Analysis Of 'Who Burns For The Perfection Of Paper'

America still provides access to the American Dream, the dream that every person receives equal opportunities to be successful and achieve greatness, through hard work, dedication, and willingness.

Through hard work and dedication an American can be successful in what they want to do. In the poem, “Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper”, the author first starts out her life working at a printing plant for legal pads, where she would always get hurt and received minimal pay but through all of her hard work she was able to go to law school and that is when she realized that every legal pad she used was made with the same struggles that she had to go through to be where she is now (Espada 73-74). This supports the American Dream because

In “Barack Obama’s Keynote Address for the 2004 DNC”, Obama directly states, “It's the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs; the hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores; the hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta; the hope of a mill worker’s son who dares to defy the odds; the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too.” This shows that many Americans can achieve greatness by just hope. Also, Obama mentions, “Hope in the face of difficulty, hope in the face of uncertainty, the audacity of hope (Obama 80)!” Its is the belief that keeps us together as a family when times get hard is the way that all Americans should feel. In the poem, The New Colossus, The author describes America as giving out equal opportunities to everybody that is willing to live a better life. “I lift my lamp beside the golden door (Lazarus 9).” The author implies that through hope, America will let you

In the article, they have surveyed about 2,200 Americans to ask them about the “American Dream” but all of the people that are featured in this text said that they do not feel that the American Dream is still possible but have worked hard for their whole lives. This can be believed because a majority of the people that they surveyed described themselves as experiencing increases health-care costs, cuts in their overtime, and many say that they are living paycheck to paycheck. No American should have to worry about losing their job, but that is not the case for Richard Oden who has been working in the same beer industry for twenty-three years. He had to have major surgery and his company terminated him by age fifty-four. Despite that he had perfect attendance and no performance problems. For many Americans it is still a dream, but they are starting to downsize their dreams. Stated in the article, “Many Americans are struggling-squeezed by rising costs, declining wages, credit card debt and diminished benefit, with little left over to save for retirement (Wallechinsky 55).” Sometimes, even if the average American is working hard, the idea of the perfect American Dream seems still near possible to achieve. This survey challenges the statement because America is not providing access to the American Dream to these Americans who have been working hard but can’t seem to keep a steady