The American Dream Analysis

The articles both use tone, message, and persuasive elements to prove the idea of the american dream. Both articles mention that there is, essentially, a new american dream because of the way that our society has started to view certain things. Both articles alos give examples of how the american dream has effected some people as their life has progressed into adulthood. Both articles also mention that many poeple have been given more opportunites as history has progressed. Amedeo mentions that somewhat becasue of the american dream we have fallen into the great depression and the great reccesion becasue of the greed that the american dream incrporates into the american citizens. Many presidents have tried to give the pursuit of happiness a simple defintion as decent housing, a good job, education, and helath care (Amedeo). What they fail to understand is that there are people who have the luxury of these thing but still feel like they are stuck in a rut of repetition throughout their life. Teichner mentions a small town in Ohio that was once the epitome of the american dream due to the ample job opportunities. Now the town, plagued by the movement of people from the rust

From the emancipation proclemation to the 19th amendment and the civil rights act of 1964 many more people are included in the pursuit of the american dream (Amedeo). Teichner talks mostly about a small town that was the epitome of the amreican dream in the 50s and 60s but is now the place that no one wants to stay in, even if they grew up their. In her article Teichner interviewed a former member of the town that has since become a professor at Harvard. The professor mentions that the american dream is in trouble and is evidently dying, he details that all of the factories that were once the epitome of the american dream are rusted and abandonded