American Dream
The American Dream
The American Dream is a phenomenon, an idea being very important for the very patriotic country of the United States of America. James Truslow Adams defined the idea in 1931: “The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each (…) regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.” James T.A.’s quote spelled out is very much a gathering of ideals in which freedom involves the opportunity to move upward in social levels through hard work and devotion. The social class in which you are born should thereby not be decisive of your future, but the hard work, the blood, the sweat and the tears you are willing to dedicate in order to achieve success, is what should. The American Dream roots in the Declaration of Independence, which states that all men are created equal, with rights that cannot be lost, in what Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness contracts. The American Frontier was another major subject contributing to the interpreting of this American Dream. The frontiersman is even today tended to be looked upon as a model of the free individual, with some of the earlier mentioned traits; individualism, self-reliance and equality of opportunity. “The willingness to experiment and invent led to another American trait, a ‘can-do’ spirit, a sense of optimism that every problem has a solution.” This quotation states that Americans is not known for giving up, the quote is also followed by an American saying that implies how the can-do spirit were – and still is conceived of the general population. “(…) a difficult problem can be solved immediately - an impossible one may take a little longer.” As an example traveling to the moon was considered being an impossible task in the beginning of the 1900’s, half the century later in July 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon. The impossible took time, but it was done and certainly
The American Dream is a phenomenon, an idea being very important for the very patriotic country of the United States of America. James Truslow Adams defined the idea in 1931: “The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each (…) regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.” James T.A.’s quote spelled out is very much a gathering of ideals in which freedom involves the opportunity to move upward in social levels through hard work and devotion. The social class in which you are born should thereby not be decisive of your future, but the hard work, the blood, the sweat and the tears you are willing to dedicate in order to achieve success, is what should. The American Dream roots in the Declaration of Independence, which states that all men are created equal, with rights that cannot be lost, in what Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness contracts. The American Frontier was another major subject contributing to the interpreting of this American Dream. The frontiersman is even today tended to be looked upon as a model of the free individual, with some of the earlier mentioned traits; individualism, self-reliance and equality of opportunity. “The willingness to experiment and invent led to another American trait, a ‘can-do’ spirit, a sense of optimism that every problem has a solution.” This quotation states that Americans is not known for giving up, the quote is also followed by an American saying that implies how the can-do spirit were – and still is conceived of the general population. “(…) a difficult problem can be solved immediately - an impossible one may take a little longer.” As an example traveling to the moon was considered being an impossible task in the beginning of the 1900’s, half the century later in July 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon. The impossible took time, but it was done and certainly