The American Dream
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English Oxford Living Dictionaries The American Dream is the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. I will use this text in my background information.
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Faith Karimi, CNN, Wealthiest 1% will soon own more than rest of us combined, Oxfam says The richest 1% will have as much wealth as the other 99% combined by next year. I will use this statistic for my hook.
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National Women's Law Center, Equal Pay Laws, the Equal Pay Act has been
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...as amended, as it appears in volume 29 of the United States Code, at section 206(d). The EPA, which is part of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended (FLSA), and which is administered and enforced by the EEOC, prohibits sex-based wage discrimination between men and women in the same establishment who perform jobs that require substantially equal skill, effort and responsibility under similar working conditions. Cross references to the EPA as enacted appear in italics following the section heading. Additional provisions of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, as amended, are included as they appear in volume 29 of the United States Code.
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CNN, Jeanne Sahadi, 6 Things You Need To Know About Gender Pay Gap Among the most egregious examples of unequal pay for equal work in medicine: Male ophthalmologists reported earning 36% -- or about $95,000 a year -- more than their female counterparts, according to a recent study. The story is similar among cardiologists: Men made 29% -- or about $97,000 a year -- more than women.
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CNN, Jeanne Sahadi, 6 Things You Need To Know About Gender Pay Gap But this reverse pay gap is fairly narrow. For instance, women social workers earn about $1.08 for every dollar a man earns. Compare that to, say, women pharmacists -- who earn 78 cents on the male dollar.
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CNN, Jeanne Sahadi, 6 Things You Need To Know About Gender Pay Gap Race and ethnicity can be barriers too. African-American women in 2014 were paid 60 cents for every dollar white men earned, while Hispanic women made only 55 cents, according to NWLC. Asian women, however, fared better, earning 84 cents.
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CNN, Jeanne Sahadi, 6 Things You Need To Know About Gender Pay Gap Women generally earn 79 cents for every dollar men earn. Or 78 cents. Or 77 cents. It depends on the year, but the figure hasn't really moved meaningfully since 2000.
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CNN, Jeanne Sahadi, 6 Things You Need To Know About Gender Pay Gap You might think becoming a doctor in a specialty -- with all the training and experience that requires -- would inoculate a woman against the pay gap. I will use flashcards #21-25 to show the gender and racial gap in pay. Explaining how even with the same abilities and job description there are huge differences between men and women, colored and white people.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream" Speech "And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges." Using this quote will show that African Americans will not stop until they get and are treated the way that they deserve. So the American Dream is questioned about the benefits for all Americans.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream" Speech "It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." I will use this quote to describe how the Declaration has not done what it was set out to do. Giving the Negros a "bad check" from what they really deserve will show that the American Dream is not given to everyone.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream" Speech "The Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity" Using this line will show that African Americans have to work ten times harder to get little to no benefits from their hard work. I will use this sentence to contrast from white peoples work and payment to African Americans. Racial discrepancy.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream" Speech "This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life. Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." I will use this line to explain what the "note", The Declaration of Independence originally said vs what it actually turned out to be.
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Emancipation Proclamation President Abraham Lincoln "That all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." The American "Dream" at this point was made "possible" for African Americans. Lincoln extended the American Dream to Slaves.
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Five Thirty Eight/ Ben Casselman Inequality Is Killing The American Dream "Decades of rising income inequality and slowing economic growth have eroded a pillar of the American dream: the hope that each generation will do better than the one that came before." This text will show that the American dream is becoming less possible as the years and generations go on.
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Joseph Bruchac Ellis Island "I too come to this island, nine decades the answerer of dreams. Yet only part of my blood loves that memory." This text shows that people come to America to get a chance, to chase their dreams and have a better life. Only to find out that it is all fake and a lie. It will show that the American Dream is not a lie but only true for some.
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Joseph Bruchac Ellis Island "Waiting for those who'd worked a thousand years yet never owned their own." I will use this text to show that people can work day in and day out and not have anything to show for it.
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Kimberly Amadeo, What Is the American Dream? Quotes and History Both the right to pursue happiness and the right to disagree about what that means are what makes the American Dream so powerful.. I will use this quote for my claim.
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Kimberly Amadeo, What Is the American Dream? Quotes and History The American Dream is protected by the Declaration of Independence, in this familiar quote: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. I will use this text in my background information.
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Kimberly Amadeo, What Is the American Dream? Quotes and History The American Dream was first publicly defined in 1931. I will use this fact in my background information.
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Kimberly Amadeo, What Is the American Dream? Quotes and History The Declaration continued, "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." I will use this text in my background information.
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Marilyn Geewax, The Tipping Point: Most Americans No Longer Are Middle Class Slightly more than half of Americans (about 50.1 percent) either live in a lower-class household (roughly 29 percent) or an upper-class household (about 21 percent). I will use this to show the difference between two significant classes of society.
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National Women's Law Center, Measuring the Wage Gap, Women of every race are paid less than men, at all education levels- and it only gets worse as women's careers progress.
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National Women's Law Center, Raising Women's Pay, We can shrink the wage gap by lifting up the salaries of women in low-wage jobs, making it easier for women to enter high-paying careers and ensuring women don't take a financial hit for being parents.
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The 19th Amendment The Constitution of the United States "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." The American Dream was extended to women.
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The Declaration of Independence "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." The Declaration of Independence protects your opportunity to improve your life, no matter who you are. I will use this to show that this document is clearly stated but not put in place for everyone.
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Title VII, Civil Rights Act of 1964 "The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin." I will use this document to prove that this title was put in place but discrimination still is happening in the work place.
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https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation
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https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/United_States_of_America_1992