Argumentative Synthesis:
Craft a five-page argumentative synthesis that integrates at least six of the following twelve sources and your own observations to defend, to challenge, and/or to qualify the statement that America still provides access to the American Dream. This assignment requires that you seamlessly incorporate a variety of disparate sources into a coherent, well-written argumentative essay. Your argument should be central; your sources and your observations should support this argument.
– Billy Corben – Broke (2012)
– Barbara Ehrenreich – “The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream” (2006)
– Thomas L. Friedman – “Globalization: The Super-Story” (2002)
– Thomas L. Friedman – “The World Is Flat 3.0″ (2007)
– Henry Louis Gates, Jr. – Delusions of Grandeur” (1991)
– Alex Gibney – Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream (2012)
– John Gray – “The World Is Round” (2005)
– Paul Krugman – “The Death of Horatio Alger” (2004)
– David Romero – We The Owners: Employees Expanding the America Dream (2012)
– Mark Steyn – “Prologue” from America Alone (2006)
– Andrew Sullivan – “My America” (1996)
– Pablo S Torre – “How [and why] Athletes Go Broke” (2009)