Annotated Bibliography

"100 HARSHEST FACTS ABOUT YOUR FUTURE: The Decline of the American
Dream." Colorado.edu. University of Colorado at Boulder, 1995. Web. 4
Nov. 2009.

This page was found on the University of Colorado website. The author was
not stated, but whomever it was made a list of 100 different facts and
information in regards to the American dream. These different facts cover
from the 1970’s to the 1990’s. Each fact that is listed references to either a
website or author as to where the information came from. Even though the
author of this particular piece is not listed, it still remains as a reliable source
due to the fact that they credited all of their sources. There are some facts
and statistics that are included in this list of 100 that are not usable in my
research, but there are a few that will be nice to use on my webpage as
interesting facts that pertain to my subject.

"21st Century." Wikipedia.org. Wikipedia, 5 Nov. 2009. Web. 5 Nov. 2009.

This website lists all of the major events that have occurred so far during the
21st century. It is easy to move around on this page and find specific items
because it first starts with contents with links that move you down the page
to get to what you want to see. It has different sections on this one page for
politics, film, conflicts, sports, issues, disasters, and much more. On every
subject, there is extensive research that has been done because there are
numerous links and references as to where the information came from.
There is no one or specific author on this page, but all of the links to the
information are helpful and reliable. If there is not a link, there is a citation
referring to a footnote or source at the bottom of the page. This should be
helpful to my research because there is some much information for me to
use about the 21st century and the different issues that may have changed or
influenced out idea of the American Dream today.

"America 1970-1979: Government and Politics: Topics in the News."

bookrags.com. n.p., 2005. Web. 6 Nov 2009.

This page talks about the Vietnam War during the 1970’s and about America
acting as a superpower. It says a lot about the political issues that were
being discussed at that time and what was going on in the news. There is not
one specific author, the whole team of staff behind the website created the
pages together. The whole website is a political website with factual
information. Every page has links on the specific information in which it is
talking about so that everything is credited and all information is accounted
for.
"American dream." dictionary.reference.com. Houghton Mifflin Company,
2009. Web. 5 Nov 2009.

This page lists four various definitions of the American Dream. Each
definition is a little bit different and it shows how the American Dream can
change from person to person or over time. One definition even references
to the great depression. Another one mentions that the American Dream was
originally something only immigrants strived for, but now it pertains to so
many more. Each definition comes from well-known publishers, like
Houghton Mifflin Company and also Random House. These will just be useful
to use in possibly a page on my site that might include numerous definitions
to show that there is not just one sole definition.

Etzioni, Amitai. "Man and Woman of the Year: The Middle Americans."
TIME.com. TIME, 05 Jan. 1970. Web. 4 Nov. 2009.

This Magazine article was found on the TIME magazine website. This article
was written during the 1970’s and the author is focusing mainly on middle-
Americans. He is talking about how they have been hit the hardest by taxes
and have the quietest voice when it comes to political issues. From there he
goes into depth about the different events that are going on during that
time. He details that Richard Nixon is in the white house and the steps he
has taken as a president for America. At this time, Richard Nixon reformed
welfare, was working on urban planning and also reformed the selective
service system for the military by issuing drafts by lottery. This article also
talks about the Apollo mission and the argument of sending our astronauts to
the moon. Many middle-Americans were against it and wanted to focus our
money and energy on preventing hunger and increasing blacks’ education.
TIME is a well-known magazine across the nation and is a very reliable
source with well-educated writers. This article will be of use to my project
because it identifies all of the social and political issues during the 1970’s
that will have affected the American dream and why it has changed over the
decades.

Gillis, Charles. "American Cultural History." Kclibrary.lonestar.edu. Lone Star

College- Kingwood library, Aug. 2009. Web. 4 Nov. 2009.

This website is extremely helpful because it gives a timeline of important

events that occurred during the 1970’s. My research project is concentrated
on what the American dream meant during each of our past decades and
how it has changed compared to the 21st century. This website gives details
on different events that I believe may have affected how the citizens of The
United States viewed the American dream at that time or how it may have
changed it. It is a website that has been posted by Lonestar University and it
includes many links that look like they will be helpful in furthering my
research in this project.

Grosvenor Jr., Charles R. "In the 90's." inthe90s.com. n.p., 2008. Web. 5 Nov
2009.

This website lists different facts almost in the order of a timeline of events or
popular culture in the 90’s. This website site does not seem very resourceful
because anyone can get on and add their own information. It seems to focus
on music and film as important things that happened in the 90’s as well as
toys. This alone might help as far as documenting what people think are
important items, but overall I can’t say it is very reliable. I also might just use
some a few of the listed items as jump off points that I can research further
on my own by finding more reliable sources regarding the particular subject.

Jillson, Cal. "Excepts from Chapter 9: The American Dream in the 21st
Century." smu.edu. Southern Methodist University, n.d. Web. 4 Nov
2009.

This page shows an excerpt out of chapter nine from a book entitled
“Pursuing the American Dream.” The whole book is about the American
Dream over the past four centuries, but chapter nine specifically looks into
the American Dream in the 21st century and how it compares today based on
the past. The author talks about what the meaning of the American Dream
was originally and what the meaning has come to mean to us today. He also
mentions the tragedy of September 11th and how that has affected us as a
nation to rely a little bit more on our government for security and that
security is now part of our American Dream. I look forward to using him as a
source because he is a professor at the Southern Methodist University and I
find his take on the 21st century to be interesting. All of my research is
suppose to show how past decades’ American Dream compare to ours now
and since we are currently in the 21st century, this will be quite helpful.

Johnson, Scott. "The American Dream, Has It Changed Us Or Have We

Changed It?." ReliefLoans.com. ReliefLoans, n.d. Web. 5 Nov. 2009.

The article I found on this website focuses on the American Dream today in
the 21st century in comparison to past decades. The author talks about what
the American Dream meant to our grandparents and probably what they
taught us, but that we are not living it in the same way. His whole article
over all is focusing on debt today. He even said that in 2003 consumer debt
surpassed 1.7 trillion dollars. At the bottom of the page it says that Scot
Johnson is a published author and owner of the Direct Pay Company, which
has to do with credit cards. The whole article was somewhat opinionated, but
I do think he is reliable when looking at debt considering he does own his
own credit card company. I tried looking him up as far as being a published
author and the only author I could really find with that name wrote fiction
horrors. If he is that author, it will not help as far as his opinion on this
subject. I still might use what he has to say, not as a concrete source, but as
a citizen’s opinion on the meaning of the American Dream today.

“Life in the 1980’s”. ushistory.org. U.S. History Online Textbook, 2009. Web.
6 Nov. 2009.

This site talks about life during the 1980’s. It summarizes important details
and things that aren’t so “serious”, but nonetheless probably made a
difference to our society. Some thing listed has to do with computers being
released and cable television becoming popular. This information will help
me by giving me an idea of what experiences people went through during
the 1980’s to change their thinking or dreams. Considering this information
is coming from a U.S. history textbook, although online, should be a reliable
source. This website has tons of other historical facts and links that I looked
at, but I believe this certain page should be the most help.

Weisberg, Jacob. "In Defense of the '90s." Slate.com. Slate Magazine, 1 Nov.
2001. Web. 6 Nov 2009.

This article is written a little bit about the tragedy of September 11th and how
our society acted before the incident. He talks about how carefree we were
in the 1990’s as far as spending money freely and letting unimportant trivia
and dramas entertain our lives. He also talks about how it was one of the
best decades as far as low teen pregnancies and low poverty rates. This
article is going to show a great deal of how Americans were in the 1990’s
and how we are in the 21st century because of events such as September
11th. This source should be very reliable because the publisher is a well-
known magazine company. The author of the article is also the chairman and
editor-in-chief of the website. He also is a published author for a few political
books and has worked for numerous magazine and newspaper companies,
such as; The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Financial Times, and
more. He is a very reliable source because he is very well-known and his
opinion will be of some importance.

"What is the American Dream?." Loc.gov. Library of Congress, n.d. Web. 4

Nov. 2009.

This website has a short review of where the American Dream phrase was
originally coined. It lists the author who used it for the first time and also lists
where his idea might have originated from. It references all the way back to
the declaration of independence and includes links to all of the references. It
also includes a couple of different points of view on what the American
dream might mean to different people. This site will be useful for me to use
for just being able to define the American dream from its original state. This
is a government website which makes me feel more secure in using it as a
source. It also includes lots of links that will take me to other websites based
on the same subject which will be beneficial since these other websites are
being referred to from an official government site.

Additional Sources
"14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution." Loc.gov. Library of congress, 3
Nov 2009. Web. 10 Nov 2009.

Hooks, Bell. 2000. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. Cambridge:

South End Press. p. 26.

"Integration: The 1964 Civil Rights Act to the Present." Infoplease.com. The
Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Pearson education, 2006. Web. 4
Dec 2009.

"School Enrollment." Census.gov. U.S. Census Bureau, 2 Nov 2009. Web. 10

Nov 2009.

"The Wage Gap." Infoplease.com. Pearson Education, publishing as

Infoplease, 2007. Web. 4 Nov 2009.