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Elizaveta Ignatovich was a Russian photographer and photojournalist of the 1920s and 1940s. She focused on expressing the class struggle within the Soviet family of the early 1900s through photography. Ignatovich modernized her photography to emphasize/introduce the fast-paced changes and the outlook on life in the Soviet Union. Elizaveta’s work is conflicted with posturing and hypocrisy, and she is against the emphasizing of traditional/logical doctrine.

I chose the artwork/photography, The Fight for the Polytechnic School is the Fight for the Five Year Plan, in which it presents the class awareness through Communist education under Stalin’s Five Year Plan. The Five-Year Plan was the period of development of heavy industry and agriculture in the Soviet Union, but at the cost of severely losing consumer goods. The piece by Elizaveta modernizes Stalin’s Five Year Plan by introducing how Soviet children took adult roles, and how the state focused on controlled factory to socialize urban citizens. In the photo, a factory girl wields a machine to create a new society through heavy industrialization. It expresses Communism, as young children are forced/exposed to an industrial education under the economic/political value. Another takeaway from this poster is that it portrays expressionism of the industrialization time period in the Soviet Union. One can evaluate the children’s facial expression, while working in the factory, defined as a demoralizing and dehumanizing experience during the Five-Year Plan. Children were forced to be occupied in factories with poor working conditions and with high physical demands.

One might be drawn by this piece of photography because of his or her interest in history and how history manifested in the early 1900s; but I was drawn by this piece of work by my interest in photographical artwork, and my interest and value in child development. The world and society should present young children with the best opportunities to succeed and prosper with the embodiment of how young children should be able to freely express themselves. In the 1920s under the Soviet Union and the Five-Year Plan, these children were put into factories to work long hours with poor working conditions than rather be given the opportunity to be educated and freely open themselves to expressing their interests. I find myself thankful to be born in a generation of freedom, but I am saddened by the hard labor young children were born into.

In full evaluation of Elizaveta’s photograph The Fight for the Polytechnic School is the Fight for the Five Year Plan, I find that our generation to be spoiled and to be blessed not to be placed under child labor. I wonder how these Soviet children dealt with such harsh working conditions and how madly driven they were during the Five Year Plan…

“The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,” is not just about slavery. The autobiographic narrative takes on a bigger picture on how society and the world is viewed from the lower class. In society today, there is obviously no slavery, but there is still an imbalance of power in society and in the workforce. Frederick Douglass shows in his narrative how one needs to persevere and overcome challenges in order to achieve a goal. For Frederick, he took advantage of whatever opportunities given to him in order to pursue freedom. In that aspect, I, myself, believe that I need to take advantage of all the opportunities placed in my life to achieve/accomplish my dream of whether finding an amazing job opportunity for a big corporation or whether having an amazing family in the near future.

In the narrative, Frederick Douglass was taught by a mistress, who kindly instructed him and treated him as a human being would treat another. Luckily, Frederick was placed with such a warm-hearted woman that taught him the alphabet; he eventually learned how to read, and he was educationally better off than the poor white children. In connection, I feel as though I need to take the opportunity in school/college. There are professors that are willing to sacrifice their time for students to give in-depth information about a particular subject/field or give advice on what will be asked upon us in the near future. “Every opportunity I got, I used to read this book. Among much of other interesting matter, I found in it a dialogue between a master and his slave (Douglass, 253). Frederick Douglass took every opportunity to read a book when the odds were against him to do so; if he was caught, Douglass would have been in danger… In connection, I feel as though I need to take every opportunity in difficult situations because I believe putting one’s self in a grind, where the odds might be stacked against him or her, will bring out the strongest/best version of himself or herself. In other words, if you are given an opportunity to interview for a major firm and must compete against Ivy League graduates, you should do the best that you can possibly do whether or whether not you are hired for the position. One should analyze and assess himself or herself on what area of improvement is needed and determine his or her strengths and weaknesses. This can also be an experience of a lifetime because I may inform the next generation moving forward to take full advantage of any given opportunity whether or whether not it may be the most challenging of circumstances. In relation, Frederick Douglass took full advantage of reading and grasping all life lessons in hopes of setting himself an example to individuals in the future that life can be difficult, but one can persevere even if the odds are stacked against him or her.

“In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave,” it is tremendously courageous of Frederick Douglass to take every advantage of the opportunity to read and educate himself during the time of slavery in order to pursue freedom. I need to believe in myself and persevere through obstacles, as well. My task is to take advantage of all the opportunities placed in my life to achieve/accomplish my dream of whether to find an amazing job opportunity for a big corporation or whether to have an amazing family in the near future.

Hi everyone, my name is Brian Park, a transfer student from New Jersey. My previous school was Bergen Community College in Paramus, New Jersey; I had obtained a degree in Associates of Science. I chose to enroll at Baruch college because there are more opportunities to find a great job/career in New York as supposed to the opportunities in New Jersey. I am currently a junior at Baruch college, and I will be pursuing a Bachelors in Computer Information System in the Zicklin Business School. All you need to really know is that I love/enjoy exercising whether it is playing sports or lifting weights in the gym. I am just an active person that also likes to be simplistic. Overall, I am taking this Great Works of Literature II because it is a required course at Baruch College.