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Author : Caemeron C. Crain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Redefining the American Dream written by Caemeron C. Crain and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lee Ray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781618633064
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Bushels and Barrels - Redefining the American Dream written by Lee Ray and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's volatile world, many Americans struggle to just survive, much less achieve something as lofty as the American Dream. After all, financial, family, and emotional challenges have created a sense of doubt, despair, and destruction in the life we all once chased. This isn't the life we dreamed of and worked so hard to achieve, is it? In Bushels and Barrels, author Lee Ray takes us on a thought provoking journey through some of middle-class America's most significant challenges. He infuses his own experiences into the discussion and shares how he survived and emerged even stronger. Throughout the book, Bushels and Barrels answers each of life's struggles with a chapter immediately following presenting the reader with some of life's richest rewards and blessings. In this way, Lee encourages the reader to alter their way of thinking and gain a different perspective on life. The American Dream can be achieved by everyone. All it takes is adjusting our mind-set and appreciating the many blessings in our lives. Are you ready to learn how? Your American Dream awaits you!
Author : Jessie C. Conners
Publisher : Protege Press
ISBN 13 : 9780979325908
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (259 download)
Download or read book Nightmare Nation written by Jessie C. Conners and published by Protege Press. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's the problem: Americans aren't saving money anymore. The national savings rate is the lowest it's been since the Depression and we continue to spend more than we earn. What that could mean for many of us is a terrifying future of abject poverty.
Author : Thomas Felder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940002415
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Redefining the American Dream written by Thomas Felder and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-25 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redefining the American dream: how to think big and grow rich, is the story of Thomas W. Felder, whose life began as a poor kid in the South Bronx, living in rat-infested, crime-ridden tenements, and even experiencing homelessness. Thomas went on to become a high-powered attorney and key player in one of the largest Television Network mergers in U.S. history. After many ups and downs, struggles and turbulent times, when all hope seemed lost, he was introduced to Network Marketing. In less than 16-months he soared from novice to guru, pulling in extraordinary income and breaking numerous industry records. His Think Big and "get it done" attitude has been an inspiration to anyone seeking to overcome obstacles. If you have ever dreamed of a better life, and creating generational wealth from the comfort of your living room, this book is for you.
Author : Sally Peltier Harvey
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Redefining the American Dream written by Sally Peltier Harvey and published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Success is never so interesting as struggle," Willa Cather wrote in 1932, but the idea of success apparently "interested" Willa Cather a good deal during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as it did many of her contemporaries. Redefining the American Dream examines Cather's interest throughout her life in the version(s) of success that pervaded American culture and that were (and often still are) identified as the American Dream. Sally Peltier Harvey studies the forces in America that shaped Cather's attitudes about success as Cather was growing up and the forces that reshaped her attitudes during the years that Cather wrote her novels, causing her to reassess the relationship between material success, personal fulfillment, individual autonomy, and commitment to community. Harvey traces Cather's shifting views and her struggle to redefine the American Dream rather than abandon it, as many of her contemporaries did. Cather's efforts in this regard involved a repeated confrontation with the concepts of individualism and community. Cather in her novels moves away from the traditional pairing of self-fulfillment and material success, so common in nineteenth-century thought - a pairing that valorized individualism and viewed competition as a natural law. Cather seems to work toward a redefinition of success that sees a fulfilled self grounded in community, though still struggling to balance community's demands and the individual's needs. What begins for Cather as a troubled ambivalence about the success ethic in America becomes in her later novels an acceptance - even a celebration - of the tension between individual and community that underlies the struggle toward success.
Author : Courtney E. Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781580057226
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (572 download)
Download or read book The New Better Off written by Courtney E. Martin and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we living the good life—and what defines 'good', anyway? Americans today are constructing a completely different framework for success than their parents' generation, using new metrics that TEDWomen speaker and columnist Courtney Martin has termed collectively the ""New Better Off"". The New Better Off puts a name to the American phenomenon of rejecting the traditional dream of a 9-to-5 job, home ownership, and a nuclear family structure—illuminating the alternate ways Americans are seeking happiness and success. Including commentary on recent changes in how we view work, customs and commu.
Author : Joanne Team
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781519119537
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)
Download or read book American Dream 2. 0 written by Joanne Team and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-19 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the American Dream a goal you can own or merely borrow? In our current state of wealth distribution, loans, racial and socio-economic inequities, and growing debt, people's chances of achieving the mainstream American Dream seem almost unrealistic for the many and only reserved for the fortunate few. Our class decided to study the American Dream through real experiences rather than society's definition of the big house, fancy cars, and white picket fence. It was in these interviews that we discovered the true definitions of the Real American Dream. Our interviewees got the chance to look back on their journey so far and their reflections were far from the societal's pressure of property and materialistic gains. Love, Living Simply, Family, Education, and Opportunity were just some of the reoccurring definitions that were collected from these true accounts of the American Dream journey. We are encouraging a push towards the redefinition of the American Dream. We hope that this book encourages our readers to rethink what their American Dream is and to encourage our nation to revisit and even redefine it.
Author : Jim Cullen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195173252
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The American Dream written by Jim Cullen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first "narrative history" traces the thread that binds the dreams and aspirations of most Americans together, exploring shared history and sacred texts--the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence--in search of the origins of these ideas.
Author : Mark R. Rank
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195377915
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Chasing the American Dream written by Mark R. Rank and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the authors show that the risk of economic vulnerability has been increasing substantially over the past four decades, and argue that while not unattainable, the American Dream - as we currently define it - is becoming harder to reach and harder still to keep.
Author : Jennifer L. Hochschild
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400821738
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Facing Up to the American Dream written by Jennifer L. Hochschild and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideology of the American dream--the faith that an individual can attain success and virtue through strenuous effort--is the very soul of the American nation. According to Jennifer Hochschild, we have failed to face up to what that dream requires of our society, and yet we possess no other central belief that can save the United States from chaos. In this compassionate but frightening book, Hochschild attributes our national distress to the ways in which whites and African Americans have come to view their own and each other's opportunities. By examining the hopes and fears of whites and especially of blacks of various social classes, Hochschild demonstrates that America's only unifying vision may soon vanish in the face of racial conflict and discontent. Hochschild combines survey data and vivid anecdote to clarify several paradoxes. Since the 1960s white Americans have seen African Americans as having better and better chances to achieve the dream. At the same time middle-class blacks, by now one-third of the African American population, have become increasingly frustrated personally and anxious about the progress of their race. Most poor blacks, however, cling with astonishing strength to the notion that they and their families can succeed--despite their terrible, perhaps worsening, living conditions. Meanwhile, a tiny number of the estranged poor, who have completely given up on the American dream or any other faith, threaten the social fabric of the black community and the very lives of their fellow blacks. Hochschild probes these patterns and gives them historical depth by comparing the experience of today's African Americans to that of white ethnic immigrants at the turn of the century. She concludes by claiming that America's only alternative to the social disaster of intensified racial conflict lies in the inclusiveness, optimism, discipline, and high-mindedness of the American dream at its best.
Author : Courtney E. Martin
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 158005580X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The New Better Off written by Courtney E. Martin and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we living the good life—and what defines 'good', anyway? Americans today are constructing a completely different framework for success than their parents' generation, using new metrics that TEDWomen speaker and columnist Courtney Martin has termed collectively the "New Better Off". The New Better Offputs a name to the American phenomenon of rejecting the traditional dream of a 9-to-5 job, home ownership, and a nuclear family structure, illuminating the alternate ways Americans are seeking happiness and success. Including commentary on recent changes in how we view work, customs and community, marriage, rituals, money, living arrangements, and spirituality, The New Better Off uses personal stories and social analysis to explore the trends shaping our country today. Martin covers growing topics such as freelancing, collaborative consumption, communal living, and the breaking down of gender roles. The New Better Offis about the creative choices individuals are making in their vocational and personal lives, but it's also about the movements, formal and informal, that are coalescing around the "New Better Off" idea-people who are reinventing the social safety net and figuring out how to truly better their own communities.
Author : Amber Clark
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781461131953
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of the American Dream written by Amber Clark and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Dream has been a driving force in the development and success of our nation and a key motivating factor in all that we have achieved, individually and collectively. But what is the American Dream, exactly, and how has it changed over the course of America's history? This is the question that Bob Skandalaris and Amber Clark explore in their latest book, The Evolution of the American Dream. From the dream of land and a new start in the colonial era, to the dream of political and religious freedom during the Revolutionary War, to the dream of living a life of self-reliance on the frontier or amassing a vast fortune as a captain of industry in the nineteenth century, the American Dream has constantly evolved. By the early twentieth century, it was living the good life; then during the Great Depression it took a sharp swing toward security and ensuring the comforts of a middle-class lifestyle rather than chasing a better one. As prosperity returned after World War II, the dream morphed into a house in the suburbs and a college education for one's children, and then into a vision of a Great Society where government could cure all social ills and ensure constant upward mobility. That version of the American Dream, however, cannot last. In an era of global capitalism, the American Dream has now become the Chinese Dream, the Indian Dream, and the World Dream. People across the globe are not only taking "our" jobs, but also appropriating the dream itself-and the question is, what will that do to the American Dream for Americans? Will it force us to reinvent and redefine the dream once more, as we have done so often in the past? Or will the American Dream disappear from our shores entirely? Is the there still an authentic, achievable version of the American Dream today?
Author : Andrew Delbanco
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674034163
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Real American Dream written by Andrew Delbanco and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since we discovered that, in Tocqueville’s words, “the incomplete joys of this world will never satisfy the heart,” how have we Americans made do? In The Real American Dream one of the nation’s premier literary scholars searches out the symbols and stories by which Americans have reached for something beyond worldly desire. A spiritual history ranging from the first English settlements to the present day, the book is also a lively, deeply learned meditation on hope. Andrew Delbanco tells of the stringent God of Protestant Christianity, who exerted immense force over the language, institutions, and customs of the culture for nearly 200 years. He describes the falling away of this God and the rise of the idea of a sacred nation-state. And, finally, he speaks of our own moment, when symbols of nationalism are in decline, leaving us with nothing to satisfy the longing for transcendence once sustained by God and nation. From the Christian story that expressed the earliest Puritan yearnings to New Age spirituality, apocalyptic environmentalism, and the multicultural search for ancestral roots that divert our own, The Real American Dream evokes the tidal rhythm of American history. It shows how Americans have organized their days and ordered their lives—and ultimately created a culture—to make sense of the pain, desire, pleasure, and fear that are the stuff of human experience. In a time of cultural crisis, when the old stories seem to be faltering, this book offers a lesson in the painstaking remaking of the American dream.
Author : William A. V. Clark
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572308800
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Immigrants and the American Dream written by William A. V. Clark and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2003-06-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has absorbed nearly 10 million immigrants in the past decade. This book examines who the new immigrants are, where they live, and who among them are gaining entry into the American middle class. Discussed are the complex factors that promote or hinder immigrant success, as well as the varying opportunities and constraints met by those living in particular regions. Extensive data are synthesized on key dimensions of immigrant achievement: income level, professional status, and rates of homeownership and political participation. Also provided is a balanced analysis of the effects of immigration on broader socioeconomic, geographic, and political trends. Examining the extent to which contemporary immigrants are realizing the American dream, this book explores crucial policy questions and challenges that face our diversifying society.
Author : Jenny Stuber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520973704
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Aspen and the American Dream written by Jenny Stuber and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it possible for a town to exist where the median household income is about $73,000, but the median home price is about $4,000,000? Boring into the "impossible" math of Aspen, Colorado, Stuber explores how middle-class people have found a way to live in this supergentrified town. Interviewing a range of residents, policymakers, and officials, Stuber shows that what resolves the math equation between incomes and home values in Aspen, Colorado—the X-factor that makes middle-class life possible—is the careful orchestration of diverse class interests within local politics and the community. She explores how this is achieved through a highly regulatory and extractive land use code that provides symbolic and material value to highly affluent investors and part-year residents, as well as less-affluent locals, many of whom benefit from an array of subsidies—including an extensive affordable housing program—that redistribute economic resources in ways that make it possible for middle-class residents to live there. Stuber further examines how Latinos, who provide much of the service work in Aspen and who tend to live outside the town, fit into the social geography of one of the most unequal places in the country. Overall, Stuber argues that the Aspen's ability to balance the interests of its diverse class constituencies is not a foregone conclusion; rather, it is the result of efforts by local stakeholders—citizens, government, developers, and vacationers—to preserve the town’s unique feel and value, and "keep Aspen, Aspen" in all its complex dynamics.
Author : Rick Steves
Publisher : Rick Steves
ISBN 13 : 1641710470
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (417 download)
Download or read book Travel as a Political Act written by Rick Steves and published by Rick Steves. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change the world one trip at a time. In this illuminating collection of stories and lessons from the road, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates now more than ever. With the world facing divisive and often frightening events, from Trump, Brexit, and Erdogan, to climate change, nativism, and populism, there's never been a more important time to travel. Rick believes the risks of travel are widely exaggerated, and that fear is for people who don't get out much. After years of living out of a suitcase, he still marvels at how different cultures find different truths to be self-evident. By sharing his experiences from Europe, Central America, Asia, and the Middle East, Rick shows how we can learn more about own country by viewing it from afar. With gripping stories from Rick's decades of exploration, this fully revised edition of Travel as a Political Act is an antidote to the current climate of xenophobia. When we travel thoughtfully, we bring back the most beautiful souvenir of all: a broader perspective on the world that we all call home. All royalties from the sale of Travel as a Political Act are donated to support the work of Bread for the World, a non-partisan organization working to end hunger at home and abroad.
Author : Michael Kaufman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022655015X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Redefining Success in America written by Michael Kaufman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work hard in school, graduate from a top college, establish a high-paying professional career, enjoy the long-lasting reward of happiness. This is the American Dream—and yet basic questions at the heart of this competitive journey remain unanswered. Does competitive success, even rarified entry into the Ivy League and the top one percent of earners in America, deliver on its promise? Does realizing the American Dream deliver a good life? In Redefining Success in America, psychologist and human development scholar Michael Kaufman develops a fundamentally new understanding of how elite undergraduate educations and careers play out in lives, and of what shapes happiness among the prizewinners in America. In so doing, he exposes the myth at the heart of the American Dream. Returning to the legendary Harvard Student Study of undergraduates from the 1960s and interviewing participants almost fifty years later, Kaufman shows that formative experiences in family, school, and community largely shape a future adult’s worldview and well-being by late adolescence, and that fundamental change in adulthood, when it occurs, is shaped by adult family experiences, not by ever-greater competitive success. Published research on general samples shows that these patterns, and the book’s findings generally, are broadly applicable to demographically varied populations in the United States. Leveraging biography-length clinical interviews and quantitative evidence unmatched even by earlier landmark studies of human development, Redefining Success in America redefines the conversation about the nature and origins of happiness, and about how adults develop. This longitudinal study pioneers a new paradigm in happiness research, developmental science, and personality psychology that will appeal to scholars and students in the social sciences, psychotherapy professionals, and serious readers navigating the competitive journey.
