Samantha Disen
Professor Marci Littlefield
Sociology 100-005
20 September 2014
Portfolio #5
The Industrial Revolution, hit the United States, in the mid- eighteenth century to nineteenth century, hard. With inventions, like the steam engine, railroad, and many more, countless opportunities and jobs were created. Citizens, as well as immigrants, were able to work for textile factories, railways, coal mining and much more. Since these opportunities were available, the United States began to produce the idea of, the ‘American Dream,’ a notion that the American social, economic, and political system makes success possible for every individual. Only the rich thrived off the Industrial Revolution, though some did fulfill social mobility and create …show more content…
If you posses these two qualities, you will attain the ‘Dream.’ Also, society will provide you with all your needs necessary, an education, criminal justice system, religion, hospitals, family, and a government to administer the country. With these parts of society working together, order, stability and productivity will be created and you will be fine. This is not the case though.
According to, The Center for a New American Dream, 79.8 % of Americans, from 18 +, believe that the ‘American Dream’ is unattainable, due to the high cost of education and health care (Baird). I believe that, these statistics are true. The ‘American Dream’ is nothing, but a dream. The American social, economic, political system makes it extremely hard for anyone to attain, especially if that anyone is a racial …show more content…
It is very hard to for racial minorities to achieve the ‘American Dream,’ especially when they don’t make as much as a white person would and when they are being discriminated against. For example, Jose Zamora, a racial minority, had been sending 50-100 resumes, daily, to work places that he had found online. Out of those, 50-100 resumes sent daily, not one workplace had responded to him. Until, he decided to drop the ‘S’ in Jose and become Joe Zamora. Now, Joe Zamora, he decided to send the same 50-100 resumes again, to the same workplaces, and within a week, these workplaces were responding to
Professor Marci Littlefield
Sociology 100-005
20 September 2014
Portfolio #5
The Industrial Revolution, hit the United States, in the mid- eighteenth century to nineteenth century, hard. With inventions, like the steam engine, railroad, and many more, countless opportunities and jobs were created. Citizens, as well as immigrants, were able to work for textile factories, railways, coal mining and much more. Since these opportunities were available, the United States began to produce the idea of, the ‘American Dream,’ a notion that the American social, economic, and political system makes success possible for every individual. Only the rich thrived off the Industrial Revolution, though some did fulfill social mobility and create …show more content…
If you posses these two qualities, you will attain the ‘Dream.’ Also, society will provide you with all your needs necessary, an education, criminal justice system, religion, hospitals, family, and a government to administer the country. With these parts of society working together, order, stability and productivity will be created and you will be fine. This is not the case though.
According to, The Center for a New American Dream, 79.8 % of Americans, from 18 +, believe that the ‘American Dream’ is unattainable, due to the high cost of education and health care (Baird). I believe that, these statistics are true. The ‘American Dream’ is nothing, but a dream. The American social, economic, political system makes it extremely hard for anyone to attain, especially if that anyone is a racial …show more content…
It is very hard to for racial minorities to achieve the ‘American Dream,’ especially when they don’t make as much as a white person would and when they are being discriminated against. For example, Jose Zamora, a racial minority, had been sending 50-100 resumes, daily, to work places that he had found online. Out of those, 50-100 resumes sent daily, not one workplace had responded to him. Until, he decided to drop the ‘S’ in Jose and become Joe Zamora. Now, Joe Zamora, he decided to send the same 50-100 resumes again, to the same workplaces, and within a week, these workplaces were responding to