This essay is related to my personal experience. Although I was born in United States, I considered immigrant because of my background. I was studying in the Dominican Republic, but I came back to United States in 2005. I decided to come back because I was studying, and I was looking towards a better future. In the Dominican Republic I did not perceive a successful professional life. I talk to my parents about the situation, and they thought my point of view were extreme. I convince my parents about returning back. It was a very difficult situation, but it was a better approach to a successful career. When I came it was very hard, I start doing a lot of things to acquire a better life. I do not want to think about my past, so I am struggling to achieve my goals.
Laurence Shames’ essay, “The More Factor”, argues about the connection between the perception of most Americans about obtaining more is better and frontier in American history. He describes it as a gaining more things such as money and land. Shames states that the frontier is not only acreage and is an idea. He believes that frontier has more opportunity than American trinity. Shames think that Americans have been put into practice values, hopes, and ambitions that are related to things other than acquire more. He believes that American values will have to shift their expectation of obtaining things. Shames think the economy has been frontier. He believes that instead more space they need more money. He believes that the American attitude of growth and expansion. Shames state the economic frontier it is similar to the Wild West version, so that only money worries, crisis of morale, and even of purpose. The hunger for more is a universal trait because of world history, universal human values, and America has become an example to the world. Shames states, “The frontier, as reality and as symbol, is what has shaped the American way of doing things and the American sense of what’s worth doing”...