Who would think the American Dream isn’t possible? “There’s no reason why we can’t restore the basic‚ American promise that if you work hard‚ you can do well.” (Kunhenn‚ 2012) America is a land with a lot more opportunities and freedom than any other nation. There’s no excuse not to achieve ones dreams in this country. The American dream is still universally available for anyone to achieve; it’s still possible because it has been done many times‚ we live in a free country and anything is possible
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either Captains of Industry or portrayed as a Robber Baron. In this time period‚ a Robber Baron was an industrialist who took advantage of one’s wealth and used it to gain power. A Captain of Industry was seen as a hero to the Americans with a “rag to riches” story. During the Gilded Age‚ a Robber Baron was more common because industry would not have rose so high without corrupt and evil businessmen. The Gilded Age contained many industrial opportunities. These opportunities included oil‚ steel
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From Rags to Riches: That Story From a young age‚ young girls read stories and fairy tales about how the beautiful girl meets Prince Charming. They get married‚ and live happily ever after. This idea for girls‚ that one day they will meet their knight in shining armor and live a happy life together‚ is a warped view of the real world. That will also make their expectations somewhat higher about what their dream guy will be like when they do meet him. Anne Sexton’s‚ “Cinderella”‚ can be analyzed
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Industry: Rags-Riches: The idea that anyone can come to America to follow the American Dream. They can be a person that has nothing at one point in their life to become a person that is super rich. Get money‚ get paid. Example would be Carnegie being inexperienced and then owning Carnegie hall and like everything. Captains of Industry: During the days of the American Industrial evolution‚ names such as Carnegie‚ Morgan and Rockefeller regularly appeared in leading newspapers around the country
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7-3 Notes Gilded Age • Gilded means Gold Covered • 1880-1900 is called the Gilded Age because of societies focus on $ and greed. The rich were getting richer and the poor getting poorer. • Mark Twain wrote a novel entitled The Gilded Age and showed the growing gap between rich and poor. • President Rutherford B. Hayes (1876-1880) noted that 90% of the nations money was controlled by just 10% of the population. Political Machines Graft – political corruption. o Politicians
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Rags to Riches may seem like a myth because only a very few people can say that they rose from the bottom to the top. During the Industrial Revolution‚ America became an urban and industrial world. The world was ran majority by machinery‚ factories‚ and mass production and less agriculture. Unfortunately‚ industrialization often caused the poor working class to have a rough employment and living conditions‚ but the higher‚ richer class benefitted with improved living conditions. Irregularity was
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like features‚ follow the changes of the emotions. That is exactly what F Scott Fitzgerald shows and does in his popular novel The Great Gatsby. Readers follow the journey of Nick Caraway‚ a new comer to New York City‚ where he learns of the rags and riches of the 1920’s. Scott sprinkles symbolism throughout the book to get his readers thinking. He particularly likes using colors to fulfill this deed. Fitzgerald uses the colors white‚ green‚ and yellow to symbolize feelings and to describe people
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The American dream is an ideal that has been present in American literature for a very long time. Typically‚ the dreamer aspires to rise from rags to riches‚ while accumulating such things as love‚ high status‚ wealth‚ and power on his way to the top. The dream has had different representations throughout different time periods‚ although it is generally based on ideas of freedom‚ self-reliance‚ and a desire for something greater. The early settlers’ dream of traveling out West to find land and
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are ideal for understanding the pursuit of the American dream because achievement and success is highly emphasized in all sports. Also‚ sports figures frequently play lead role in the “rags to riches” stories Americans hear from the media. No one in sports today can carry the title of rags to riches to rags to riches again as does Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton. Born on May 20th 1981‚ Josh was the first overall pick in the 1999 Major League Baseball Draft by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He was
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In Irving’s “the devil and tom walker” he has used symbolism to exemplify the elements of romanticism by using the five characteristics of romantic literature. He uses imagination‚ idealism‚ and intuition to create a literary classic that teaches many valuable life lessons. All things considered this is why “the devil and tom walker” is one of the greatest short stories in history. Throughout the entire story imagination is a very prominent aspect‚ his vivid descriptions and writing allows you to
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