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I'm posting here since I couldn't think of another forum other than "Logic Discussion" to post the essay I just finished writing for English. I'd like to know what everyone thinks although I admit I had to BS a little to write it since the article I had to go on had a completely opposite view on America. Anyways, let me know what you think.
1-10-05 Honors American Literature America, the Land of the Free, also known as the Land of Opportunity, is teeming with success stories. America boasts to the world its fame and power, attracting people around the world to its provinces. What is not seen is the larger, unnoticed group of people that live in another America. The average American person often wallows in loss and utter failure of their dreams. This loss leads to loneliness in even densely populated lands. As effect continues to become cause, this loneliness only accentuates the growing chaos hidden in the American Dream. It is readily apparent that this country holds true potential but is missing something important to reach it. With this in mind, the American Spirit becomes one of pessimism over optimism. Hidden beneath the stories of the select few who achieved great things are the stories of the much larger group of people known commonly as the average person. The everyday American person has had dreams and hopes crushed. America promises education and success that will stem from the knowledge gained, but along with it the community offers a number of problems to balance or tip the scales in the direction one chooses not to take. It is easy to see that “you will find us burning in the nightâ€, put in the words of Thomas Wolfe, striving to achieve a goal (Wolfe 69). Failure to manage in such a “brutal sprawl†or being beaten out by a rival can destroy most peoples’ confidence (Wolfe 70). This is seen in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! when the land of the west does not yield to the owners’ wishes. The owners’ failures lead them to give up their endeavor and retreat to whence they came. To lower the American Spirit even more, the select few that do not fail, but succeed, often take away from others’ chances to gain the same or similar achievement. The losses and failures incurred are devastating in another sense as they lead to other problems to degrade the American Promise. All the failure and loss of the average American often leads indefinitely to loneliness. Often overlooked, loneliness can lead to many detrimental effects on the hope one may have in the American Dream. When a person resolves to a life similar to those found in the surrounding community, they are often seen more as part of bigger picture and less as an individual. The person becomes lonelier around others than when by themselves and may come to believe that loneliness is what they want from life. This is readily seen in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter through the minister called Dimmesdale. In his failure to meet his job as a minister and at the same time failing to admit his crime he isolates himself, believing it is what he needs. In one’s loneliness, a person can lock away potential that may not exist anywhere else simply because of a failure that led to their resignation. If the potential is not there then the person is still another number added to those that help degrade the American Spirit. Dimmesdale’s resignation from life is a symbol that this problem extends to the minds that existed in times much earlier than modern America. Continuing from an effect to a cause, loneliness is a stem for a final and ultimate outcome that can come about from extremes seen in these already bad deterioration factors of the American Dream. Chaos, the ultimate corruption, is the final step that can be taken toward the degradation of the American Spirit. Chaos is the ultimate American anti-Promise, if such a thing exists, for it takes everything that is promised and turns it upside down. Chaos exists as insanity, drugs, political corruption and in many other forms. Thomas Wolfe’s representation of one of the hardships of life caused by such problems is seen in “…the east-side ghetto of Manhattan…a block away from the gashouse district and its thuggery…†where people are met with additional antagonistic situations along with the troubles of everyday life. Many chaotic facets are directly related to failure and loneliness, while others are spread by chaos itself. Chaos is like a virus in the sense that it can spread from one system to another. Chaos in a mind often influences itself on another system, such as a political system, that that particular mind has access to. A perfect example of all three aspects mentioned arrives in the form of the story by Edgar Allen Poe entitled “Lygeiaâ€. The narrator suffers a failure and loss in marriage, a common center of life, and, for a time, resides to loneliness that eventually turns him toward insanity. It is this path, uniquely common to America, which takes the American Promise of prosperity and turns it into a promise of misery and everything in between the two. What I see in America is a modern empire that has lived its life and is failing. Ready for a new dynasty, a new land shall arise from its remains under a new leader and possibly a new political system. This is how the history of empires has transpired time and time again, and time has yet to prove it won’t eventually repeat. America is falling, but it does not mean it is the end of the nation and its people. On the contrary, it is a sign of transition transpiring between a failing society and the opportunity for the rise of a stronger civilization. Many may never notice the transition. What comes of it is impossible for me to tell, for the possibilities are limitless, yet I have hopes. I wish for the land to evolve into one that can stand on its own as the current society once did. I want for the new country to be an improved version with a unique and unborrowed culture with its own heritage that we, as Americans, can call our own. Tradition is an important role in many thriving civilizations, yet America has few characteristic traditions to call its own. I can only wait to see what will come to pass. While these events develop, the Promise remains promised and the Dream continues to be dreamt. The outcome of the said Dream remains strongly influenced by the initial possibility of failure and loss. Following from this comes loneliness, felt in society as well as away from it. And, as if to counteract the entire Dream itself, chaos stems from the failure, loneliness and even itself. What a person does with the dream offered them remains a decision for that person to make, but it is important, and shall remain so, to keep in mind the adverse effects that may follow. 1-10-05 Honors American Literature America, the Land of the Free, also known as the Land of Opportunity, is teeming with success stories. America boasts to the world its fame and power, attracting people around the world to its provinces. What is not seen is the larger, unnoticed group of people that live in another America. The average American person often wallows in loss and utter failure of their dreams. This loss leads to loneliness in even densely populated lands. As effect continues to become cause, this loneliness only accentuates the growing chaos hidden in the American Dream. It is readily apparent that this country holds true potential but is missing something important to reach it. With this in mind, the American Spirit becomes one of pessimism over optimism. Hidden beneath the stories of the select few who achieved great things are the stories of the much larger group of people known commonly as the average person. The everyday American person has had dreams and hopes crushed. America promises education and success that will stem from the knowledge gained, but along with it the community offers a number of problems to balance or tip the scales in the direction one chooses not to take. It is easy to see that “you will find us burning in the nightâ€, put in the words of Thomas Wolfe, striving to achieve a goal (Wolfe 69). Failure to manage in such a “brutal sprawl†or being beaten out by a rival can destroy most peoples’ confidence (Wolfe 70). This is seen in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! when the land of the west does not yield to the owners’ wishes. The owners’ failures lead them to give up their endeavor and retreat to whence they came. To lower the American Spirit even more, the select few that do not fail, but succeed, often take away from others’ chances to gain the same or similar achievement. The losses and failures incurred are devastating in another sense as they lead to other problems to degrade the American Promise. All the failure and loss of the average American often leads indefinitely to loneliness. Often overlooked, loneliness can lead to many detrimental effects on the hope one may have in the American Dream. When a person resolves to a life similar to those found in the surrounding community, they are often seen more as part of bigger picture and less as an individual. The person becomes lonelier around others than when by themselves and may come to believe that loneliness is what they want from life. This is readily seen in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter through the minister called Dimmesdale. In his failure to meet his job as a minister and at the same time failing to admit his crime he isolates himself, believing it is what he needs. In one’s loneliness, a person can lock away potential that may not exist anywhere else simply because of a failure that led to their resignation. If the potential is not there then the person is still another number added to those that help degrade the American Spirit. Dimmesdale’s resignation from life is a symbol that this problem extends to the minds that existed in times much earlier than modern America. Continuing from an effect to a cause, loneliness is a stem for a final and ultimate outcome that can come about from extremes seen in these already bad deterioration factors of the American Dream. Chaos, the ultimate corruption, is the final step that can be taken toward the degradation of the American Spirit. Chaos is the ultimate American anti-Promise, if such a thing exists, for it takes everything that is promised and turns it upside down. Chaos exists as insanity, drugs, political corruption and in many other forms. Thomas Wolfe’s representation of one of the hardships of life caused by such problems is seen in “…the east-side ghetto of Manhattan…a block away from the gashouse district and its thuggery…†where people are met with additional antagonistic situations along with the troubles of everyday life. Many chaotic facets are directly related to failure and loneliness, while others are spread by chaos itself. Chaos is like a virus in the sense that it can spread from one system to another. Chaos in a mind often influences itself on another system, such as a political system, that that particular mind has access to. A perfect example of all three aspects mentioned arrives in the form of the story by Edgar Allen Poe entitled “Lygeiaâ€. The narrator suffers a failure and loss in marriage, a common center of life, and, for a time, resides to loneliness that eventually turns him toward insanity. It is this path, uniquely common to America, which takes the American Promise of prosperity and turns it into a promise of misery and everything in between the two. What I see in America is a modern empire that has lived its life and is failing. Ready for a new dynasty, a new land shall arise from its remains under a new leader and possibly a new political system. This is how the history of empires has transpired time and time again, and time has yet to prove it won’t eventually repeat. America is falling, but it does not mean it is the end of the nation and its people. On the contrary, it is a sign of transition transpiring between a failing society and the opportunity for the rise of a stronger civilization. Many may never notice the transition. What comes of it is impossible for me to tell, for the possibilities are limitless, yet I have hopes. I wish for the land to evolve into one that can stand on its own as the current society once did. I want for the new country to be an improved version with a unique and unborrowed culture with its own heritage that we, as Americans, can call our own. Tradition is an important role in many thriving civilizations, yet America has few characteristic traditions to call its own. I can only wait to see what will come to pass. While these events develop, the Promise remains promised and the Dream continues to be dreamt. The outcome of the said Dream remains strongly influenced by the initial possibility of failure and loss. Following from this comes loneliness, felt in society as well as away from it. And, as if to counteract the entire Dream itself, chaos stems from the failure, loneliness and even itself. 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Im to tyred, i've copied it down, and ill read it tomorow. |
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First off all, not too shabby with your word usage and your transitinal phrases. Second I don't really see your point. Mabey try to state what your saying more clearly and put it and the begining and the end. I don't agree with everything you say but thats ok.
Honestly, it sounds like one of my papers when I am just BS ing and making it sound good without solid principals to base the report on. I write kind of the same thing someimtes and my teacher seriously anylizes for a long time and thinks I'm saying things that I'm not. OH well though Honestly, it sounds like one of my papers when I am just BS ing and making it sound good without solid principals to base the report on. I write kind of the same thing someimtes and my teacher seriously anylizes for a long time and thinks I'm saying things that I'm not. OH well though |
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