The American Dream

African americans never really had a perfect opportunity to become successful as the American Dream. They always had to fight to obtain respect. The American Dream can be described as cold and life changing. It represents that you've either achieve nothing or achieved becoming something you always wanted. I believe that the american dream is possible for anyone that has a lot of determination because people stop because of obstacles. The “American Dream” has to do with people's materialistic…

Obstacle affecting American Dreams The ideology of American dream was propagated for the first time by James Truslow Adams in the year 1931. He was of the view that the United States of America should be a land of equal opportunity for every citizen. It should be a country which provides people with the livelihood that they deserve. Depending upon a citizen’s capability, United States must offer enough resources in exchange for his talent. This belief is equivalent to the concept of prosperity…

The American Dream is dead some people may say. Some say the American dream needs to be reformed. Others have a glimmer of hope that it still is alive. Whether if it’s alive or dead there are factors that contribute to those beliefs to create numerous idea of the American Dream that the founding fathers had mapped out for our nation; the foundation of our reason why we built America. The American Dream is about freedom, the right to have the three unalienable rights: life, liberty and pursuit…

There is a vast difference between the American Dream and the reality of living in the U.S.; in which having money does not always lead to happiness. In F.Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby the American Dream is seen as an ambition for many and nothing to others. It seems that during the 1920s anybody and everybody wanted to achieve the American Dream. Americans felt that having money was the only way to be happy. For George Wilson and Jay Gatsby, that was the ultimate goal; to be rich,…

conflicts that African Americans faced in the 1950s through her characters. These conflicts include the pressure to either assimilate to the current American standards or to maintain African tradition, the urge to make money to get one’s family out of the ghetto, the need to lead one’s family, and the tough decisions to be made to support and protect the family. Hansberry openly addresses the fact that there was a serious racial issue at the time acting as an obstacle in the family’s dream of…

the dream and the pursuit of happiness comes from frontier life in the 18th century, when people started to move from the east coast to the west in hopes of finding a better life and to become wealthy. The characteristic for those people were determination, because life was hard and even dangerous, thus stunting most efforts to “make it”. The pursuit of happiness itself also gave the hope, that greatness can and will be achieved through hard work. Later on to the century “The American Dream” was…

Sun, Lorraine Hansberry uses the theme of dreams in order to illustrate the ways a dream being deferred can affect one’s life. The main concept of this play is the American dream, which includes every person, regardless of race, ethnicity, and religion should have an equal opportunity to live a successful life. The play emphasizes the importance of someone having a dream even when there are obstacles that may stand in his or way. Each character has a dream that they want to live out; however,…

Introduction The true meaning of the American dream is nonexistent, everyone will define it differently. “The charm of anticipated success” that is the American dream according to Alexis de Tocqueville, a French political thinker and historian. Jim Cullen states in his book The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation “The Pilgrims may not have actually talked about the American dream, but they would have understood the idea: after all, they lived it as people who imagined…

individual dream. One wants to move to a bigger home, one wants to attend medical school, and one wants to rise above his conditions. Each person’s dream serves an important function for the character. However, the dreams also divide the characters, creating conflict among them throughout the play. The play focuses on the different dreams of each member of the Younger family as they discuss what they can do with a $10,000 life insurance payment. Hansberry expresses her different views on the…

The American dream has changed drastically since the colonial period, evolving from a traditional man in the middle class who put his family first, to a man or woman who’s main priority is to become wealthy. By definition, the American dream is the idea that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. Hundreds of years ago, this dream was not attainable due to many barriers that restricted women,…