People come to America for many reasons‚ most wanting to achieve their American dream. The American dream is “something people wish to achieve in life‚ in which freedom lets people have the opportunity for success and equality.” Everyone has their definition of the American dream and what they want to achieve in life. An athlete perceives their American dream as playing professionally in a sport that they enjoy while making a significant amount of money. The payment gap between men and women athletes
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The American Dream The American Dream is “the ideals of freedom‚ equality‚ and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American.” (Dictionary). When immigrants started coming to America everyone had different ideas about the “American dream”. Everyone believed it was possible to achieve‚ and had no doubts about being successful‚ owning a home‚ or being happy. These days’ people question whether or not the American dream is still around‚ and if America even provides access to the
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John Salvatore Setters American Studies 28 February 2012 American Dream The American dream is something that is relevant in everyone’s life. People strive to obtain this dream throughout their entire life. However‚ the American dream can be different for each person depending on what they value and feel is important to them. In the book Walden by Henry David Thoreau he feels that everyone should live as simple as possible because life is more about finding your inner self rather than material
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5 Reasons Why You Dream Biology 2 Cedrick Russell 9-4-14 In the section compensation it talks about a famed psychologist‚ by the name of Carl Jung.He believed that even our most fanciful dreams are methods of compensation for events that occur in our lives. Also it’s saying that if someone successful dreams it’s a chance that their dream will be about being unsuccessfull. Coping Mechanism is relating dreams to emotions. Also it is saying that dreams reflect your inner feelings. Then it
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Dreams Transformed‚ Not Terminated Despite America’s low level of satisfaction and happiness‚ most Americans believe the American Dream is alive‚ and that they have achieved it‚ or on their way to achieving it. Only 17% of Americans believe the dream is impossible to reach or no longer exists for their family. (Davis‚ 2017) The original american dream was the ideal that every U.S. citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work‚ determination‚ and initiative
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The American dream is why there is equality all through America. It is why one can get an amazing education‚ have a job‚ marry whoever they want‚ and have children. It’s the reason why the United Sates has freedom! Everyone around the world wishes for the American dream because they do not have it like Americans do. Americans have no idea that they are living the American dream right now because it all comes to them naturally‚ and we can thank our Founding Fathers for that. People complain about
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The American Dream started in the early days when poor immigrants were first coming to America and looking for opportunities. The Declaration of Independence states that “all man are created equal and that they are endowed with certain unalienable rights‚ among which are life‚ liberty and pursuit of happiness” (“The American Dream”‚ n.d.‚ para. 1). In the 1920’s‚ The American Dream used to be searching for equality. Now everyone is trying to just get as rich as they can. This is one of the many
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people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities”. This is the basis of what people believe the American Dream is all about‚ but in fact‚ everyone truly has their own sight of the American Dream. That leads into the talk about how the American Dream is dead. That the sight of the American Dream in America is no longer clear. Some areas of America have lost all hope in the dream‚ and some are completely oblivious to it fading away. There is still a lot of hope in America for equality
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The American dream is a term used in a lot of ways. Although research has shown that American dream can’t be attainable by most people‚ closer examination shows that it can be attainable by the following reasons. As Daniel J. Mitchell stated in New York Times im January 1st‚ 2015 “The United States is not a perfect country‚ but the American Dream is still a reality.” By that he meant that even with America’s Grow rate‚ poverty‚ unemployment rate in the past years and still going Americans can still
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The “American Dream” is the belief that through hard work‚ determination and being inventive somebody can find happiness through wealth. Most Americans want to accomplish this in one way or another. The main character in “Death of a Salesman” is Willy Loman. Willy is a salesman‚ a husband‚ father of two and a homeowner. For most individuals owning a home would accomplish their “American Dream”‚ however this was not enough for Willy as he wanted more than that he simply wanted to be the best. Willy
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