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The American Dream of Potatoes: McDonald's and Ragged Dick

Did you know that you can pay a week's worth of rent for only seventy-five cents or that a single man can own land bigger than the size of Delaware? Since the beginning of the 19th century, the thought of America has been understood to be the land of the free—the land of opportunity where every American aspires to achieve a "dream," known as the American dream. How does one achieve the American dream? Traditionally, the American dream has been recognized and understood as the accomplishments and wealth through saving and hard work. The American dream has brought these accomplishments and wealth to many, legally, as well as illegally, to seek out upward economic mobility. Everyone naturally strives to live a better life by achieving this dream. A downfall about this upside achievement that even as one climbs up a ladder, another falls.
Horatio Alger's novel, Ragged Dick and Eric Schlosser's journalistic expose......

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