In This Gary Hess poem it talks about how the american dream is tearing apart the country. It tells how those who are achieving this dream are doing so at any cost no matter who it hurts, as long as they get what they want and we need to change this to save our country. This is good to put in the website due to it being able to put the dream into check and show what’s actually happening. Here is the Poem:
What kind of world is it today
When love for our country
Is tearing us apart
When love for our country
Is taking our freedoms
When love for our country
Is killing our children
So much wrong with the world today
So much can be done
The states need to help those in need
And stop hurting the ones who bleed
Differences between our nations
Are not as great as it seems
We are all hungry
And need to breathe
Countries with growing poverty and hunger
Need our help more than ever
Spend money not on oil
Not on weapons to kill
Spend the money on food
Spend the money to cure cancer
Spend the money to cure aids
We can do this
All we need is to help
Cure the hatred
Instead of pleasing our greed
In the next poem it speaks of the American dream because it tells how it is what everybody desires whether you are rich or poor and how its a dream made a reality by many. It goes on to tell about how not every persons is the same but it’s relatively close. This represents the idea that the website is trying to give very well due to its imagery and explanations. Here is that very poem:
It is the American Dream
What we all strive for and imagine
Indouble-wide trailers to double-wide mansions
In sprouting lakes of fake fish.
Nothing captures its essence
Unbound by time or dust or rot
The thingswe cherish still are lovingly patted
And brought through thecenturies.
It is more than a dream now
It's a reality that the millionshave made
Our heart and soul builds the heaven on earth.
A refuge for thesick,
And a shelter for the needy,
It is everything we desire.
Inthe cherry trucks and laughing children
To indolent teenagers with smokecircling
We see our dream and the actuality
It may not be perfect, but itis our heaven
And so disillusioned we conjure forth our hope.
In thepicket fences we see our childhood
In the sky we see our adulthood
And inthe middle we see our life.
Suspended, but not contained,
It is the dreamthat wakes within us all.
This final Ivy Poem relates to the American dream because it is talking about the path one must take to get to the dream. It says how in order to achieve the American dream, one must work hard and do things they don’t want to do but must. This belongs on the website because unlike others, it talks about what its like to achieve the American dream and not what the dream is.
so this is where all the dreaming takes me
to a cold, empty reality
with sleep still in my eyes
shivering, confused, I must’ve overslept
now it’s time to wake up
one last yawn, then face the lies
I’m barefoot and the streets are rough
paved with broken glass
but that’s okay
’cause the land is flowing
with milk and honey
bread and butter
and justice
if you just keep on going ...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Electronics
This is a picture of a plasma screen television. In today’s generation a plasma TV is probably included in everybody’s American dream because of its popularity. When the first TV’s came out they were big and bulky but everyone had to have one. Now TV’s are wide and thin. This is a good example of how the American dream has stayed the same in cretian aspects.
The computer is another piece of technology that has become a normal part of a person’s American dream in today’s society. When computers came out, people couldn’t wait to get their hands on one. That is when owning a computer became apart of some people’s American dream. Today, some people can’t even go a day without using a computer.
In the old days the American dream could sometimes include having things like radios, record players, and stereos so that people could be able to listen to their favorite music. Now a day’s a person’s American dream sometimes includes owning gadgets like the iPod to listen to their music. This is a only one example of how the American dream has changed.
Two of the Main Components of the American Dream
This is a picture of two things that come up in almost everybody’s American dream. These two things are a house and money. A house and a lot of money have been a part of people’s American dreams for as long as the idea of the American dream has been around.
The Dream today Through the Eyes of "The Dream"
This picture gives a person a glimpse of what the American dream is today. The photo is of rapper Terius "Dream" Nash's Mixtape. The dream today is to have a good-looking partner, a big house, a nice car, and a lot of money. This picture demonstrates this because of the car, mansion, and beautiful women in the background of the photo.
1950s American Dream
This is a picture of a husband and wife who would have are living the American dream in the 1930’s -1950’s. Back then the dream was to have a family and a house to live in. This picture is a prime example of this because the couple is pictured in their house ready to enjoy a meal.
Barn that Represents American Dream
This is a picture of a farm and barn with the American flag on it. This picture is significant because it has always been the American dream to own your own farm land since the 1930’s. However as time progressed people grew out of this dream and into other dreams like owning big houses and cars.
Before and After American Dream
These two pictures show how the American dream has changed over time. The dream has gone from farming and having the basic gadgets such as the pitchfork, to golfing and using technology such as cell phones and satellite dishes. People are not interested in the things that people used to be interested in. The first picture is of a farmer and his wife on their land holding pitchforks. The second picture is of the same two people but now the farmers have evolved and developed into business men who are talking on cell phones and holding golf clubs and smoking cigars.
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