The American Dream Dead Or Barely Alive Analysis
Tony Nam
Rebecca Tewes
ENC 1101
1 December 2013
The American Dream: Dead or Barely Alive The American Dream, once a proud national ethos of the United States that set the ideals of many people finding opportunities to gain prosperity and success for themselves and their families has somewhat lost its meaning over the recent years. Struggling economy and inequality treatments between the upper-class and the lower-class has made many hard working American’s lives difficult, while the wealthy has gain upper advantages such as income and education despite doing half of the efforts that most lower-class citizens achieve to make a living. It is a shame considering the fact that my father gave up his dream job in South Korea to move …show more content…
This is the appeal of pathos and logos that was used to raise awareness and persuade the audience on the issue. Additionally, O’Brien’s style of text would fall within the genre of opinionated-research article that includes several academic driven vocabularies; which is demonstrated by the way he includes statistics and several graphics in order to support his statements. He also includes an accessible language as well, in order to make his ideas more understandable to common knowledge. His research helps this article acquire credibility, which strengthens the appeal to ethos and his clear critique to the way education shapes low-income people´s chances to succeed. Even though I found it challenging to read, especially due to his elaborated arguments and long paragraphs, this is the kind of article that after reading it several times you will get the message. However, I believe his opinion is one sided in terms of the causes of the gap within social …show more content…
Furthermore, they agree the mobility between social classes is unlikely today, which means rich kids will stay rich and poor kids are prone to stay at a low class as well; however, while garland believes high income influences better education in high income kids, and that this eventually guarantees them a spot in the Ivies, O’Brien argues high income kids end up at the top universities either just because the mere fact they are rich or as a result of low applicants from low income families to the ivies. Therefore, it seems Garland perceives income as a first cause for inequality; according to her point of view high income will provide quality education, and this will guarantee better chances for rich kids to stay rich; in contrast to O’Brien, who thinks the end of the American dream and the origin of inequality is education, as he suggests it is mainly the fact talented low income students don’t have resources such as clear information to apply to Ivies and reach a better social status that perpetuates the
Rebecca Tewes
ENC 1101
1 December 2013
The American Dream: Dead or Barely Alive The American Dream, once a proud national ethos of the United States that set the ideals of many people finding opportunities to gain prosperity and success for themselves and their families has somewhat lost its meaning over the recent years. Struggling economy and inequality treatments between the upper-class and the lower-class has made many hard working American’s lives difficult, while the wealthy has gain upper advantages such as income and education despite doing half of the efforts that most lower-class citizens achieve to make a living. It is a shame considering the fact that my father gave up his dream job in South Korea to move …show more content…
This is the appeal of pathos and logos that was used to raise awareness and persuade the audience on the issue. Additionally, O’Brien’s style of text would fall within the genre of opinionated-research article that includes several academic driven vocabularies; which is demonstrated by the way he includes statistics and several graphics in order to support his statements. He also includes an accessible language as well, in order to make his ideas more understandable to common knowledge. His research helps this article acquire credibility, which strengthens the appeal to ethos and his clear critique to the way education shapes low-income people´s chances to succeed. Even though I found it challenging to read, especially due to his elaborated arguments and long paragraphs, this is the kind of article that after reading it several times you will get the message. However, I believe his opinion is one sided in terms of the causes of the gap within social …show more content…
Furthermore, they agree the mobility between social classes is unlikely today, which means rich kids will stay rich and poor kids are prone to stay at a low class as well; however, while garland believes high income influences better education in high income kids, and that this eventually guarantees them a spot in the Ivies, O’Brien argues high income kids end up at the top universities either just because the mere fact they are rich or as a result of low applicants from low income families to the ivies. Therefore, it seems Garland perceives income as a first cause for inequality; according to her point of view high income will provide quality education, and this will guarantee better chances for rich kids to stay rich; in contrast to O’Brien, who thinks the end of the American dream and the origin of inequality is education, as he suggests it is mainly the fact talented low income students don’t have resources such as clear information to apply to Ivies and reach a better social status that perpetuates the