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      Curtis Mayfield produced some of the best and most influential music in America. He wrote songs from "people get ready" to " little child running wild". The funk musician recreated the original billboard into his album cover. The recreation of the billboard suggests the American Dream is just a false advertisement to get people to come here.      The original billboard portrays the perfect idea of the American Dream. White man driving, cheerful white wife in passenger seat, two white children in the back seat, white dog, on a bright sunny day. The original billboards caption is " There is no way like the American Way". Mayfield's recreation in his album shows a darker skin man driving, with a gloomy wife, two cheerful children in the back seat, on a not so sunny day. Mayfield's album shows a variety of black people in black and white facing and walking the other direction. The caption for the recreation is " There's no place lik...

         Roses are a very beautiful type of flower. The rose usually symbolizes beauty, hope, and new beginnings while the stem and thorns of the rose expresses loss and defense. Tupac states that when people see a rose grow from concrete trying to survive they will be amazed  ," you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete."  however once its a ghetto kid they will always bring back the dirty stems and how they are still leaning crooked to the side. This sentence basically means that no matter how much you try to come up, society will always try to find the negative and not see that the ghetto kid is trying to rise above that.       In the "Rose from Concrete" Tupac uses imagery of a rose growing from concrete to compare a ghetto kid growing out of bad circumstances to a rose immersing from concrete. Tupac uses an analogy to compare himself to a rose. The rose is a metaphor that symbolizes the strength and pers...

     Being born in this country automatically gives you the many rights enlisted in The Bill of Rights. These rights include things like freedom of speech, press, religion, sexual orientation, etc. All of these rights have a purpose to limit government power. Brad Blum the CEO of Burger King wrote "Burger King Bill of Rights" to promote his food by generating the same idea the Bill of Rights does to make Burger King seem like the perfect place.      Brad Blum immediately grabs the readers attention by saying " You have the right to have things your way".  The idea is to advertise by repeating  "you have the right" throughout his ad to make Burger king seem like the ideal place, however these rights only comes when you are a paying customer at Burger King . The quote " You have the right to stand up and fight for what you believe in." is similar to the first amendment in the Bill of Rights. By giving us these "Burger King" rights he w...

       John Green a very famous, American author, creator of  "The fault in Our stars" and "Paper Towns" has a different evaluation of what he considers the American dream to be. The American dream is when you have the opportunity for prosperity and success, that " life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" as stated by James Truslow Adams.  John Green thinks this so called  American Dream is unrealistic or dead.     In  John Green's quote in Let it snow: Three holiday romances he delineates this " American dream" with insane topics such as the quote " They had a dream that one day amid the snowy hilltops of western North Carolina, their son would lose his virginity to a cheerleader in the woman's bathroom of a Waffle House just off the interstate". A cheerleader, white cheerleader, popular, rich, blue eyes would be the perfect epitome of the class...