The definition of obstacle is, “a thing that blocks one’s way or prevents or hinders progress.” The American Dream is a path of life, an idea of hope that has many of these hindrances on its path. Whether someone plans of becoming president, inheriting their parent’s business, or just wants to have a family with a significant other, all are trying to grasp the American Dream. But, all of them have obstacles they must overcome to gain a better future for themselves and loved ones. My definition of the American Dream is that a person transcends a class barrier, such as being the first in their family to graduate college, and providing a stable future for further generations. The obstacles on the path of the American Dream is what makes it a
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Langston Hughes, the harlem renaissance poet, wrote a poem over the issue over unfair treatment over ethnicity in his poem “I, too, Sing America.” Langston expresses by writing, “I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.” (Hughes) But later in the poem Langston expresses the chance of overcoming this hate through self recognition, “Besides, they’ll see how beautiful I am and be ashamed- I, too, am America.” (Hughes) Langston Hughes shows the hate African American experience, but also shows how they can overcome such discrimination by taking pride in being an American. To be able to comprehend and perform what Langston is writing about is a major key to success in achieving the American Dream and move past social class barriers, even if one is from a discriminated race or gender. But, discriminated races and genders also overcome prejudice in the workplace in the form of unequal pay and treatment. Another issue for minorities and women is inequality, according to Li Zhou, “companies overlook women and minorities for promotions and terminate employees if they bring the issue to light.” (Zhou) This ruins these people’s goals of becoming successful if they don’t have the chance to get promoted and move up in life. But the real issue in achieving the American …show more content…
Ambition is the hidden skill that is need to succeed in the world of business and capitalism. Many of these famous startups that have earned millions just from a single idea admit that ambition is needed in the modern world to attain the American Dream. For example, Mark Zuckerberg explains that he succeeds because he is always striving to use his time productively. That is the difference between the people that are on the headlines, and the common Joe trying to earn a decent living. The ones that are successful are competitive, strive to always improve, and don’t take no for an answer. They don’t procrastinate and hope to get a B on a project. These people create a plan and follow it through to get 100% and strive to be perfect. When they don’t succeed, they keep trying and use their failures to better themselves for the next chance they get. Jason Demers explains this type of success to Bill Gates, “Gates didn’t earn his fortune in a straight line to success… Gates first company Traf-O-Data was a complete disaster.” (Demers) Gates used his ambition to work past his mistakes and use the lessons he learned from his mistakes and made a fortune off of his second company
Langston Hughes, the harlem renaissance poet, wrote a poem over the issue over unfair treatment over ethnicity in his poem “I, too, Sing America.” Langston expresses by writing, “I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.” (Hughes) But later in the poem Langston expresses the chance of overcoming this hate through self recognition, “Besides, they’ll see how beautiful I am and be ashamed- I, too, am America.” (Hughes) Langston Hughes shows the hate African American experience, but also shows how they can overcome such discrimination by taking pride in being an American. To be able to comprehend and perform what Langston is writing about is a major key to success in achieving the American Dream and move past social class barriers, even if one is from a discriminated race or gender. But, discriminated races and genders also overcome prejudice in the workplace in the form of unequal pay and treatment. Another issue for minorities and women is inequality, according to Li Zhou, “companies overlook women and minorities for promotions and terminate employees if they bring the issue to light.” (Zhou) This ruins these people’s goals of becoming successful if they don’t have the chance to get promoted and move up in life. But the real issue in achieving the American …show more content…
Ambition is the hidden skill that is need to succeed in the world of business and capitalism. Many of these famous startups that have earned millions just from a single idea admit that ambition is needed in the modern world to attain the American Dream. For example, Mark Zuckerberg explains that he succeeds because he is always striving to use his time productively. That is the difference between the people that are on the headlines, and the common Joe trying to earn a decent living. The ones that are successful are competitive, strive to always improve, and don’t take no for an answer. They don’t procrastinate and hope to get a B on a project. These people create a plan and follow it through to get 100% and strive to be perfect. When they don’t succeed, they keep trying and use their failures to better themselves for the next chance they get. Jason Demers explains this type of success to Bill Gates, “Gates didn’t earn his fortune in a straight line to success… Gates first company Traf-O-Data was a complete disaster.” (Demers) Gates used his ambition to work past his mistakes and use the lessons he learned from his mistakes and made a fortune off of his second company