American Dream

  • The U.S. Route 66, a century-old highway spanning from Chicago’s Lake Michigan shores to the Pacific coast in Santa Monica, California, is known as the “Mother Road” under the pen of American writer John Steinbeck in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Grapes of Wrath.” The road symbolized mobility, freedom, and the American Dream, aiding many…

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  •   Jimmy Martinez, whose image appears above, is a 22-year old Salvadoran who has traveled north since October in a caravan of Central American migrants seeking to reach the United States. The picture shows Martinez wearing his shorts low and baggy and his hair slicked back like his favorite U.S. hip hop artists. Like many other…

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