Goal! 2: Living the Dream...

The Death of Dreams Every person has dreams they would like to accomplish. In the stories by Truman Capote, the characters all have dreams that pertain to improving their lives or the lives of those around them. For many of the character’s in Capote’s stories, their lives are not perfect, and that as we have the ability to dream, those dreams will not always come true. Whether it is because of the decisions that we make or the decisions made for us, dreams will not always be achieved. While…

American Dream Plays Hard to Get “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’,” John Lennon. Happiness is what everyone wants; it is the genuine American Dream. However, the various definitions of happiness make it unclear as to how to pursue it. Some people see it as reaching the top and having the most sumptuous items, others as having more than enough money…

where you can go to several countries across the world and teach English to children ages 4-12! We had the option of applying to China, Dominican Republic, Lithuania, Thailand, Ukraine, Russia, Mexico, or Romania. We chose China at first but now our dream is to go to Romania to represent ILP's new orphanage program. Most people in our grade will be starting college at this time but we decided to take this rare opportunity and travel across the world and…

hopes and dreams that cannot be financially met by her parents, and Chris went through homelessness with his young son where trying to live was a struggle in itself. Without the optimism both Jenny and Chris possess, they could easily fall into the dark hole of depression and hopelessness. Jenny in the short story "Circus in Town" has a dream to go and see the circus. However her family is poor and cannot afford to take her, so her brother brings her part of…

successes, greatness, and potential are determined by you alone; and all of the characteristics necessary to achieve your goals and dreams already lie within you. Our success and potential is not determined by talent or ability, knowledge or money, race or gender, or even circumstance or setting - it is created, developed, and determined from within ourselves. Our dreams and goals will be achieved only when we understand and implement the fundamental laws and secrets for success. Below is…

our nation like going to school to get better education, freedom, and dreams. In other countries it’s not provided if you don’t have the money for it or being a woman you won’t get the opportunity to do stuff around. One of the strongest American values that still stands today is the opportunity and dreams that are country allows to this day that other countries don't allow…

The American Dream The American Dream is a personal thing. Every person’s belief or thought is different from each other’s on what the American Dream should be. What is your American Dream? The J.D. Vance book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, he talks about the native values of his upbringing and how they are related to the social problems of his hometown. He was born in August 2, 1984 and grew up in the Rust Belt city of Middletown, Ohio and the Appalachian town of…

has always been the lily-white land of dreams, perpetually striving to better their community to match their irreprehensible goals. However, America’s titles are becoming quite ostensible. According to the Washington Post, America has left 1.36 million scholars without a place to live. America’s future is on the streets, and no one seems to think they can do anything about it. No longer does unadulterated hard work guarantee the things the American Dream promises. In fact, it seems as if hard…

reality full of the cruel reality that dreams and aspirations were often doomed to die. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, is a novel about two men, one of whom seems to have autism, who travel to a farm during the Great Depression hoping to earn enough money to buy their own farm. In the novel, those main characters team up with another man to help pay for the farm; however, they encounter many roadblocks along the way, and ultimately their hopes and dreams crumble. In Of Mice and Men,…

is a possibility that evil genius is deceiving him. On the other hand, he is thinking it could be a God who is deceiving him. For example: as we know 2+2=4. But, we don’t really know if it is actually 2+2=4. Descartes said it could be true, if God is telling us or might be deceiving us. It might be the devil who is deceiving us to believe that 2+2=4. However, we don’t have any reason for to be accepted if it’s actual or…