Meritocracy

statement on the topic of the “American Dream”. Having that dream depends on the situation and whether one has the opportunity to achieve his or her goal. Achieving that goal of a greater opportunity during 1996 was based off of hard work and meritocracy. Their version of the American Dream focus on solely their abilities and talents. Their ticket to happiness was showing the character building skills they had learned, allowing them to have an edge in the real world. It didn't matter what…

ABSTRACT The life of Chengez is crisscrossed by personal and political events and though, in the best fashion of an objective analyst, one tries to keep these issues compartmentalised, they do overlap. It is these areas of overlapping that become interesting as they illustrate the maxim, “The personal is political and the political is personal.” The two parts of the study show how Changez’s life becomes an eddy caught in the cross currents of international geopolitics, especially in the…

Imagine you are at a typical American high school. You begin to notice two distinctive groups of students. The first group of predominantly minority students is generally unmotivated in the classroom and does not have the academic skills necessary to prepare them for higher education, despite a handful of driven individuals. Many of them lack consistent transportation to school, do not have a safe space in which to do homework, and work full time jobs. Conversely, the second group is composed…

racism in American society. CRT is extensively explored in educational research and studies have established that race and racism are prevalent and systemic in structural and cultural aspects of the U.S. CRT challenges the dominant ideology such as meritocracy, color blindness, race neutrality and equal opportunity in higher education (Delgado, 1995a; Solórzano 1997; Taylor, 2000; Solórzano & Yosso, 2002). Therefore, the research will explore CRT to study lived experiences…

segregation in public schools, as a tool to fight racism, as well as achievement gaps between students of different ethnic backgrounds (Wells et al, 2004). Although desegregation was an explicitly required action following more recent rises of meritocracy, the law has failed in a more abstract way: being unsuccessful in social policies, such as attitudes towards ethnic minorities in public schools (Wells et al, 2004). The high school that I attended…

It is in the Olympics, in which a meritocracy exists, class did not matter, however strength and skill to gain glory and…

Creative Task Rationale The American Dream is a complex set of ideas and beliefs that exhibits crucial lifestyles and factors that supposedly lead to the success of society. However, it does not recognise the evident tension within its ideology; meritocracy at odds with inherited status. This creative piece, in the form of a prose extract, aims to declare and demonstrate the hardships of this ideology. Focusing on an unnamed Aboriginal girl during the 1950’s when the White Australia Policy…

This limitation puts on emphasis the idea that the meritocracy is just a fallacy. Although we assume that rewards on today’s society are given out based on merit, the reality is that most people will not advance from their current social class; however, when social vertical mobility does occur, it is mostly…

This novel occurs in the 1920’s, specifically 1922-1924, set in New York. There are four major places where Gatsby’s tale is played out: West Egg, East Egg, New York City, and the Valley of Ashes. Fitzgerald chose New York to be where the novel is set because in the 1920’s, New York was the cultural center of the United States, reflecting the attitudes, values, and lifestyles of the time, such as wealth, big corporations, and high social status. Fitzgerald contrasted the foundations of West Egg…

Despite the troublesome nature of balancing equality in ancient times, inequality was not a direct Roman value but was paramount to Roman culture due to the necessary sacrifice of women in giving birth or becoming a vestal virgin, the natural sense of leadership men posed over women, and the long kept tradition of aristocracy favouring bloodlines. When analysing inequality through the gender barrier, it is clear to assert that woman did not live the same, if not completely different lives as men…