English 1B article responses

In the article "A Generation Hobbled by the Soaring Cost of College, by Martin and Lehran, you begin to see the inconvenient truth about the student loan debt in the United States. The example to set the stage is Kelsey Griffith. She has just graduated from Ohio North University with a staggering 120,000 dollars in debt. We then bear witness to the real statistics and stories of student debt and its necessary fee in our present day to get a degree. This article can relate to the "American Dream" because getting a degree now a day's seems to be the only way to achieve such a dream. Our country has molded itself into this process as a main component to achieve a new future, like the "American Dream". Even though this article does acknowledge the epidemic of student debt. The primary importance of this to students is not what their focus. Like economists and parents say "The only thing worse than graduating with lots of debt is not going to college at all"(3).

In the second article "Millennials Didn't Abandon our Institutions-Our Institutions Failed Them" by Joshua Holland, you find that younger generations are alienated from institutions in our society. They show disinterest towards religion and don't truly believe in our two major parties. In other words our society is becoming less patriotic. They are losing the sense of communities and show a lack of loyalty. But why? A possible reality is that institutions have become less trustful to our generation. Our government is investing on projects to not fully benefit citizens on our own soil, but to harm others on foreign soil. Due to hardships of student debt and economic hardships of just finding a career. Our modern "American Dream" has really become a nightmare.