American Dad!

Mrs. McKay English Project 3 October 2016 1980’s Parent Interview I interviewed my Dad about the American Dream, his views on this topic, and his life. We started with memories from his childhood and continued through to his present day life. I asked him many questions about what influenced him as he was starting out on his own. I learned many interesting things about his life and his view of the American Dream. My Dad was born in 1963 in the land of Cajun country, otherwise known as Louisiana.…

Marginalization is often whereby something or someone is pushed to the edge of a group and determined to be of lesser importance. Gender equality is in place to lessen the ideology of marginalization, but why is it, then, that women are still marginalized in so many areas of their lives? Throughout history, women have been marginalized in multiple aspects of both their public work and the domestic sphere. Although women have made major strides toward abolishing the inequality between men and…

Gender and the Workplace “According to the Education Department data, more than three quarters of teachers in kindergarten through high school are women” (Rich). Teaching was once a career for men, but when women entered the work force 1960s, they did not have many careers open to them. According to Philip N. Cohen, a sociologist at the University of Maryland, “a job primarily done by women, people tend to believe it has less value” (Rich), could play a role in why fewer and fewer men are…

also illustrating how the great American hypocrisy affects this transition. A great example of this comes from two paragraphs discussing her father’s first job at a blood bank. The job is temporary, as he’s trying to get official certification to be a doctor in the United States, but he encounters difficulties. One woman is xenophobic to him, “[requesting] to see an “American” doctor” (Balcita 2006, 1) when he comes to her aid. While this is a prime example of American hypocrisy as I explained…

susceptible to American living in what I consider the dark ages. I was raised by my grandmother who was born in 1936 and parented by a mother raised in the 1960s. My mother attempting to recreate the life she had with me but ten times better. She has not been successful with bringing me up with the way she was because of the new inventions, modernalism, and individuality. American life has not been easy for me because of tradition susceptible values of America. I am going to analyze the…

Salesman and A Raisin in the Sun, the leading character is trying to capture the American dream, but it just does not seem to happen because of lack of understanding from family and friends. Willy Loman in a Raisin in the Sun, was wanting the respect of people associated with him and Walter Younger in Death of a Salesman was trying a get rich quick plan to be able to support his family. Both men talked about the American dream and how they deserved it and was their right, but it will never…

On March 31st, 2016, I interviewed my 54 years old dad, Yip-Weng Choong on his journey as an international student from Singapore to the United States in the 1980s at the age of 18 years old. In the late 70’s and early 80’s, my father viewed the United States as a country with opportunities moreover, he liked the fact that the American education system is not restrictive and it allowed students to interact more with the professors as compared to Asia. The expectation he had of the United States…

My parent’s American Dream, similar to many other immigrants of the 1990s, was to seek a better life and to get access to more job opportunities. When I interview my dad about his difficult decision of leaving everything behind and move to a foreign country, he told me that during that time, China had a horrible economy and he just simply did not see a future in that kind of environment. When he heard about San Francisco, a land of gold and opportunities, he decided to take a risk and challenge…

but from indomitable will”. This quote really helped me as I struggled severely when entering the United States from Japan. I immigrated to the United States at 15 with my family; my dad had got offered a better paying factory job. At first I was really upset to leave my friends and family who were in Japan, but my dad promised me that the United States would present us with the adventures of a lifetime. To excite me even further, he mentioned that we would be residing in Hollywood which was one…

I got my American Girl Doll when I was in L.A. I was about 7 years old when I got the doll. My dad got it because he promised me he was going to get it for Christmas. My American Girl Doll had carmel color hair green eyes and it came with a cute skate girls outfit. Her hair was so soft it felt like real hair and her hair was nice, long, and thick. It did not really have any smell . It was 18in. Her…