Why it is easy to be great in America?
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Chapter Four: It is easy to be great in America
It is easy to be great in America, because you have opportunity. Just 200 years ago and further back in history, if I were a blacksmith, you would most likely be a blacksmith. If I were a peasant, you would be a peasant. Whatever your father was, you would become.
It is not that way anymore; you can be anything you want to be. While all of your goals and wishes might not come true, you don’t have to be your father. You can study, learn, grow and develop into something you want to be.
We have gone through periods in our history that allow us this freedom and growth.
In the beginning we believed things because we did not have the knowledge to believe otherwise. Our leaders gave us what we should think, and we thought it for the most part.
We believed the world was flat, and the earth revolved around the sun.
We believed not long ago that using leeches to extract blood would cure us of disease.
In 1899 Mr. Charles Duell, the commissioner of the U.S. Patents said, “Everything that has been invented, has been invented.” He said we should close the Patent office down to save the taxpayers money.
Since 1899, a lot of things have been invented. Things your grandmother has seen since she was born in 1908: cars, highways, television sets, computers, search engines--and this is just the beginning. Inventions are going to be coming at us faster and faster as our world knowledge continues to increase. No longer will people be uninformed if they choose, because of technology and the communication options these channels create. Ideas continue to spread, whether leaders want them to or not. Technology communication will continue to expand and broaden and invade our minds with new concepts and ideas.
People are attracted to new inventions and technologies. Your Great-Grandfather Everett was a gadget freak. Everett would bring home gadgets all of the time. He was fascinated by new inventions, even though at that time it might be a machine peeling carrots, or a radio with numbered station dials. He was the first on his block to have this thing called an automobile.
It is easy to be great in America, because a significant amount of people don’t read books after high school. The average American that does read, only reads one or two books a year. The average American family only makes $45,000 a year. The average American cannot run around the block.
Yet this is significantly more than a large portion of the rest of the world. In many places there are no books, there are no economic possibilities like you in America have.
We live in a special place in the world and should recognize what we have to work with in creating a special life.
How easy is it to be great in America? Read more than a few books a year, make more than $45,000 a year, and run around the block a couple times, and you become more than average.
Only about 7% of Americans make more than $75,000 a year. If earning money, keeping your mind alive with reading, and running around the block make you great, it should be easy for you to achieve whatever you would like to achieve.
It is easy to be great in America.
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Chapter Four: It is easy to be great in America
It is easy to be great in America, because you have opportunity. Just 200 years ago and further back in history, if I were a blacksmith, you would most likely be a blacksmith. If I were a peasant, you would be a peasant. Whatever your father was, you would become.
It is not that way anymore; you can be anything you want to be. While all of your goals and wishes might not come true, you don’t have to be your father. You can study, learn, grow and develop into something you want to be.
We have gone through periods in our history that allow us this freedom and growth.
In the beginning we believed things because we did not have the knowledge to believe otherwise. Our leaders gave us what we should think, and we thought it for the most part.
We believed the world was flat, and the earth revolved around the sun.
We believed not long ago that using leeches to extract blood would cure us of disease.
In 1899 Mr. Charles Duell, the commissioner of the U.S. Patents said, “Everything that has been invented, has been invented.” He said we should close the Patent office down to save the taxpayers money.
Since 1899, a lot of things have been invented. Things your grandmother has seen since she was born in 1908: cars, highways, television sets, computers, search engines--and this is just the beginning. Inventions are going to be coming at us faster and faster as our world knowledge continues to increase. No longer will people be uninformed if they choose, because of technology and the communication options these channels create. Ideas continue to spread, whether leaders want them to or not. Technology communication will continue to expand and broaden and invade our minds with new concepts and ideas.
People are attracted to new inventions and technologies. Your Great-Grandfather Everett was a gadget freak. Everett would bring home gadgets all of the time. He was fascinated by new inventions, even though at that time it might be a machine peeling carrots, or a radio with numbered station dials. He was the first on his block to have this thing called an automobile.
It is easy to be great in America, because a significant amount of people don’t read books after high school. The average American that does read, only reads one or two books a year. The average American family only makes $45,000 a year. The average American cannot run around the block.
Yet this is significantly more than a large portion of the rest of the world. In many places there are no books, there are no economic possibilities like you in America have.
We live in a special place in the world and should recognize what we have to work with in creating a special life.
How easy is it to be great in America? Read more than a few books a year, make more than $45,000 a year, and run around the block a couple times, and you become more than average.
Only about 7% of Americans make more than $75,000 a year. If earning money, keeping your mind alive with reading, and running around the block make you great, it should be easy for you to achieve whatever you would like to achieve.
It is easy to be great in America.
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Comment by Ben kputasson on July 25, 2009 at 6:31am - It depends on what your concepts of greatness is all about.America is indeed a great country,but not all Americans are great.It's still part of imperfect world,thus,limitations still abound.
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Comment by P KRISHNA RAO on July 11, 2009 at 8:41am -
There are great People all over the world. America has more of these greats due to greater opportunities for Education / Free Economy etc.
Many countries contributed to this situation in America by migration of Brainy people from these countries.
But what really helped America was recognition of individuals purely for their contribution irrespective whether one was a native American or a migrant.
My view is this is the single most significant factor.
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Comment by MARY MCKINNEY on July 6, 2009 at 1:57am - I agree that is is not always easy to be great in America especially nowadays with more and more families becoming homeless. However, sad as it may be, many children are taught to do bad in school. Some are even punished for making higher than a C on their report card. I grew up in the Appalachian Mountains. Although there were plenty of working people, mostly coal miners at that time, there were some too lazy to work. They taught their children to be ignorant for the sole purpose of getting SSI Disability checks, along with Welfare. The parents could reap in the benefits of their own SSI checks along with their child(s). The children were then stuck, unable to break out of the system. Many times mental and emotional abuse attributed to the child s outcome. The parents also benefited from the prolonged stay of the children because their income was too low to support themselves. Many becoming alcoholics and drug addicts. A petition has been filed to stop paying government checks to drug addicts in WV. I, of course voted for it. However, I have to wonder what will happen to the children as there are already too many children needing foster parents. On the bight side, this might save many others from a similar fate!
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Comment by Kristen Scott on June 30, 2009 at 9:57am - Never quit learning. Never think you can't learn something from everyone you meet. Do something each day to improve your situation and never, never, never give up.
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Comment by Konrad Fischer on June 30, 2009 at 7:06am -
I'm the son of an architect and an architect too. I've read more than one book and never have been in the U.S.A. I'm not great and I know how easy it is to deny the other side of truth. Thank you all for the critical comments regarding too much simplifiying our great world.
Konrad
from Germany
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Comment by James Bryant on June 29, 2009 at 1:50pm - If it was that easy it would be nice. However, it comes down to an exceptional work ethic, focus and the deep rooted desire to be great!
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Comment by Cynthia Gallimore on June 29, 2009 at 12:50pm
- The people who succeed simply do what the people who fail were unwilling to do.
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Comment by Charlene L. Ragsdale on June 29, 2009 at 12:28pm -
It is because American's BELIEVE we can be great here. Belief is the first step in manifesting and accomplishing your goals...........................great post!
Charlene L. Ragsdale - Las Vegas, NV
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Recent Winner of the Star.tup.biz $1000 Giveaway!
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Comment by Peter Grundy on June 29, 2009 at 3:27am - John Loblack nailed the answer to what is a pointless question.
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Comment by Timothy Kendrick on June 28, 2009 at 8:00pm - Because me and my brothers and sisters have bled and died all over the world for this Great Nation. I have traveled the world over 6 times and it is always the same. Everyone wants to come to America, The land of opportunity. If you have never seen or experienced Dictatorships, Socialism, or Political Famines one can never imagine what a gift it is to be an American.
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