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The circumstances at this time, it’s difficult, which unstable economics and the situation around the word. It have been moved slowly to maintaining comfortable lives. The American people , their dreams still exist, did not disappear yet, because of the Idealism, which is came from their the values. Who works harder for long hours to get few dollars, if not for own lives, at least for their children. In spite of the current difficult life, they are still believes there is people whose born into riche families, they consider having to be self-reliance and can get opportunities to succeed and achieves’ their goals and they can crossover the obstacles, more than who born into poor family. The values which they believes, are makes them stronger

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