Prompt: What do these texts suggest to you about the forces that inhibit or encourage an individual’s actions? The American Dream is a driving factor in creating success out of the efforts of one’s life.[…]
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Light in the Darkness: The Other Side of the American Dream
The American Dream – a deliciously tantalizing fancy for many people and the subsequent subject of numerous books written by individuals who wish to shed some light on the reality of such a[…]
Death, Dreams, and Daisies: Another Polished Critical
Discuss the ideas developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the ways in which individuals take responsibility for themselves and others. Death, Dreams, and Daisies When thinking of the American Dream, often[…]
Wealth, Prosperity, Love, and Responsibility… and Several Other Terrible Things from The Great Gatsby: Polished Critical
Discuss the ideas developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the ways in which individuals take responsibility for themselves or others. The Great Gatsby; F Scott Fitzgerald One[…]
Success.
I think this method of interpreting the American Dream follows through with Areeb’s idea of the dream being about being better than the next person. All life is a hierarchy. There is no equilibrium in[…]
Advice that would have been useful ten years ago
I tried something totally out of the box for this critical essay and focused on one single event over the course of two paragraphs, contrasting the advice someone was given for success versus the failure[…]
Of Ranchers and Salesmen
PROMPT: Discuss the ideas developed by the text in your chosen text about the ways in which individuals take responsibility for themselves or others. Despite having grown accustomed to having their dreams and personal[…]
The American Nightmare
Note: I’d like to preface the essay just to show some gratitude for Megan, Siddharth, and Claire for teaching us and for inspiring much of what I have written about in the essay.On the Friday before[…]
A Contemplation on the American Dream
The American Dream. What exactly is this dream anyway? I search up the definition online, hoping for an accurate, precise meaning, and yet, all I see is a bunch of different definitions pop up. Sure,[…]
The Death of Low Man – Polished Critical
Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the ways in which individuals take responsibility for themselves or others. Being a parent can be strenuous and demanding; otherwise rewarding when[…]