The American Dream

The American Dream has always been a beacon of hope of being successful within living in the United States. Officially identified in the 1930’s, the American Dream has been viewed as the ideal life for every American. Even in tough times, many Americans still hold on to the Dream. Not only is the American Dream a desire to obtain, but is also a constitutional right. As the Founding Fathers have written in the Declaration of Independence (US 1776), “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that…

“Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American Dream”. All three of my interviewees agree with Martin Luther King but it did not stop them from wanting the best from themselves and their loved ones. The American Dream is about getting the right education for opportunities, how you want to provide for loved ones, but most importantly is the idea that you want to improve not only your life but the ones you love to…

The American Dream is the ideal that every citizen of the United States should have equal opportunity to succeed and prosper. In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, the Younger family faces many struggles while trying to achieve their American Dream. An independent African American woman, Lena Younger, known as Mama, has a dream of owning a house of her own with a beautiful garden. After her husband’s death, Mama receives an insurance check of $10,000, and she hopes to use this money to…

The American Dream a symbol of equal opportunity, success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. It has been one of the core American values for many years but the main questions are Does it still exists? or Is it still given? As Avalos explains throughout his Argument he explains how it might've of not ceased to exist but diminished? Now when, how, and why did the American Dream start to diminish? Well, the American Dream has been diminishing since the beginning of…

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. For centuries, immigrants from all ethnicities have come to the United States in search of this American dream. A place where they could prosper and support their families. Most immigrants who come to the US, are not welcome initially, but throughout the time they become accepted. This American dream has changed throughout time…

However, the real “American dream” is not as exciting as the original meaning, materialism and idealism serious confrontation and conflict to show the dark side of the American dream to every immigration groups. Asian Americans by more than a dozen Asian nation as well as American-born descendants of the composition. Despite the different Asian group have different languages, different ethnic, different cultural backgrounds, but share a common experience in the United States. When Thomas’s…

Being an American means the beginning as a ‘have-not’ and progressing to being a ‘have,’ or, to put in the hip-hop artist’s Drake’s words: “Started from the bottom, now we here.” Furthermore, being a ‘have’ means the glorification of pleasure, and the high life. This hedonistic worldview kept stable for the ‘haves’ often at the expense of the ‘have-nots.’ This duality of the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ has expressed itself through multiple American conflicts and struggles, and is depicted in a…

Have you ever had a dream? If so, how far would you go to make it come true? The play this essay is about is,”A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry. This play is about an African American family trying to live a better life with the insurance money they got when the father of the family died. All the family has different ideas on what to do with the money but to me, the most important dream is Walter Lee’s. With all the different dreams from each family member, it was very hard to decide…

The American Dream constantly changes over time. From the time of the Founding Fathers, the American Dream was simply freedom and independence. For the people, the dream was to strive to be the best. For America, the dream was to be considered a model for other countries. Today, America arguably is not the strongest country compared China, or the United Kingdom. But America is still considered a great influence. Many ideas of the American Dream change as a result of this. The ideas of wealth,…

considered the core values of the American Dream. These values upheld the idea that anyone from any background could become someone; that they would be able to live freely and leave behind a legacy that would be carried on from generations to come. In the 50’s, the American Dream prospered with the goal that every family would be able to own a home, be debt free, and be able to raise a family. However, with the rise of consumerism in the past six decades, this American Dream has been harder for…