Category: The American Dream
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Today’s installment of the American Dream Essay Series comes to us from Brittany Shoot. I “met” Brittany through the comments section of my Bitch blog, but I’m pretty sure there was no swearing involved. A couple of years ago, I wrote my master’s thesis on young people’s ethical right to privacy online. I was absorbed…
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Today’s American Dream guest essay (submissions always welcome) is courtesy of Jessica Balmer. And guess what? JESSICA ISN’T EVEN AMERICAN! Is your mind blown by the universality of this concept yet? Get ready. Get set… Often I feel that this point in my life is equivalent to standing at the edge of a precipice waiting…
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The latest installment of the American Dream Essay Series (door is always open to submissions) comes to us from Chanelle Schneider. Also known as @WriterChanelle on Twitter, she runs her own blog at ToThereFromHere where she offers career and life advice for Generation Y, with a specific focus on those older GenYers who have yet to…
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Photo by cliff1066 The next installment in GenMeh‘s American Dream Essay series comes to us courtesy of Bethany Moore. She describes her poetic inspiration as follows: The piece American Daughters was written when I was living & working in Washington DC as a church-state separation activist on Capitol Hill, and I’d occasionally feel full of…
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Today’s piece, brought to you by Kate Lucas, marks the first in GenMeh’s American Dream guest essay series. More info on the project and details on contributing can be found here. My TV viewing time has been hijacked the past several months by one show: the 1980s hit thirtysomething, which recently came out on DVD.…
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I’m very pleased to introduce a new addition to GenMeh – a guest essay series focused on the youth/Gen Y/Millennial perspective on the traditional American Dream. What sort of visions does this term conjure up for members of our generation? Is it relevant to our lives? To our interpretation of success? Does it tangibly exist…
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A Dream Deferred What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore– And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over– like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? -Langston…
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Today, I was thinking about a conversation with a friend that took place a couple of months ago. I asked about her job and she remarked that she could see herself staying there for the rest of her career and being fine with it. I remember being completely taken aback. This wasn’t a reflection on…
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Hate To Break It To You is a recurring feature wherein we dispense succinct home truths that everyone could benefit from facing up to, unpleasant as they may be. This one goes out to everyone who’s ever been hella pissed off at the story of the Prodigal Son. Life is not a meritocracy. I’ve been…
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I promised that I’d offer a rough and ready guide to Project Guinea Pig, in which you acknowledge that you can’t predict the future, stop trying to and start diving down interesting rabbit holes as you encounter them, without thinking about how these life tangents will affect A) your personal “brand” B) your five-year plan…
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