Stephen Cruz

Eli Pardue
9/26/07
AP Lang Comp
LaMags

Stephen Cruz

Cruz is a prime example of a person who has made the American dream a possible notion for minorities or people who are lower in the class ladder. He is the first in his family to go to college and also the first to enter the business world and become a successful man. At the end of the essay, he was making fifty-plus thousand dollars a year before he became a professor.

The Problem that Stephen Cruz sees wit the American dream is that it is minority biased. due to the Civil Rights Act, companies and corperations are required to give preference over a Mexican with the same credibility as a white man when bot ha re applying for the same job. Because of this, it was very easy for Cruz to get a job in his career, and upper management job offers flew at him. However, the business world is also biased against minorities, and it can be very difficult to hold a lower position for minorities in the lower position because of generalization about the education and pesonal drive of those individuals.