Do you ever think to yourself on a particular day when you 're bored, on why are some people more successful than others when they don 't deserve it? Two words differentiate those people and those are ambition and laziness. The American Dream is about having a good stable career,job,income to support a potential family or just live life. It’s not about being a A-list actor or celebrity but to do what some of our parents couldn’t; that 's to expand our education to further our opportunities. At my cousin 's birthday party at shakey’s, my uncles were talking in retrospect about how 19-18 years prior to now, how much their lives changed due to their American Dream coming true due to sacrifice …show more content…
Eric Thomas discusses the keys to success that are important for anyone trying to succeed financially,relationships and most importantly education because anyone is more than capable to do so, in his speech “ E.T. Hip Hop Preacher Secrets to Success” (Eric Thomas MSV). “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe than you will be successful”(Eric Thomas MSV). Here is the thing lazy people blame other people or the government for their bad job,car which are excuses to not try and work for achieving The American Dream. Most people try to find an easy way to get money by doing the illegal route or the most common by applying to welfare by the government, those same people are the ones who complain excessively about why their lives aren’t as high class. Having success to most people is to be ridiculously rich and famous when it 's not it can be going to a good university,having a family,being able to say you have a degree you have to do it all by yourself no one can help you other than your determination. The beauty about the U.S. is that you can be any race black,latino,muslim the list can go on and on, so people shouldn’t have any excuse. “Why Most People Will Never Achieve The American Dream” (Glenn Llopis 1) is an editorial by Glenn Llopis, revealing the most talked about subject ever …show more content…
David Wallechinsky the author of an article “Is the American Dream Still Possible?”(David Wallechinsky 55) implies that even tho in the 21 century will all the many new innovative ways to be successful with the internet, that it is still hard for many families to survive financially in the United States. “Michelle, 19, is a freshman at the University of California at Merced. She says she is concerned about the financial burden her education is placing on her family”(David Wallechinsky 57), being a student at a prestigious university can be both a positive thing and negative because the financial needs some schools have such as new textbooks, those can run you about 100$ a pop, so applying to all those scholarships should be worth it. Going to a university is very challenging especially when you need essentials textbooks,class fees student loans it 's all over whelming for a young person and even the parents paying for some of the stuff. That is the reason going to school to get a degree, specialize in a particular major and make money in the next 4 years when you graduate, but during those 4 years it is not all complimentary maybe you want a dorm within the school that 's about like 150$ a month for rent; Everything has a price even when going to school. There are some scholarships for being a minority as well some for being a spanish speaker, for being left handed so for being a