First and foremost I want to say how much I enjoy reading “The Epic of Gilgamesh” or say the little excerpt from it. Reading about Enkidu and his transformation was awesome. As we went through the skits with our classmates I pictured myself in the old days and how it would be like. Crazy stuff. We still this kind of stuff happen know a days. Sex and money will go a long ways if used correctly.
So, the readings for this week were very interesting though I do wish there would have been more emphasis on a few of the subjects that Strayer talked about. I felt like were shorted throughout the four chapters. We only got a little insight on a number of subjects. At the beginning of Chapter Four Strayer captures my attention when comparing the US to the Empires of thousands of years back. When I sat and thought about the question I was dumbfounded at how many similarities there are between the two eras. Could our fall have been the attacks of 9/11? The financial crisis that occurred a few years back? Could it be that Ms. Andrews is right in predicting that we have already entered a new era in electing an African-American president? I’m a little scared to think that our world is changing so rapidly. Change is always good but I don’t that good if we are changing so rapidly that we can’t even exercise all the changes going on around us. I would like to read a book about the similarities between the US and the Roman Empire.
In so many we are so much like our ancestors – from the way we flaunt what we have to wanting more and more from this world. Though we don’t have slavery anymore (at least I don’t think we do) I feel that there are a lot of fields of work in this world that would be border line slavery. Those people working in agriculture, domestic help, and in many other fields are much like what slaves back in the days used to do; the only difference from today’s workers is that they are free people and can come and go as the please unlike the slaves of the old days. We also see that a lot of the people in these fields are immigrants. Reminds me of the chapters (5 or 6?) that talk about those that could and could not be granted citizenship. How is that humanly possible? I’m so annoyed with that. Those people were degraded. We don’t choose what family or caste group we are born into why should we suffer the consequences? This is another subject I would like to read more on.
Overall, all the reading was very interesting especially in the last chapter when there was information about Mexico, where my family is from. Lots of points were made about the Mayas that I had no clue about. My ancestors were pretty intelligent people. Yet another subject I would definitely like to more knowledge about. Yet another bullet point to add to my bucket list. Learn about my ancestors and the country where my parents came from.
