Analysis Of Ambitions To A Fault By Robert J Samuelson

In the article “Ambitions to a Fault” by Robert J. Samuelson and in the article Ambitions: Do you need it so succeed? by Bryan Borzykowski. These articles show and tell us ambition is how Americans decide to base their lives off of pushing them to the limits in success.

In the article “Ambitions to a Fault” written by Robert J. Samuelson published in the Newsweekly paper, the author illustrates how Americans competes for success. For example, in the beginning of the article, Samuelson uses this as his entry sentence to get his point out there, “A great strength of American society is to drive to succeed- well, not just to succeed but to do better that everyone else; to be a star, a tycoon, a power, a celebrity or a leader; to be admired,
For example, in the article, Borzykowski states, “ When he was young, he would eagerly get up at five in the morning to work on his family’s farm in Lynnwood, Washington, in the US. After high school, he joined the US Army and took a two-year course in cryptologic warfare where he finished at the top of his class. He was quickly promoted through the ranks” (Borzykowski). When Coney is working on things, his will to do good comes into play and pushes him to shoot for his goals. Without having ambitions, Coney may not have been able to push himself in life. In addition, Borzykowski states, “That same drive has helped him climb the corporate ladder. Over the last 30 years, Coney, now 58, has held a number of executive positions at large global firms and in 2009, he landed his first chief executive job with Unitrends, a Burlington Massachusetts-based data protected company” (Borzykowski). If coney did not have the drive he did growing up, he may not have been such a successful person when he got older. As Coney got older, his climb up the ladder to greatness got better opening up his successful life to new