The American Dream: What It Means To Be An American
America is known to most people as the land of opportunity or the land of the free. But what does it really mean to be an American? Living in America means that people can live with the luxuries of being an American and also living with what is known as the American dream. The American dream is what help to build America today and also it helped to shape to what it means to be an American. Being an American means living among people that come from all over the world, having the freedom and the title of freemen, and also a beginning of a new life.
Being an American means living among people that comes from all over the world. In the story Growing up Asian in America it says “But now I can say that I am a Japanese-American. It means I have …show more content…
In the poem The New Colossus it says “With silent lips give me your tired, your poor,our huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” This quote shows that the Statue of Liberty is a symbol of hope to the immigrants and they come to live in America to be free or to live a new life.” Another quote is from a letter called What is an American? And it says “They receive ample rewards for their labours; these accumulated rewards procure them lands; those lands confer on them the title of freemen; and to that title every benefit is affixed which men can possibly require.” This quote shows that people that live in America gives them the title of freemen. With this title it also grants them benefits that every man needs. Finally, another quote is from an essay called What is Freedom and it says “The idea they seem to be expressing is that freedom is associated with making decisions, and that other people sometimes limit the number of alternatives from which they can select.” This quote shows that the word freedom can be expressed as people's ability to decide for themselves. Freedom can also be limited bounded by laws and
Being an American means living among people that comes from all over the world. In the story Growing up Asian in America it says “But now I can say that I am a Japanese-American. It means I have …show more content…
In the poem The New Colossus it says “With silent lips give me your tired, your poor,our huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” This quote shows that the Statue of Liberty is a symbol of hope to the immigrants and they come to live in America to be free or to live a new life.” Another quote is from a letter called What is an American? And it says “They receive ample rewards for their labours; these accumulated rewards procure them lands; those lands confer on them the title of freemen; and to that title every benefit is affixed which men can possibly require.” This quote shows that people that live in America gives them the title of freemen. With this title it also grants them benefits that every man needs. Finally, another quote is from an essay called What is Freedom and it says “The idea they seem to be expressing is that freedom is associated with making decisions, and that other people sometimes limit the number of alternatives from which they can select.” This quote shows that the word freedom can be expressed as people's ability to decide for themselves. Freedom can also be limited bounded by laws and