Goal! 2: Living the Dream...

Final 3B In today's world, being modern means to be up to date with ways of living and technology, working towards what you want, and keeping your loved ones close throughout your life. In the book “The Great Gatsby” Scott F. Fitzgerald writes about a man named Jay Gatsby that had a terrible, poor life in his past. But over time, he became what everybody wanted to be. The richest, and most popular man known during the 1920’s. Everyone wanted to live the way he lived. Also, in the book “Their…

Unit 2 Goal 3 Essay Prompt: What are the characteristics of the immigrant experience during the industrial revolution? Thesis: The dream for immigrants was to enter through the Golden Doors and live a good live in the United States. Many immigrants either cane to the United States by promise of a better life, or had to escape poor conditions, like a famine, religion issues, land shortages, or political issues. Many of the immigrants left their home land to escape from the religious…

Too Easy Going Mindfulness allows myself to enjoy each step on the path toward my goals and my easy-going way put my colleagues at ease and they often comment how they admire how I connect with all types of people, fostering a diverse and enriching network. But, being more relaxed, less competitive, more reflective, slower to anger, I found myself, at times, too relaxed and laid-back and maybe I did not reach the uppermost of my career. But, I do have a healthy heart and awesome blood…

over 60 million people for believing in one thing- their belief in Judaism. Adolf Hitler was a very powerful man that had one goal in sight, to change society. He was responsible for an important part of our history. His cruel intentions make him known today. Adolf Hitler 's early years set him up to his rise of power, followed by his policy aims, leading up to world war 2 and finalizing with his death. Early Years Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Austria. He was Baptized as a…

an education in my career to be able to support myself for the future. Living day by day, where I have to watch my mother work 2 jobs because she isn 't able to find anything better due to her background, a mother who only went to school up until the 6th grade and then worked all her life to provide for her children. My mother is a strong women who went through a lot. She came to the US not necessarily with an American dream but with the hopes…

wage or not. Many people say it should and many people say it shouldn’t. People Struggle through working 9-5 for a low wage job and many people can’t even get a job. Families from different countries come to the United States to achieve the American Dream. The United States is the land of freedom and opportunities. I think they should raise the minimum wage because it would help the economy, help increases workers income, help the poor and the struggling families. The federal…

My Dream: I was around 20 years old and living in New York City, just coming back from work. I don’t remember precisely what I did as a job, but I saw myself walking out of the hospital and coming back home to a tiny apartment in the middle of the city. The scene shifted to the next morning when I was traveling to Atlanta to see my family, but I found out that my sister had…

Knapsack”, explains the advantages that come with being white. She explains white privilege as “ a package of unearned assets” that she can “cash in” because usually, white people are not expected to work as hard as colored people to accomplish their goals. The article explains white privilege as an “invisible knapsack” of a wide range of opportunities. It is a very capitalistic mentality that usually caters to only white people. Since I am not white, my chances of finding a good job are…

abandon himself and his dreams, and in the end it cost him his life. Gatsby’s legal name was James Gatz and he was born a poor farm boy in Minnesota, however his imagination never accepted that he belonged in the lower class. “The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his platonic conception of himself”(98). Gatsby dreamed of self improvement above all else and desired to move himself constantly upwards in the eyes of society. In itself this is a noble dream and truly…

Tell me about yourself. The question that everyone asks, but no one really wants to answer. Throughout the week I was think about what I should include in this paper, but also throughout the week I can to the realization that I’m a pretty black and white kind of person. I would love to include this paper with an exciting and thrilling event that I love to do in my free time, or how my passion is to change the world and make it a better place. Reality is, this is not the case. The reason that…