Comment on any connections that you were able to make between The Great Gatsby and the topics that you are exploring in IHSS and Science. How did our outings and/or the seminar contribute to your ability to make these connections.
One of the most prominent connections I can make between Gatsby and our current topic in IHSS is the way the lower classes live. In Gatsby, the lower class live in the valley of ashes. Fitzgerald makes this out to be that these people are living, eating, and breathing these ashes (figuratively, of course). They live in poverty, doing the higher echelons of society's dirty work day after day. The migrant workers that we've learned about in IHSS do much the same thing, living dirt-poor and doing the things on the farm that are too tedious or too dangerous for the higher-ups to complete. Our outings to the food marts in less-fortunate parts of town contributed to my ability to make these connections by showing me how things planted and harvested by the poor didn't even make it to the poor food marts. That was striking to me, how all-encompassing our food intake is that the poor don't even get any. It really makes me want to do anything I can to fix this.
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