https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9 en-us 2019-03-11 12:16:04 UTC 2026-01-19 09:31:36 UTC hello@padlet.com 20cputnam https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/339916110 “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
― Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby]]> 2019-03-11 12:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/339916110 20cputnam https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340360581 Everyone comes to America for their own reasons, so is their one dream they all share?]]> 2019-03-12 12:14:17 UTC https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340360581 20cputnam https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340361658 This is the common thought of the American dream but it left people feeling unfulfilled. Wives wanted more than housework and husbands wanted more than a desk job]]> 2019-03-12 12:17:07 UTC https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340361658 20cputnam https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340365111 “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther...”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby]]> 2019-03-12 12:25:06 UTC https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340365111 20cputnam https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340367968 Is it even an  American dream if we all pursue a different goal?

]]> 2019-03-12 12:31:49 UTC https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340367968 20cputnam https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340369131 In these modern times our country is hopelessly divided over hundreds of issues is it possible to have a single "American" dream?]]> 2019-03-12 12:34:29 UTC https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340369131 20cputnam https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340370241 “The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby]]> 2019-03-12 12:36:43 UTC https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340370241 20cputnam https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340371472 The American dreamin some ways is about working your way up in society through wealth, originally that was uniquely American but as time has gone on it is not only possible but more likely in other countries. ]]> 2019-03-12 12:39:07 UTC https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340371472 20cputnam https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340373319 Throughout the digital age communication of ideas is far more common and has left people around the world with their own ideas similar to the american dream. Is it even an "American" dream anymore?]]> 2019-03-12 12:42:33 UTC https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340373319 20cputnam https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340374875 Everybody has a different idea of what makes an American. Are Puerto Ricans American because they're a territory, or even Mexicans and Canadians who live in North America? ]]> 2019-03-12 12:45:47 UTC https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340374875 20cputnam https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340377047 Every generation of people in America want something different, and in the ever changing landscape of America do people even want the dream?

]]> 2019-03-12 12:50:07 UTC https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340377047 20cputnam https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340379511 “Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby]]> 2019-03-12 12:55:03 UTC https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340379511 20cputnam https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340647255 People have to give purpose to their own lives and seek their goals and aspirations throughout. It's not about having the American Dream, it's what you do with it.]]> 2019-03-12 22:00:55 UTC https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340647255 20cputnam https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340654193 “He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby]]> 2019-03-12 22:43:47 UTC https://padlet.com/20cputnam/wpz6ubwbe7j9/wish/340654193