Think Piece

A think piece is writing in which you write informally to arrive at and explore an idea.  In this case, you're finding a question to explore about obstacles to experiencing the American Dream.  You need to include in your thinking one essay from the current set of readings in Speculations and one piece that you find on your own, possibly through the internet.  It's a bit like a focused freewrite in feeling, but you have a goal:  to find a question, consider how the readings affect your thinking, make some hunches, and itemize evidence that supports those hunches.