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American Dream What is the American Dream? The American Dream is the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. Well, what does that mean? I think that it means that everyone in the US has the same right to live out their life and live out their dream just as long as they work hard for their dream, are determined to get to their dream, and have originality for their, or their own, dream. There…

Although the meaning of the American Dream has changed over the years, its original depiction involves a life of accomplishment based on one’s own abilities and dedication, rather than what a class structure dictates. Everyone has their own versions of this ideal; for some, this may mean the opportunity for their children to develop in a nation filled with education and career opportunities. For others, the Dream represents a chance to live free of religious, racial, or sexual restrictions. In…

I am currently a student and Mason City High School. I am a sophomore right now. My freshman year was a good year. I started hanging out with a different crowd my freshman year. I got to know them better and have had some great times with them. I got in trouble quite a lot. Not as much as at John Adams but I was still getting in trouble. My freshman year I had a couple new classes like Business with Mr. Christopherson and Spanish with Mrs. Axdahl. Half way through the second semester I joined a…

The American dream is known as a set of ideas that expresses the opportunity for success; a richer and fuller life is achievable by anyone who desires to work towards it. F. Scott Fitzgerald describes the American dream in The Great Gatsby as a longing or desire to constantly dream of an unachievable dream. Once the dream is achieved there is nothing left to chase and there is nothing beautiful left to dream about. Fitzgerald expresses this idea through the eyes of Mr. Gatsby. The reader…

The American dream – it’s really a dream, and not just the need to quench the primitive needs. Nobody really can tell now, whether it is formed spontaneously or has been carefully thought out and grafted the public authority but by appearing in people’s minds, she moved them to success. The success was not the means to achieve comfort, it has become a goal of life. All social strata were included in the process to succeed, which could not but affect the economic performance of the country. With…

It’s no secret that the American Dream is viewed a lot differently now, as opposed to in the twentieth century. It used to be the idea that no matter who you were or how you started, any citizen in America had the opportunity to live that dream. “Life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.” In 1931, that was how James Truslow Adams properly defined this ideal. Anyone…

English Creative Task Rationale The American Dream is a complex set of ideas and beliefs that exhibits crucial lifestyles and factors that supposedly lead to the success of society. However, it does not recognise the evident tension within its ideology; meritocracy at odds with inherited status. This creative piece, in the form of a prose extract, aims to declare and demonstrate the hardships of this ideology. Focusing on an unnamed Aboriginal girl during the 1950’s when the White Australia…

THE AMERICAN DREAM DEFINED Before discussing the American population’s ability to achieve the American Dream, first it needs to be defined so we can better understand what people could be missing out on. According to David Kamp’s excerpt from James Truslow Adams’s Re-Thinking the American Dream, the American Dream is the ability to have “a better, richer, and happier life for all our citizens of every rank” (Adams). Everyone in America, no matter their background, race, or religion, should have…

The American Dream is commonly taught as man’s common desire to own a house with a ‘white picket fence’ and a car, as well as have a reliable spouse. This American Dream was indeed common during the time period, in which such a term was vaguely beginning to form throughout the nation. However, the American Dream has the potential to vary vastly from individual to individual; it can eclipse any idea that entails a better lifestyle. Since the very birth of the nation, it has existed as a prominent…

In Arthur Miller’s American classic, “Death of a Salesman” Willy, a husband and a father of two sons, is desperately trying to live out the ‘American dream’ with the mentality that attractiveness and likeability is the key to success. In the play while talking to his sons, Happy and Biff, about his ‘American dream’ Willey, as an example, explains that he is going to be greater than Uncle Charley, a wealthy businessman, because “He’s liked, but he’s not well liked” (Miller 232). This is…