Review Of David Wallechinsky's Is The American Dream Still Possible?

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Looking at our 10 amendments, and these three supporting texts, you can see that everything the everyday person needs to be successful is accessible and usable. The question “Has it become harder to achieve the American dream?” depends on what you define the American dream as. This essay will defend the claim that America still provides access to the American Dream. In the article “Is the American Dream Still Possible?” by David Wallechinsky, we can see he speaks about how the middle class has gotten more common and a lower income. He states “But today that comfortable and contended lifestyle is harder to achieve and maintain.” While he's more directly speaking about the middle class, we can infer that he is speaking on behalf of everyone in the workforce …show more content…

This poem first starts talking about journeying to another place, the problems immigrants face upon their arrival in a new country, and the hope and opportunities life in a new country offers to immigrants. And we can see this as we read “Like millions of others, I too come to this island, nine decades the answer of dreams” in the Essay, “the Right to Fail”, by William Zinsser. We read his statement “We need mavericks and dissenters and dreams far more than we need junior vice presidents, but we paralyze them by insisting that every step be a step up to the next rung of the ladder.” While this quote tells us that America needs more people that take risks, and those same people will be much more successful than everyone else. SImilarly what we can infer from this text is that this passage tells us that people who take risks will often be more successful than those who play it safe. Furthermore, this text backs this claim up by asking the question, “What if we fail?”, and answering, “Failure isn’t fatal”. Countless people have had a bout with it and come out stronger as a

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