Friday, May 1, 2009

May Day

May Day - made in the U.S., celebrated all over the world, forgotten in the U.S.

The basics from Wikipedia:

Primary sources - speeches and texts from Marxists.org

Please write a short (1-3 paragraph) response to the holiday connecting it to either the American Way of Life or living a good and meaningful life.

For instance (AWOL) - How does the forgetting of a workers' holiday commemorating an American labor struggle show fundamental aspects of the American Way of Life?

(LDH2BM) - Is a sense of history - of past struggles - necessary to live a good and meaningful life?