Analysis Of James Truslow Adams's 'The Epic Of America'

By printing these headlines the newspapers show how the American people think that everything is falling apart. Americans today tend to believe that the world as they know it is coming to an end because they work so hard every day just to make a salary that will not support them or their families. When people begin to get this kind of mindset they start to give up on society. Then this causes the people to instead of work hard just stay at home and do nothing and get on welfare. These actions lead to the unnecessary increase of money that taxpayers have to give up.

There are many themes exist in the novel of The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald. The most significant theme in this novel is the American dream. The meaning of the American Dream is someone who starting low on the social level or economic, which then working hard and try their best towards wealth and fame. In other word, it stand for one’s independence to strive in order to achieve desired wealth and fame with hard work, but it ends up being more about selfish and materialism pursuit of pleasure. American dream is achieve when a person having a car, money, big house, happy family and nice clothes.

Analysis: Things are going to get rough for Sammy because of his rush decision. Nowadays, there are fewer job opportunities and they ask for more requirements. Besides that, the chances of Sammy getting a new job are few because he quit his job, and companies do not like that. Have you ever thought about quitting your job to impress the girl that you like? If yes, do not do it.

A free college tuition is definitely necessary for students because some are paying for college themselves, the college workload is stressful enough, and scholarships, grants, and financial aid doesn’t cover all costs. College tuition should be free because it would create positive changes for people attending college, universities, and the economy. First, most students are paying for their own tuition themselves because either they want to be independent and do so, or because their parents have made that decision for them. According to Newberry, the average cost a year of undergraduate studies at a private university now tops $21,000.

By today’s standards most of us may not even be middleclass any more. As Mr. Bienen, pointed out, attending college correlates to earning more in one’s lifetime. Thus, it is necessary for most students to graduate from college and obtain a good paying job so that they can once again live a middleclass lifestyle in this

Being that America is still in an economical downward spiral, college has gone from being the place where one can reach their their dreams to a place that you will be paying for most of your adult life. There are many people that believe it is a waste of time to go to college because majority of the time you are not going to use your degree and you will still have to pay thousands of dollars over the course of your adult life. Many people believe that it is better to go to a trade school because it is somewhat guarantee that you will have a job working in your field of choice.

People are accustomed to strive to do the best they can in regards to accomplishing their goals. For some people it is to be rich, famous, or powerful. Others decided that they wanted a safe place to raise their children and obtain wealth, not with ease but with hard work and determination. Based on the reading, I agree with Borosage on the fact that the American dream has died out over the years due to the enormous wage gap and the disappearing of the middle class. The American dream is no longer alive due to the fact that the top one percent owns too much, health care is too conflicting, and the work force is too competitive.

Well I see where you’re coming from but, maybe the pay in their country isn’t as well as it is in ours. It’s expensive to raise a family low pay is even harder. They shouldn’t be making fifty dollars a hour, but $7.50 is a little low to raise a family on. Somebody has to pay the bills, buy groceries, pay for gas, buy clothes, and all the countless other expenses that a family requires. When they get into the United States and get a job, they work harder, they will work overtime for more hours of work and more pay on their paycheck.

After the Great War, many Americans wanted a fresh start and wanted to live in the present instead of the future. The use of credit helped propel this idea forward. Credit allowed people to buy expensive items and pay it off later. Items that were once luxuries became necessities to many middle class Americans. Because of the growing separation of the rich and the poor, credit allowed the poor to appear wealthier than they were.

Money is very important to almost everyone so when they hear about the American dream of coming to America and getting rich they will come and take their chances and come. Overall, the promise of earning money and becoming famous is some peoples version of the American dream. A lot of parents come to America to help their children or future children get better educations and opportunities. Many parents sacrifice their family and everything they know to come to America to start a family and make sure their children have a better life then they had and had the things their parents couldn 't get in their home country.

When you take a look at Harold’s profile you see a vast list of opportunities and how strong of a work background his parents have. When it comes to life in America, you have to have great connections to become successful quick, like Harold did. On the opposite extreme when you take a look at Cheryl’s profile you see you see a struggle in life and not many opportunities to succeed in life how one might want to. I always like to think to myself and understand why hard work is really less likely to see in someone that is struggling because they are always dealing with something difficult. In the many stories of poor people coming from rags to riches, there’s always a decision that impacts your life in the long run and that ability choose what affects you is called opportunity cost.

Lots of people think that getting a high pay wage will help them and the gov’t because then the government won 't have to spend as much because they would be making more money but people also think that would just hurt them more and make the government spend more because if people make more than the cost of living would go up. In no state can an individual working a typical 40-hour work week at the federal minimum wage afford a one-

I always had high hopes for my community and my people but never did it cross my mind that the area I came to know and love would be stolen right out of my hands. I want people to understand that gentrification won’t unite our city, it will only divide us more. As a small business owner, I take pride in helping my community, but as time goes on I notice the community I have known and loved began to change. I have seen my neighbors moving out and throwing away their dreams of being able to expand their businesses.

In his article, Mark Edmundson discusses an ever increasing problem orbiting around university education– the misconception that studying something that could land you a high paying job trumps studying something that you love for the sole reason that you wouldn’t be able to earn as high as an income with that field of study. Edmundson also brings up the fact that before students get to college, they’re being told who they all their lives. Whether it be by their parents, their teachers, coaches —whoever, by the time most people get to that next step of their lives they don’t have their own definition of who they are. And that’s Edmundson argues what the main point of college is; discovering who you are and what you love. It’s not about preparing

It is not fair to have those who work so hard to have possession on what they work hard to do so that soon having to wait on the time to pay for the large amount of currency they must pay for being on the higher income