The American Dream
America: The Land of Opportunity People from all around the world consider America to be the home of endless opportunity; vast amount of career openings, ability for anyone to receive higher education, and quality healthcare, and freedoms not many other countries share. People from across the nation have proven through their own experiences that the American Dream can be achieved. The American Dream is reaching what we dreamed of accomplishing our entire life and more. It is having an enormous dream house, having the newest car, having a huge, happy family, and having the career we have dreamed of since we were a kid. Barack Obama, for example, is America’s first African American president, and Sonia Maria Sotomayor, is America’s first
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What really counts is whether a person can be persistent and determined to accomplish their goals. Nothing worthwhile can be given to someone, it has to be earned. The American Dream is something that takes much determination and hard work to reach. Take Delores Kesler from Jacksonville, Florida, for example, her American Dream seemed to be way far off her current path in 1977. “Divorced and with a small child, she began her career at 22 with a series of dead-end jobs,” barely making enough to keep herself going. It was with a $10,000 loan that helped her fund a temporary staffing agency that helped her get back on her feet. When she retired, her company “had projected revenues of $2 billion” (Rather). She now uses her fortune to help others, and has created the Delores Pass Kesler Foundation, which helps students get a thorough education. All this happened because “she was determined to succeed,” and because she believed she could turn her life around with hard work. Reach the American Dream can be struggle for most, but that is only momentarily, and the end result can be most …show more content…
If someone limits himself and decides to sit back and watch his prospects pass him by because he believes that is where he belongs, there is obviously no way this person will be able to gain anything. In order for someone to prosper, they must be able to make the right decisions that will lead them on the right path to attain whatever their needs may be. Am excellent model of this is Nancy Pham, came from living in “a crowded refugee boat in the choppy seas off warton South Vietnam” to finally living the life she wanted in “suburban Toledo where she’d open her own beauty salon” (McLaughlin). Nancy Pham sacrificed all she had, and risked the safety of herself and her family to give them a better life. It is with this choice that she was able to acquire that second chance at making her dream a reality. The same is possible to those who make the choices that will help them advance and take that extra step to reach that American
What really counts is whether a person can be persistent and determined to accomplish their goals. Nothing worthwhile can be given to someone, it has to be earned. The American Dream is something that takes much determination and hard work to reach. Take Delores Kesler from Jacksonville, Florida, for example, her American Dream seemed to be way far off her current path in 1977. “Divorced and with a small child, she began her career at 22 with a series of dead-end jobs,” barely making enough to keep herself going. It was with a $10,000 loan that helped her fund a temporary staffing agency that helped her get back on her feet. When she retired, her company “had projected revenues of $2 billion” (Rather). She now uses her fortune to help others, and has created the Delores Pass Kesler Foundation, which helps students get a thorough education. All this happened because “she was determined to succeed,” and because she believed she could turn her life around with hard work. Reach the American Dream can be struggle for most, but that is only momentarily, and the end result can be most …show more content…
If someone limits himself and decides to sit back and watch his prospects pass him by because he believes that is where he belongs, there is obviously no way this person will be able to gain anything. In order for someone to prosper, they must be able to make the right decisions that will lead them on the right path to attain whatever their needs may be. Am excellent model of this is Nancy Pham, came from living in “a crowded refugee boat in the choppy seas off warton South Vietnam” to finally living the life she wanted in “suburban Toledo where she’d open her own beauty salon” (McLaughlin). Nancy Pham sacrificed all she had, and risked the safety of herself and her family to give them a better life. It is with this choice that she was able to acquire that second chance at making her dream a reality. The same is possible to those who make the choices that will help them advance and take that extra step to reach that American