Question

Unspoken is the converse implication -- especially for white men, born with advantages conferred by race and gender: If you can't make it, it's your fault and you are a failure.

Individuals can define success differently, but our upbringing and cultural norms teach us to keep score, and that we define winning in America in dollars and creature comforts.

If we are not born into money, it can be freeing and motivating to believe our lot is not cast, that America affords us the chance to attain meaningful employment and have enough money to live comfortably.

Dark side of the American Dream

Author: Randy Essex

Date: Apr. 16, 2019

From: USA Today

Publisher: USA Today

Document Type: Article

Length: 850 words

Content Level: (Intermediate)

Lexile Measure: 1160L

• Pick two sentences to paraphrase. Be sure to combine the two sentences into one. Remember that you must completely rewrite the source material into your own language.

• Create a correctly formatted in-text citation, using MLA Style, for your quotation and your paraphrase.

• Create a correctly formatted Works Cited entry, using MLA Style, for your article.

Answer 1

Two sentences: Unspoken is the converse implication -- especially for white men, born with advantages conferred by race and gender: If you can't make it, it's your fault and you are a failure.
Individuals can define success differently, but our upbringing and cultural norms teach us to keep score, and that we define winning in America in dollars and creature comforts.

Paraphrased: White men, owing to their gender and race ideology, particularly fall prey to the ideology that they are completely responsible for their success and failure, the definition of which is unduly influenced by cultural values (Essex).

Works cited entry: Essex, Randy. “Dark Side of the American Dream.” USA Today, 16 Apr. 2019.