Dreams from My Father

“You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction” (Marco Rubio/Republican Debate/Greenville, South Carolina). Marco was not always in the spotlight for the republican GOP but bears his roots from an impoverished family in Florida. Marco Rubio’s father, a Cuban immigrant, washed dishes and struggled to conceive money when he started to chase the American dream. Nevertheless He relentlessly strived to become a…

have to plead for my father to able to stay with our family. Throughout my whole academic career this is the most heart wrenching and emotional letter I have ever wrote. My father has been one of the most inspirational and loving people I have ever met. It breaks my heart everyday to think he could possibly be taken away from us and it breaks my heart even more knowing he lives in fear of it. There has never been a point in time of my life where he has not been there for me or my little brother…

life I have always had dreams. When I was little, I always wanted to play in the NBA, or be a superhero just like your average little boy would. As I progressed through my teenage life everything began to become so real, I begin to realize my past dreams would never become true and that I then had to become more realistic about what I really wanted to do with my life. On August 6th, 2013 something happened in my life that made me realize just what I wanted to do with my life. From then on, I…

My parents emigrated to this country thirty-four years ago from Mexico. My father had a grade school education and my mother had a middle school education. They had a deep desire to improve their lives, and having that American dream everybody talks about. The American dream they had in mind was giving their children what they couldn’t have, due to the lack of funds. Due to their limited English and lack of education the only available work was low paying manual labor. My mother worked in the…

dismiss your childhood dreams because as wild as they seem you will still be able to learn from them. His dreams as a child were being in zero gravity, the NFL, contributing to the world book, being Captain James Kirk, and to be an inventor for Disney. Pausch says “He was able to accomplish every dream in one way or another,”( __). Although not every dream is attainable, lessons can be learned from attempting. Clearly he didn’t grow up to play in the NFL, but he has taken lessons from football…

the American dream? When watching the film American Beauty, I was shocked by how much a person would go through to achieve his or her image of the American dream. There truly isn’t a definition for the American dream; everyone has his or her own meaning to the American dream. At what cost is one willing to pay to achieve their American dream. Would one sacrifice their family’s relationship over achieving the American dream? Some of the characters in the movie choose the American dream over their…

back and forth from Fitchburg to Leominster because of my mother and my father. Unfortunately, my father fell ill back around 2010 and initially had to leave back to his own country to not only see a specific doctor, but to be with his family. I believe. While all was going up in 2012, which was the year I moved to this particular area, my father passed away August of that year. It was almost like a downhill spiral with my family, which eventually leads me to one of my current dreams,…

Dream Theories My first theory that I list would be Sigmund Freud theory that dreams focus primarily on sexual desires and symbolism. "I found in myself a constant love for my mother, and jealousy of my father. I now consider this to be a universal event in childhood," Freud said. His thoughts was that children were more fond to the opposite sex parent. He used the Oedipus conflict to point out how much he believed that people desire incest and must repress that desire. Oedipus was the…

Those paths might be many different according to their interests, beliefs and dreams. Those paths sometimes make us outsiders in society and in our hearts. This world is filled with people yet we find ourselves being lonely. This is my story of transition to a new life from my old life. Clear blue sky, fast-paced city, cars honking, and my family when I think of my home land. First 20 year of my life was spent in my home country “Mongolia”. It is the most wonderful and peaceful…

In contrast to Troy’s definition of the American dream, Willy Loman believes that to gain success, one must have connections, contacts, and an attractive personality. Willy’s high expectations for Biff make him assume that Biff has the ambition to succeed. Furthermore, Biff struggles to find his place in the world after not being able to find an interest in many conventional jobs. Nevertheless, in Death of a Salesman, Willy shows his high hopes for Biff when he declares, “I’ll see him in the…