...The American Dream is the hope that an individual can be able to use their God given talents, and be able to find success through their ability to better themselves and their family. However, as success is a subjective term, therefore the American Dream must also be determined on an individual basis, and cannot be accurately generalized. Due to success being tied to personal beliefs and desires, success for one person is greatly different from success to another. This can be seen in the anecdote, "America and I", where the author, Anzia has a view of success where she can do what she enjoys, and become a strong member in creating society. This can be seen in the quote, "Here I was to be free from the dead drudgery for bread that held me down...
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...strife from both wars...WW2 and the civil war within. Suddenly, as Uncle John put his hoe down a cry came from the outskirts of the lush fields of rice....Uncle John with his knees high in the water, looked up. A mailman brought news by letter from his sister Aggeliki, Patti’s Mom and George's Aunt. It reads “Brother Put your hoe down and come to Canada you can help our mother much more by working in Canada. There is a better life for you there, and we will be there for one another. “Apparently Uncle John's mother had pleaded with Aggeliki to help her son, he deserved a better life. Greece at the time was not the place to be...Canada and America were.... America was the dream, but alas America was not taking in any more immigrants at the...
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...at letting America live up to the dreams that were once dreamed about it – by the pioneers and in its Declaration of independence Stanza 4: An interlude – someone asking who the lyric speaker is Stanzas 5-7: An elaborate answer to the question above: The lyric speaker, the “I” is (a representative of) the black man, the Indian, the poor white man, the people Stanza 8: The same person as above, now described as the pioneer who left his home country because of a dream – but it remains a dream Stanzas 9-10: repetition of the request to make America what it was intended to be – a country for every man, including the lyric speaker (representative of the people) Stanza 11: The land must be redeemed by the people (we) and they (we) must “make America again) 2) The situation( who is telling us the poem, what is being told?: The poem is written by a person telling us about how he wants America to be as it used to be. How all us people should all be the same. How both the indian, the black man, and also the poor white man is innocent in this chancing of America. He says that he is all the persons in one. He is the poor white man searching for gold, he is the Indian disappearing in his own country and he is the black man being dragged to another country to serve white men. He even says that he is the man “who says grab the land, grab the gold, of owning everything for one’s own greed”. He is protesting against injustice in this poem. Fighting for America to be what...
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...commons, RAM Squad dancer. I was born and raised in an urban area; then we moved to America for better education and career for my sisters and I. My parents were not that educated but they spent all their life savings on my sister’s and I’s education. They had a dream for us to get better jobs. As for me, I went to the richest school in India and had the best education that I could have. I didn’t have any goals or dreams about what I wanted to do and what I should do to achieve them— all I knew was that I wanted to be a police officer in the future. The day I moved to America and to my new high school, I realized I needed dreams that would make my life easier and bring a better future to me. This is why I believe in Dreams. They are the most amazing things in life. We all love to dream and we all love I was born and raised in an urban area; then we moved to America for better education and career for my sisters and I. My parents were not that educated but they spent all their life savings on my sister’s and I’s education. They had a dream for us to get better jobs. As for me, I went to the richest school in India and had the best education that I could have. I didn’t have any goals or dreams about what I wanted to do and what I should do to achieve them— all I knew was that I wanted to be a police officer in the future. The day I moved to America and...
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...Blinded Aristotle once said, “Poverty is the parent to revolution and crime”. Throughout time, poverty has always played its part in America’s history. For some people, they were never offered as many opportunities as the average person. This caused them to look at life in a much different way, because they had to fight for many things that a vast majority of people never had to fight for. For some of these people, being a criminal was the ultimate American Dream. It was not that they were bad people, but they knew that living the life of a felon would give them everything they had ever dreamt of. This gave these criminals the motivation to chase their dream, achieve their dream, and eventually be blinded by the dream itself. In America, there have always been classes among the people who live in it regardless of what time and age in history. When it comes to the American Dream, not everyone thinks of it in the same way. This is due to the fact that not everybody grows up in the same way at all. The life of an upper-class individual is commonly going to be much different than the life of a lower-class individual. This means that these people will usually have much different views on life. In the case of a lower-class individual, they usually grow up in a much more poor background. For the modern era, we could refer to this place as the “projects”. For people growing up in these areas, they will mostly likely always have it harder than others. In an essence, it is really clear...
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...Dream Theories In latest one month, I clearly remember that I have a vivid dream that my mum ask me to manage my own Outbound Service Agency in USA for those Chinese people who cannot speak English to provide professional consultant services. My mother has come to America two times so that she feels America is a best place for her to live in for long time. She told me in the dream that China is not safe, for example, foods and beverages always have toxic elements, class distinction get worse those days that may cause social disturbance and so on. I have pressure of getting a position in the US, because nowadays non-citizen students outside America are difficult to find a job or get valid US. Working visa. When I wake up, I feel deeply sad that I do have pressure now after my graduation. Theory 1: Dreams Create Wisdom If we remembered every image of our waking lives, it would clog our brains. So, dreams sort through memories, to determine which ones to retain and which to lose. Matt Wilson, at MIT's Center for Learning and Memory, largely defends this view. He argues that sleep is the process through which we separate the memories worth encoding in long-term memory from those worth losing. Sleep turns a flood of daily information into what we call wisdom: the stuff that makes us smart for when we come across future decisions. I think the reason why this dream is important to me is memory. My mother always said that to me over time, so it has become a impression in my mind. ...
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...Wish fulfillment in the context of D.H Lawrence’s ideas is a world where all ideological concepts and dreams can come to fruition. This is comparable to the reasoning behind creating Hollywood in the early 1900’s. To create fantastical worlds based off the “American Dream”. A dream of becoming the best that you can, a dream where everyone is seen as equal and can become as successful as they wish to be. Commonly, this “dream” state of movies is shown through the relationships between characters, increasingly the “buddy-trope” is used especially in Western style movies. This Western style was first created in the James Fenimore Cooper’s “The Pioneers” as a transition between the English historical romance and the American western. In this novel, he paints a picture of a small...
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...Martin Luther is well known for his famous speech, "I Have a Dream". He delivered the speech in 1963 in Washington D.C. the theme of the speech was to describe the dream he had of a better America that was free from racial discrimination especially that of the black people. Luther begins his speech by illustrating the historical context of the injustices done to the black people due to their skin color. The introduction creates a base for the main theme of the speech where he shares his dream with the people about the America he wishes to see in the future. The discussion of the paper illustrates the effectiveness of the speech using the five canons of rhetoric. Invention The topic that Luther chooses is very captivating, and it is crucial to having a significant effect on the audience. First, the topic is in line with the current situations that are affecting the people. The people, therefore, feel they are part of what Luther is speaking about. The invention gives the black activists a future they are supposed to dream of. Secondly, the invention of the topic instills hope to the people. In a time of oppression and discrimination, the choice of the topic is efficient because it creates a sense of hope and a brighter future for the people. Connecting with the people's emotions determines the extent a speech has to the audience. Lastly, the topic motivates the audience to think about the future they would like to have. In the process of jogging their minds, they internalize...
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...According to Jung, the ego consists of conscious memories, the personal unconscious consisted experiences both recalled and suppressed from infancy and the collective unconscious consists of images or archetypes that are innate, universal ideas or projections that affect feelings and thoughts, but do not arise from personal experience. (Carl Jung Experience 2014). For example, the mother archetype is what governs the mother-child relationship in humans. Jung did not agree with Freud that sex is the primary motivation in human behavior, instead he believed that both past and future experiences determine who a person is and who that person will become. Both Freud and Jung had theories on dreams and what fuels them. Freud believed that repressed sexual desires manifested themselves through dreams because those desires could not be openly discussed or...
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...What is an American? This question can have very diverse answers. Many factors go into answer of this question when asking it. For example, take the time period in which you focus the question of what an American is. After reading a letter written by a farmer named Hector St. John de Crevecouer, who was a farmer from Pennsylvania in the colonial days of early America, I got a perspective to this question in a way I never thought before. I enjoyed the examples he gave to what differentiated an American from a European. For one, in Europe you never got to look out and see a new nation or land that was uninhabited. Crevecouer explained this experienced inspired a good citizen. Another difference was Europe has and for the most part always had lords and royalty. When you looked around in Europe you saw lords who had everything and people who had nothing. In America there were no “Aristocratical families, no courts, no kings, no bishops.” In Europe there was one great one and thousands working for him. The colonies were very different from the already established European countries. The people who formed the colonies worked for themselves and were people of cultivators. They were united by their works which, to me, sounds like they took a lot of pride in. How inspiring it must feel to be a part of a royal monarchy and leave that life and move to your own new land where everyone is pretty much equal. This foundation the new colonies built bred people to respect the laws because they...
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...I radically refuse to be called a Dreamer, although I understand the logic behind of this term. The word " Dreamer " elicit in me the image of someone who has great plans for the future, but never is willing to stand up, overcome the obstacle that stand in the way and make his or her dreams true. I will rather be known as a doer because I assiduously pursue my dreams. For Instance, nobody believed I could be admitted to any university. I moved from the Dominican Republic to the United States of America about six years ago with none English language skills at all when I was on the mid of my sophomore year in high school. After school, I had to work to help in the household. A Spanish-speaking women with very low English proficiency, whose parents have low-income, does not have future. All that was expected of me was that to continue the pattern of many Latino immigrants: work in factories, or retail settings for the minimum wage. Nevertheless, although there is nothing wrong with being a blue collar worker, I did not want this for my future. I knew that we, the Latinos community, were underserved in all the spectrum from education to mental health services, because there were not many Latinos out there who advocates in our favor. I wanted to change it, and I knew that it can be possible only with education. Therefore, I worked hard to improve my language skills and in my senior year I was accepted into Kean...
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...for three generations. We have modern amenities, now, but the windows are small and it isn’t well lit. When we walk in from a bright sunny day, it seems very dark inside the cabin. Within a few minutes, my eyes get adjusted to the lower level of light and it no longer seems dark. Lane, 28 year old factory worker. Some people think that dreams mean something. As for me, I don’t go for all that nonsense about what dreams say about your unconscious. However, I do think that you sometimes dream about things that are on your mind. For instance, if I’m having problems at work or in my relationship, I sometimes dream about that subject. So, I think you dream about things you are thinking about in your everyday life. Psychoanalytic perspective, Sigmund Freud’s theory of dreams suggested that dreams were a representation of unconscious desires, thoughts and motivations. According to Freud’s psychoanalytic view of personality, people are driven by aggressive and sexual instincts that are repressed from conscious awareness. While these thoughts are not consciously expressed, Freud suggested that they find their way into our awareness via dreams. Nathan, 55 year old sales professional. My Uncle John drank heavily all his life. I guess his liver could take it. In the end, though, I think all that alcohol took a heavy toll on him. His liver could take it, but his brain couldn’t. He couldn’t remember things and became very disorganized. Near the end, he was basically incoherent. So...
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...Falconey Opon, Edward Capars the striker, ball-bouncing body of goal keeper Karlo, and their team captain, Dave Deslate. This four persons are the icons of Philippine football. Thus, they have seeded the flag of the Philippines in the fields of Brazil, North America, Germany, Italy, Spain and many more. This boy watching the TV with widen eyes and hands clutch has dreamt of stepping on the ground of an official finals of FIFA championship. He actually asks his parents to buy him a pair of shoes, but it wasn’t their priorities. But then on his Birthday, his father woke him up and gave him a pair of shoes. He was full of clear happiness, it was a smile from ear to ear and he recalls “ it was not the best shoes of the world but it was more than the best for me.” It didn’t end there, most that surprised him was an admission ticket for a football clinic. His lethargy broke as if he was ignited by some electrical current running on his nerves. On afternoon after school, he hastily ran to the field and tied up his new rubber shoes. He rose and inhaled seeing the whole field. It was still four and their clinic starts at five. Dedicated is he? For several months, his passion was still consistent and growing and burning; fueled by the dream he has hold on. After his clinic, He was about to cross the 7th street when he saw a classmate few meters from him, a yellow light and a buzzer arose he run towards his classmate, he then grabbed him and tied his classmate to himself. He saved him. The...
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...North America with in the last thirty years there are things that you would automatically know, such as baseball, hotdogs, rock stars, J.F.K. and Martin Luther King. Why would you know these things? Well first Hot dogs no matter where you came from in the country you had a hotdog either at a family barbeque, quick meal on the go or a sporting event. The idea of such things like sporting events like Baseball and Football pro and college alike, in some areas these can be as inspirational as religion. It may seem like a cliché as the underdog stories like “Rudy”, League of their own or Major League. What do all these things have in common? They each talk of the man or men even women doing what might seem as impossible at the time but what might be need at that time. They each bring hope and inspiration to their characters. Sporting events aren’t the only source of modern day inspiration every now and then we come across great men and women that will inspire or motivate a generation some good and some bad. Let’s us look back at George Washington, Harriet Tubman, Hitler, Martin Luther King and Obama. Each has their place in history President Washington some say the greatest president of all time, Harriet Tubman the bravest women of all time. Then we have Hitler one of history’s most notorious criminals for his atrocities to the human race! Next we have Martin Luther King who gave us a dream a dream that has helped many people no matter their background to achieve their dreams. With...
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...Response to Angels in America Act: Act One, Scene Seven. In scene seven, Prior and Harper share a “spiritual” moment as a dream for Prior and a hallucination for Harper. The scene serves to show us exactly how Prior is really handling his situation and allows Harper the realization that her husband is gay. The scene is also the first indication of the supernatural that we have in the play though it remains unexplained for now. Up until now Prior has seemed very accepting and light with Louis about his sickness and impending death, he seems to make light of it and joke about it like it doesn't bother him. In this scene we can see that there is more to it than Prior lets on as he sits at the makeup table lamenting how “one never gets what one wants” and how people “die at thirty, robbed of decades of majesty.” Prior is obviously in a down mood, but ends his monologue saying that he knows he's hit rock bottom when “even drag is a drag,” showing that he's so depressed that even his old passion isn't fun. Prior then shows up and neither person freaks out as they both realize that it is a dream, or hallucination in Harper's case. The conversation is very bleak, with Harper also speaking about hopelessness saying life is the “same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth.” The fantastical nature of the dream allows Harper to see that Prior is sick, which shocks him as he doesn't even know this woman. Harper explains that her hallucinations...
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