only place where you can find the American dream. The United States still gives the chance to everyone who makes it to this land to attain the American dream. The first chance if you’re young enough is when you go into our public school system and you get the chance at a scholarship to college‚ to which for most people “going to college” is the American Dream because the education provides with a decent job and money. There are other ways to get to the American Dream such as going into one of our higher
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Mary Smith The Meaning of Life According to the definition at Google.com‚ the American dream is defined as “the widespread aspiration of Americans to live better than their parents did.”(WordNet) This term is often heard or uttered everyday whether you realize it or not. You typically don’t hear “American dream” everyday but you hear about people’s goals and achievements in life. The American dream has many perspectives. For example‚ the web definition is going to be completely different from
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Perspective of the American Dream What are the different views of the American Dreams? According to the author everyone could have an American Dream but having the fancy car and a big house is not exactly the American Dream. Clark states “That dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone‚ with opportunity for each according to the ability and achievement”. This quote shows that everyone has the right to have the American dream all you have to do is want it
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The American Dream is often connected with people who have astonishing dreams and who managed to actually live out such dreams. For almost all Americans‚ this entails earning a college degree‚ gaining a good job‚ buying a house‚ and starting a family. Just like Americans born here‚ immigrants dream for a hope of a better life. Immigrants have different motives for coming to America. As Yuliya Sandler‚ an immigrant from Ukraine in the late ‘90s‚ said‚ “One of the main reasons [to come to this country]
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work and determination‚ otherwise known as the American Dream has been present in society all throughout history. While times have changed drastically‚ the American Dream has stayed the same; Parents still want their children to have a better life than they did and although there has been significant improvement regarding racial equality‚ equality in terms of gender and sexual orientation has taken a fall. Since the beginning of the American Dream‚ there has always been the aspect of parents and
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Cody Smith Mrs. Alwert ela embedded assessment 1.2 Access To The American Dream America has always had multiple push factors‚ one is the American Dream‚ it is ideal that all citizens of the United States of America live by. The traditional American Dream has always been a motive that has attracted people from all over the world to the United States of America. It was said back then that if you were a hard worker and were determined you would succeed in America. That is true‚ it does not matter what
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The American Dream In the past it was possible for a working person to have a decent job‚ buy a home‚ get a car‚ and have their children go to school. The American Dream is a set of national ideals‚ like having a decent job and owning a home‚ basically prosperity‚ that are achieved through personal ability and opportunity. Today people would argue that the American Dream is still alive and feasible‚ however‚ the increasing difficulty to achieve common social goals‚ that are often referred to in
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Martin Luther King’s (1963) ‘I Have A Dream’ speech in terms of the American Dream? Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have A Dream’ speech mirrors the ideal concept that all men were born equal‚ he addresses civil rights and racial inequality in a critical view that highlights the distortion of the American Dream. Barack Obama’s victory speech also uses the idea that all people should be treated equal and delivers his speech in a patriotic manner that emphasises American pride. Both speeches embed a sense
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immigrants thought when they came to the USA in order to persue the American dream. To many of those people‚ that translated into something that would impact then for the rest of their lives. These people sacrificed their jobs‚ their relationships and connections‚ their educational levals‚ and their language at their homelands to start their new life in America and succeed in reaching their dream. So what is the defination of the American dream? Some think of it just as being rich and famous or to have
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The American dream is something that people all over the world yearn for. They long to leave their native countries and come to America to escape religious persecution‚ unstable government‚ or something similar. Even well-established American citizens can have an American dream of their own. Many young adults‚ myself included‚ dream of a successful life where we work hard for what we wish to have. While many foreigners’ American dreams are of a life of freedom in the “Land of Opportunity”‚ my American
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