American Dream Synthesis Essay
The American Dream, or the idea that each American has an equal opportunity at success, is becoming untrue as certain people who are able to achieve higher education through financial abundance or are American-born have an unfair advantage compared to less wealthy immigrant citizens.
People who have not received higher education, such as college, have a much diminished chance at achieving the American Dream. In today’s society, being unable to attend college leads to having minimal career choices. In reality, this is highly unfair, as people become practically forced into a job they do not want just because they can not pay to get into a university. Americans do not have a say in how wealthy they are …show more content…
Terkel states how “they have heat and insulated barns for the animals but the workers live in beat-up shacks with no heat at all.” (75). There is clearly something wrong when barn animals are being pampered and human beings are being treated as if they are worthless. Finding an opportunity for success in America is hard enough as it is, but finding this in America as an immigrant increases the difficulty ten-fold. Immigrants are forced to leave everything behind in their home country to pick up their life and move it to the so-called “land of opportunity”, so when these people already have nothing, their problems multiply once success can not be found in America either. In “Europe and America” by David Ignatow, the author contrasts the difference between an American-born son and his father, an immigrant: “…my father who lives on a bed of anguish for his daily bread, and I who tear money at leisure by the roots…” (66). An obvious difference lies between opportunities given to Americans and opportunities given to people who come from other countries, as the son lived on a cushion of financial stability while his father lived wondering if he’d be able to make it
The American Dream, or the idea that each American has an equal opportunity at success, is becoming untrue as certain people who are able to achieve higher education through financial abundance or are American-born have an unfair advantage compared to less wealthy immigrant citizens.
People who have not received higher education, such as college, have a much diminished chance at achieving the American Dream. In today’s society, being unable to attend college leads to having minimal career choices. In reality, this is highly unfair, as people become practically forced into a job they do not want just because they can not pay to get into a university. Americans do not have a say in how wealthy they are …show more content…
Terkel states how “they have heat and insulated barns for the animals but the workers live in beat-up shacks with no heat at all.” (75). There is clearly something wrong when barn animals are being pampered and human beings are being treated as if they are worthless. Finding an opportunity for success in America is hard enough as it is, but finding this in America as an immigrant increases the difficulty ten-fold. Immigrants are forced to leave everything behind in their home country to pick up their life and move it to the so-called “land of opportunity”, so when these people already have nothing, their problems multiply once success can not be found in America either. In “Europe and America” by David Ignatow, the author contrasts the difference between an American-born son and his father, an immigrant: “…my father who lives on a bed of anguish for his daily bread, and I who tear money at leisure by the roots…” (66). An obvious difference lies between opportunities given to Americans and opportunities given to people who come from other countries, as the son lived on a cushion of financial stability while his father lived wondering if he’d be able to make it