Assertion #4 : Two Very Different Views

        According to the textual definition of the American Dream it's “the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative.” Yet both of the billboards shown are a “white idealistic” life. It's a white mother, white father, two white kids and a white dog heading towards their “dream”. It's the idealistic family for the Americans. There aren't any people of color including nor any other ethnicities. In order to be able to accomplish the American Dream a person must look as in these billboards, not only resemble like these characters but also having both parents, a boy and a girl plus a dog. There also happened the Great Depression, which is shown in the second billboard. There was no hope nor light nor anything to shine throughout the lives of these people but only the “ American Dream” but that was just a lie. There aren't many differences or diversities considering the “ American Dream”.
         
          In the billboards shown to compare one another displays the American Dream. The author who recreated the first billboard uses juxtaposition to compare both views of the American Dream. In the first image it offers the view of the author itself just as the second image portrays its author. The first image exhibits the view of a white “perfect” family, driving towards the same goal with the same mindset. It uses symbolism to signify the idealistic Americans and their goals. It's supposed to advertise how great America is and persuade the audience that white Americans is the way battling a mental fight. Stating “World's highest standard of living. There's no way like the American way.” while depicting white females and males with a bright daylight and bright future paves the way for another person to visualize their dream, their future as white people. In the second billboard the author uses an allusion to the Great Depression. It connects it by showing a line of depressed, saddened, a little filthy, human beings waiting in line walking the opposite way as the car is shown to be driving. Curtis Mayfield is deliberately tries to illustrate how if a person is not white they will not succeed in fulfilling their American Dream. They have been drawn 20 years apart, which shows how increasingly the dream, which is meant to last until America is no longer America, is deteriorating with a different meaning. The quote “There's no place like America today” implies that America has drastically negatively changed. Curtis Mayfield sets forth the drawing in which not only has the background changed but the emotions of the passengers in the car have changed.

           Curtis mayfield, as the second artist, shows the deterioration and changes of the American Dream throughout the many years however the first artist shows the how empowering white people were to the extent that not one person could show them differently. In spite of all of this, it has been proven that the American Dream is depicted by the person itself and who wants to believe it or not. Both of these artist have two very different views regarding this supposedly joke of a Dream.

Assertion #3: Rose from Concrete

           Roses are not just a beautiful plant from nature they express promise, hope, new beginnings, contrasted by thorns symbolizing defense, loss, and thoughtlessness. People and flowers resemble in a way they are complex but they could also simply mean all of these various symbols. Even so Tupac exemplifies how they are different, flowers could miraculously grow out from concrete but people can't come up from situations which seemed that they could never escape.
            Tupac, composes a poem in which he uses analogy to compare his personal life to a crooked rose growing from concrete. He explains how he was able to achieve his dreams and hopes through struggle showing that the said “impossible” is possible. Struggle is a necessity to achieve goals when a person comes from the “ghetto”. Although people will judge, discriminate, accuse, and try to contradict one's own success path that is this something dreamers who want to achieve should be able to sacrifice. There is no doubt that other human beings will judge, however sometimes all achievers seek for is a little praise for being able to come up regardless the situation they've been through. Tupac also uses juxtaposition and imagery to compare two things so similar yet seen so differently. He elucidates how a rose could grow from concrete, be a little messed and people would be astonished at just seeing a rose grow through concrete yet when a child growing through the ghettos could rise above all the negative situations and able to speak/act the same way as an executive still be judged by their “dirty” background.
              The American Dream is possible as Tupac showed. Despite that the white picket fence and green lawn visualized by white people will always be the ideal success. The raised in nice neighborhoods far away from the hood will always be the ideal people who will succeed. There will never be an ideal Latino, African, Asian, or any other ethnicity other than “white” to be successful in this “American Dream”. Where a person comes from and grows up will always be judged, it will never be overlooked. Beautiful roses grown from dubious places could be disregarded even so “ghetto” children will always be seen as the “ghetto” is where they belong. Nonetheless just a little praise from overcoming burdensome situations would be enough, but not even that could be achieved.

Assertion Analysis #2 : Bill of Rights

       How many times have you seen someone have the freedom the Bill of Rights suggests? According to Burger King's Bill of Rights every one of their customers has had the freedom that has been entitled to them. Although it might be true for the CEO’s ethnicity background it has been roughly proven otherwise by other “races”.
       Burger King's Bill of Rights, explained by Brad Blum Burger King’s ex-CEO, goes further into explaining not only the rights of his customers in the fast food restaurant but the rights they have in general. Reiterating the Bill of Rights he accentuates the point in which a person has the freedom to speak their mind, the right to give a damn or not, and to freedom in general. Therefore he goes further into detail giving a sense of two meanings to his words. When he states, “You have the right to laugh until soda explodes from your nose. You have the right to stand up and fight for what you believe in.” it has drifted from the actual Burger King’s Blum proclaims that a customer has the right to order as he wishes and should be compensated by meeting their wishes. He is speaking about something greater yet something so peculiarly false. Americans don't get the protections and individual liberties as the Bill of Rights speak of.
       Brad Blum strategically conveys to a person emotion. He uses a pathological appeal to make the reader hungry by describing thoroughly the rights customers have about choosing their menu. He is persuading the reader to eat at their fast food restaurant and giving information about their rights. While he is doing that he uses anaphora repeating the words “you have the right” to emphasize the point he is trying to make. Which is you as a human being, as a person, has every right that has been entitled to you since the writing of the Bill of Rights and no one is supposed to make you think differently. The writer connects to a reader by appealing to the credibility in the Bill of Rights. Although he is trying to use it to make his statement credible, it has shown that the Bill of Rights itself is condemned as having untrue statements. Not everyone has it their way, there are people who
       Generally there is proof to a person’s own liberties and just fullness of what the government speaks of. In spite the fact that it has been technically proven it hasn't been proven to every single ethnicity. It has been proven to those who call themselves white. The Bill of Rights suggests freedom for all, but the unjustifiable crimes and broken promises to which the Bill of Rights have backed up speak otherwise. Just as the Bill of Rights in Burger King and the Bill of Rights of America it is all false advertisement. Going to Burger King and witnessing the mistreating of a young African girl, has dealt me to understand that it is, as a matter of fact, fake.

Assertion Analysis #1 : Is the American Dream actually gone?

          The injustice of the American legal system makes some people want to leave, but what makes other people want to stay? The American Dream has always been referred to having substantial freedom, amassing enough money to be stable and other like qualities. It's also been to acquire a higher economic and class status. John Green, an award winning author, amplifies that the American Dream, like sleeping with a cheerleader, is dubious but still viable.

          John Green states that pursuing the “American Dream” is a mediocre joke. He sarcastically explains how his parents worked hard, sacrificed a lot so their dream could come true and that was that “their son would lose his virginity to a cheerleader in the women's bathroom of a Waffle House just of the interstate”.  Also, using hyperbole he enthusiastically shares how his parents passed through hard trials and tribulations to put forth their one and only dream “cheerleader sex”. He undermines the intentions of immigrants coming to America for a sole purpose. He's also disrespecting them showing no regards to their hard work. He derides the idea of the “American Dream”.

          There's something amiss about John Green’s statement, regarding his idea of the American Dream. Immigrants pouring into this country, fleeing from their unjust and corrupt government for a better life. Here in America a human being gets rights given to them just for being human but other countries people are stripped from their rights inequitably just from speaking their mind against their own government. Although here in America there has been cases where people have been unjustly treated just for looking like immigrants,upon this,it may also seem like our own government is prejudice against the lower class/people of color and more biased to people of higher class/white people, there are laws put in place and organizations to protect us. On these terms pursuing "The American Dream" in hope for a better life is a better option to immigrants than their own country. To some it may seem that the American Dream is dead, it has not. It has shaped and reformed through history and time. Back then it may have been freedom of religion, like our founding father came here for, but today it is giving our legacy an opportunity here in America, today it is fleeing a war torn country and a dictatorship, but one thing hasn't changed and Thomas Jefferson sums it up perfectly. We are all here and we all have the right to the “pursuit of happiness”.

         Although John Green sticks to his opinion regarding whether or not the American Dream is really gone, it depends on the person itself. My mom has been living the American Dream, it doesn't specifically mean to be rich and amazingly successful but somewhat stableness. She came to this country to have a better life than before and that's what she's living. My siblings and I have a better life, she acquired a stable job and is able to sustain us.