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The American Dream is an unrealistic goal in life. We should strive to be happy with what we have and not with possessions.

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"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

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"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

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This story gives us a look inside the struggles of our ground soldiers. Americans do not value our soldiers at the extent they should. The author helps us understand the mentality needed for soldiers to survive

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125128156

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.    Alice Walker

This quote defines how each individual in the poem feels in their fight for freedom. They are facing their fears and fighting their own battle.

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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.    Langston Hughes

This quote is a lot like his poem Negro. The poem discusses places his people have been up to where they are now. They fought to get here because this is where they really wanted to be. Free and equal.

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One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.  Jay-Z     Jay Z's quote is pretty similar to how I think Sylvia feels by the end of the story. Sylvia does not like the lesson she was taught on the trip about the rich and the poor and decides she will overcome it.

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This picture resembles how these girls should act. It shows how they act in front of the adults. These little girls were taught racism and they have to end the cycle

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I can see the boys in this story sitting around feeling blue as the boys look. They don't want to be treated like trash for the entertainment of the white man

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I can imagine Dee saying this to anyone who will listen. She recognized where her struggles were.

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All Torvald had to do was show his wife Nora appreciation for saving his life

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"In every union roles are assumed, some traditional, some not. My husband used to pay his own bills, I used to call my own repairman. But as marriages progress, you surrender areas of your own competence, often without even knowing it." Ayelet Waldman

The woman of this story did not get to be herself until her husband presumably died. What a tragedy that he lived causing her to die.

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"Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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"Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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"Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors."  ~Evelyn Cunningham

This quote fits this story quite well. The wife does what the husband says instead of what she thinks is best because he is her husband and physician therefore he must know what is best for her.

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Why is it that so many women allow men to bring them down and/or change them? I have seen so many people start out happy and eventually they change and they are no longer the person you used to know. I have an aunt that was like this and when she left my uncle it took some time but she is happier now than I ever remember seeing her before! None of us man or woman should sacrifice who we are to be in a relationship. Been there, done that, and won't do it again!

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Mothers have been teaching their daughters to be ladies for generations. This story sums up the lessons taught from home life to public life.