To be completely honest, I was very skeptical coming into this class because I’ve never been very interested in art. Being from Mexico, I knew that I would at least find some aspects of the class interesting since I would learn about Mexico and the Mexican muralists; however, I was worried that I was going to find most of the art part of the class boring and useless. My mind was completely changed now that we are at the end of the term. I deeply enjoyed revisiting parts of Mexican history that I was familiar with, and I was very happy to learn many new things about my country’s history. The art segment of the class was also deeply enjoyable, since I realized that I was not just analyzing how a piece of work looked or what technique the artist used, but also the social and political context behind the piece. I found this to be fascinating, and it inspired me to write about communism in the Mexican Muralist movement, since I had no idea that communism had its own movement in Mexico. The process of writing the paper was certainly hard. I had to do a lot of research on the history behind the Mexican Communist Party, Rivera’ and Siqueiros’ involvement in the communist movement, and different works of art that exemplified the artists’ attempt to promote communism. In the end, my hard work was worth it because my paper turned out to be something I’m proud of. I believe I wrote a good paper that talks about and interesting issue, and in the process, I ended up learning a lot about my country.