Fuchs The American Way Of Families: Is The Dream Really As Sweet As Apple Pie?

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Term Paper Title	Fuchs The American Way Of Families: Is The Dream Really As Sweet As Apple Pie?
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Fuch's "The American Way of Families": Is the Dream Really as Sweet as Apple Pie?

Fuch's "The American Way of Families": Is the Dream Really as Sweet as Apple Pie?

     There were a few aspects of Lawrence H. Fuchs's essay The American Way
of Families that I found extraordinarily interesting.  He discusses influences
of the modern American family that I found quite bizarre.  Fuch also labels the
key component to the American family as being none other than the gratification
and pursuit of one's own self being.  The most bizarre thing that overcame after
reading this piece was that I found myself to be in total agreement with Fuch.
That is what scared me.  I realized that something that is supposed to be so
stable in one's own life is really as "cut and dry" as we would like to believe.
In essence, the main premise of human existence is satisfying yourself; at every
level down to your basic foundation.  We fight to make our own lives better at
times even at the cost of others.  This holds true in almost every arena of
society that I tried to imagine after reading Fuch's essay.  The only area of
life that this struggle to satisfy yourself above and beyond all does not
pertain in my opinion is religion:  it is impossible to worship a being and try
to overcome that being at the same time.  Whether it involves fighting to be on
top in the workplace or playing dirty to win a sporting event; almost all
Americans have the fire burning within them that compels them to reach their
goal or self satisfaction.  In reading The American Way of Families, it occured
to me that the struggle for pleasing one's own self existed even in the family.
     I don't think that after reading this piece that anyone can deny the
existence of this urge in themselves.  The urge exists in every form.  No matter
how picture perfect the family may be perceived, each member of that household
wants to please themselves.  In this quest to satisfy the appetite of happiness
we often overlook the feelings of others.  For instance, suppose that in a
family that consisted of two college graduates in the role of parent, were faced
with a child (that they brought up with all of their values and good intentions)
that suddenly decides that he or she wants to move to Hollywood to become a rock
star.  It is almost by instinct that these parents will not approve of their
child's decision.  They do not want to lie about what their child is doing when
their friends(who coincidentally all have children in colleg...

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