lived in their home country. There are many success stories‚ but is that how it is today? Wallechinsky’s article “Is the American Dream Still Possible?” emphasizes how the American Dream is harder to achieve today due to prices rising‚ smaller wages for employees‚ and less benefits. To begin with‚ the American Dream is harder to achieve because prices continue to rise in the U.S. According to the article‚ “American businesses make decisions based on what is best for their shareholders and investors
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Is the American Dream still achievable? First‚ I asked myself if the American Dream was worth trying to achieve. And then I wondered how many people spend their life trying to achieve it. Before I could answer those question I had to ask myself what the American Dream is. I came up with a few different answers. While I’m still questioning if my answer is a concrete one‚ my opinion is that the American Dream is achievable because it’s such a flexible concept. Is the American Dream worth trying to
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think the American Dream isn’t reachable because of how hard someone might have to work to reach it. Honestly I believe that anyone can reach it if they try hard enough to get to that dream. The American Dream to me involves family and friends. Money may be nice to have but if people don’t have family and friends to back them up then why try to reach that dream? I think if Americans work hard and try hard reaching that dream will be a breeze to reach. In addition to that I think the dream is a reality
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Tony Nam Rebecca Tewes ENC 1101 1 December 2013 The American Dream: Dead or Barely Alive The American Dream‚ once a proud national ethos of the United States that set the ideals of many people finding opportunities to gain prosperity and success for themselves and their families has somewhat lost its meaning over the recent years. Struggling economy and inequality treatments between the upper-class and the lower-class has made many hard working American’s lives difficult‚ while the
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The American Dream of Today Kyliegh Yerby New Mexico State University- Carlsbad Author Note This paper was prepared for English 111G‚ taught by Kathy Greenwood. The American Dream of Today The American dream has evolved into a new image in the eyes of Bob Herbert(2010)‚ Cal Thomas(2010)‚ Brandon King(2011)‚ and Paul Krugman(2007). Thomas(2010) states that the original American dream “meant building a life based on the foundational principles”(p. 568). James Truslow Adams stated that the American
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Chris Zenone Tupac Shakur Is Still Alive On September 7‚ 1996‚ Tupac Amaru Shakur was riding in the passenger side of a black BMW driven by Marion Suge Knight‚ president of Death Row Records. Tupac and Suge had just finished watching Mike Tyson defeat Bruce Seldon at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas‚ Nevada. Tupac was standing up through the sunroof while the car was stopped at a traffic light. The Cadillac containing the gunmen passed an entourage of Tupac’s allies‚ many of them bodyguards. Four
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In Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech‚ he stressed that now is the time to give African Americans true freedom‚ equality‚ and opportunity. This is still very relevant to African Americans today‚ even though it shouldn’t be. I say it shouldn’t be because now‚ for Mr. King was 52 years and five months ago. These problems have been going on for more than half a century after he professed his dream‚ and there has been little change since then. There is still discrimination towards blacks and
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Changing of Today’s Version of the American Dream The American Dream is a vision that sets the United States as a land of great opportunities‚ where an individual can start from nowhere and still manage to make it. According to it‚ all children have equal opportunities to succeed regardless of the state of affairs; hence each successive generation has a shot at achieving more than their predecessors. This implies that the ideology of the American Dream is mainly based on individual merit‚ which is
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it is today. If he had lived‚ the “new” United States would have had people that made decisions that are more efficient and a different type of economic system. Abraham Lincoln had many political skills‚ and his vice president‚ Andrew Johnson‚ had absolutely none of it. I think racism would still be as it is if he were still alive. When the reconstruction era was going on‚ I think him being alive would have made it much “smoother” then it was. I believe that if Abraham Lincoln were still alive congress
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What is the Enlightenment? Why does it still affect American society today? The Enlightenment was an era when reasoning and using science to explain the once unexplainable during the sixteenth and the seventh century. In fact‚ some scholars have christened this era “the age of reason”. The Enlightenment proved to be fertile soil for the middle class to take root and flourish under the teachings of revolutionary thought‚ freedom of monarchies‚ and freedom of the people. This era of reasoning emphasized
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