essay: the American dream: easy or not?

English Comp 101

Instructor: Paula Neves

Formal Paper 2: The American Dream: Easy or Not?

Assigned: Monday 3/11/19

Due: Through Turn It In on Blackboard Monday 3/18/19 11:59pm.

Requirements: Minimum 3 full pages (typed, double-spaced, 12-pt font, stapled, with 1”

margins all around, in MLA format)

Prompt:

Write a paper in which you identify Dinesh D’Souza’s main ideas in “Becoming American” and

use one or two of the other texts below to either support or challenge D’Souza’s beliefs about the

American Dream.

Note: Your primary text is D’Souza’s. Use the secondary text(s) to either support or challenge

(not both) “Becoming American.” To supplement your discussion of the texts, you may also use

personal experiences, but do not make these the focus of the paper. The focus should be the texts

and the relationship between their ideas.

Secondary texts:

 Kevin Jennings’ “American Dreams”

 Andrew Lam’s “Immigrants, Memories and Trash”

 Fiona Citkin’s “For Immigrant Women, the American Dream is Alive and Well”

Remember you can use your Reading to Write Chart and Anatomy of a Paragraph handouts to

guide your outlining and drafting.

Please write neatly and double space your lines! Include your name on each page, and, per University

academic integrity policy, sign and hand in the following statement:

On my honor, I have neither received nor given any unauthorized assistance on this essay.

Signed,

____________________________

Name (Print):__________________

Date: _________________________

Section: ___________