Chaucer's Description of the Friar

PICTURE
http://www.szyk.com/pics/iLrg-szyk-original-canterbury-tales-pilgrim-friar.jpg

DESCRIPTION
http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projf983i/char.html


    The occupation that our character has is a Friar that is sworn to poverty and living on charitable donations. In this time period there were poor,middle and rich people and The Friar focuses on looking for donations from those who can give money. The social standing of the Friar seems to be poor. The day to day life of the friar is asking for donations in a limited area. Chaucer did not include which order the friar is apart of. A modern day occupation that the Friar might fit in is a member of the church who asks for donations.

What is the American Dream?

                The American Dream in my perspective is just a dream of living the good, all around beneficial life. In order to put yourself on the road to success you have to educate yourself.  The generation I live in doesn’t have it as easy as the past did, but of course life will always be moving forward. The only difficult part about that is keeping yourself on track with the way life changes over time.

            According to the article ‘Generation Screwed’, older people with higher education than the young can replace those with lower education than themselves in most jobs. Due to this fact, younger people have more of a hard time trying to find a full-time job than those who have a higher education. There are many students who work part-time jobs and have a struggle trying to pay off bills, rent and anything in that particular area. A grocery-store employee said that he quit high school because everyone that he went to school with were getting lousy jobs with their college degrees. Due to what this article has told me, I decided that I am going to to be for sure about what I want to minor or major in college so that I wouldn’t have to switch and spend extra time and years taking classes.

            Another article that I read was ‘icrazy’ which is about how technology causes addiction in a majority of people’s lives. Technology is a distracting factor in the road to the American Dream because most of the day we are either on our phones texting or on the computer checking mail, facebook, etc. Us people can’t really go a day without technology because it is the top place to find out what is going on in the world yet I think we overuse it. An experiment that was done in the University of Maryland called ‘unplugged’ showed results of a high number of addictions. Once again technology is distracting and is being overused.

            The way to get on the road to the American dream is to stay on your education grind and to try and stay away from distracting factors. It isn’t easy to get where you want to go but trying is always an option. Maybe once we start college we won’t start off in the place where we want to be, but if we get through it and keep educating ourselves then we will find ourselves on the road to many opportunities. The major factor to success is education and that is why we need to stay in school. That is the only answer to the question of what the American dream really is, Education and the time given for it.