Remember The American Dream Research Paper
Remember the “American Dream”?
My mother’s side of the family is from a small farm town in southeastern Kansas. Growing up they were very poor, and at one point resorted to hunting rabbits in the yard just to eat. The average American family would have reached out their palms to the government for handouts before the thought of hunting rabbits for dinner, but not my family. My grandfather is and always has been a very proud man. He would be the last one in line for any kind of assistance. He runs his own oil drilling business and is always at work a half hour before sunrise and returns only after everything has been completed, as well as being covered in oil, scrapes, and bruises. You could say that my grandpa is a very hard worker. …show more content…
It seems like everyone is always looking for short cuts, loopholes and ways to cheat their way ahead. The founding idea of being able to achieve whatever you dream of through working hard, also known as the American dream, has died off. Improvements in our technology mostly focus on decreasing the time we have to wait, and this has lead to a “now world”. Do not get me wrong, I love two day shipping and being able to download songs in a snap, but this is just adding to the problem. The “now” mindset has mislead people that they can literally get anything they want without working for it. One great example of this is the fifteen dollar an hour minimum wage protests. When you flip burgers for a living you can not expect to make more than minimum wage. Fifteen dollars an hour is more than what some paramedics make. If these fast food employees want to make more money, then they should either increase their level of education to get a higher paying job, or dedicate themselves to their work and make their way up the management ladder. There are countless stories of this happening, including my general manager at Legends Honda. He started as a simple detailer, and after a few years of dedicated hard work he is now the general manager of a car dealership at the age of thirty. “Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper (Proverbs
My mother’s side of the family is from a small farm town in southeastern Kansas. Growing up they were very poor, and at one point resorted to hunting rabbits in the yard just to eat. The average American family would have reached out their palms to the government for handouts before the thought of hunting rabbits for dinner, but not my family. My grandfather is and always has been a very proud man. He would be the last one in line for any kind of assistance. He runs his own oil drilling business and is always at work a half hour before sunrise and returns only after everything has been completed, as well as being covered in oil, scrapes, and bruises. You could say that my grandpa is a very hard worker. …show more content…
It seems like everyone is always looking for short cuts, loopholes and ways to cheat their way ahead. The founding idea of being able to achieve whatever you dream of through working hard, also known as the American dream, has died off. Improvements in our technology mostly focus on decreasing the time we have to wait, and this has lead to a “now world”. Do not get me wrong, I love two day shipping and being able to download songs in a snap, but this is just adding to the problem. The “now” mindset has mislead people that they can literally get anything they want without working for it. One great example of this is the fifteen dollar an hour minimum wage protests. When you flip burgers for a living you can not expect to make more than minimum wage. Fifteen dollars an hour is more than what some paramedics make. If these fast food employees want to make more money, then they should either increase their level of education to get a higher paying job, or dedicate themselves to their work and make their way up the management ladder. There are countless stories of this happening, including my general manager at Legends Honda. He started as a simple detailer, and after a few years of dedicated hard work he is now the general manager of a car dealership at the age of thirty. “Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper (Proverbs