American Dream 10/26

Today in class we played a game that represented working towards the American dream. We could only use what was given to us or make trades with other groups to complete the tasks given. A few of the given tasks were build a 4 x 4 house with a roof made out of striped paper; another task was make a hamburger with 3 different sheets of paper. The house represented shelter and the hamburger represented food. On the list there was also education and minerals.Whoever finished the task first one won; my group however lost. I think we lost because we didn't make enough trades for other resources like scissors. We also were not at all organized and everyone was talking over each other which slowed us down. This experiment revealed the American dream takes work and resources with communication and more time. The real American dream however would actually be a lot harder than this game because not all of the resources needed are accessible to many people.