Dreams from My Father

Mao's last dancer speech Good morning staff and students, my name is Li Cunxin and I hope that what I tell you today will influence but first I will ask you a question what would your family do for you and would you do the same for them. When I was born into utter poverty under Maus regime in China between 1958 to 1961 there were roughly between 35 to 38 million people died of starvation in China. I was born in 1961 we have no running water when I grew up we walked miles to carry buckets of…

When we are brought into the world not knowing the people who will be raising us for the rest of our life, our ethnicity, or social class, as well as other things that will make us a induvial in society. Many people from different places of the world as well as ethnicities are born into a specific social classes based on the family that the person is born into. Many people who are usually born into a specific social class experience structural mobility which helps them move and change in social…

like long walk on the road. You encounter several obstacles on the way, but you have neglect those obstacles and just carry on forward. These struggles in our lives play an important role in transforming our lives, especially from stupidity to maturity. One such example would be my interviewee with Mukesh Shah, 58, a self-made man, who has overcome many struggles in his early adulthood. As a child, he was the troublemaker amongst all of his siblings. But as the time passed, his family undergo…

Sophomore year of high school, I began planning my future. It was a bit early, but one can never be too prepared. My family was invested in me following the traditional path of receiving a state university degree and then settling down to a stable and unexciting career. Since they offered to help finance this future, I put aside my dreams of traveling the world and tried to figure out an approach to satisfy both my parents' plans and my dreams. Quite a few panic attacks and bouts of…

FOUR My father was never the kindest man, he seemed to always have a permanent scowl on his face. He was the kind of father that would bring me lollipops after work every day and even though we didn’t have that much, he would always try his best. Our life was a clichéd, modern suburban family in America. We lived in a middle-class suburban house with a second hand Fiat with paint peeling off. Our house was never a picture perfect house, but I always knew that my dad was trying his best. All my…

During the 1980s, my father pursued his Master’s Degree in Applied Statistics at GWU. He dreamt about starting a new life in the US; free, safe, and with numerous opportunities. He had to go back to Peru as there were no possibilities of obtaining a visa to work in the US. My father did not want to be an illegal alien. Consequently, he went back to a new and violent Peru. My father, as well as his family is conservative and very religious “I would say we are Republicans” says my father. During…

I plan on majoring in English because I want to pursue a career in writing. My goal at COD is to focus on finishing my GED, before transferring to a 4 year university. However, I want to take these two years at COD slow and come to an understanding if writing is the career I want to pursue. As a kid, reading a book always excited me more than anything else and it was always been a dream to write something that would possible excite someone, like how I was when I read. Though it might sound weird…

wants his readers to understand that his parents also had started following the American dream and brings into picture the theme of ambitiousness. The actualization of the fact that the narrator’s father emerges…

striving for the American Dream reaches full force. The play is taking place during the last twenty-four hours of Willy Lomans life. The Lomans are family that consists of Willy the father, Linda his wife, sons Biff and Happy. The play starts in a gloomy setting with the Loman’s home crowded by apartment buildings. A home once with a yard filled with grass and trees. The house and the yard evolve over the course of Miller’s play, as does the family. What once was the American Dream for the…

Hopes and dreams are a part of life. They are something that can start at a very young age, and people have a way of showing their persona by how they plan their future. In the play Fences by August Wilson shows how hopes and dreams play a part in someone’s life. A lot of people’s dreams won’t always be fulfilled. Characters like Cory and his father, Troy both had dreams that couldn’t be fulfilled because of certain complications. There were complications like, Troy not playing baseball in the…