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Author : Philip R. Hancock
Publisher : Venture Press (GA)
ISBN 13 : 9781878853585
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (535 download)
Download or read book To Repair the Shattered American Dream written by Philip R. Hancock and published by Venture Press (GA). This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl H. Lowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Shattered American Dream written by Carl H. Lowe and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth E. Burmeister
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980329216
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (292 download)
Download or read book The American Dream, Shattered! written by Kenneth E. Burmeister and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reniqua Allen
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 156858587X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)
Download or read book It Was All a Dream written by Reniqua Allen and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Black Americans have been trying to realize the promise of the American Dream for centuries and coping with the reality of its limitations for just as long. Now, a new generation is pursuing success, happiness, and freedom -- on their own terms. In It Was All a Dream, Reniqua Allen tells the stories of Black millennials searching for a better future in spite of racist policies that have closed off traditional versions of success. Many watched their parents and grandparents play by the rules, only to sink deeper and deeper into debt. They witnessed their elders fight to escape cycles of oppression for more promising prospects, largely to no avail. Today, in this post-Obama era, they face a critical turning point. Interweaving her own experience with those of young Black Americans in cities and towns from New York to Los Angeles and Bluefield, West Virginia to Chicago, Allen shares surprising stories of hope and ingenuity. Instead of accepting downward mobility, Black millennials are flipping the script and rejecting White America's standards. Whether it means moving away from cities and heading South, hustling in the entertainment industry, challenging ideas about gender and sexuality, or building activist networks, they are determined to forge their own path. Compassionate and deeply reported, It Was All a Dream is a celebration of a generation's doggedness against all odds, as they fight for a country in which their dreams can become a reality.
Author : Shing Yin Khor
Publisher : Zest Books
ISBN 13 : 1942186371
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (421 download)
Download or read book The American Dream? written by Shing Yin Khor and published by Zest Books. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child growing up in Malaysia, Shing Yin Khor had two very different ideas of what “America” meant. The first looked a lot like Hollywood, full of beautiful people and sunlight and freeways. The second looked more like The Grapes of Wrath - a nightmare landscape filled with impoverished people, broken-down cars, barren landscapes, and broken dreams. Those contrasting ideas have stuck with Shing ever since, even now that she lives and works in LA. The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 is Shing’s attempt to find what she can of both of these Americas on a solo journey (small adventure-dog included) across the entire expanse of that iconic road, beginning in Santa Monica and ending up Chicago. And what begins as a road trip ends up as something more like a pilgrimage in search of an American landscape that seems forever shifting, forever out of place.
Author : Anta Gueye- James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Shattered American Dream written by Anta Gueye- James and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shattered American Dream, a tale of heartbreak, is based on the author's true story as a young African girl enamored with the land of freedom and opportunity, the United States of America. It recounts the journey from falling in love with America to ignoring all the red flags about her. After overcoming every obstacle to join her and then landing there, the author discovers that she was a mirage of illusions. While the journey included positive learnings and valuable experiences, it didn't come without disappointment. Realizing there was a huge dichotomy between the America that was projected and the one that most black and brown people navigate daily, the author discovered America is rooted in white supremacy and institutional racism. Offering an opportunity for readers who are interested in cultural competency and antiracism, Gueye-James shares what it's like to navigate White American spaces as an immigrant or Global Majority member, suddenly minoritized. In Shattered American Dream, Anta Gueye-James warns the youth who have dreams of coming to America and offers a real look at the USA. Debunking long held myths, she commits to honoring the experience and journey of Black Americans whose lives have been negatively portrayed. The truth is that Black Americans' own country does not value their lives as they deserve.
Author : Mark Robert Rank PhD
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199703302
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Chasing the American Dream written by Mark Robert Rank PhD and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has been epitomized as a land of opportunity, where hard work and skill can bring personal success and economic well-being. The American Dream has captured the imagination of people from all walks of life, and to many, it represents the heart and soul of the country. But there is another, darker side to the bargain that America strikes with its people -- it is the price we pay for our individual pursuit of the American Dream. That price can be found in the economic hardship present in the lives of millions of Americans. In Chasing the American Dream, leading social scientists Mark Robert Rank, Thomas A. Hirschl, and Kirk A. Foster provide a new and innovative look into a curious dynamic -- the tension between the promise of economic opportunities and rewards and the amount of turmoil that Americans encounter in their quest for those rewards. The authors explore questions such as: -What percentage of Americans achieve affluence, and how much income mobility do we actually have? -Are most Americans able to own a home, and at what age? -How is it that nearly 80 percent of us will experience significant economic insecurity at some point between ages 25 and 60? -How can access to the American Dream be increased? Combining personal interviews with dozens of Americans and a longitudinal study covering 40 years of income data, the authors tell the story of the American Dream and reveal a number of surprises. The risk of economic vulnerability has increased substantially over the past four decades, and the American Dream is becoming harder to reach and harder to keep. Yet for most Americans, the Dream lies not in wealth, but in economic security, pursuing one's passions, and looking toward the future. Chasing the American Dream provides us with a new understanding into the dynamics that shape our fortunes and a deeper insight into the importance of the American Dream for the future of the country.
Author : Jenny Doan
Publisher : Harper Horizon
ISBN 13 : 078525305X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)
Download or read book How to Stitch an American Dream written by Jenny Doan and published by Harper Horizon. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faith, family, hard work, and second chances are at the core of every great American story, and Jenny Doan’s story is just that. In her new memoir, How to Stitch an American Dream, readers will discover the behind-the-scenes success story of the Missouri Star Quilt Company and Jenny’s remarkable journey to overcome hardship, claim the abundance of family, and ignite the power of giving—all while revitalizing a small town along the way. Over the last decade, the Doan family business, the Missouri Star Quilt Company in tiny Hamilton, Missouri, has grown from Jenny’s corner shop--with one quilting machine and two bolts of fabric for sale in the back--to become the largest supplier of pre-cut quilting fabric in the headquarters of Jenny’s world-famous YouTube tutorial videos. Jenny is now giving her fans, the business world, and moms of all ages (and grandmas too!) what they’ve been asking for: the full story of her journey, from her humble beginnings as a homeschooling mom, to founding MSQC in her fifties, through the remarkable success and inspiration she’s so well-known for today. In this book, you’ll learn: How she and her beloved husband, Ron, raised seven children on a shoestring budget— and had fun doing it; How, after a string of bad luck, the family made a prayer-based decision to leave California behind and start over again in rural Missouri, even though they had no place to live, no jobs lined up, and no idea how they were going to make it; How Jenny, Ron and their children worked side-by-side to patch together a family home out of a crumbling shell of a farmhouse; And how their faith, hard work, and generosity not only carried them through the hard times, but led directly to the success of the Missouri Star Quilt Company. How to Stitch an American Dream will make you laugh, cry, say “bless your heart.”
Author : D. L. Mayfield
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 083084824X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Myth of the American Dream written by D. L. Mayfield and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affluence, autonomy, safety, and power—the central values of the American dream. But are they compatible with Jesus' command to love our neighbor as ourselves? In essays grouped around these four values, D. L. Mayfield asks us to pay attention to the ways they shape our own choices, and the ways those choices affect our neighbors.
Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359199143
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (591 download)
Download or read book Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Mice and Men es una novela escrita por el autor John Steinbeck. Publicado en 1937, cuenta la historia de George Milton y Lennie Small, dos trabajadores desplazados del rancho migratorio, que se mudan de un lugar a otro en California en busca de nuevas oportunidades de trabajo durante la Gran Depresión en los Estados Unidos.
Author : Hedrick Smith
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812982053
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Who Stole the American Dream? written by Hedrick Smith and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas. In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington’s corridors of power. Now Smith takes us across America to show how seismic changes, sparked by a sequence of landmark political and economic decisions, have transformed America. As only a veteran reporter can, Smith fits the puzzle together, starting with Lewis Powell’s provocative memo that triggered a political rebellion that dramatically altered the landscape of power from then until today. This is a book full of surprises and revelations—the accidental beginnings of the 401(k) plan, with disastrous economic consequences for many; the major policy changes that began under Jimmy Carter; how the New Economy disrupted America’s engine of shared prosperity, the “virtuous circle” of growth, and how America lost the title of “Land of Opportunity.” Smith documents the transfer of $6 trillion in middle-class wealth from homeowners to banks even before the housing boom went bust, and how the U.S. policy tilt favoring the rich is stunting America’s economic growth. This book is essential reading for all of us who want to understand America today, or why average Americans are struggling to keep afloat. Smith reveals how pivotal laws and policies were altered while the public wasn’t looking, how Congress often ignores public opinion, why moderate politicians got shoved to the sidelines, and how Wall Street often wins politically by hiring over 1,400 former government officials as lobbyists. Smith talks to a wide range of people, telling the stories of Americans high and low. From political leaders such as Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and Martin Luther King, Jr., to CEOs such as Al Dunlap, Bob Galvin, and Andy Grove, to heartland Middle Americans such as airline mechanic Pat O’Neill, software systems manager Kristine Serrano, small businessman John Terboss, and subcontractor Eliseo Guardado, Smith puts a human face on how middle-class America and the American Dream have been undermined. This magnificent work of history and reportage is filled with the penetrating insights, provocative discoveries, and the great empathy of a master journalist. Finally, Smith offers ideas for restoring America’s great promise and reclaiming the American Dream. Praise for Who Stole the American Dream? “[A] sweeping, authoritative examination of the last four decades of the American economic experience.”—The Huffington Post “Some fine work has been done in explaining the mess we’re in. . . . But no book goes to the headwaters with the precision, detail and accessibility of Smith.”—The Seattle Times “Sweeping in scope . . . [Smith] posits some steps that could alleviate the problems of the United States.”—USA Today “Brilliant . . . [a] remarkably comprehensive and coherent analysis of and prescriptions for America’s contemporary economic malaise.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Smith enlivens his narrative with portraits of the people caught up in events, humanizing complex subjects often rendered sterile in economic analysis. . . . The human face of the story is inseparable from the history.”—Reuters
Author : Charles Enderlin
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1635421470
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Shattered Dreams written by Charles Enderlin and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Middle-East Bureau Chief of the French Public television network and a resident of Jerusalem since 1968, Charles Enderlin has had unequaled access to leaders and negotiators on all sides. Here he takes the reader step-by-step along the path that began with the hope of agreement but led only to the ultimate collapse of the peace process. The dramatic account moves between the occupied territories and the negotiation tables as it follows the emotional shifts in the conflict from the 1995 assassination of Yitzhak Rabin to the years when Benjamin Netenyahu was in power. In a definitive account of the meetings at Camp David in July 2000, Enderlin details what was said between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators brought together by Bill Clinton in the presence of Yasir Arafat, President of the Palestinian Authority, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
Author : Frank Guo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479777498
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)
Download or read book A Shattered Dream written by Frank Guo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Saturday, Dan went down a law office located at San Gabriel with Mei. The female lawyer wearing a pair of glasses and was tall and slim, she handed them a few legal forms to sign, meantime the lawyer asked them, "Do you need to prepare a contract for provisions on how child and property will be handled after your divorce is settled?" They shook their heads and Mei echoed, "We don't have our own property in the United States, our daughter will be taken care by her father financially and I trust him. You don't need to write an agreement." Mei glanced at Dan after she ended her answer, Dan nodded. "Okay, your case is pretty simple, I believe your dissolution of marriage will be approved by the court quickly," said the lawyer. Soon they stood up to shake hand with the lawyer and then stepped out of the law office. Dan parked his car in the underground parking lot in the office building, Dan didn't press the button of underground parking lot but the button of the first floor lobby after they entered into the elevator. "You pressed the wrong button," Mei said and was reaching over to turn on the button of underground parking lot. Dan stopped her with his hand and echoed, "I didn't press the wrong button, I would like to show you to a place outside this building." "Where?" Mei asked. "When we get there, you will know, it is very close to this building." After they walked out the office building, they turned right on the local street. In a couple of minutes, they stopped in front of a small gray building with different business signage attached over square windows. Mei followed him, and they entered into the building and were heading to the very end of the hallway on the first floor. They stopped in front of the unit and the entry door attached a sign "Petrel Travel Agency." The door was left open, a couple of customers were seating there to talk with travel agents across them at the tables. "Why do you take me here?" Mei asked. Dan smiled and said, "Before you go back China, I want you to join a tour group to visit some sceneries in the East Coast." "No, I don't want to go, I'm not in a good mood to go." "Please face the reality, at least you don't have time to visit U.S. recent years once you go back China for your new position. Please take the last chance enjoying major scenic spots in the East Coast." Dan's repeated suggestions seemed to sway Mei, she checked the shelves by the wall, a number of tour brochures were lined on shelves. She skimmed different brochures but had no ideas where she should go. Dan had been checking these travel brochures carefully, he took each of these travel booklets to read its details. "This tour fits your schedule," Dan handed one brochure to Mei. "This is a 5 day tour to the East Coast, the tour starts in New York city next Monday and you will visit Washington DC, Philadelphia, Boston and Niagara Falls at Canada border. You will fly back LA next Friday." Mei's eyes turned to the booklet, "Let me see," she took the brochure from Dan's hand. Mei stared at the brochure for a few minutes and responded, "The tour looks good to fit my schedule." Dan relaxed and echoed, "All right, I'll book your tour now." When one customer just left, Dan stepped forward and sat on the chair opposite a middle-age female travel agent. Mei sat on the other chair next to him. The agent looked up and asked, "How may I help you, Sir?" Dan took the brochure out of Mei's hand and put it on the table, "Please help me book this tour." The agent caught the brochure and glanced at it, "Okay, I still have the vacancy for the tour. How many people join the tour?" "Just one, it's for my ---,"Dan's throat was stuck and felt he would almost say a wrong word. After the
Author : Blaine Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Success Ethic and the Shattered American Dream written by Blaine Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julissa Arce
Publisher : Center Street
ISBN 13 : 1455540250
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)
Download or read book My (Underground) American Dream written by Julissa Arce and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Bestseller! What does an undocumented immigrant look like? What kind of family must she come from? How could she get into this country? What is the true price she must pay to remain in the United States? JULISSA ARCE knows firsthand that the most common, preconceived answers to those questions are sometimes far too simple-and often just plain wrong. On the surface, Arce's story reads like a how-to manual for achieving the American dream: growing up in an apartment on the outskirts of San Antonio, she worked tirelessly, achieved academic excellence, and landed a coveted job on Wall Street, complete with a six-figure salary. The level of professional and financial success that she achieved was the very definition of the American dream. But in this brave new memoir, Arce digs deep to reveal the physical, financial, and emotional costs of the stunning secret that she, like many other high-achieving, successful individuals in the United States, had been forced to keep not only from her bosses, but even from her closest friends. From the time she was brought to this country by her hardworking parents as a child, Arce-the scholarship winner, the honors college graduate, the young woman who climbed the ladder to become a vice president at Goldman Sachs-had secretly lived as an undocumented immigrant. In this surprising, at times heart-wrenching, but always inspirational personal story of struggle, grief, and ultimate redemption, Arce takes readers deep into the little-understood world of a generation of undocumented immigrants in the United States today- people who live next door, sit in your classrooms, work in the same office, and may very well be your boss. By opening up about the story of her successes, her heartbreaks, and her long-fought journey to emerge from the shadows and become an American citizen, Arce shows us the true cost of achieving the American dream-from the perspective of a woman who had to scale unseen and unimaginable walls to get there.
Author : Blaine Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780087493872
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (938 download)
Download or read book The Success Ethic and the Shattered American Dream written by Blaine Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Miller
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110104215X
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Death of a Salesman written by Arthur Miller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity—and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room. "By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." —Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times "So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." —Time
