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Well I think I should start with how we use to write these blog posts from the beginning. On of the earlier readings we did in the class dealt with Cronon and his take on the Chicago Fire. In the beginning some scholars in the class, for example JESSICABODE decides to brief the audience on what is occurring the reading and what type of sources were used the author used to show the event. I would like to point that it was just not Jessicabode but also myself, GRAVITY21 who gives a briefing on the events and how the author decided to use the sources that he did in order to do so. This was in the beginning of the semester; as the weeks started to roll by, our ideas for what to blog about started to change or evolve if you would like to. Although some of the beginning posts were mainly briefing the audience on key points of the readings, there were some concern and themes that seemed to appear every so often that was then elaborated more in future posts. One of the key concerns that are often repeated is the topic of class and race. In Peterrossi1’s  blog post, he addresses this concern when discussing why Mrs. O’Leary was blamed for the fire and it primarily cause she was a poor Irish immigrant. This is only one of the times that race and class was repeated throughout the semester. In CHRISCOBAR’s blog, talks about the topic of Chicago Fire through Faith and Doubt and mentions how the fire did not spare anyone even the high class.

Looking back to my blog posts, I am surprised to see how I was the little changes I had undergone through. As I mentioned before that in the beginning I used to summarize most of the material. However when I look in the last blog post that I have made with Isaac’s Storm, I noticed that I started to address more on the theme of race when talking about the black men who were looting and chewing bodies to take something. I am also glad that I started to address these topics because it looks like we might be addressing these topics in the next section of theories, and it looks like I might have some experience with them.