Do You Believe In The American Dream?. When Reading The

In the article “America and Americas: Is the American Dream Even Possible?”, written by John Steinbeck, he uses a series of paradoxes and generalities to show how Americans themselves are paradoxical and how they are never happy with what they have. For example, the author states “We fancy ourselves as hard-headed realists, but we will buy anything we see advertised, particularly on television, and we buy it not with reference to the quality or value of the product, but directly as a result of the number of times we have heard it mentioned” (Steinbeck). With the use of this paradox, Steinbeck is demonstrating how Americans claim to be realistic people, yet they will buy something that is unrealistic without even questioning it. “One of the

Does America still provide the American Dream? It does, after reading the three poems I have, learned that America does still provide access to the American Dream. And is alive, the examples I will give you, shows how alive the dream is in America. Introducing the first example I read, is the poem called "Ellis Island" the author Joseph Bruchac, you'll find that he's an American writer with both European immigrant ancestors and Native American, The speaker of this poem is not an immigrant just arriving in the United States. He's the grandson of immigrants who came to the U.S. almost a century ago. He rejoices for the Slovak immigrants who found new opportunities in the U.S., but for the ancestors who were here before the Europeans, the American

Thesis Statement: The achievement of the American Dream, represented by social classes and opportunities available for social advancement, is unrealistic. The American Dream is propaganda for capitalism, rooted into the minds of believers that are used for labor. Capitalism’s fixed social classes leave no room for immigrants or for the hopeful to move up towards material success and wealth.

The American dream can be one of the most possible things to have EVER been possible. Us as people must realize what we can work with. We can eventually become one of the world’s greatest countries to live in. If anything, we are already acceding a point in potential to became THE greatest county to ever live in. We have some amazing people that can do some amazing stuff for our country. Other countries might be thinking the same exact thing for their country, but I strongly think that anyone can do anything in the USA. So much opportunities to take in this country, but us humans are being put down for our hopes and dreams by other people. Sometimes it isn’t fair for certain people, they just don’t realize the type of impact that we can all

The third social class demonstrated in the novel was the lower class, that included the workers and farmers who struggled to make ends meet. In to novel, the Cunningham’s is a good example of the lower working class. The Cunningham’s were farmers. Many people back than believed farmers were very poor, but it was the fact that the depression hit them the hardest that made them struggle so much financially, “Are we as poor as the Cunninghams? Not exactly. They Cunninghams are country folks, farmers, and the crash hit them the hardest” (Lee,

As citizens of America, we all work towards acquiring one thing: The American Dream. The American Dream is something that most citizens of America try their hardest to attain at least some point in their life time. This dream may include but is not limited to, wanting to reach a certain social class, having a safe country with strong military forces, and also wanting to “fit in”, or to find his or her’s place in life. Also, this dream may or may not look similar to the American dream you want to inquire. While most of us desire to attain most of the things listed above, some of us always dream of having a nation where the color of your skin and social standards do not define who you are as a person. However, while citizens may want these things, not all of America may agree with each other. A question that has merged into our minds is, “ is the American dream attainable?”

Gish Gen and Barbara Ehrenreich’s works outline the struggles and challenges that the Americans undergo today in their pursuit of the American dream. Gen points to a Chinese family that is weaved between maintaining ties with their traditional Chinese way of life and culture, and adopting the American dream (Gen 107). Through this rather humorous and attention catching treatise, Gen confirms the struggles the American immigrant population face in order to streamline their thought, actions and philosophy with what the American dream represents. A majority of immigrants survives on low wages and struggles to put food on the

The inability of Rex and Rose Walls to keep a stable job led to the family living in inescapable cycle of poverty for most of Jeannette Walls’ childhood. Walls’ grew up in “traditional” or “nuclear family,” where there was a husband and a wife (Moore & Asay, 2018, p. 23). They also maintained the structure of a “modern family” where Rex was usually the “breadwinner,” and Rose was the housewife (Moore & Asay, 2018, p. 23). This structure of their family was ineffective because Rex Walls couldn’t keep a job so as result, the family was constantly lacked capital to buy the resources that they needed. This led to a

An American engineer, technician, and author, Lee Iacocca, once said, “The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.” Here, Iacocca shows how a family relationship should look like regardless of the circumstances. Unfortunately this cannot be the case with many families because of social justice issues around the world. Social injustice, often caused by religious differences, intellectual disabilities, and lack of economic prosperity, could easily change family relationships. This could be shown in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the Science fiction novel Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, and the memoir

A woman named Delmi Cruz came to America from Honduras. Cruz and her son were put in an immigrant detention center in Texas. She had to work in order to make money for food and other things they needed. She cleaned bathrooms and other areas of the building. Cruz was only paid three dollars a day for working there. (Hennessy- Fiske) In America women working make seventy-seven cents for every dollar a male working makes, but immigrant women make seventy-one cents for every dollar a male immigrant worker makes. (Staff) Cruz was not even making that much.”5.4 million Immigrant workers living in America are one of the most underpaid workforces due to double wage disparity.” (Staff)

Is the American Dream still achievable? Yes, the American Dream is achievable as long as you figure out what your dream is. Reaching the American Dream is hard. You have to work for what you want but you should follow your American Dream. Following your American Dream is achievable and worth it but once you commit you can’t give up.

They don’t have any sympathy for the lower class, and this shows that they are of a higher class. When the grandmother speaks of painting “this picture” this also refers that they are of a higher social class because the grandmother is able to take up in art class.

The first evidence we see which supports the claim that this is a story of class structure comes when Rosaura’s mother says to her, "I don’t like you going, it’s a rich people’s party" (Heker 1133). This lets the reader know that the mother is aware of the ways of the world. She knows that

The division between the upper and lower class proves how social class influences the effect on your intercommunication. The interaction between Connie and Arnold at Connie’s door step, demonstrates how Connie observes him. As Arnold talks to Connie, she detects all the small details about him, “She recognized most things about him, the tight jeans that showed his thighs and buttocks and the greasy leather boots and the tight shirt... that slippery friendly smile of his” (pages 5-6). The reader can find it strange how Connie picks up details, such as the way Arnold talks that relates to Arnold’s social class. An example would be when Arnold says,” Don’tcha wanta see what’s on the car? Don’tcha wanta go for a ride?”(page 4).

Comparison of the other male character Delaney which lives his life as a typical American which sometimes can play the role as the one that is not the bread getter in the family, and With being a typical American comes with typical prejudice “The ones coming in through the Tortilla Curtain down there, those are the ones that are killing us. They're peasants, my friend. No education, no resources, no skills - all they've got to offer is a strong back, and the irony is we need fewer and fewer strong backs every day because we've got robotics and computers and farm machinery that can do the labor of a hundred men at a fraction of the cost”(101). Delaneys family shows how American culture has affected the ways that America begins to believe her fantasy and goes against what candido is trying to sustain in there family “It was a private community, comprising a golf course, ten tennis courts, a community center and some two hundred and fifty homes, each set on one-point-five acres and strictly conforming to the covenants, conditions and restrictions set forth in the 1973 articles of incorporation”(30) Also being an outcast that sticks out in the crowds of rich white “gringos” that are in Malibu Begins to have an added stress on both America and candido with staying hidden at their camp. Since they are casted out to the revine that they have placed shelter in, it does take a toll on the way that candido reacts with the actions that america is