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American Dream in the context of The Great Gatsby Undecided Sun Seo Jeon 20140880 The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, which proposes that opportunity is given to everyone according to their ability or achievement regardless of their social class, and that anything, such as rising from rags to riches, is possible with enough hard work and tenacity. This interplay between idealism and materialism is at once contradictory and complementary, because…

Racism Today For hundreds of years, many people around the world have suffered slavery. Even though the origins of slavery came to be hundreds to thousands of years ago, it is still an issue to this very day. Slavery does not happen to people today, as most of the countries in the world have set rules to settle equality between ethnicities. Slavery isn’t much of a problem anymore, but racism is. Although most of the world set laws of equality between ethnicities, there is still a majority of the…

Going to college has always been a dream of mine. I grew up with the notion that going to college would equal success and that is what I aspired to be, successful Not very many people in the community I grew up in even gives college a thought so when I go accepted to The University of Alabama I knew I would continue onto my next journey but that did not come without major obstacles I came to the university knowing that I would excel in my studies and be the best that I can be but that was not…

graduated high school a few years ago, I attended the University of Alabama for a short time before I decided that I did not want to be in school at the moment, and would rather work until I was ready to go back to school. Being in the small town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was a culture shock to me being that I was born and raised in the suburbs of Washington D.C., and then moved to Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, where I always had plenty of activities to choose from. Coming to Union College was not…

Past Tense: a Thing of The Past Underfunding schools have been a debatable topic for years, as many have schools must cut off classes or a certain number of students to keep the school going, even though most of the students left don’t learn much because some of the most interesting classes and programs are gone. In Underfunded Schools by the Onion, the writers use elements of ridicule, clever wordplay, and irony to convey and bring light to the universal truth that schools cut out the necessary…

driving on the roads knowing that there was a reliable source of transportation for college student to use rather than the question asked all around campus “who is the soberest to drive home?”. There have been rumors that Uber will be coming back to Tuscaloosa in the next year and students are beyond excited. A student at The University of Alabama stated “I don’t really go out much, but if there was a situation where I couldn’t drive or get to my car, I think I’d trust Uber over University…

Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. was an outstanding tank commander in the U.S. Army during WWII, and who would later command military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968-72. Appointed Chief of Staff, Abrams would succeed General Westmoreland as the top commander of all U.S. forces in the Vietnam theatre in 1972. And begin to implement the transition to an all-volunteer force. Creighton W. Abrams was born on September 15th , 1914, in Springfield, Massachusetts. He graduated from the United…

education which is great and all but is it equal? Many college coaches get paid like pro coaches, so why should the athletes get the same? "The most distinguished professor at the University of Alabama won't make $5.9 million in his entire tenure in Tuscaloosa; Nick Saban will Make that in a year" (Wilbon 1). You see the best college coaches get millions while these kids get nothing from what they…

when I was doing the M3 Response to Editorial Exercise, Response to " 'Traffic-Light ' Labeling Would Help,” I did not realize that the assignment needed a works cited page. Also, I did not include a works cited in the M4 images analysis exercise Tuscaloosa Tornado Images Analysis. I did not consider citing the source, because I was writing about a picture and I did not have quotes. Last, in the informative synthesis post I did not complete the works cited correctly. In all these assignments I…

Introduction Birth Mr. Askins was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. His mother is from Utah, Alabama, and when she was about give birth she went home to her mother. He was born in 1941 and returned to his hometown of Huntsville, Alabama as a newborn. Parents Meeting His father was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee. His mother was teaching during the depression in Huntsville. Huntsville is where is parents met and it is where his parents stayed. Mr. Askins’ father owned a small store and he later got…