incident reminded me of what going on today. For example what's happening in Ferguson, Missouri. with the guy Mike Brown, who allegedly had an argument with a police officer Darren Wilson and things heated up and a shooting happen where Brown was shot and died there. After the the incident was broadcast through news, newspapers and social media, riots started striking all over Ferguson and the united states.
Another incident was what happen to Trevon Martin who was shot by a neighborhood watcher, Zimmerman who claimed the teen was beating him up and believe he was armed, He called the police and the police told him not to follow him that help was on its way, Zimmerman refuse and shot Martin, Killing him.
My point is that it seem many things that happen in the past are staring to happen in the present. Its like history is repeating it self. riots always happen in Florida[ were this incident took place] and also nation wide. Riots are something people do to protest for what going on, the injustice that happening to them and riots help specially with social media now, it shows the world know what going on.
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
A Potential Theme in Cesar's Column
Hello Everyone, my name is Marcela Romero. I am a student at LaGuardia Community College taking Prof.Copper, Violence in America Art and Culture English class. In class we been discussing the book Caesar's Column and the major themes in this book. a theme that caught my attention a lot is religion, purity and women. i feel that this is important because religion plays a big role on how we manage things and what are our morals. Women are always at the bottom of the chain. They are seen as parasites. Many believe that women can't archive anything. Society view of a women is to,be a perfect wife, have children and take care of her children and husband. Religion plays a big role because they the ones who came up with this idea that women should be the "perfect wife" and that they should stay pure till marriage. Religion and purity go along because the ideology that women should stay pure till marriage and a women who isn't pure till marriage are view as sinners. The view of women have change a lot but we still have that ideology that women should stay pure till marriage and that they have to be the perfect house wife. Women are seen as shameful and are a distraction for men. with that being said women should have a role in society, many people still believe that. We see this in today's society because women are paid lower wages then men. when it comes to politics when were once denied the right to vote and they are seen as minorities. Society believes women can't become better politicians than men, because women are too sensitive. I believe society still has that religion ideology therefore they underestimate women.
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Caesar's Column By:Ignatius Donnelly: Reaction 1
Hello everyone, this is Marcela and I am currently taking violence
in art and culture class at LaGuardia Community College. In class we been
reading Caesar’s Column (a story of the twentieth century) by Donnelly. Reading
this book something came up to mind. For example, the way that woman are
portrayed in the story so far. If we take the conversion between Gabriel and
Max on the beginning of chapter five, they start talking about the two young
ladies they saw (previously in the book ) in a carriage that is property of the
prince Cabano. Gabriel is intrigue with lady that is younger from the two. He asks
Max if he know anything about her and Max replies that they might be the Prince’s
mistress, upon hearing this Gabriel is shocked. He can’t believe such a fine
lady can reduce herself and become a mistress to the prince. He starts talking
about freedom and how wrong it is for a woman to sell her body. We often see
this throughout history that woman are frown upon because many choose to sell
their body for a living these is often seen as something sinful. Continuing with
the topic of woman on pg. 38, we see how they see woman as a parasite. ”women are
not in their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched
vestal.” “But he need not have confined this observation to women. The strongest
resolves of men melt in the fire of want like figures of wax…where virtue inevitably
breaks. Morality in man or woman is a magnificent flower which blossoms only in
the rich soil of prosperity…” “Dignity, decency, honor, fade away when man or
woman is reduce to shabby, shameful, degrading, cruel wretchedness. Before the
clamors of the stomach the soul is silent”. The concept that the passage is
saying is woman are a man distraction, when woman are placed in front of man
they forget who they are and forget what their role in society, which is
helping the community prosper. Women are the want of men but not necessary the
need of men. They ignite the fire in men and due to the fire the men (figures)
turn to wax. With that being said Morality should only be consider a man trait
rather than a women. A women isn't anything in society but a house wife,
bringing the religion moral that women shouldn't be educated but rather be
teach their role in society. Which is staying pure until marriage and then
baring children and being a housewife. “Purity is natural to woman…god never
placed such a majestic and noble countenance over a corrupt soul. The face is
transparent; the spirit looks out of the great eyes; and it is a spirit of
dignity, nobleness, grace and goodness”. The ideal that if a woman is pure she
already lost her dignity, nobleness, grace and goodness and now is replace with
a corrupt soul. Religion plays a role her because god is who created a woman
out of a man’s rib, he made her pure and noble and with the idea that she will
serve her man. Also the idea that a woman that if a women isn't pure she is
degrading and shameful comes from the religious view. In conclusion I claim that these passages theme overall Is how woman are view and why they view like
this.
Thursday, October 2, 2014
The Destruction Of New York
I am Marcela Romero and I am taking violence art and culture
class at LaGuardia Community College. Recently in class we were analyzing the
story “The Destruction of Gotham “by Joaquin
Miller. I believe this man is quite intelligent and the way he describes people
and places with such sense that it’s like he is predicting the future. Although
the book took place in an early time of America, you can connected to what’s
going on today in present time. I say this because in his novel on page 37 he states
“a coarse man of this city once remarked, with more force than grammar, “that
in New York a man can live as many lives as he has money”. Matherson now lived
many lives, for he has much money.” The author, Miller implies that a person
that has money can do what he/she wants because money gives them that power. If
that statement is true we can apply it to present times and say yes Miller is
right. A person that has money can have as many lives as he/she can. We can say
that it’s true because in the society we live in, we have seen this happen. The
people who have money are more privileged and have an advantage against the
poor. But are they deserving of this privileged? The poor that work hard for
these rich people, what do they get? Aren’t or shouldn’t they also be deserving
of their own hard labor? Why should the poor be seen as not privileged or undeserving?
Why should the settle for bits of pieces to survive. In New York we see a lot of
this class system. As Miller describes that this man which I’m guessing is
Matherson said that in New York one person that has money can have more lives than
the one how doesn’t. In the story we see that New York has a wide range of
disparity between the rich and the poor. The poor have to work hard for small
wages while the rich take most of the profit.
Friday, September 26, 2014
Reaction to the Flour Riots 1877
Hi, my name is Marcela. This is a reaction from my Violence
in American Art and Culture class readings. We been reading and discussing
riots in the early years in America. Why and how these riots have occurred. We
also have discuss if these riots are justified or not. For example, the flour
riots. In my opinion I believe that these riots are justified. We all need food
to survive, it’s one of our essential needs to live, if they take our only
means of survival, the lack of food and water would make us sick and die of
dehydration and starvation. In the book the author mentions that the people
aren't dying of hunger but are close. He talks about how these people are
starving and riots are erupting to stop the hunger. He describes the people who
are on these riots as opportunist and they have no right to have riots because
they aren't starving or dying from the lack of food. They are just merely
starving and they are complaining for the flour price going up. The author seem
really indecisive throughout the article. He first starts saying how these
people are complaining about flour prices and how they shouldn't and yet he
says he understands and somehow he agrees with them. Does the author really
understand these people?
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Reactions to "1877 rail riots" article
Hi my name is Marcela. I am reacting to the “1877 riots: the
rail riots of 1877” article, because I feel like the author seems to despise
the people who are going on riots and I also want to react to the strikes and
unions. In general I believe that riots/strikes lead to create unions. For better
or worse now we have unions. In the article the author talks about how he
believes the people that are in these riots should be treated like dirt. In my opinion
people shouldn't be treated like that, because we all humans and we are equal. What
I want to focus on is about when a group of people go on a strike because of
working conditions or because of wage salaries, the owners of the job place, in
the article the owners of the railroads decide to fire the people on strike and
hire new employees for a lesser wage. I feel this is unfair because the people
who are replacing this employers are getting pay very low and now the people
who were employed and had a somewhat stable job are jobless. Although they are
going on strike for a good cause, they are being let to suffer for their
actions. Should these people keep going on riots, even if it means losing their
jobs? Is going on strike/riots for everyone benefit worth it? I believe the
people who replaced these workers that are on strikes aren’t valuing
themselves, because they allowing these “bosses” take advantages of them. Take
for example today’s economy and what is going on in many of our states, people in the fast food chain and
other companies are protesting for the minimum wage to go up and better working
conditions. We can reflect that back then in 1877 rail riots and other riots
that they asking for the same thing, better working conditions and better
wages.
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