I remember when we read the poem America by: Tony Hoagland in class, I fell in love with it because it was so true! When he says, “I am asleep in America too.” I agreed as well, I’m not saying that we live in a bad place just that I wish I saw more cultural appreciation. Not where as he describes, “Whose walls are made of Radio Shacks and Burger Kings, and MTV episodes, Where you can’t tell the show from the commercials.” My favorite part is when he is talking about his dream with his father in it, “It was not blood but money, That gushed out of him, bright green hundred-dollar bills, Spilling from his wounds, and—this is the weird part--, He gasped, “Thank god—those Ben Franklins were Clogging up my heart--…”” I enjoyed it because is describes how money takes over us and makes us different, it can also warn the possessiveness and deadliness of money.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
America Oh America!
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Is MTV, Radio Shack, and commercials a part of our culture? If it indeed is, then cultural appreciation is on a climbing rise, so you have no need to worry. Also, we are one of the only countries that takes more pride in our past and structure then what we stand for as a modern country. Money takes over us more than any other force because as a capitalist country, we have been brainwashed to believe in it. We live to work for money, and we die spending it. It is one of the most leading symbols of our culture.
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