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=THE AMERICAN DREAM: Do it for Gatsby!=

Reflection

"If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich." Chapter 18, pg.264 "The Grapes of Wrath"

Gatsby's American Dream ->

Ernest Green, a Little Rock Nine member speaking on behalf of the group. Green, the first black to graduate from Central "It has been a long journey, but I think each of us would consider it worthwhile," he added. "While the sacrifices have been great, we recognized in 1957 that it was not an easy journey."[|LR9 Article]

According to the bill, the Little Rock Nine deserve the medals because: They voluntarily subjected themselves to racial bigotry. They are civil-rights pioneers whose selfless acts considerably advanced the nation's civil-rights debate. They risked their lives to integrate Central High School and subsequently the nation. They "sacrificed their innocence to protect the American principle that we are all one nation, under God, indivisible." They have "indelibly left their mark on the history of this nation." They have continued to work toward equality for all Americans.

Andrew Carnegie's life embodied the American dream: the immigrant who went from rags to riches, the self-made man who became a captain of industry, the king of steel. He preached the obligation of the wealthy to return their money to the societies where they made it -- then added, says Carnegie's biographer, Joseph Frazier Wall, "a very revealing sentence. He wrote, 'and besides, it provides a refuge from self-questioning.'" Produced by Austin Hoyt. David Ogden Stiers narrates.