Horatio Alger: “Ragged Dick” How Does “Ragged Dick” Go From Rags To Riches? What Independent Variables Are Necessary For The Dependent Variable Of “Success?” What Are The Lessons From “Ragged Dick?” Pursuit Of Happyness And Horatio Alger Does The Chris Gardner Story Contain All Of The Ingredients Of A Horatio Alger Story, As Noted In The Story “Ragged Dick?” Read The Biography Below After Seeing The Movie. Is The Film Story Accurate, Or Just Hollywood? Harlon Dalton Claims That The Horatio Alger Story Is “Dangerous.” Why Is That, And How/Is The Film Possibly “Dangerous?” Does The Story Demonstrate The Equality Of Opportunity, Or Reinforce How Difficult The American Dream Is To Achieve? http://www.wuacc.edu/sobu /broach/algerres.html http://www.chrisgardnermedia.com/main/biography.htm
Harlon Dalton: “Horatio Alger” http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/m/materialism.asp Harlon Dalton: “Horatio Alger” What Is The “Alger Myth,” According To Dalton? Why Does Dalton Find The Myth Dangerous? Gregory Mantsios: “Class in America, 2006” According To Mantsios, What Type Of Class Are Americans Willing To Recognize? Why Don’t Americans Recognize The Others? Provide At Least Three Myths That Mantsios Notes, As Well As His Evidence To Refute These Myths. How Has This Changed Over Time? http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/breaking-down-99-percent-where-fit-145717114.html http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/10/19/what-percent-are-you/
You Be The Mythbuster: The Way We Were Alger Provides Stories. Dalton Critiques Him. Mantsios Provides Contemporary Statistics. But How Has Poverty Changed Over Time? Analyze These Statistics, And Collect Your Own Information About What Americans Make & What They Own. http://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/p60-236.pdf
Testing The Horatio Alger Myth Multivariate Models More Than One Independent Variable Can Influence A Dependent Variable Provide A Multivariate (Multiple Independent Variable) Theory Of Success In America, Based Upon The Alger Story Myth. View The Movie “The Pursuit Of Happyness” What Are The Variables That Factor Into Chris Gardner’s Success? (What Are The I.V.s?) Do These Variables Show Support For Alger Stories? Or Do They Show He Is The Exception, Rather Than The Rule? X2 Y X1 = + Dependent Variable Independent Variable Independent Variable