Horatio Alger, Jr.

The American dream is a term often used as motivation for people who are seeking a better life outside of their torrid country. According to James Truslow, who coined the term American Dream, the definition is, “a dream of a social order in which each man and woman shall be able to attain to their fullest stature of which they are innately capable.” (68) The American Dream is sought out by many, but they are often denied the privilege of prevailing in a predominantly successful society run by the

during World War II. Just a year after his appointment to the Circuit Court, McCarthy made a successful bid to serve as a Republican U.S. Senator. In Richard Rovere’s biography of Joe McCarthy, he claims that McCarthy’s opponent, Robert LaFollette, Jr., may have been the first to suffer from false accusations for McCarthy’s political gain. LaFollette was accused of war profiteering, among other things, and was soundly beaten (Rovere). After three uneventful years in the Senate, McCarthy became

I would like to present the 20th Century Genius Award to Dr. Maya Angelou. She is a remarkable Renaissance woman who is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature. As a poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director, she continues to travel the world, spreading her legendary wisdom. Within the rhythm of her poetry and elegance of her prose lies Angelou's unique power to help readers of every orientation span the

Ch17. The Rise of Industrial America, 1865-1900 ~ By 1900, U.S. leading industrial power by a combination of factors : * Natural Resources (coal, iron ore, copper, lead..) * Labor Supplies (immigrants) * Advance transportation network * Capital (Americans funding the economic expansion) * Technologies increasing productivity * Friendly gov policies (tariffs, land grants, loans) * Talented entrepreneurs A. The Business of Railroads. ~ The nation’s first big business

Dave Thomas was born on July 2nd in 1932 and was adopted by Rex and Aluvea Thomas. He would discover his passion for cooking and create one of the most popular fast food franchises in America. With the success of his new restaurant he would become famous through his extensive supply of commercials and he would use his fame and wisdom to help other change their lives for the better and achieve more than what they could have done before. Dave Thomas was born in Atlanta ,New Jersey ,July 2nd in 1932

“Life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement”, that was what writer, historian, James Truslow Adams defined the American Dream as in 1931. And it means that everyone has the same opportunity to become success in life and that if they strive for it, and if they put everything they got into something, they would have a better life. However, looks at the society today, can’t anyone dare to say that the motto is still relevant

Malcolm's life is a Horatio Alger story with a twist. His is not a "rags to riches" tale, but a powerful narrative of self-transformation from petty hustler to internationally known political leader. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Louise and Earl Little, who was a Baptist preacher active in Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association, Malcolm, along with his siblings, experienced dramatic confrontations with racism from childhood. Hooded Klansmen burned their home in

The life of Malcolm X, who was murdered forty years ago this month, spanned a trajectory from oppression and victimization to inchoate rebellion and revolutionary autonomy. His was a voyage from resistance to an informed radicalism. It was a journey from which he ultimately gathered political and historical insight which, combined with his tools of persuasion and skills at leadership, made him at the time of his death arguably the most dangerous figure in this country’s history to confront its ruling

TALK SHOWS The television talk show is, on the face of it, a rather strange institution. We pay people to talk for us. Like the soap opera, the talk show is an invention of twentieth century broadcasting. It takes a very old form of communication, conversation, and transforms it into a low cost but highly popular form of information and entertainment through the institutions, practices and technologies of television. The talk show did not originate over night, at one time, or in one place. It

this “And we had Lindy. God how we loved Lindy. Maybe that’s what’s gone—that capac¬ity for abstract love. Anyway, it seems rather symbolic, doesn’t it, your Charles A. Lindbergh, the appeaser and our Lindy, the blue-eyed boy, the Lone Eagle, Horatio Alger in an airship conquering space." [Ch. 5] T.S Eliot’s famous poem The Waste Land depicts society as being a part of an unfruitful cycle. “Human beings are isolated, and sexual relations are sterile and meaningless” [The Wasteland; http://www.vanderbilt