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When reading, or attempting to read Walt Whitman's notebook, I couldn't make out very much. (I can barely make out my own handwriting). However, I found myself going through the drawings in the notebook. It looks like he was a pretty good artist, and these self-portraits definitely depict that. There's one of his side profile, one with a freakishly large head, and it looks like his hats just keep getting bigger and bigger as the notebook progresses. These images give a pretty good insight about himself, particularly about how others perceive him. But what  does the hat symbolize? I did some research on what a top hat represents, and it says that it's supposed to express power, authority, and containment of thought. Maybe the size progression of the hat represents how he expressed his thoughts less vocally towards the end of his life, and more into his poetry. Maybe he just liked big hats. Even though in the commentary it says that Whitman never doodled or sketche...

I would describe the American dream as sitting next to your Olympic-sized swimming pool on a warm, sunny day, no cloud to be seen. Your soulmate is on the chair next to you, reading the newspaper. There's a cold Shirley temple in your left hand, and your butler brings more California rolls to the table. You scroll through Vogue’s Instagram to see that you’re their featured celebrity, again. The American dream is absolutely everything that society portrays as perfect. The American dream is renting out all of Disney World for a party because having millions to throw away is what we think is perfect. However, everyone has a different perception of what the American dream is. For example, my dad believes that the American dream is living in the 50s, no strings attached. Even in fiction, the American dream is different. In The Hunger Games, the American dream is living a day without hunger or fear. Pretty simple, when you compare it to my vision of the American dream. However, in litera...