Well, I just don't care to. Nothing's really popped up in my face. Looking for a better life For others, even those with few advantages, the American Dream still glimmers. Nev. He works after school as a busboy at a casino, saving his minimum-wage pay for college. Angela Ford attends a Chattanooga, Tenn., school founded in 1865 to educate former slaves.
Most students live in nearby public housing.
Ford takes those posters to heart. She has never met her father but says she doesn't feel deprived, nurtured instead by her mother, grandmother and aunts. With a near-perfect 3.95 GPA, she plans to pursue college degrees in electrical engineering and business. My mother gave me a lot of educational guidance. She made it fun.