The American Dream
The two figures we examined during our study of the American Dream were these tycoons.
Who are Oprah Winfrey and Sam Walton?
When the Walls family "skedaddles" it means that they do this?
What is leave town?
An understanding of these three concepts are necessary to write a effective argument.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
In Stopping By The Woods On a Snowy Evening, the woods are described as these two things, which must also be present during testing.
This is the philosophy that intuition should be used over logic, and that people should generally be independent and self-sufficient.
What is transcendentalism?
In One Block Can Make a Difference, this city is where the Palacio family began to build their wealth.
What is Brooklyn?
Jeannette sees her mother doing this at the start of the book, which she finds deplorable!
What is digging through the dumpster for food?
Of the three persuasion techniques, this one appeals to the emotion or the heart.
What is pathos?
Frost's most famous poem was this one, where he contemplates what would have happened if he had taken a different path.
What is The Road Not Taken?
Both Emerson and Thoreau attended this Ivy league college.
What is Harvard?
In his TED Talk, Diego Corzo says that he held this citizenship status for a long time, and was unable to get the help he needed to succeed in America.
What is Undocumented?
What is stop drinking?
She was the former slave who used ethos, pathos, and logos to address a crowd at the Women's Convention in 1851, in Akron, Ohio.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
Robert Frost wrote this type of literature, mostly.
What is poetry?
Of the two men, he wrote "Self-Reliance."
What is Emerson?
In his TED Talk, Aaron Huey cried as he talked about the denial of their own version of the American Dream to this group of people.
Who are Native Americans?
This is Rex's nickname for Jeannette.
What is Mountain Goat?
This president gave the Gettysburg Address, and convinced his troops to keep fighting for American democracy.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Robert Frost won this top prize for this contribution to literature.
What is the Pulitzer Prize?
Thoreau wrote this reflection piece as he spend two years living in the wilderness of Massachusetts.
What is Walden?
The American Dream can mean different things to different people but the concept people most identify with is this, where how much you have really means you've made it.
What is financial wealth?
The Glass Castle is a this type of dwelling, which the Walls hope to live in one day.
Sojourner Truth said that the reason men didn't want to give women their rights is because men were afraid that women would want this.
What is more rights?
Frost suffered from this mental health dilemma, which many people do; there's no shame in it!
What is depression?
These are also known as concise expressions of ideas or principles.
What are aphorisms?