During this lesson, the main goal was to analyze these texts as if we were scholars, to make connections and identify common themes between them. By doing this, we should have been able to more deeply understand each text and the argument each made. Throughout the readings, the most important themes were those of struggle and division, although they are certainly more prevalent and evident in some texts than others. Although all the lyrics describe division and struggle, they focus on different social divisions. These texts perhaps allow the reader to see these struggles through another, albeit perhaps more subjective, lens. This depiction of the struggle first became clear when reading Plato's Republic in Book I, where The struggle between the proletariat or working class and the bourgeoisie or the rich. According to Marx, this struggle, and the mistreatment of the powerless by the powerful, is the main flaw of capitalism and this will cause the eventual evolution towards communism. Marx begins the book with “The history of every hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” (Marx and Engels 1). Throughout history, according to Marx, the constant struggle of the bourgeoisie to remain in power over the proletariat has been the main driving force of history. Therefore, the division between the proletariat, described as the workers or working class, and the bourgeoisie, which controls the means of production, becomes evident. While all of the above texts describe struggle in one form or another, they also have another more specific commonality. This is that they all describe some type of class struggle/division. Marx describes the struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. In Anzaldua there is an ongoing struggle between multiple ethnic and social groups. Wollstonecraft writes about the struggle for equality between men and women (at least in some areas). Plato, like Marx, describes the division of