Is it in Relevance for us today?

This post will find unique similarities between Rivera’s Frozen Assets mural and The Occupy Movement. I feel that there are a few key things that connect the Occupy Movement and The Great Depression. Some of the Occupy Movement people have left their homes, lost them, or sold them. Back in the Great Depression, people did the same exact thing. Another thing that I notice while I am looking at the mural, the one with the numbers on it, is that I can see that it’s demonstrating either the dead bodies or the people in the bottom of the picture. The author gives representation that the bottom row can either be banks or in other opinions, maybe the unemployed. An argument that says the bottom portion of the picture is the unemployed is logical because some of them are missing from the top picture. The people are supposed to be inside or working in a corporate building but instead, they appear to be depressed and poor. Saying that the bottom is a bank is logical as well because sing how this mural was a painting representing the Great Depression, the civilians could be trying to take out money from the men behind the gate / bars. With the center drawing, this is where men, women, and children were housed and watched over by a guard, for safety. The families may have been too poor with no income to have a home or have a relative to stay with. Many people lost everything they had except their family and so they ventured out to places for shelter. The occupy people are not living in their homes or in shelters necessarily but they are building miniature camp sites around the USA. Instead of the shelter bringing people together, like in the Great Depression picture, instead it’s a common goal and being able to rely on your next-tent-neighbor.

The big I

I think by the year of 2011, it is an established fact that everyone has problems. Some problems are naturally bigger than others but nevertheless, they are still problems. Problems are conditions which can affect your performance when you are doing something. It is in tough times that you must look through these problems. While it may be easy for some people to see past temporary situations, for other it is not. I have always had problems that I felt I couldn’t cope with. I felt like I could not change or could not do positive things on numerous occasions throughout my life; Fortunately, I have always had some close support.  When the man whom I considered to be my father was murders, it tore me in half. Even though I had only known him for about three years, he did more for me in my lifetime then my biological father. Before I met him, I was known throughout every neighborhood I lived in as a momma’s boy, lazy, and it gave me a sense of rejection. His name was Melvin Edward Brown III. Melvin had known my mother since they were young. The first day I remember meeting him, my mother and I were picking him up from a house in Palo Alto. He had his son who had recently been kicked out by his ignorant mother at 20 months old. As time went on, I invited him to my field trips in fifth grade and was so proud of it. I had never had any male figure, let alone father figure, that felt gratitude in doing simple things like going to field trips with me. My mother got into trouble and he was taking care of me and he stepped up as a man and did it voluntarily. He showed his biological children and I the quality of taking responsibility and what it looks like to be a man.  Only later did I realize, I realized that though all of his growth areas, he is my inspiration.