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    Jonathan Hartness Professor Greenbuam English 1101 3 April‚ 2014 The American Dream The Death of Horatio Alger is about how the American Dream is long dead due to the poor staying poor and never having equal opportunity‚ and the rich staying rich due to inherits. By Our Own Bootstraps is about creating the American Dream by having equal opportunity through hard work. Both of these articles define the American Dream based on the opportunity given or in some cases if it is ever given to those

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    Dalton questions three myths that derive from Ragged Dick in Horatio Alger: we are all judged entirely on our merits‚ we are all given equal opportunity to gain those merits‚ and that merit will bring us success. If we are all judged by our merits‚ then “it suggests that success in life has nothing to do with pedigree

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    Horatio Alger‚ a short essay written by Harlon Dalton in effort to debunk the myths commonly seen in the classic American hero. It begins with discussing the main ideas conveyed in these stories and how they create a “socially destructive” narrative. The author objects to three main concepts that are portrayed in the Horatio Alger myth. The first idea of these stories is that everyone is only judged based on their own actions and accomplishments (Dalton). The author argues this notion as being simply

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    According to dictionaries‚ the formal definition of “rags to riches” is used to describe a situation in which a person who begins his or her life in extreme poverty and moving to great wealth. Through the definition and the articles regarding the influence of Horatio Alger’s stories of success‚ we can conclude the concept of “rags to riches” is to motivate people who born into the bottom of our social hierarchy pyramid that they can change their life prospects and become successful by having strong

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    The Death of Horatio Alger The United States of America has over time gone through several changes since the time when “The American Dream” slogan was put forward to drive the country to success. The article “The Death of Horatio Alger” by Paul Krugman was published in2004. Horatio Alger was a prolific writer who lived between the year 1832 and 1899. This article has expressed the value of the America dream. And the writer thinks about the causes of economic inequality. Moreover‚ it signified the

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    recognizable and enduring stories regarding success in America were those by Horatio Alger. His tale Ragged Dick follows the same formula as many of his other stories. A young man works hard and with a stroke of luck becomes wildly successful. This is the quintessential American myth of success. But in the essay Horatio Alger Harlon Dalton has a different notion of Alger’s work calling it “socially destructive” (261). How can this be? Alger suggests that one need merely work hard and opportunity will eventually

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    Franklin was a printer‚ though his business experiences were very varied. Benjamin Franklin wrote The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin over a period of eighteen years‚ making three separate attempts to complete it. Unhappily‚ Franklin died before the completion of the autobiography. Ragged Dick‚ by Horatio Alger‚ is a book projected for young boys. The author‚ a late nineteenth century writer‚ is worried with social values and directing boys into a nourishing and good life. His book tells the classic rags

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    In “Ragged Dick” Horatio Alger promotes the myth of individual success. He states that anyone can be from the lower rungs of the economic ladder and find themselves on the top of the ladder. In the story Dick started out shinning shoes‚ and saved a little boy in a ferry who fell over and was drowning. Mr. Rockwell‚ the father of the little boy offered Dick a job in his counting-room. Even though the odds were stacked against him‚ he was able to find the perfect opportunity to succeed. However‚ the

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    An Ideal American An ideal american can be viewed as someone who wants create a great life for one’s self but also to be humble in the act of doing so. The story Henry Fletcher’s Luck by Horatio Alger‚ describes how Henry builds his way to the life he wants to succeed in( a great life). The way an ideal american can be described as doing. Through the past few weeks‚ we read many text describing how the life of an american should be. What I gathered is that America is a place for opportunity

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    (eventually Richard Hunter‚ Esq.) is one of the more popular characters in the fables of Horatio Alger‚ a 19th century writer of short novels promoting hard work‚ thrift‚ and cheerfulness in the face of hardship as keys to the American dream. Written just after the Civil War‚ at a time when the U.S. was rapidly industrializing and many were displaced by the resulting changes in the American economy‚ Horatio Alger’s story of Ragged Dick‚ a street urchin who rises to the middle class‚ served as a lever

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