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Outsiders In America

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There are thousands of people in the world today who are outsiders looking in on the United States Of America.They really have no clue on how America really is. Immigrants think that Americans are just free living it up in boatloads of money, but little do they know America is very corrupt. Lets just say they have never picked up an American history book or learned any type of American culture once they touch down either legally or illegally they would be in for a rude awakening. America is a money hungry country who values war over education, the military can get millions of dollars, yet students are stuck doing fundraisers just to get new books for their school our whole system is corrupt. Americans live in a society where depending on what …show more content…

That image is saying that we don't want any outsiders in our country. Which that should not be the case if you have people from outside the country trying to come to our country to try and live a better life why not let them come in. Now there should be a process for becoming a citizen because you just don't want to let anybody in they might have a terrorist attack interest. Just by breaking that barrier that could be a start to restoring the American dream. “ Does Facebook signify one of those massive Marshall McLuhan shifts in consciousness, where technological change drives a reordering of society, as with the introduction of electric light or the spread of the World Wide Web?”(Andrew O'Hehir). America is becoming a society based off technology not saying technology is a bad thing , but it can be too much since we are so technologically based it is easy for something to go wrong and then we could be in a state of emergency because since everything is based on technology we would be lost without it. Since technology has taken over there is hardly no face to face interaction it makes it hard to get to know people when technology runs their lives. That could be a major start to restoring the American dream by establishing better communication between the people. “When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have …show more content…

Fitzgerald gave us the perception that the ideal American dream is living in a big house throwing lavish parties etc. As we all know it is more to achieving the dream. People should be able to work for whatever it is in life that they would want to achieve in this case would be the American Dream.“How does one achieve the American dream ? The answer undoubtedly depends upon one's definition of the Dream and there are many from which to choose “( Matthew Warshauer).It is hard to choose which path to follow because there is so many different prescriptions of what the American Dream really is. With that being said, it is almost better if you get your own perception on what you want your American Dream to be. “(Fareed Zakaria) said that he figured out how America operated just by watching tv”. I’m still trying to figure out how you can distinctly put together an American dream by just watching Tv, but it is easy when you turn on your TV and all you see is beautiful houses,woman,cars, etc so I could see how easy it could be to to visualize an American dream just by hitting the power button on your

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