...burning in every American’s heart; Is the American Dream, the thing many died in hopes of, still alive today? Many would say no, that we are in recession and that no one is born in equal opportunities, but those people forget the fundamental principles behind the dream. The American Dream is the idea that everyone has the ability to have equal opportunity and lead successful lives, and that idea is still alive because we still have the same laws protecting our rights and the only thing that could rob us of the dream is our own attitudes towards it. The United States Constitution has gone through a few changes over the years, the addition and revision of the first ten amendments and other clarifications being examples. However, every U.S...
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...Jeremiah Mertz American Lit Is the American Dream Still Alive F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner are commonly considered two of the best writers of the twentieth century. Their novels depict the lives and struggles of people and give insight into the life of the early 1900's. Their stories often concern the American Dream. In these stories it seems that both these authors are saying that the usual concept of the American dream does not result in happiness and is false. Many people associate accumulating wealth, power, and status as the American dream. In Faulkner's and Fitzgerald's stories this is not the case. Their stories state that the dream is not about accumulating wealth, power, and status as this does not make a person happy, but that creating close relationships and spending time with loved ones creates true happiness and that is what the American Dream truly is. Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily" centers around the character of Emily Grierson. Emily Grierson was the only relative left of an aristocratic old southern family. These families had wealth, power and status. They were the families that controlled most of life in the old south. Despite the old south falling, Emily still had her wealth and status. She was well known around her town and everyone respected her. The town tried to support her the best they could after her father had died and even remitted her taxes as a sign of respect. Yet Emily was not happy. After her father's death she was seldom...
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...Critique: “The American Dream: Dead, Alive, or on Hold?” Although the idea of the “American Dream” may be outdated to some,Brandon King’s The American Dream: Dead, Alive, or on Hold effectively represents and explains the truth behind the american dream, and why people feel that way. Many liberals believe that the dream is dead because the income gap known as “income inequality” but despite the fact that liberals have that belief, income inequality actually helps people acquire the “American Dream”. Income inequality acts as a motivation for the less fortunate, or even a wake up call. So this gap is what help humans gain this area of success in life known as “The American Dream”. The “American Dream” is more than just making money or having a job, it...
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...Views over the American Dream In the articles “The American Dream is Alive” and “Restoring the American Dream” the authors explain in detail their views over the American Dream. In the reading . In the reading, “Restoring the American Dream” Zakaria Fareed explains her view points on the American dream, and shares her solution on how to restore it. In the article “The American Dream is Alive” the American Dream well defined. The term ‘American Dream’ was coined during the Great Depression by James Adams to give people hope and a goal to be prosperous. It is the dream that everyone will have the opportunity to have a life better than the poverty of the Great Depression. It is the dream that a land can reverse poverty. The main idea of the definition of the American Dream is that all citizens have justice and freedom. In the article “Restoring the American Dream” the American Dream is similarly defined. The...
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...Are the words of our forefathers simply an echo of the past? Is the American dream still alive today? Does our society and government of today resemble the precepts that were once held noble at the birth of this country? In many ways our country has stayed true to its intentions; however, I also feel that America has grown in wisdom of past mistakes. Over time, our country has truly evolved to include the equality of all of its citizens. This extends from racial integration to the Women’s Rights Movement to acceptance of gender and religious differences. Laws have been established to protect these ideals. Programs have been created to support the success of equality. We see examples of this in the workforce and in education. Some may...
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...Is the American Dream still alive? Most people seem to think so, and those who do ask themselves, can everyone get that Dream for themselves? I believe that the American Dream is still alive and I think only some can achieve it. There’s many hurdles in life that people face and for some those hurdles are huge to what others face. Some people are born dirt poor, others with disabilities, some are left without a family to help raise them or support them, and the most common is that they have parents who don’t care or push them to be better. So how are we supposed to expect everyone who’s born with those great disadvantages to make it in life, we can’t and that's the truth. Successful people come from all type of social classes, JD Vance being one of those lucky few who made it out of his poverty stricken youth and is now a...
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...Theresa Gbekia World history Reimers Williams 10 January 2014 ALIVE Although a plan of 45 people crashed in the Andes, sixteen of them made it alive. Those sixteen faced extremely harsh weathers, loneliness and hunger. On the Andes tops there was no Singh of a living thing, so how did the sixteen men stay alive? The men used the torn up plan as shelter. They accompany each other to wear of loneliness. And yes for food they eat those who did not stay alive! I believe that the overall question of this book is; what will one do to stay Alive when driven from civilization? The sixteen men did an outrageous thing eating their friends. They came to many explanations to make the act righteous. That action of man tells a great fear for live! The men feared for their life and did what they had to do to stay alive. A technological cause that helped answered the question was science .To science; the eating of human flesh simply provides protein just like any other animal meat. The human body does not hold any kind of poison, therefor is edible. A political cause in this book was that the leader/the men that took charge reasoned that God had the bodies there for them to stay alive. The leaders, who were the strongest and healthiest felt responsible to care for the weaker friends and made sure that they were fed. At the end of recuse, none of the sixteen survivors were held in poison for the cannibal act they committed. In fact, some of the victim’s families had no angry words. They...
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...Alyse Tait Anna M. Mertz DRE 097 2 October 2014 Benefits of Long Distance Relationships For many people, dreams are the most interesting subject to think about. They have many underlying messages that are due to feelings that people hide in the back of their minds. There are many different types of dreams. According to Micu they are, “Revealing unconscious desires, primitive anxieties, archaic conflicts, and dreams can often be their metaphorical elaboration, but other times they can be a symptomatic manifestation” (Micu, 80). There are multiple positive assets that come from knowing what a dream is symbolizing, three of the most important are knowing how to deal with repressed emotions or memories, learn coping strategies, and increased individual happiness. As Micu points out, “The dream characterizes a very particular state of mind when the individual’s consciousness is suspended. This doesn’t make them any less credible in the message they convey but it does make them more difficult to decipher and often harder to accept, taking into account that part of the message of the dream was once conscious but it was repressed, and the other part never made it to consciousness” (Micu, 80). Dreams are very complex but are like a whole other world to people. Some look at dreaming as an escape from reality, others are terrified to fall asleep due to nightmares and even night terrors. Micu shares, “Perhaps one of the most significatnt ideas conducted by Frued was that “nothing...
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...My most recent dream that I can remember was about three weeks ago. I was dreaming about animals I can’t remember what animal but I do recall it being big and furry. In my dream the animal was chasing me and I didn’t have anywhere to run so I jump on top of a car and just stood there screaming. When I woke up I was in my bed screaming and jump out the bed because I thought the animal was in my bed. I ran into my sister’s room turn on her light and started jumping in her bed. When my sister woke up she was asking me what was wrong and I told her there was a brown furry animal in my bed. We went in my room and it was my brown furry blanket. I always seem dream about animals or anything that I afraid of in real life. I believe that if I can conquer my everyday fears my dreams will not be so real to me because I always wake up scared. Psychoanalytic perspective I keep having dreams about animals because of my fear or them but I believe if I can conquer my fears in my dreams maybe I will not be as afraid in real life. Biological perspective I believe this dream happened because I am always thinking that palmetto bugs or any time of bug is in my house or room. I think for a cognitive perspective this dream is trying to help me deal with my everyday experiences because I have a fear of all type of animals and bugs. I have noticed since I relocated to Charlotte from New York I have been having these dreams more. I find myself dreaming of Palmetto bugs all the time and I am...
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...story is hard to understand for me. It seems like a split personality patient telling me a story about how he talked to himself. He said it was a dream. But even in a dream, in my experience I can’t have two of myself at the same time. If I am in the dream as a character, (Sometimes I dreamed about others and I didn’t even show up in my own dream) most of the time I knew I was dreaming. The pictures in my dreams are black and white. So if I am in a world without any other color, I will know I am dreaming. But there is a scary question I am wondering. Like what the narrator said, “Who is dreaming whom? I know I am dreaming you, I do not know if you are dreaming me. ” What if we can share our dream at the same time? For example, I was dreaming about my mother who is thousands miles away from me and we have the time difference, 12 hours+. I know she was in my dream and we talked about the tuition of Berklee is getting much higher than before. Then my mother had the same dream at the same time. So when she called me, she said she was dreaming about me, and I realize we were dreaming about each other. But we can’t leave any message in our dreams before we talk to each other and we appeared both of our dreams. But the narrator’s dream is scary too. His another himself wanted to suicide. Why he is still alive? If they really share the dream, once the dreamer died, the character would die too. That’s the logic. But anyway. That’s what I thought from the story. The Daughters of the...
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...What role does nature play in John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men? Set in the Salinas Valley of California, Of Mice and Men features George and Lennie, two old-time friends setting off to work in a ranch after being kicked out of their last one. Their dream is to own a piece of land on their own, where they're free to do whatever they want. By chasing this dream, the duo will face many obstacles in their path and see new things, many of which will be reflected through the nature and landscape throughout the story. Steinbeck's diction of the natural world creates an atmosphere of peace, eeriness, and forewarning, all of which symbolize events that happen in the story. The story begins with a description of an area surrounding the Salinas...
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...An Unusual Dream I had a dream this morning. You know the kind of dreams you have right before you wake up that seem so very real… In my dream, a friend of mine and I were, for some inexplicable reason, working late in a restaurant and having difficulty closing up. As is often the case in my dreams, there was a task to be done and infinite problems continually got in the way of completing the task. But, after what seemed like hours in my dream, we finally finished the task and left the restaurant…late for some sort of get together. As we crossed the parking lot toward my truck, casually chatting, I began to notice someone in the parking lot moving to intersect with our course. I paid little attention to this man, but could see that he was deliberately moving to meet us. I continued to ignore him as he stepped in front of my path and I even attempted to move out of his way. The man, intent on getting my attention, stepped in front of me again now nearly bumping in to each and other I finally looked up to see what he wanted. The rest of the dream was stripped away as I looked into my father’s face. He was younger than I remember him, before he began working as a correctional officer. He was thin like he was when I was in High School and his hair was longer and he wore his typical beard. He was dressed casually, as I would expect him to dress now for any normal afternoon in public. He smiled his broad smile at me and his eyes were bright and alive with laughter. I...
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...Thesis Statement: Understanding how dreams occur, how they affect our lives and what they mean help us grasp what dreams actually are. Intro: I. (Attention Getter) Have you ever dreamt that you were walking along the side of a road or along a cliff and suddenly you trip? You’re falling for what seems like forever, but before hitting the ground, you wake up? This is considered to be a falling dream, and ironically, falling dreams occur when you are falling asleep. They are usually accompanied by muscle spasms and twitches of the entire body. Although these dreams occur while we are falling asleep, they interpret a completely different meaning. Falling can mean you are insecure, you are losing grip, or you simply have fears that need to be faced. Patricia Garfield, the author of Creative Dreaming states: “there is some problem that is making you feel helpless like you have no support, so next time when you wake up startled from a falling dream, ask yourself what upcoming events do I fear I will fail?” II. (Introduce Topic) Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to understand the different functions of the human body, how we move, talk, and even act. Many of these physiological behaviors have been explained to some extent. However, one area of the human body that has baffled researchers, is that of the mind. Many things that go on inside the mind that don’t make sense, and serves no real explanation as to why or how things happen. One of the most fascinating...
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...ictionary ictionary D D KINGSTON’s KINGSTON SOTELO I LIFE Let me ask you a question. In your own point of view, what is life? It’s a simple question yet, hard to explain. Well son I’ll tell you, life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. Is it familiar to you? Haha well it’s from a famous poem written by Langston Hughes. And it’s true. Life is not that easy, there are many challenges to meet. Well for me, life is… a word of course. Let me tell you a story. Hi! I’m Kingston and I’m going to tell you the story of me. Before we go to the end, we start from the beginning right? Okay? Okay. There was a little boy born in the city Vigan. He was the cutest and the most… haha lol just kidding. Okay here’s the real one. My life wasn’t that easy. I always got bullied in school and always be the last one to be chosen in all the activities. I think that my classmates hate me. It’s true but there’s this guy who can accept who am I, the name is Warren Jay Parada. He was my best friend since the last summer for maybe how long? Ohm… 7 months? Yeah well he was the happiest person I’ve met yet, he had the most incurable pain. Why? Well you’ll know this in the next chapter. So Let’s go back to the story… I always got bullied it’s true and the one started it was my so called “FRIEND”, Mr. Rei Christian Presto. Oh, what a nice name but wait it’s the exact opposite of the attitude, personalities, and the face! And all other things. Well he was best friend actually, but since...
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...Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication Release BCOM/275 Kein Pettus Dr. Gail Zwart Communication is the basis of life, some belief communication created the world and everything in it. Words are powerful and if not used wisely, can be very damaging. However if used with care and in an uplifting manner; words can turn a challenging or seemingly bleak situation around. The story of the workers trapped in the copper mine in Chile was an example of a seemingly bleak situation, as the miners fought to stay alive while being rescued. An interesting yet sympathetic dynamic about this story is the feeling of being trapped did not only affect those physically trapped in the mine. These people are fathers, sons, brothers, friends and co-workers who one would be safe to assume that the people connected to the workers also felt trapped as they could do nothing but hope for the best and stay positive. Delivering such devastating news to the families and coworkers is not an easy task. One could be safe to imagine that it is one of the hardest messages that need to be relayed. In addition to the given considerations such as tone and content; guarding the hearts of the audience involved is the most important consideration to have when baring this news to bring. Deciding what should be made known to the audience is important as well, information that can bring their spirits down should only be conveyed if absolutely necessary. Word choice is crucial to the outcome and...
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