American Dream: Reality Check
English 370
12 September 2012
Reality Check Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole. The factor of time gives us opportunity to be influenced to new ideas by experiences, personal goals, and social media. Human beings dream every night and during the day we try to fulfill our goals and dreams by making them realistic. In the United States of America, we all started out as immigrants from different countries and we traveled to America fulfill the American Dream. In the 1700s, immigrants imagined the American Dream to contain simple happiness such as family, job, and owning a property for themselves. Those three components were key in the dream; however today, the American Dream can be described as a “dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.”(L.H Handout) Experiences through time have changed our perception of the American Dream with having a family, job, and owning property.
Opportunity is important to the American Dream because people need to have their sources available to them. In the past, opportunity was limited according to color and many blacks were discriminated. In Britain, low class citizens and black slaves did not have any opportunities to break out and live on their dreams. Today, blacks are still discriminated and “a lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one’s family contributed to the erosion of black families.”(Obama) The black community has an inevitable bias that is against them. The biasness against them is they are uneducated, untrustworthy, sloppy, and does not have the ability to fulfill tasks. The American Dream was the escape from reality for low class citizens and blacks. The thought of opportunity to be someone, was their drive to travel to America; however it has been a disappointment. As much as we want opportunity for everyone, Blacks, Mexicans, women, and people with
12 September 2012
Reality Check Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole. The factor of time gives us opportunity to be influenced to new ideas by experiences, personal goals, and social media. Human beings dream every night and during the day we try to fulfill our goals and dreams by making them realistic. In the United States of America, we all started out as immigrants from different countries and we traveled to America fulfill the American Dream. In the 1700s, immigrants imagined the American Dream to contain simple happiness such as family, job, and owning a property for themselves. Those three components were key in the dream; however today, the American Dream can be described as a “dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.”(L.H Handout) Experiences through time have changed our perception of the American Dream with having a family, job, and owning property.
Opportunity is important to the American Dream because people need to have their sources available to them. In the past, opportunity was limited according to color and many blacks were discriminated. In Britain, low class citizens and black slaves did not have any opportunities to break out and live on their dreams. Today, blacks are still discriminated and “a lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one’s family contributed to the erosion of black families.”(Obama) The black community has an inevitable bias that is against them. The biasness against them is they are uneducated, untrustworthy, sloppy, and does not have the ability to fulfill tasks. The American Dream was the escape from reality for low class citizens and blacks. The thought of opportunity to be someone, was their drive to travel to America; however it has been a disappointment. As much as we want opportunity for everyone, Blacks, Mexicans, women, and people with