[SOLVED] The American Dream
Comparing and contrasting builds on your critical thinking skills because it forces you to consider the similarities and differences between ideas as well as necessitates the articulation of those contrasts.To strengthen your skills at understanding the notion of the American Dream, you will compare and contrast two different texts in an effort to understand what constitutes the specific elements of the American Dream. So, think about key concepts and ideals (freedom, opportunity, the self- made man, pursuit of happiness, self-determination for ones future, civil rights, civic- mindedness, etc) and compare how your two authors address the same issues. For example, you might contrast Douglass to King and through through how both discuss the prospect of opportunities for Blacks in America.It would be helpful to quote from Henrys Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech or Jeffersons Declaration of Independence or Thomas Paines Common Sense, as you compare and contrast the arguments made regarding the rights of women, the indigenous, or Blacks. You need to compare and contrast the complaints, violations, and remedies articulated between the complaint texts to note their similarities and differences. In other words, where do women and blacks share in the same complaints? Or how do the struggles of Blacks and the indigenous differ? Or what has changed for Blacks, when contrasting two authors from the same demographic, but measuring progress across time (example: DuBois, King)?