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The Voice Of The American Dream: Stand Your Gun

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The American Dream “We must stop talking about the american dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans,” a quote by Max Beerbohm.The american dream is the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. The American Dream was not achievable for everyone in the U.S. because not everyone has the same promise, opportunities, and triumph. Not everybody in the United States had the same ultimate promise. An excerpt from the poem “The voice of the guns”, lines 18-19, “Swift, the clock runs; Yea, to the ultimate second. Stand your guns!” This quote is saying that the men on the battlefield are not human anymore, rather a weapon on clockwork. Also from the same poem “The voice of our guns”, lines 9-10, “Husbands or sons, Fathers or lovers, we break them. We are the guns!” This piece of the poem is referring to how people change after war, after seeing those gruesome things and possibly taking others lifes leaves people scarred forever and not able to return back to the real world and prosper. As a result of shellshock and other frightening thoughts that could be …show more content…

According to Life in the 1900s/Women's Suffrage, lines 2-6, “They wanted President Woodrow Wilson to support a Constitutional amendment giving all American women's suffrage or the right to vote. At first, the suffragists were politely ignored.” This quote is specifically saying that the President ignored the women who wanted to vote not giving them the same right as men. Also according to Life in the 1900s/Women's Suffrage, lines 11-12, “Spectators assaulted the picketers, both verbally and physically. Police did nothing to protect the women.” The picketers were having a peaceful protest and because of that they got assaulted and verbally bashed. The police turned a blind eye to it simply for the reason of not wanting women's

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