The Disuniting of America and The Other America

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The American dream was used as an advertisement for the new America. It was used to build a large piece of empty land into a country. It was an idealistic dream that had no real control on how the environment would take to it. Both The Disuniting of America and The Other America show history repeating itself or foretelling the future. So we mustn’t have boundaries as to how far back it dictates. We must critique the past from the Mesozoic era. Nature is the final word to the progress made in time. The common consideration that both of these arguments hold is that they both follow the path of evolution.

Most species that have been researched show habits to motivate in packs. Each pack with a leader. This leader first had to prove himself through determination and motivation in order to gain this rank. These groups consisted of a family within a species. Unheard of was a zebra with a pack of tigers. Other strays were always pushed away, and the weak, old, and uneducated were always susceptible to be killed. An example of these groups with leaders would be Lions or Bees. A king in one group and a queen in another. Each leader teaching its ways in almost a centric mannerism.

“ The new ethic gospel rejects the unifying vision of individuals from all nations melted into a new race. Its underlying philosophy is that America is not a nation of individuals at all but a nation of groups, that ethnicity is the defining experience for Americans” (Schlesinger 20). The past shows that animals had to adapt in order to avoid extinction. By adapting they learn from others, other groups and other species. In a similar case as we did to co-exist with them and vice-versa.

Life goes as far as you take it, as far as your determination, and motivation allows you to take it. No one’s future is limited by constraints, unless they allow themselves to be limited.

But then, there are those whom have an easy answer, who can tell a man how to avoid becoming poor. Their advice is summed up in a single word: Move! Here again, however, a familiar irony is at work. The poor generally are those who cannot help themselves. And those most hurt by class unemployment are precisely the ones who can’t move (Harrington 33).

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