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Author : Leticia Gallares-Japzon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 9712712230
Author : Sid Baron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0989739104
Author : Dan Wos
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1452514763
Defining Success in America takes the reader through some of the most critical moments in the life of the author--the moments of change in perspective and mindset while transitioning from the world of music to the world of business. Defining Success in America is about skills, tools, and setting your brain up to succeed, but it's also about looking at life from a new perspective. It captures moments in time when the transitions occur so the reader can see and understand that it is possible to make transitional decisions in life with ease. These transitions can be exciting and not nearly as terrifying as some might think. See how a kid from the rock 'n' roll world developed the skills and tools necessary to move into the business world. Learn how successful people direct their lives, carve their own paths and achieve anything they want. Not only is Defining Success in America an easy read, it is packed with powerful and insightful information. The tools, stories, and expert interviews provide a much-needed blueprint to refer to while moving forward in business, career and life. It doesn't matter if you are starting a business, changing jobs, or perfectly happy in your present career. Everyone can have success in America and the big secret is--you already have all the tools you need.
Author : Michael Kaufman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780226550152
Work hard in school, graduate from a top college, establish a high-paying professional career, enjoy the long-lasting reward of happiness. This is the American Dream—and yet basic questions at the heart of this competitive journey remain unanswered. Does competitive success, even rarified entry into the Ivy League and the top one percent of earners in America, deliver on its promise? Does realizing the American Dream deliver a good life? In Redefining Success in America, psychologist and human development scholar Michael Kaufman develops a fundamentally new understanding of how elite undergraduate educations and careers play out in lives, and of what shapes happiness among the prizewinners in America. In so doing, he exposes the myth at the heart of the American Dream. Returning to the legendary Harvard Student Study of undergraduates from the 1960s and interviewing participants almost fifty years later, Kaufman shows that formative experiences in family, school, and community largely shape a future adult’s worldview and well-being by late adolescence, and that fundamental change in adulthood, when it occurs, is shaped by adult family experiences, not by ever-greater competitive success. Published research on general samples shows that these patterns, and the book’s findings generally, are broadly applicable to demographically varied populations in the United States. Leveraging biography-length clinical interviews and quantitative evidence unmatched even by earlier landmark studies of human development, Redefining Success in America redefines the conversation about the nature and origins of happiness, and about how adults develop. This longitudinal study pioneers a new paradigm in happiness research, developmental science, and personality psychology that will appeal to scholars and students in the social sciences, psychotherapy professionals, and serious readers navigating the competitive journey.
Author : Earl G. Graves
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015041063309
From the high-profile founder of the highly successful "Black Enterprise" magazine comes an illuminating guide for the aspiring African-American entrepreneur. Graves uses his own story--which includes careers in the military, real estate, and public service as an assistant to Sen. Robert F. Kennedy--and those of dozens of other black men and women as examples of how to achieve professional success.
Author : Jed Rubenfeld,Amy Chua
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781408852224
Why do Jews win so many Nobel Prizes and Pulitzer Prizes? Why are Mormons running the business and finance sectors? Why do the children of even impoverished and poorly educated Chinese immigrants excel so remarkably at school? It may be taboo to say it, but some cultural groups starkly outperform others. The bestselling husband and wife team Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, and Jed Rubenfeld, author of The Interpretation of Murder, reveal the three essential components of success – its hidden spurs, inner dynamics and its potentially damaging costs – showing how, ultimately, when properly understood and harnessed, the Triple Package can put anyone on their chosen path to success.
Author : Martha Banta
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400867165
Ranging widely over a span of three hundred and fifty years of discussion and controversy, Martha Banta's book makes a fundamental contribution to the continuing debate on the nature of success and failure in a specifically American context. Her Whitmanesque view of the debate takes in the work of innumerable writers, particularly Emerson, Thoreau, Twain, Melville, Henry Adams, William and Henry James, Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, and Norman Mailer. She draws on the work of philosophers, psychologists, and historians as well. Rather than discussing failure and success as merely economic or political statistics, Professor Banta explores them in terms of attitudes and concepts. She asks what it feels like for an American to succeed or fail in a country that is often defined in relation to its own success or failure as an idea and as an experience. While examining the thoughts, feelings, and language of Americans caught in the dialectic between winning and losing, the author reveals the strain Americans feel in fulfilling the overall scheme of their own lives as well as the life or destiny of their country. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Solomon O. Kanu Esq.
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781644925072
This book is for all foreigners coming into the United States and who decide to stay and excel in the United States. Solomon O. Kanu Esq. has been practicing law in the United States for about 18 years now. He is the Immigrants' lawyer. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics, a masters in banking and business finance, and a juris doctorate degree in law. He is the managing attorney in Kanu & Associates, P.C., a law firm in Phoenix, Arizona, focused on immigration law, criminal defense, and small business transactions. He is married to Chinwe C. Kanu who also holds a juris doctorate degree in law, and the union is blessed with two boys and a girl. Solomon O. Kanu is a Christian, a Knight of St. Christopher, and currently the Vice Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of the West (CANA).
Author : Michael Kaufman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780226550299
Work hard in school, graduate from a top college, establish a high-paying professional career, enjoy the long-lasting reward of happiness. This is the American Dream—and yet basic questions at the heart of this competitive journey remain unanswered. Does competitive success, even rarified entry into the Ivy League and the top one percent of earners in America, deliver on its promise? Does realizing the American Dream deliver a good life? In Redefining Success in America, psychologist and human development scholar Michael Kaufman develops a fundamentally new understanding of how elite undergraduate educations and careers play out in lives, and of what shapes happiness among the prizewinners in America. In so doing, he exposes the myth at the heart of the American Dream. Returning to the legendary Harvard Student Study of undergraduates from the 1960s and interviewing participants almost fifty years later, Kaufman shows that formative experiences in family, school, and community largely shape a future adult’s worldview and well-being by late adolescence, and that fundamental change in adulthood, when it occurs, is shaped by adult family experiences, not by ever-greater competitive success. Published research on general samples shows that these patterns, and the book’s findings generally, are broadly applicable to demographically varied populations in the United States. Leveraging biography-length clinical interviews and quantitative evidence unmatched even by earlier landmark studies of human development, Redefining Success in America redefines the conversation about the nature and origins of happiness, and about how adults develop. This longitudinal study pioneers a new paradigm in happiness research, developmental science, and personality psychology that will appeal to scholars and students in the social sciences, psychotherapy professionals, and serious readers navigating the competitive journey.
Author : Lawrence R. Samuel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527554177
This history of success in the United States illustrates the degree to which personal and professional accomplishments have determined overall life satisfaction. Beyond serving as a guide to the past, present, and future of success in America, especially that found in the business world, this book poses a provocative argument: the standard practice of employing outer-directed measures of success, notably wealth, power, and fame, has worked to the psychological disadvantage of many Americans. More specifically, it shows that a comparative and competitive view of success has made a significant number of individuals feel less successful than if more inner-directed measures were used. Ironically then, the traditional model of success in the United States has been largely a failure. This work offers historians, practitioners, and general readers of non-fiction a blueprint for how to adopt a more meaningful and positive model of success in their everyday lives.
Author : Peter C. Moskos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351516693
This is an engrossing account of Greek Americans?their history, strengths, conflicts, aspirations, and contributions. Blending sociological insight with historical detail, Peter C. and Charles C. Moskos trace the Greek-American experience from the wave of mass immigration in the early 1900s to today. This is the story of immigrants, most of whom worked hard to secure middle-class status. It is also the story of their children and grandchildren, many of whom maintain an attachment to Greek ethnic identity even as they have become one of America's most successful ethnic groups.As the authors rightly note, the true measure of Greek-Americans is the immigrants themselves who came to America without knowing the language and without education. They raised solid families in the new country and shouldered responsibilities for those in the old. They laid the basis for an enduring Greek-American community.Included in this completely revised edition is an introduction by Michael Dukakis and chapters relating to the early struggles of Greeks in America, the Greek Orthodox Church, success in America, and the survival and expansion of Greek identity despite intermarriage. This work will be of value to scholars of ethnic studies, those interested in Greek culture and communities, and sociologists and historians.
Author : Christopher Jencks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1979-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015016121314
Author : Ellen D. Wu
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691168029
The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant communities into the national fold, charging that the failure of America to live in accordance with its democratic ideals endangered the country's aspirations to world leadership. Weaving together myriad perspectives, Wu provides an unprecedented view of racial reform and the contradictions of national belonging in the civil rights era. She highlights the contests for power and authority within Japanese and Chinese America alongside the designs of those external to these populations, including government officials, social scientists, journalists, and others. And she demonstrates that the invention of the model minority took place in multiple arenas, such as battles over zoot suiters leaving wartime internment camps, the juvenile delinquency panic of the 1950s, Hawaii statehood, and the African American freedom movement. Together, these illuminate the impact of foreign relations on the domestic racial order and how the nation accepted Asians as legitimate citizens while continuing to perceive them as indelible outsiders. By charting the emergence of the model minority stereotype, The Color of Success reveals that this far-reaching, politically charged process continues to have profound implications for how Americans understand race, opportunity, and nationhood.
Author : Hildegard Schnell
Publisher : Grin Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 364050626X
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, University of Duisburg-Essen, course: Proseminar: An Introduction to American Civilization, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: "We were brought up to succeed, weren't we?" (Arthur Miller "The Price", 109). Is this true? Were we really brought up only to succeed in order to achieve material aplenty and is this what the American Dream is all about: Success as the reason for living? In my research paper I will try to find an answer to these questions by looking at the origin of the concept of the American Dream, the critical interpretation of the American Dream referring to itschange of values. Furthermore, I am going to discuss the influence of the American Dream on popular imagination and, as a conclusion, I will briefly state the effect it has on political rhetoric. So, the main purpose of my paper is to show that the notion of the American Dream has not always been identified with materialism but with success primarily as a God given task intended for self-salvation. Therefore, I will point out how this aspect of a success in religious and moral terms changed into an aspect of material success only. Further, I will show, according to this change that the aspect of material success promotes selfish individuals instead of a "Great Society" in which the American Dream is realized in the community since there is "nothing whatever in a fortune merely in itself" (Adams "The Epic of America", 416). While the American Dream stands on the one hand for a land of opportunity where everyone is given the chance of attaining something according to one's ability, the American Dream stands on the other hand for a struggle to succeed without much social or emotional support that eventually turns into an American nightmare.
Author : Scott A. Sandage
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 067401510X
What makes somebody a Loser, a person doomed to unfulfilled dreams and humiliation? Nobody is born to lose, and yet failure embodies our worst fears. The Loser is our national bogeyman, and his history over the past two hundred years reveals the dark side of success, how economic striving reshaped the self and soul of America. From colonial days to the Columbine tragedy, Scott Sandage explores how failure evolved from a business loss into a personality deficit, from a career setback to a gauge of our self-worth. From hundreds of private diaries, family letters, business records, and even early credit reports, Sandage reconstructs the dramas of real-life Willy Lomans. He unearths their confessions and denials, foolish hopes and lost faith, sticking places and changing times. Dreamers, suckers, and nobodies come to life in the major scenes of American history, like the Civil War and the approach of big business, showing how the national quest for success remade the individual ordeal of failure. Born Losers is a pioneering work of American cultural history, which connects everyday attitudes and anxieties about failure to lofty ideals of individualism and salesmanship of self. Sandage's storytelling will resonate with all of us as it brings to life forgotten men and women who wrestled with The Loser--the label and the experience--in the days when American capitalism was building a nation of winners.