Quarantine Journal #1

One thing that I have realized in the past couple of weeks is that this is a time of great uncertainty. Every passing day brings new surprises and challenges, and all that anyone can do is speculate about what the future will bring. Some predict that COVID-19 will come and go in the next few months, while other experts predict that a return to normal life could be almost two years away. Everyone always says to focus on what you can control, but in a time like this, focusing on the smaller things is difficult when there are problems happening on a global scale. While it hard to do so, taking things one day at a time helps from getting lost in the constant speculation over the future.

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American Ignorance Created By the American Dream

The American Dream is one of the fundamental beliefs that draws immigrants from all over the world to the United States of America. This American Dream is built on the belief that in America, somebody can go from rags to riches through hard work and devotion to the idea. Based on capitalism, the American dream promotes entrepreneurs and individual ideas as a way for one to better themselves. Although this dream is considered great by some, it does lead to American ignorance of certain major social issues prevalent in our nation. At the forefront of these issues: racism, and mistreatment of many minority groups. In Ta-Nehisi Coates' novel Between the World and Me , the idea of American ignorance related to the Dream is one of his most widely explored ideas. Coates displays the view of Black in America when he says: "Black life is cheap, but in America black bodies are a natural resource of incomparable value" (132). Here, Coates suggests that black lives are considered to ...

This is America.

Charlie Siebert The United States of America prides itself on being a land of freedom, equality, and opportunity for all. But with an intense history of racism, and a flawed social hierarchy, America is not exactly what it seems. The United States has always prided itself on the idea of the “American Dream” in which anybody can come to America and better themselves socially and economically. However, this idea is weighted toward the success of white America, and it is primarily used to cover up America's past, and the slavery that composes its foundation. Minorities in America have far less opportunities than those who are white, and many suffer the climb the rigid social ladder that makes up America. America is a land of inequality and racism. Inequality is America, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby explores many examples of inequality in America during the 1920s that are still very relevant today. In Chapter 4, when Nick is riding in Gatsby’s car to the city, Nic...

Quarantine Journal #3

Something that is interesting about this quarantine and remote learning is that I have had more time than I have had in years for myself. In other words, every day I end up with hours of downtime that I can devote to myself. After school and working out, playing video games and watching movies has almost become a new routine for me. Our junior year of high school, which is considered the most rigorous year, is now considerably easer than it was a month ago. Practically overnight we all went from busy students focused on school and extracurriculars, to students who do a couple of hours of school and then have hours of disposable time on our hands. In a sense, I have really enjoyed having all of this extra time because it allows me to focus on myself, and what I want to be doing at any given time.

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