Picket fence

In the short story The Smoker by David Schickler, the main character Douglas Kerchek becomes involved in an arranged marriage with his student Nicole. Nicole is a bright student that Douglas becomes excited about. Douglas and Nicole are complete opposites but she later tries to seduce him. At a dinner with the Bonner’s , Douglas was asked to marry Nicole by her parents. Since he graduated from Harvard, Nicole parents felt that he would be the perfect match for her almost acting like a father…

In Gary Soto’s essay, “Looking for Work,” he reflects back to a time in his life when his goal was to transform his family into the classic “white picket fence” family he saw on television. As a Mexican-American boy, Soto became aware of how different his family was from everyone else. Determined to change that, Soto embarked on a mission to find work and accumulate money to raise his social class. In addition to looking for work Soto also encouraged his siblings and mom to change. He harbored…

have an equal chance at success has excited people all around the world. If a person sets a goal and works hard for it, they might someday achieve it. This goal may be someone being their own boss, living in a house in the suburbs with a white picket fence, or having a family of their own. The strive for success carries over into literature. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the American Dream is the motivation for the men on the farm to work. Throughout the entire story, George and Lenny…

America has made its name with the dream, the American dream. It was the one with the white picket fence and the lush green lawn in front of the nice house, the nuclear family with a father, mother, son, daughter, and dog. In the 50’s, it was perceived as the land where one could struggle into success. In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me, he encapsulates his story as an African American. He tells a story contrary to the dream. Today what laid beneath the savory and fake image of the…

The “Declaration of Independence,” was written in order to create equality among Americans. Opening with the famous statement; “we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and pursuit of Happiness.” The meaning of having rights is not meant as having power, wishes or desires, but to be “acknowledged and affirmed liberties inherent in human nature.” It clear that…

have taken place in this aspect of sociology over the last 50 years. The American Dream has been portrayed by the media in the past to be a stereotypical American family, with a heterosexual couple, 2.5 kids and a dog, and a house with a white picket fence. The mother would stay at home with the children, mopping her floors and baking apple pie while her husband went off to the office for a hard day’s work. Today, the American Dream has changed, and the media and the political environment has…

The rich iconography of the painting offers a plentiful range of colorful, almost idealized, images of childhood abundance. The toy racing car, soccer balls and the white picket fences project an image of plenty in suburban America. “When I made The Lost Boys, I really felt that I can done everything that I wanted to do in a painting - the scale and everything. It had the complexity, control, a mastery surface in paint… It had…

It was the morning of September the 22th in the beautiful Appalachian Mountains of East Tennessee. The tree leaves was just starting to change their colors. I was soon to be married to the love of my life and I was overwhelmed with joy, in thirty minutes to an hour we will finally be husband and wife. Boy how I was wrong! The whole wedding and reception didn’t take almost an hour. It was a small wedding, just close friends and intermediate family only. At most we had twenty five to thirty people…

then they face the risks of overpopulating, intruding on personal property, damaging personal property, or even hurting others. No one wants to have to go to bed wondering if animals are going to get into their sheds, or damage their brand new picket fence. Your community shelter, by housing and caring for these animals, can prevent that from happening. By supporting their funds, you can too. Just because an animal is in a shelter, does not mean it cannot be your best friend. Your community…

powerful message he conveys is that if we don’t overcome this ignorance and address the problem head-on, it will never get solved and we will never reach peace. Coates describes white people as being in “The Dream”, a place where there are white picket fences and freshly cut grass, and there are no issues. They stay in the mindset of The Dream so that they neither have to confront nor deal with the negatives surrounding them. This mindset is dangerous because it causes friction between races.…