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The American Dream is often defined as the ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American; its is also defined as a life of personal happiness and material comfort as traditionally sought by the individual citizens of the U.S. (Dictionary.com) This so-called dream has been around since before the founding of the country; its main purpose in the beginning was to allow people to flee from European countries that supported religious freedom. Now the vision of the American dream has shifted not just once, but billions of times every individual has his or her own personal dream now and more often then not, no two dreams are the same. According to an online article titled “America as a Religious Refuge: The Seventeenth Century, Part 1,” most of the British North American colonies that eventually formed the United States of America were settled in the seventeenth century by women and men, who, in the face of religious persecution in Europe, fled to America because they refused to compromise passionately held religious convictions. A few of the New England colonies including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland…

The American Dream revolves around the belief that in America, you are the one who decides who you are and if you become successful at what you love doing, and do something that someone else has never done before. Eminem rose up from the poor neighborhoods of Detroit and dealt discrimination for being white in the dominantly black rapper world to become one of the most successful recording artists of all time. Eminem proves that if you work hard enough and overcome the hardships and perfect your…

The “American Dream” is a recurrent phrase that used in different ways as time goes on. Liberty, freedom, equality and prosperity are just some of the words used to define this phrase. In the past, the American Dream’s main purpose for citizens was to build a stable lifestyle and become better in life than the previous generations. In today’s era one of the examples of the American Dream is the There are many ways the American dream can be brought up in today’s era, such as citizens having the…

Most notably, his famous novel called The Great Gatsby, is about a man who feels unhappy despite his wealth. However, there is another story in which Fitzgerald uses himself as the main character, a short story called “Winter Dreams” “Winter Dreams” is a story about a man's strive for the American dream. The story starts with the main character, Dexter, a middle class boy who works as a caddy during his childhood. Next in the story, Dexter is a young man and well off…

The American Dream The American dream of the mid-late 20th century was all about being the best and sticking more to the traditional family values, gaining freedom from oppression in minority’s and rights for women. Whereas today it’s all about being different and going against the system. It has also changed from economic prosperity and getting rich to bringing down the rich and making them pay for everything. The ideals of capitalism are seeming being replaced with more communist like ideals…

Dreams are an occurrence in which anything can happen. They can be nonsensical, chaotic, and the world portrayed can be completely transformed. Dreams are something that happens to the unconscious mind, and they are uncontrollable. Dreams portray a world in which the predictable is nonexistent and when it’s over, reality and confusion sets in. In the play, Shakespeare uses “dream” to describe the world of a young person who is infatuated or madly in love; it is ineffable, their world is…

Have you ever asked yourself ¿How dreams can have an impact on your life? ¿A positive or negative impact?. Langston Hughes was a poet who wrote poems about what he thought about having dreams in your life and possible impacts that dreams could have in someone’s life. “Dream Deferred” and “Dreams” are both poems that talk about dreams, both use imagery, but each one uses imagery to illustrate a different theme. Both “Dream Deferred” and “Dreams” uses imagery to develop their own themes. Each…

Most people, if not all in the US always want to live the American dream at some point in their lives. But the question is, what is the meaning of the American dream, and how can people achieve this vague and elusive realisation? The American dream is a national philosophy or a belief that specifies the ideal factors such as democracy, freedom, rights and equality that accords every citizen equal opportunity to prosper and achieve their set goals (Glenn, 2002). The foundation of the American…

Elvis Presley's “dream” that he whispered into everyone's year in 1956 was that anyone can become anything they want to be if they work hard enough for it, even a highly successful music artist. Elvis proved this because he was born into a poor family and worked his way to becoming one of the most successful music artists of all time and arguably the most important figure in pop culture in the 20th century. “Elvis came into the world poor and cut-off from most of the benefits of life in…

Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, “A Dream within a Dream,” conveys that the narrator is experiencing a daydream adjusted to the narrator's perception of reality happening at two levels of detachment away from the actual reality. Poe incorporates the themes of uncertain reality, the toll of untrue love, and time illusion to illustrate the narrator managing to escape reality by indulging in the daydream, replaying his perception of a memory. The poem’s structure consists of the use of juxtaposition with…