An Analysis Of Patrick Sullivan's 'The Way To Wealth'

Today, in America there are many people who struggle to get their dream job and live an American dream but due to the fact that everyone is applying to the exact same job they cannot accomplish the dream they have always dreamt of. This means that there is plenty of competition between people chasing the same dream. In “Money and Success: The Myth of Individual Opportunity” Gary Colombo discusses how many people live in the myth of an American dream. People assume the American Dream will make them happy by having the dream job and being like everyone else. While Colombo talks about how the American dream is a myth of having money and being successful, Diana Kendall discusses in “Framing Class, Vicarious Living, and Conspicuous Consumption” how the media doesn’t just portray the different social classes differently, the media glamorizes the one and show the other one unfairly and make it seem like if one is poor it is the end of the world. The Higher social class is considered to be rich and successful, and believed to have everything “handed to them”. The middle class is mostly considered the working class and are those who have a hard time getting what they want, but are still able to do something for themselves and their progress. And then the lower class is portrayed as being in poverty in society and not considered to be well off just because of their education and job status. Yet many Americans work and study their hardest to achieve the American Dream and still are

The affliction of vanity appears regularly throughout both pieces of work by Franklin and Woolman. The two men seem to be hampered by this vice of pride and wishing to possess humility. Benjamin Franklin addresses this burden of appearing vain as an issue and aims to improve himself with his constituted principles. He lists “Humility” as his last virtue he aspires to develop so as to “Imitate Jesus and Socrates” (Franklin, 79). How ironic of Franklin to want to be humble, yet strive for moral perfection! Franklin so much as prides himself on this list of virtues that heavily influences his life. However, he accordingly considers pride to be one of the most difficult to overcome considering one can “disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself...” (Franklin,

Andrew Carnegie believed that men, who were wealthy, were obligated to give back to the people for, the greater good. This belief was later better known as the “Gospel of Wealth”. Andrew Carnegie’s views on wealth and of social status are alike to John McDowell’s is that they both worked really hard to get to the spot they deserved, Carnegie immigrated at age thirteen from Scotland and worked his way up by developing the telegram system during the civil, there collecting his first million then dominated the steel industry; prospering his enterprise, which lead him to be the second richest man after Rockafeller.

In Andrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth, he asserts that while you’re young you work hard to make money and once you’ve acquired a surplus of money it’s your responsibility to give back and help others. While I can’t say that I’ve acquired a great amount of money in the last four years I have learned that you don’t need money to give back and it’s never too early to start giving back. At the end of my freshman year I went to on a trip to Detroit with my church. Of the many things we did on that trip one day we spent the whole day in a slum cleaning up the neighborhood.

He discusses all that is wrong with the wealthy individuals and how they are spoiled. He makes his argument by revealing how wealth is disposed of, “There are but three modes in which surplus wealth can be disposed of. It can all be left to the families of the descendants; or it can be bequeathed for public purposes; or, finally, it can be administrated during their lives by its possessors” (3). The author is Andrew Carnegie and intended audience is the general public but more specifically are those of wealth and make them conscious of how surplus wealth is disposed of. This is a primary source and reveals that even though this was how the world was a decade ago, it is quite similar and not much has

In his article “Wealth”, Andrew Carnegie argues for the wealth to give back their wealth to the community by providing “public institutions of various kinds … [to] improve the general condition of the people” (Foner 30). Carnegie uses this article to promote his Gospel of Wealth idea and provide his interpretation of the changing America. Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth stated that “those who accumulated money had an obligation to use it to promote the advancement of society” (Foner 28). Carnegie’s articles focuses on the themes of Capitalism and Inequality, which continue to shape society.

Think and Grow Rich I read Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. this book was written during the great depression, one of the hardest times in America's history. People had given up and were lost with no direction. Think and Grow Rich was published in 1937.

A popular idea in The Outsiders is that the amount of wealth one is born in determines how far that person will go in life. This is a common stereotype that has been broken before. There have been some greasers brave enough to steer away from the path that was already set for them. They have the choice of staying how society sees them or to break away from that life. In The Outsiders being wealthy does not determine how far someone will get in life because Darry made the right choices and can be successful later in life, Dally embraced the life and did not try to change, and Bob made bad choices and ended up ruining his life.

There was a total of 13 virtues the great Dr.Franklin focused on during this time to achieve his own form of “perfection.” I say this in this manner, because perfection is like the DNA sequence; unique to each individual that seeks it. The 13 things he focused on are as follows: Temperance , silence, order,

In order to achieve this, he started to take record of his imperfections. He outlined the days in the week along the 13 virtues that formed moral perfection. Throughout the day if he practiced any virtue, he would mark the mistake. He began to realize it was impossible to train his concentration to all virtues. As a strategic tactic, Franklin would tackle on a virtue per week until he personally felt the habit was diminishing.

According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due to poverty. The tremendous difference between average wealth and median wealth is the country's level of wealth inequality at work. In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, and the Poem “Poverty and Wealth” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox both include ways of poverty and wealth.The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. Ponyboy and his two brothers known as Darrel (Darry), who is 20, and Sodapop, who is 16, that have recently lost their parents in an automobile accident. This poem romanticised poverty by calling the poor man happier and resulted in poor not fighting for their legitimate due.This disserved

We are born with faculties like we are with passions. “We are not made up of good or bad nature; we are not praised nor blamed”(page 225, Mayfield). This quote is explaining with passions and faculties are how we feel and desire which is neither right nor wrong, good or bad. Since passions and faculties are not defined, state of character is virtue. State of character is our actions and our habits. “The virtue of man also will be the state of character which makes a man good and which makes him do his own work well” (page 225, Mayfield). In order to have true virtue you need to act to “accordance with a golden mean of moderation” (page 78, Palmer). This means that you need to find an intermediate so you will be praised and succeed. You can’t take too much or too little. Too much for someone could be too little for someone else, therefore each person needs to find their own individual mean.

Franklin also gave many examples to the reader of his autobiography to practice diligence in minding the company they keep and gave much advice about keeping away from questionable establishments and having nothing to do with scoundrels. He made points to make friendships with people that were of good reputation, men who as himself had interest in education and industry and in his youth many older men whose advice he regarded before many life altering

In the first episode of The Ascent of Money, a man by the name of Niall Ferguson was set out to explain how powerful money was. Money has the ability to turn you into a powerful individual, but it can also crush you. Like Ferguson stated, “the power of finance is everywhere we look and it affects all of our lives”. Everyone needs to eat, everyone needs a place to live, and everyone needs transportation to and from work and school. We all need money to provide for products and services we use on a daily basis and that is what Ferguson is trying to get across. We can’t escape the the use of money.

What do the virtues humility, order, and temperance mean in your life? These along with 10 other virtues were very important in one of America's most preeminent inventor's career. This man was Benjamin Franklin. His goal was to live a morally perfect life. With all of the achievements and successes that occurred in Ben's life, this made me wonder if following these virtues could lead me to any greatness. Nevertheless, I tried to achieve moral perfection for three days. During the three days that I followed the virtues of humility, order, and temperance, I faced many struggles and reached many mini victories.