Aysia S. Bertrand What Exactly is the American Dream? The word “American Dream’’ is something that all Americans think about having every day. The “American Dream” can be used in many ways like having the dream job you always wanted‚ living a perfect and happy life‚ or owning a well money making business. Depending on how each person visualizes his or her “American Dream” determines whether he or she sees success or failure. The “American Dream” as something each individual would go through
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The American dream is when everybody has the ideal of their own freedom. Those people who has the “American dream”‚ they are usually the one who had workhard‚ achieving their goals‚ and become rich. The author‚ F.Scott Fitzgerald‚ had his own definition of the American dream. He wrote the book called‚ “The Great Gatsby”. In the book‚ the characters had their own American dream. However‚ Fitzgerald demonstrates in the book how a dream can be abandon if they only focus on the wrong part. Daisy
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has individual success (the so called “American Dream”) seem to have been so important for the American sense of self and what other features of American society would you say a continuing faith in it has hidden? The American dream means many things to many different people but usually includes the notion of having the freedom to work hard in order achieve happiness and success. In the book‚ The Epic of America‚ Adams defines the American Dream as the “dream of a land in which life should be better
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Reading Synthesis Essay for September 23rd In this week’s readings we focused on gender roles and feminism. This is a topic I knew little about going into the readings but I have since learned a great deal about the struggle of women in our culture. Pop culture is not a female friendly business and it shows throughout the modern culture. In most blockbuster movies men play the main leads and the heroes are almost always a man or a woman who acts masculine in nature. Television shows are the
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Rene Gonzalez 7th pd 4/8/13 Dying American Dream The American dream is now nothing more than a past dream haunting humanity of what could’ve been. Though man y people are living that dream it reminds us of the dirty tricks they used to cheat others to achieve their status. This so called dream is no longer real it is nothing more than a figment of the past. No matter how hard people may try to restore it always leads to the same ending: pure uncut disappointment. One of the main things
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American Dream through the Youngers Family The idea of the American Dream still has truth in today’s time‚ even if it is wealth‚ love‚ or fame. The thing that never changes about the American Dream is that everyone deserves something in life and everyone‚ somehow‚ should strive to get it. Everyone in America wants to have some kind of financial success in his or her lives. The American dream is said to be that each man have the right to pursue happiness and strive for the beat. In the play
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Synthesis Essay Prompt #1 Throughout history‚ primary sources such as diaries‚ postcards‚ and letters have all been utilized to their full extent. These were used to document events in the past‚ to which the present can achieve a better understanding of. However‚ some texts have more influence over another‚ to which the ineffectual documents are discarded. Historical texts such as the Declaration of Independence‚ or the Holy Bible are all preserved because of their role in fabricating today’s society
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Pursuing the Dream The American Dream was an idea that was developed in the early colonial times. The idea that one could become something much greater than the position they had in society that was established by a hierarchy. People would have to live in the conditions that they were raised in for their entire life and their future generations would continue in the same position. Based on many barriers and eras that have occurred‚ the idea of the American dream has been altered but the goal still
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theme in the novel is the American Dream‚ the ability to become rich from very poor or the idea that all things are possible in America. The American Dream says that anyone can succeed in life. Anyone who works hard‚ and pursues the ultimate goal of happiness‚ can‚ and will‚ live a fulfilling life. In The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald uses the character of Gatsby to critique the idea of the American Dream. He uses Gatsby because‚ although he is an example of the American Dream‚ in the way that he went
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commonly think that the American dream is all about being rich and other kind of lazy stuff. In other words “easy money”. But that is not actually true. The real idea of the American dream is: opportunities‚ because in America you have the opportunity to pursuit your dream. In the American dream you have the opportunities to be‚ create‚ have or build almost whatever you want in other words to “live good”. One of the biggest exponents of this complete idea of American dream is Mark Zuckerberg‚ the
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