What Defines Success to You?

What defines success to you?
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7 Pitfalls to Avoid in Your Twenties

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The 25 Most Promising Jobs for Millenials

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The American Dream in Indonesia?

 

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Ladies in Indonesia make that money, one Tupperware party at a time

By Christina Nuñez on March 3, 2015

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"The American Dream" Still Playing to Sold-Out Crowds

As Willy Loman, the titular washed-up salesman, Antony Sher’s voice is, at first, a distracting mumble, a constant low-pitched whine that jars the nerves with its ceaseless buzzing. (Read More)

Original Essay. By Eric Loucks

                   The American Dream and How do you see it?


The American dream is a dream that once was a part of the live of the early Americans. They begin the dream after the revolution against the crown. Once we gained our freedom we then were able to grow and spread across to the Pacific Ocean. The Dream was for us to be free as a people not subjected and ruled by double standard that were in place during the beginning of our country. 

After a hundred or so years we were then able to free our brother and sister from the bonds of slavery. They too were then able to par take in the American Dreams there was still thing that needed to be done, but at least the ball was rolling to a freedom for all. If we go about hundred years all problem less Martian Luther King began to fight and bring equality to his brother that still were looked down on for being less of human because of their skin color and fought for the right of them. His was able to form a movement that was a great success. He was able to unite us and show that even if our skin color is different we are all the same. He is remember for all his exploit into changing the way people view them. 

This is the American Dream. Martian Luther King show what the American Dream really is and how we can embrace it. Now in the present we still have problems, but we are able to step into the shoes of other and try to get a glimpse of their lives and see the problem they have to go through. Today young people believe that the American Dream is dead other think it is alive. But only you can determine if it is alive or dead to you. Now once you have determine if it is alive or dead pursue your Dream if it is alive or continue living your life day to day. Nobody should tell if it is dead or not. Nobody should speak down on you. Nobody should really tell you how to live your life. Your parents and friends want to help you and aid in your choice for they want what is best for you just as you should want what is best for them. 

Eric Loucks

Relationships, beauty, and creativity

                When you are picking flowers which do you choose first? Your eye is naturally drawn to the vibrant flowers that seem to be perfect in their own way. But, why is this? Why is the human eye drawn to beauty? This is a question that doesn’t seem to make sense to me, because what is beauty? What one person finds beautiful the next might find appalling.

                Humans are an interesting specimen; we are so far advanced yet so far from being understandable. We seek companionship basically our whole lives. Our family, friends, significant others; there is always someone else that we want to spend our time with. Especially when were older, and look for that “special one”, most of the time we feel as if, they don’t exist. Or that they are a million miles away and no way to get to them. Ask yourself this, though, where are you looking? Are you really opening your eyes to all your options?

                Us humans are naturally attracted to the beauty in the world. Our eye is drawn to the brightest, most colorful, most creative objects. So, naturally, when looking for that significant other, we tend to be drawn to the more attractive individuals. Why? Because humans are drawn to what is most appealing to look at, this is completely understandable. But why ignore the ones that are beautiful on the inside? Why shun them away because they don’t match your preference physically. We strive for companionship but push that special one away because we want to please our eyes.

                This is where creativity comes into play. We need to start closing our eyes, and looking with our hearts. We need to become blind to the worlds visible beauty and open our minds to world mental and emotional beauties. Think with our hearts, and let them take us where we are supposed to be. Meet who we are supposed to meet, and love who we are supposed to love. We are so attracted to beauty, why not learn to be attracted to ones beautiful mind and soul, instead of their physical attributes.

                We need to learn to look with our hearts, let our mind wander into someone else’s. Talk to that one person with the same music preference as you and learn to look past what someone looks like. Your soul mate could be two feet away from you in the library, and you’ll never know. Talk to people, but listen to them, because who you are looking for may be hidden behind what you weren’t looking for.
               I know what you're thinking, this has nothing to do with the American Dream, well it does. America was the beautiful flower everyone wanted. It was the beautiful land of the free that everyone strived to live in because they wanted to be successful. Many people, like immigrants, didn't have anything handed to them, they had to use their minds and make a way once they got here. The American Dream is creative because people have to use their imaginations to get what they want in love. wether it is love, wealth, or success. 

                              -Posted by Samantha Kuntz

Following your own American Dream

                Have you ever thought about what you need to do to achieve your own American dream, or what the American dream means to you? Well since the American dream is often seen as a generalized idea not everyone looks into deciding their own, taking steps to follow it, or to what the American dream personally means to them. The way you decide your own American dream is by finding what your true goals are, and what you want more than anything to achieve.

                After you have decided your view of the American dream, and begin to follow it there are basic steps to take. First make an outline something to follow. A basic outline that has room for change will be a basic guide for your, so that you may stay on the right path with minor changes. The outline should consist from start to finish, and everything in between. Start with what your dream is, then what path you should take life wise to reach it, and at the end your achieved goal. Now with the outline you want to make approximated times that everything will be done. With enough room that it is able to deviate that way you can follow your path without being pressed from time or stuck on a tight schedule for your life.

                After the outline is done try to keep your life going along it. Attend any specific school or programs that aid toward reaching your goal. Plan out collage and jobs so that your American dream can become realized in the future. Part of this should be finding the smartest and you’re most preferred schools, and jobs. Do not go to a collage or job that you do not like because they are cheaper, or pay better. With that also do not do the opposite by going to a collage or working a job where you love more than anything, but puts your dream or lifestyle in jeopardy.

                With this you should be able to define what the American Dream means to you, and how to use that to make goals for your life and follow the path to achieving them. You can now break from any generalization of the American Dream, and let it become what you want and what you need to be. This is how you lead a good, happy, well preserved life. This will keep the future going strong and fresh, and stand apart from society and generalizations about people.


By William Goodman

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How is a Person's Identity Formed

                When I think of a person’s identity, I think about their internal fingerprint. Although, it’s not something their born with, but what has shaped each and every ridge of their personality over time.

                A person’s identity is formed when something drastic happens in their life. Whether it’s positive or negative; whatever it is that happens will shape them into a new person. The way they see the world, the way they love, or hate, even the way they live will change, even if it’s in the tiniest of way.

                Your personal identity is not given to you; it’s more than your name. Your name doesn’t define your views, your intelligence, your dreams and desires. Your personal identity is not to be defined by someone else’s opinion on you, because they do not know you the way you know yourself. Your identity is shaped each and every day, it is your personalities DNA, if you will. I believe that your identity is the base of you, because each time you grow stronger, you get another notch into your identity that makes you unique from everyone else. Be yourself and allow yourself to grow and prosper even in the toughest of times. 

                                         -Posted by Samantha Kuntz

The 7 reason why the American Dream is dead.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/7-facts-show-american-dream-dead

Seven reason that the American Dream is Dead. America as a country is not what it used to be in term of helping each other and not being greedy trying to outsource for more money. Other things is people use credit cards and use money they don't have.

Willie Loman Still in Pursuit of "The Dream"

 

America has long been known as a land of opportunity. Out of that thinking comes the "American Dream," the idea that anyone can ultimately achieve success, even if he or she began with nothing. In Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," we follow Willy Loman as he lives a life of desperate pursuit of the dream of "success." In this classic drama, the playwright suggests to the audience both what is truthful and what is illusory about the American Dream and, hence, in the lives of millions of Americans. 

Unusual in its presentation of a common man as a tragic figure, the play received the Pulitzer Prize as well as the New York Drama Critic's Circle Award when it was produced in 1949. Although he denied any direct intention to make a political statement about the capitalist way of life in the U.S., Miller was responsible for bringing the American Dream onto the stage for evaluation. The timelessness of Miller's award-winning masterpiece is noted as the play, once again, experienced a highly acclaimed ten-week run at the Royal Shakespeare Company in London's West End in the summer of 2015.

"Tupperware Ladies" Living The Dream

In the 1950s, American women discovered they could earn thousands—even millions—of dollars from bowls that burped. “Tupperware ladies” fanned out across the nation’s living rooms, selling efficiency and convenience to their friends and neighbors through home parties. Bowl by bowl, they built an empire that now spans the globe. They built themselves their own version of the “American Dream.”

Tupperware seemed to be custom-made for a post-war Americans in love with modern conveniences. “Tupperware!” charts the origins of a small plastics company that unpredictably became a cultural phenomenon. It reveals the lives of women with very few options who remade themselves and built an empire based on plastic dishes. Their funny, straightforward, often poignant stories tell us a lot about the history of selling, the changes in expectations for women, and the importance of “living the dream” in all of our lives.

 Click here to watch the Tupperware documentary: 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/026bk5wat175diw/PBS.American.Experience.Tupperware.HDTV.720p.x264.AC3.MVGroup.org.mkv?dl=0

1. How has Tupperware, directly or indirectly, affected you? Do you have any memories of tupperware in your lifetime?
2. What do you think of the Tupperware story? 
3. What's your opinion of the postwar consumer boom, the rise of plastics, and other events of the 1950s?

The American Dream: A Visual Map

How did a change in attitudes after World War II
contribute to the idea of the "pursuit of happiness"
(i.e. "American Dream") for everyone?

How does technology, current economic forecasts,
outsourcing, and globalization affect today's pursuit
of the "New American Dream?"

60+ Years of Changing Perspectives

Society's idea of the American Dream has changed over the course of the past sixty years. Some think the Protestant Work Ethic was a precursor to the American Dream. However, in the 1950's American society experiences a post-war consumer boom of even greater magnitude as people moved to the suburbs, need and desired consumer goods to fill their new suburban homes, and were no longer dependent on public transportation. For the first time, the "average" family acquired a family car, new automated appliances, and their first television. Most families had more leisure time than in the past. Manufacturing of consumer goods was on the rise, as was the door-to-door sale of resulting products, and going into the family business was no longer a common value that people shared. Modernization affected the American worker, the American culture, and the common man's idea of the American Dream.

The present state of the nation's economy and globalization has brought about another "shift" in society's perspective regarding consumerism, materialism, and "job security." "Outsourcing" is seen as a threat to the American worker. Media continues to shape society's attitudes towards the American Dream. Technology has impacted almost every work environment and will, undoubtedly, continue to do so.

Earl Tupper: A Man With A Dream

             

The Story of Earl Tupper

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/photo-gallery/tupperware-inventions/

Read the story of Earl Tupper, an "average" man who had a dream. What are YOUR dreams? What is YOUR idea of success?

A Dream of Second Chances

The American Dream was once a dream of second chances for the people that came over from Europe. Now people continue to come over because of the freedoms that we are able to enjoy. For a select few people in America they can achieve their dreams while others might not be able to complete their dreams. Now there are some dreams that the majority of people are able to achieve; some that most people are aiming towards. 

Over the past 60 years America has changed. This change was because of our determination to improve our lives and other people's lives that live over seas that need help such as Korea and the islands in the Pacific Ocean. The American Dream is dead to most people, but not to all. Some people are able to move up in the world and have their dreams come true; while others just stay in the same economic branch their parents were in. They don't really try to move up just across the world.  (posted by        )

Tupperware & My Family

Tupperware has always been in my family. Not a day goes by that I don’t use Tupperware. It has always been a staple product in my household. I feel like that’s just the norm, to put leftovers in Tupperware. If you think about it, there is a lot of food that comes in Tupperware nowadays. For example, butter, it comes in a big tub, if you buy it that way. That’s one thing my Mom always did, she would wash out the butter tub and use it to put leftover food in. Sometimes you wouldn’t know what you were grabbing, was it going to be butter or leftover spaghetti?

The Tupperware story was very non-traditional almost. Woman were Tupperware, they made it very successful, which is something that you don’t see very often in that time period. It allowed women to be something other than stay at home wives and mothers. The postwar aspect of this made me feel like women almost had to find something to do. With their husbands away, they needed financial help. Although women were the popular majority of the sales representatives for the business, Men soon came into the picture. Not only was this great for women to start branching out for themselves, it was great economically for America, especially after a war. It created many jobs for people, rather it was in an office, salesman, or in factories. Tupperware, in my opinion was a hidden maker of America.   (posted by Samantha Kuntz)