Picket fence

had streets paved with gold, was fulfilling a dream. Some were able to become successful in this “Land of Opportunity” . They were able to achieve the American Dream. In the 50’s, the American dream was to be sucessful man. It was to have a white picket fence in the suburbs. It was to have a perfect family. Nowadays the American dream is hard to pinpoint. It could be inventing the next big product like steve jobs did. It could be becoming a star in hollywood. It could simply be becoming…

tried to touch a girl’s dress because he saw that it was soft. When the girl yelled, Lennie held on tighter because he didn’t know what to do and wouldn’t let go. When George heard the yelling, he ran back and “socked him over the head with a fence picket to make him let go.”(41) This previous scene was almost identical to the event that caused George to shoot Lennie. At the ranch, Lennie was alone with the boss’s daughter-in law and was invited by her to touch her hair. When she told him to let…

A calming blue sky, white picket fence, a porch with a rocking chair, a dog running towards their owner as they get home from work, and their family waiting for the arrival of their father as he opens the door from a long day of work. Or perhaps it’s the idea of new opportunities, freedom, and equality; a place where kids can get a good education and you get back what you put in. For others it’s the theory of an ensured successful future. Are all these definitions different because they weren’t…

Moscow, or seeing my birth parents. Susan and Stephen brought me back to America to a huge loving family. The environment that this family built for me seemed like the perfect life: a quaint cape-cod house with a yard, a friendly dog, and a white picket fence. Sue and Steve wanted the best for both myself and my sister, so we were both enrolled in private schools. I am not complaining about growing up in a private school at all, since some of my best friends have been my classmates since…

The documentary film, The Magic Trip portrays the 1960’s , it shows a “black and white picket fence world just stuck in the 50’s” It also shows the road trip that ultimately launched the hippie era. The hippie subculture, which began as a youth movement in the United States during the early 1960s and then developed around the world exploded in the 1960s. It allowed for an artistic outlet for those who didn’t comply with the norms of society. “Hippies” with their crazy colored clothing and…

The American dream is based on the desires found as a result of the American lifestyle. A common theme found throughout the interviews was an inherent plea for stability. A significant percent of the people interviewed came from foreign countries for various reasons such as a want for a better life not just for themselves but for their children. Making an enormous move like that might be the reason why many of them had such an innate craving for stability. Another major component was this…

once white with a deep front porch and green shutters, but had long ago darkened to the color of the slate-gray yard around it. Rain-rotted shingles drooped over the eaves of the veranda (porch); oak trees kept the sun away. The remains of a picket (fence) drunkenly guarded the front yard - a 'swept' yard that was never swept - where johnson grass and rabbit-tobacco grew in abundance." (Lee 8). Johnson Grass is considered a weed because it grows so fast it can choke out other crops or grass.…

Ashley Strathman Anthropology Extra credit December 2, 2014 Food Inc. An old picket fence, 1930’s farm house, a farmer and his big red barn. Most people imagine that this is where their food comes from, a farm. But, is this still the “farms” that we have today? Faster, fatter, bigger and cheaper is the new motto of American food production. Once you reveal the fact about where your food comes you find a very different reality that depicted in your local grocery store. Factory no longer farm,…

being American after analyzing Ta Nehisi Coates’s argument that the black male body fuels the “Dream” as it cannot exist without the marginalization of others. While black bodies built today’s America, the “Dream” of a nuclear family with a white picket fence disenfranchises those who instilled its idealization. I expanded my perception of America’s hypocritical identity by relating “Between the World and Me” to Eduardo Galeano’s poem “1492.” Galeano’s piece discusses forced acceptance of…

Does America provide access to the American dream? The American dream is the basic ideal of a perfect life ( financially secure), perfect house and that little cliched white picket fence , that keeps in your golden retriever named buster, lucky , or john. Does this country still provide these these things for all to have and take!? No. America does not provide access to the American dream. Although the American dream is an outdated concept , there are some who are out there who…