Question

Specific term required. Jim Cullen’s 2003 “short history” of this concept notes that publishers deemed it too strange a title for the 1931 bestseller in which James Truslow Adams coined it. This concept titles a film about a strike at Hormel Foods, the second Oscar-winning documentary by Barbara Kopple. Raoul Duke asks people where (10[1])he can find this subtitular concept (10[1])in the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. A resolution that this concept (10[1])exists “at the expense (-5[1])of” the (10[1])“Negro” framed (10[1])a Cambridge Union Society debate between James (10[1])Baldwin (10[1]-5[1])and William F. Buckley Jr. (10[2])This (10[1])concept names an (10[2])East Rutherford, New Jersey facility (10[1])that is (10[1])the U.S.’s second-largest shopping mall. (10[3])A (10[1])2017 paper by Raj Chetty (10[1])et al. calls this idea “fading,” (10[1])as shown by declining absolute (10[1])income mobility. For (10[1])10 points, give this term for belief in paths to success afforded by the U.S. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: the American Dream [or the heart of the American Dream; prompt on dreams] (Adams’s book was titled The Epic of America.)
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Ryan RosenbergNYUOttawa5310
Mitch McCullarPenn StateGeorgia State5910
David BassJohns HopkinsTexas7310
John ChenBritish ColumbiaArizona State77-5
Gareth ThorlaksonToronto AColumbia A7910
Justin WytmarIllinois AWaterloo A8110
Patrick TorreMarylandRIT8810
Parth JagtapToronto CCornell A89-5
Graham TroyNorth Carolina BWinona State8910
Ned TagtmeierChicago AIndiana9410
Todd MaslykMichiganIllinois B9410
Joseph ChambersVirginiaUCF9510
Roxanne TangOhio StateColumbia B9810
Kunaal ChandrashekarToronto BGeorgia Tech9810
Aiden DartleyRutgersNorthwestern10310
Conor ThompsonIowa StateHarvard10510
Sarod NoriCornell BVanderbilt11010
Tim MorrisonStanfordUC Berkeley A11010
Liam StarnesChicago BVirginia Tech11010
John John GrogerWUSTL BFlorida11110
Joel MilesMinnesotaMIT11610
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordNorth Carolina AWUSTL A12210
Ryan SunUC Berkeley BWaterloo B12710
William OrrYaleLSE13010
Jaik HavlickArizona StateBritish Columbia14610
Nathan ZhangCornell AToronto C14610