Goal! 2: Living the Dream...

Beauty in My Beliefs Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” (Pettinger 1) Every person has a dream, however not everyone can see the value of their dream, or in other words the beauty that can result from accomplishing their dream. I can feel the success, accomplishment, and pride, when I envision myself living my dream. My biggest aspiration is to become a neonatal nurse. Many people have career epiphanies, a moment when a…

The American dream is referred to a person who has achieved their number one goal in life; Someone living life to the fullest and loving every minute of it. Many people believe that the American dream is a rag to riches story, which it can be, but in some cases it isn’t. A person needs to be a role model for others and not just someone that is famous and is a bad influence. To achieve the dream they have to work hard every single day. People don’t get blessed by being a couch potato who does…

Just Keep Swimming A popular quote from the Pixar movie, Finding Nemo is, “Just keep swimming”. This quote is explaining that people shouldn't give up on what they want, it is saying that you should try hard to achieve your goals. This quote is a very inspiring quote to many people. Most people in the world today live by this quote even if they don not know it. This essay is going to briefly explain that many people from long ago and even today lived by this quote and how they did. The…

the American Dream as well as on the past, therefore creating an unrealistic present. Every American strives for the American Dream, and Gatsby is no different. From his poor upbringings to his significant financial success, Gatsby is delusional of the…

The Bellwood Dream The American Dream, an entire nation clung to this ideology as a driving point that anyone could have achieved success through enough perseverance. The dogma of the American Dream is shown throughout Gwen Bristow’s Celia Garth as an aspiration that Celia drove for. Her drive being for the desire to escape the life of being a poor city seamstress and achieve the prosperity of having a home and family in Bellwood. Bristow astutely used Bellwood as the symbol of the 1950’s…

American Dream Is the American dream still alive and do people still achieve it successfully? Do people all dream about it? The American dream is the belief that anyone even if they were born in a high-class family or poor family, can achieve their own success in a society that it is possible for everyone. Although there are specific values that help people achieve the American Dream such as; individual freedom, work hard, and competition, people succeed if they are self-reliant and have…

Willy Loman is a character who is full of pride and is always aware of what others perceive of him. He dreams to be a great man and wishes the same for his two boys: Biff and Happy. But due to the absence of a father for most of his life, this had affected his character to be too self-loathing, oozing with pride, living in a cold-hearted business world, and developed a mental health instability. To be a great man he says is by being charismatic that if you're well liked and work hard then it…

that live in America have the American dream. Americans have the job opportunities, the housing, the education and the food and water. Americans also want more than the American dream, they want everything bigger and better. In other countries, people want to come to america for just the basic dream of having a chance at getting a job, an education and being able to live in a home. The American dream to people can mean a lot of different things. An American dream is something that everyone…

excitement, is was seen as the golden age of our time. Most people living in America during this time believed in achieving success through what we know as the American Dream, the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays how people in the 20’s believed and followed the American Dream, but it also shows how it dies. Jay Gatsby, the…

homeland of the free” (Hughes 14-15) and if he did not do anything to try and change that then he failed the goal that he set. The country was created on the assent that all men shall be equal, but African-Americans did not share that right. In the same poem, Hughes said that he wanted for the people of this country to “Let America be America again / Let it be the dream it used to be” (Hughes 1-2). Meaning that they should all aspire to follow the objective that this country was based on when it…