ILHS 2000 The American Dream - Free Samples to Students

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Include an introduction that introduces readers to the topic of the American Dream in an interesting way and provides readers with a brief summary of the two articles you will focus on for your discussion.  Your summary should highlight some of the key points the authors make in their article.  This summary should set you up nicely to move to a thesis that clarifies the two elements that most appeal to you as ones you would like to pass down to future generations.  For this thesis, you will also need to add a “because” clause that clarifies reasons why you want to pass these elements on to your children and future generations.   (You should have at least 2 stated reasons).  

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Introduction:

White and Hanson (2011) traces the origin of the ideal of the American Dream from antiquity to the contemporary times with a stress on the relevance of the ideals in defining and shaping the day to day lives of the people. They opine that the very essence of the American Dream was very much immanent in the watershed episode of America winning freedom from the yoke of colonialism in the year 1776, which made it very clear that the Americans could by means of self-reliance achieve even the seemingly impossible. Their article provides an evidential account of how the ideal of the American Dream has from time to time materialized itself. A vivid account of America successfully overcoming the period of the Great Depression, and Obama becoming the first non-white President of America in the article is quite inspiring.

David Kamp’s article, ‘Rethinking the American Dream’ (2009), is a critical insight into the saga of success that America had witnessed over the years post the achievement of independence from foreign occupation. It very blatantly hints at the struggles and the price which the common people had to pay in order to sway through the times of distress. That brings one to question as to, whether the dream is of individual concern or of the collectivity. Kamp had been very assertive of the fact that the American Dream had relevance to the lives a section of the people, while another section of the American society who languished in the quagmire of misery.

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