Final Exam News Story - Essay Example

America stood as a land of opportunities for Americans as well as immigrants and the only notion was struggle and hard work behind getting success. However, American dream in reality was only a dream. No matter how long and how hard people struggled for attaining the impossible, they never reached their destiny and failed the American dream. They faced unequal opportunities for attaining education, employment, status, economic prosperity, health and other survival concerns. Students such as Steward Michael, Oliver James and Tom Michael complain about increasing educational expenses.

Education is getting expensive and the poor face issues in getting higher degrees. Students whether they are eligible or not attain admission in reputable private educational institutions if they are able to pay the expenses. Otherwise, many students have to earn for paying for the educational expenses. The students who are poor themselves or come from poor backgrounds have to work more for gathering the tuition fees and other college and university expenses. Deparle in his New York Times article, “For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall” narrates the account of Angelica Gonzales, a Mexican American girl along with two others, Melissa O’Neal and Bianca Gonzalez who came of lacking backgrounds.

They were low-income students and as per the author of the article, the low-income students are a threat to the American dream because they end up in having incomplete education with debts to settle by earning for paying the debts (Deparle). For them, the American dream is really endangering, as they are not able to get to their destined future; however, instead, they get trapped in harsh circumstances for leading their lives. Economic and educational inequality and increasing expenses keep the low-income students in getting to their desired place.

Michael Cohen in his article, “The American Dream is now just that for its middle classes – a