...Climb ‘Til Your Dream Comes True As students many of us are here in pursuit of our dreams in life but some of us may give up when the going gets tough and the challenges seem impossible, but faith in our hearts is the fuel that will propel us through the challenges we face in life prior to realizing our dreams. According to Helen Steiner Rice a well-known poet, faith is a force that is greater than knowledge or power or skill and many defeats turn to triumph if you trust in God’s wisdom and will. On the journey towards our dreams the road may be tough and many of us will be faced with many tasks more than we can bear; challenges like working to support ourselves, raising children in addition to the course workloads may be very daunting and impossible and many may give up their dreams. But always remember the hills ahead are never as steep as they seem and with faith in our hearts and believe in ourselves we can climb until we reach our dreams. I remembered when my husband was preparing for pharmacy school he was a fulltime student, working for 12 hours a day, taking care of the household expenses, and he barely got 5 hours of sleep a day but despite the challenges he never gave up his dream of becoming a pharmacist. He was relentless in his pursuit of his dream through believe in himself and faith in God; and now he is a practicing pharmacist. As many of us are pursuing our dreams we may be confronted with many challenges, which may abort our dreams if we give up, but...
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...losing something or someone. Loss comes in many different forms. Some examples from the short stories outlined in the following paragraphs are loss of possession, loss of a life, and the loss of what you thought you knew by learning the truth. Loss destroys peoples lives. In the short story “Was it a Dream?” written by Guy De Meapassant, man is mourning after the loss of his beloved wife, only to discover after her death that she was unfaithful to him. The guy is lost because his entire world is turned upside down because not only has he lost his partner, but he's lost the reassurance that was helping him cope by thinking his wife truly did love him even though she didn't. “The Gift...
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...connected to anything that a person feels is significant to them. “A Raisin in the Sun” is an excellent example of the illustration of pride as it paints the picture of the theme of pride differently for every character involved. The dreams of each member of the Younger family are connected to what makes them feel proud of their home, family, jobs and even their place in society. The play was named from the poem “Dream Deferred” (Booth & Mays, 2010). The poem examines the possibility of what happens when a dream does not come to fruition. The first presentation of the Younger family is a picture of poverty as the family begins the day awaking from different places in a tiny apartment and shuffling out into the main hall to fight for a turn in the shared bathroom. The apartment holds as assortment of tired, worn out furnishing that have seen much better times. This seems to be a mirror image of the family members as they come into the story. Each family member is unique and possesses a different personal quality. Ruth seems tired and weary, Travis is young and full of hope, not yet realizing his place in society and being a little naïve; Walter has a master plan to break out of the current situation but seems reckless and unprepared for his dreams. Beneatha seems to be very motivated in life as she studies to be a doctor but has a political agenda for almost everything; Lena is the oldest and wisest of the family and illustrates pride in her meager home and her family. An excitement...
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...Sacrifice & Dreams “If you don’t sacrifice for what you want, what you want will become the sacrifice.” This quote fulls captures the meaning of what it means to sacrifice something. It indicates that if a person has a desire for something, it is something which is worth the sacrifice. Sacrifice is something what should be done in a timely manner because otherwise, what is being desired can be taken away in an instant. John Steinbeck illuminates this idea of sacrifice through a character from Of Mice and Men. In the story, the characters learn the consequences of sacrifice and what it actually takes to achieve a dream. Through George’s character and actions, Steinbeck reveals that in order to fully realize a dream, one must sacrifice things which are the most meaningful to them. Sacrifice is a key building block for a dream; without it, a person may never be able to reach their vision of success. George is a character who...
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...the American dream. He is consumed with his own misguided beliefs regarding success, which causes his life to be similar what Wyoming Senator Craig L. Thomas said about the American Dream: “You stuff Someone into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.” Willy’s obsession with the American Dream, believing that being well liked equates with success, keeps both he and his sons in a state of emotional immaturity. These beliefs causes the American Dream to be a prison. The Loman family’s American Dream becomes their prison, constructed of deception and false pride. They cannot escape their immature behavior of manipulating, lying, and bragging, never realizing that this behavior prevents them from success. The Loman Family is so caught up on the American Dream that they give up happiness for the business world, they do this even though the do not like to be in business. Throughout the book Willy is so concentrated on teaching his kids the American Dream that he and his kids fails to recognize their aspirations which causes them to continually be stuck in their American Dream prison. As Willy and Happy are locked up in the prison Biff realizes that he is not a business guy and that allows him to be happy. Willy is too stuck in the idea of the American Dream and the narrow minded approach of success to do what he wants. One example of this is when Willy was given the opportunity to go work with Charlie but because that would not be the American dream. Willy is stuck...
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...during the common American citizen; the Negros, red Indians, the poor whites and immigrants lavish in poverty (Schmidt, and Lynne, 776). They have not achieved the American promise of freedom. Hughes wrote the poem with the poor and the American dream in mind. He relates the national stratification based on class division to see the possibility of realizing the American dream. According to him, America has turned into a country of the mighty crushing the weak (line 24) and the economic powerhouses accumulate more wealth while the poor lavish in more poverty. Capitalism has embraced the American philosophy and, therefore, it hinders the achievement of the long waited and dreamt for dream; a dream of equality, freedom and wellbeing. Greedy businessmen have altered the American dream. They have substituted equality and brotherhood with capitalism. Their actions have created a society that holds the slogan, ‘everybody for himself but God for us all.’ Nobody cares about his brother’s or neighbor’s well-being. They, the businessmen, have become self-centered and selfish instead of creating a favorable environment which will assist their fellow countrymen in realizing their dream. Instead, they have become the enemy of the state and the American dream as a whole. As Hughes writes, the want to grab the land and grab the gold (line 27 & 28); in so doing,...
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...and its possible applications to your own personal and cultural realities. Responses will normally require a paragraph or two (200-300 words; more or less is fine so long as responses are complete). Question #1 Identify three scenarios (specific events or experiences) from The Great Gatsby which portray how some imagine and live out the Dream. Then, comment on what the experience suggests about the character’s underlying belief and motivation about “getting ahead” or having “a better life,” in connection with the greater insight of the novel. Finally, depict three expressions/experiences in cultural life today that bear striking similarity to the novel and comment freely on any relationships they have with its larger theme(s). In The Great Gatsby novel Daisy imagined the Dream as a life of popularity, status, and class. She married Tom who she does not love to achieve her idea of the Dream. Gatsby imagined the Dream when he started working for the rich man who took him under his wing. Gatsby wanted a life like his mentor had, and through years of hard work he achieved his goal. Tom was born into money and he achieved the Dream from birth but because of this Tom thinks he can do whatever he wants including cheating on his wife Daisy with Myrtle and talk about his affair in front of Daisy. The characters underlying belief is that more is better and that their motivation...
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...The San Francisco Chronicle has referred to Drown as a “front liner report on the American dream ambivalent report.’ Drown offers an insightful critic of the American Dream based on the case from two stories. First, the mother in "Aguantando" gets forced periodically to send her kids to stay with relatives since she is unable to afford to feed them. She makes attempts to ease their suffering by telling the kids that the situation could get worse: "We were very poor. The only cause of our poverty or even we having become poorer was due to us living in the campo or having been emigrants from Haitian, and regularly Mami offered us these as a consolation that was brutal “(Diaz 12). In the story “Negocios”, Yunior’s father had a great experience...
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...R.I.P Although people may have the best intentions and carefully-laid plans, factors outside their control can prohibit their dreams from becoming reality. Throughout Lennie and George's journey in the Novel Of Mice and Men we are introduced to a variety of characters. Each character is different in their own way and have different feelings for George and Lennie. Through the character of Candy, Steinbeck shows that issues outside the control of an individual often limit the achievement of an individual’s dreams. What makes Candy's dream special is that he shares it with George and Lennie. While eavesdropping on lennie and George's conversation he hears George explaining the dream to Lennie, Candy is fascinated about the idea of their dream. Having a farm with a lot of land is very appealing to him, so Candy buds into the conversation and attempts to get in on the dream. Candy quotes “ Suppose I went with you guys. That's three hundred and fifty bucks I'd put in. I ain't much good, but I could tend the chickens...
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...Time can manipulate and beautify even the harshest of memories. Love in particular is almost always better and more powerful in retrospect than when it actually happened. That one beautiful girl that broke your heart many years ago. Memories that are a part of you, and have helped shape you later in life. You have learned from them, drawn from the experiences and accepted how love, and indeed life, works. They have taught you to appreciate what you have, and know what you have lost. These are some of the topics put forward in the short story “In the National Gallery” by Doris Lessing. We follow the narrator (whose gender is unknown to the reader, though I will assume it is Doris Lessing and therefore refer to the narrator as “she”) into an art gallery. The intention is to sit in the middle of the room and spend an hour just looking at a single painting. This painting turns out to be a painting of a chestnut horse painted by George Stubbs. It is a huge painting of a big red horse. “And there it was, the Stubbs chestnut horse, that magnificent beast, all power and potency, and from the central benches I could see it well.” L. 4. The narrator assumed she would be all alone in observing the painting, but soon a man sits down near her. He is about sixty years old and seems very absorbed in the painting. Moments later he is joined by a younger man, who is evidently his student, or younger family member. He starts telling him about the painting, which results in the younger man exclaiming...
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...Michaels Website Impact 2010 Starting my life out to be the best life that I knew was going to be the best thing that I did when I was in the point to the right direction from the right person and now that I found the right path I am realizing that I can do one thing that is to a blessing, Now that I built the business I am going to be going to Microsoft to move this company forward and now I am here in North Carolina I will be making sure this business is going to sky rocket by one thing that is to make the path to move forward and move in the path to affection. When building a business u need leadership and dreams but one thing that makes it happen is a one well put team and I am ready to make a team to the Amway global division. I am going to be at diamond in two weeks I am only 19 and this is the life that I started to move toward but I have 5 people that I am going to put together at one time they are willing to understand the procedure to LTD and IBO’s (independent Business Owners) will be getting something more in life that is to create one thing and accomplish something that is to have there dreams come true I been with Amway for 2 months now and it is amazing at what we do for the things we create. There are lots of people willing to know what is the right path in the perfection and the only thing that I need to realize is retirement at the age 19 is going to be the best thing for my future and I will be getting there. I am a manager at subway and work for...
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...Dickens were marginalized through out their carriers and each, in some way or form, was told they could not achieve their dreams. This lead each of them to contemplate how one adjusts to not achieving there dreams. Hughes ponders the many several outcomes that can ensue; Brooks considers how one might adjust their dream to fit what society deems appropriate, and Dickens portrays a woman who hides her true dreams within herself. In Langston Hughes’ Harlem, he asks the reader “what happens to a dream differed?”(579). He does not ask what happens if a dream is differed. To him the likely hood of achieving ones dream seems so small that he does not waste time pondering what it might be like if the dream were to come true, and instead spends his time contemplating what it feels like when one does not achieve the dream. Would their desire disappear, like water from “a raisin in the sun”?(393) Would the thought of not achieving the dream be so overpowering, so pungent, that one could not ignore it. Or would it be something sweet, something to reminisce about, to...
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...formal form of stratification is that based on wealth. Because of this and other devices of stratification, there is an unequal distribution of wealth and power among the members of society, known as social inequality (Ferris & Stein, 211). Though this social inequality is very real and Americans have to face it every day, this bitter reality seems less unpleasant as the idea of the American Dream is brought up. The idea of the American Dream is something which the majority of Americans clings to and is able to seek hope within. It is an idea that says as long as one works hard enough and has enough passion, work ethic, and gusto that they, too, can achieve a higher status in society than the current one in which they reside. Americans often bring up a spectacular example of this so-called dream, Oprah Winfrey, highlighting the fact that she went from immense poverty to wealth, and if she can do it, then so can anybody else. However, what these hopeful, blindsided American fail to realize is that Oprah Winfrey is the exception, not the rule. To assume that the American Dream is within the grasp of each American pursuing it would mean that America runs as a meritocracy. A meritocracy is a system in which rewards are distributed based on merit (Ferris & Stein, 237). Although America has an open-class system, meaning that an individual has opportunity to move from one class to another (Ferris & Stein, 229), it is highly unlikely that a person will ascend (or descend)...
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...Like her name suggest Nidali has gone through so many ups and downs that the life stories of her family and her own are impressive to hear. She was born in Boston to a Palestinian father and an Egyptian-Greek mother. Despite the fear of realizing her dream of wanting to become a writer, she secretly applies to a college in Boston. She goes head to head with her parents with neither side showing any signs of backing down. Her parents finally gave in after she ran away from home for ten days. Her mother, who has been collecting pieces of Nidali’s writing handed the box to Nidali before she left for college. Nidali’s mother says, “These are your writings. These are your words. You will be a writer, no? You must keep all of this for posterity. I want you to write.” (289). From an early age, Nidali’s mother saw her daughter has a talent with writing. Nidali’s father’s talent for writing has been taken away because he couldn’t overcome an obstacle. However, Nidali was a stubborn and rebellious child who was honest about her passion by staying true to herself. By giving back the writings to Nidali, her mother is encouraging her daughter to pursue her dream. With the blessing of her parents, Nidali will find happiness in...
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... “The American Dream” concept started many centuries ago. When foreigners came to America, the land of hope and opportunity, they all got settled in. Some earned a lot of money and some went from poor foreigner to poor American. In America there is so much inequality when it comes to rich versus poor. That is why America is the only land where it’s possible to have an “American Dream” concept. Take for instance here in Denmark. Whether we like it or not the society won’t allow people to stand out because of the Jantelov. According to The American Dream, anything is possible if you put your very heart and soul into it. The idealistic vision of the American Dream also assumes that people are not discriminated against on the basis of race, religion, gender, and national origin. Take for instance Arnold Schwarzenegger. As a boy he dreamt about being big in the way that people would listen to hear what he had to say. He also dreamed about being an American. All he knew was that America was a wonderful country. He was a young, poor Austrian man when he came to America. He dreamt about being the best in the world at bodybuilding, and after 5 years of hard work, he became Mr. Universe, the best built man in the world. He took business classes in economics, accounting and math. How does one achieve the American Dream? The answer undoubtedly depends upon one’s definition of the Dream, and there are many from which to choose. People’s visions of the American Dream have changed over...
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