Horatio Alger

Eli Pardue
10/1/07
AP Lang Comp
LaMags

Horatio Alger

Horatio Alger’s myth is exciting and full of prospect, but ultimately deceiving. America is not a land of unlimited opportunity, and it is on unbiased to merit based on race, sexual orientation, gender, and religion. Dalton says that the Alger myths need to be eliminated from society. A society such as ours, which has such biases outside of merit, would have a lot of difficulties controlling the biases. One way that we have tried to control the biases was to cerate the Civil Rights Act, which gives slight preference for a company to hire an ethnic person as an employee rather than a white person. Other legal actions could come forth and make it impossible or against the law for a company to not have at least a said number of ethnic employees. These legal treatments of the problem are not fantastic solutions because they allow the un-ethnic population to be discriminated, which most of the time would be met with resistance.
I do not believe that there is a truly effective was to diminish the biases that exist in America. The race biases in America especially run very deep in the country’s history. The only way to truly eliminate them is for time o make racism less and less pronounced.