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American Self-Making & Self-Help, American Dream v. Immigration, Women…
American Self-Making & Self-Help
Success
"What is an American?" Michel-Guillaume jean de Crevecoeur
- "It is of very little importance how and in what manner an indigent man arrives; for if he is but sober, honest, and industrious, he has nothing more to ask of heaven. Let him go to work, he will have opportunities enough to earn a comfortable support, and even the means of procuring some land, which out to be the utmost wish of ever person who has health and hands to work."
- Success as "men"
- Success as an american --> connects with the American dream
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Theodore Roosevelt "The American Boy"
- "He must not be a coward or a weakling, a bully, a shirk, or a prig. He must work hard & play hard"
-" He must be clean minded & clean lived"
- In order to succeed as an American man, must have the characteristics to do so
- can't be weak
- Typical man stereotype
Andrew Carnegie "The Gospel of Wealth"
- Self-made millionaire
- Social responsibility of the wealthy in order for the society to thrive
- "This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance"
- "In bestowing charity, the main consideration should be to help those who will help themselves; to give those who desire to rise the aids by which they may rise"
- Provide the help when you can to help push those to success
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Individualism
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Civil Disobedience Thoreau 
- "Should be men first, and subjects afterwards
- Problems with voting and the government
- More in touch with nature and individual self rather
Transcendentalism
- Sub branch of Romanticism; OPPOSITE of Enlightenment
- Ideas: Individual as Divine, God as benevolent, Nature as pathway to the divine
- "Hippie ish"
"The Wavering Image"
- Identity power struggle with one's self
- "Because I am a Chinese woman ... I would not be a white woman for all the world."
- Inspirational story for embracing a woman of color & not the francization of Asian women
American Dream
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Marco Rubio's Presidential Campaign Speech
- "How united by a common faith in their God given right to go as far as their talent and work would take them, a collection of immigrants and exiles, former slaves and refugees, became one people, and together built the freest and most prosperous nation ever." --> the Nation built on the American Dream/melting pot
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Power Struggle
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Frederick Winslow Taylor "Principles of Scientific Management
- Now a high prices man does just what he's told to do, and no back talk"
- "Science, not rule of thumb
Harmony not discord
Cooperation, not individualism
Maximum output, in place of restricted output
The development of each man to his greatest efficiency & prosperity"
DOESN'T PROMOTE INDIVDUALISM THINKNING ANYMORE
Charlotte Perkins Stetson "The Yellow Wallpaper"
- Being talked to as a child
- Not being taken seriously in medical field
- Seen as delusional (almost like the Salem Witch Trials)
- Condition being treated as mockery
- Sexism BASICALLY
Booker T. Washington
- Five Fingers Analogy
"In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress"
- Can be separate, but do the right thing for the success of society as one
- article helped understanding of address more
- Power struggle of African Americans trying to be heard
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Immigration
Chinese Exclusion Act
- Racism against Asians --> specifically Chinese coming into America
- All needed papers for proof
- Trying to get rid of essentially
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"Social Effects of Immigration"
- "Foreign born more subject to insanity than the native-born"
- Illiteracy, dirty, "social evil"
- Basically describing everything they see wrong with immigration and how it will decline the "quality of America
America known as the melting pot ; diversity from all over the world
- Haven't seen social decline
- Immigrants create more jobs and businesses than Americans
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