hearts‚ but instead‚ he hit our stomachs. The Jungle is a story of hardships and trouble‚ some successes and many failures as a family tries to achieve the "American Dream." In this book‚ "The Jurgis Ruckus’ myth of failure is the other side of the Horatio Alger’s myth of success." (xxvi) Although this book was written about the hardships of a family‚ it was not just a story for one to read and feel sympathy for the family‚ but it had many "real-life" reasons behind the events that went on and happened
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Money Is Not The Best Motivator The old Horatio Alger stories capture the American dream pretty well. Those who work hard‚ apply themselves and play fair‚ they tell us‚ will be amply rewarded. Those who avoid responsibility‚ exploit others and cheat will get their comeuppance. This notion is at the heart of American entrepreneurialism and professionalism‚ and of American artistic and sports endeavor as well. So why do people like Jeffrey Skilling and Bernard Madoff get away with so much for so
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• “Straight Outta Compton‚” an exultant rap-to-riches story about the group N.W.A.‚ opens with a blast of action-film braggadocio. It’s night sometime in 1986‚ and the group’s future headliner and fly in the ointment‚ Eazy-E (Jason Mitchell)‚ is taking care of shady business. With the camera dogging his steps so closely that you half expect him to shout “Heel‚” he hotfoots it into a cramped‚ bleak house that has been prepped for maximum horrorfilm suggestiveness‚ with lighting as dark as a dungeon
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Barbara Ehrenreich makes it clear that no matter how hard you work‚ even some of the hardest working people in our country today cannot become successful because other factors weigh into their life. In the 19th century‚ a man by the name of Horatio Alger wrote many books in order to explain his “rags to riches” idea that as long a person works hard at their craft‚ they will become successful and live a great life in America. But what does it mean to make it in our country today? When Ehrenreich
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Standard Oil‚ or working on the railroads owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt. These jobs lured rural Americans off their farms and immigrants onto ships to come in search of an opportunity to make something of themselves‚ to become the star of their own Horatio Alger novel. However‚ many critics complained that those jobs did not pay very well‚ and pointed out that a large gap was emerging between the rich and the poor. It reminded some commentators of the medieval system of lords and
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Alyssa Krajewski 10/02/2012 Society and Global Diversity Race and Ethnicity The people of American are still fighting each day to get rid of the word prejudice. Prejudice is an unsupported generalization about a category of people. Being prejudice leads to stereotyping‚ this leads to racism. Why do people judge other people by the color of their skin? Why do they think their race is more superior? Black people are judged because they were once slaves; the fact that they were owned by white
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American dream was integral to the dominant ideology of America‚ in the 1950s and 60s‚ built around the ideas of capitalism‚ materialism‚ Christianity‚ and a conservative approach. The notional concept of the American dream is rooted in the works of Horatio Alger‚ who wrote about the
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“muckrakers”‚ Muckrakers are journalists who informed the public about issues of the time. Some of these issues included government corruption‚ unsafe working condition‚ and social issues such as child labor. The author Carl Jensen during his youth read “Horatio Alger and Tom Swift”. In addition Jensen lived in through America through its tough times experiencing the nation’s worst economic depression and the greatest war. Through these experiences Jensen gained a sense of “modicum of optimism with which to
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events. One of these events was the trial of Alger hiss. Whittaker chambers a former Soviet Union clams that Alger hiss had been giving the Soviet Union information about the united state government. In court chambers was ask about his association with Alger Hiss. Chambers had described how he stayed with Alger and his wife Priscilla for some time. Chambers said how tried to get Alger to leave the communist party‚ but he refused to leave the party. Alger hiss claim that he don’t know a man name Whittaker
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