The American Dream Looking at society today‚ the American Dream is a hoax; it is a belief that exists only in our imagination‚ trying to keep people on track and in the right direction. In past years‚ the American Dream was not only a belief but a promise to the American people. A promise that if you worked hard‚ went to school and got a degree‚ you were promised a good job which in turn brought you wealth‚ a nice house‚ a full family‚ and all the cliché ideas of the perfect life. These days
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DREAM AND BELIEVE All persons have a dream of their own because it is our way to see and imagine what we want to happen in our future life. It can be our inspiration to do our best to achieve what we want to achieve. But we need also to persevere and be prepared to the challenges and difficulties that we are going to encounter. We have to be strong in all the trials that we have to face so that we will be able to achieve all that we dream and what we wanted to be. But for now‚ I have a very positive
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Buying our dream car brings us joy and regret It was the month of December of the year 2013; I was stressed out‚ depressed and at times I even felt sick. December 21st was right around the corner and I was struggling to gather the money that would keep me from living in my car or worst-case scenario‚ in the street. Ever since I was in grade school‚ I hoped that by the time I was 22 years of age‚ I would own the latest model car of the SLK class Mercedes Benz. I always imagined of how great that
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that everyone has dreams; someone want to be a soccer player; someone want to be a spaceman; someone want to have his/her own business. People have dreams is easy but I don’t consider most of them can achieve it; it is easy to talk but hard to do‚ how many people will achieve their dream? I don’t know about it as it is easy to give up and forgot‚ but I am sure some people will work hard with the dream. Nonetheless‚ some people are invariably struggling with the dream; when the dream is difficult to
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California‚ A Place‚ a People‚ a Dream In “California‚ A Place‚ a People‚ a Dream‚” James J. Rawls gives his version of the California dream‚ and describes the paradoxes that are associated with that dream. According to Rawls‚ the California dream is a love affair with an idea‚ a marriage to a myth‚ or fantasy. (Rawls 22‚ 23) Everyone has their own version of the California dream. It might be something‚ or nothing at all. As I began reading Rawl’s essay‚ I found it
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Jorge Hernandez P.6 9/04/13 The Dream of the Rood reflection: Section 1: Biblical illusion is used in the dream of the rood when the “dreamer” is having a dream of Jesus’ crucifixion from the roods point of you. When the author refers to Jesus‚ he is making a biblical illusion by using reference to either someone or a story that accord in the bible. The author also uses the repetition of the word “I” throughout his whole poem. The significance of the repetition of the word “I” is so the reader
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The concept of “The American Dream” is said to be the living dream‚ the individual’s concept of aiming to achieve prosperity and happiness. The American Dream is something that an individual wants to accomplish a dream. It means a dream of social order in which each person would be able to attain a better and richer life. Most people pursuit the American Dream as a chance to become a real dream‚ their dream to have better jobs and better homes. The living of upper social life and having a good career
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Jake Armstrong 12/2/12 Browne A Dream for You and a Dream for Me In the world today‚ minimum wage rules millions of people’s lives and is most time the only source of income for many families. So how can someone achieve the American dream; 2 kids‚ a big 2 story house‚ and 2 cars? It is not a simple thing to achieve‚ but the thing people ignore is that it is always possible to attain. The American dream is not gone and can be achieved by anyone and is different for each person. People are
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The American Dream What is the American dream? Everyone has there own dream. Many just see it as just being happy. To others it may be becoming rich and having the perfect family. In life many people wonder how far would you go for you would go to obtain the american dream. How far would you go? The American Dream to me is having equal opportunity‚ to live without any worries‚ and doing the things in life that you love the most. Most would do all they can in power to make sure they come close
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Mark Dudzik GIT 335 2/20/12 Assignment 3- Dream Computer I have built a few computers in the past‚ some fairly basic windows computers. I have always maxed out any computer I’ve owned in RAM‚ storage‚ and graphics. About three years ago now‚ I bought my first iMac‚ and only then discovered what a computer can actually do. That being said‚ my dream computer would have to be a Mac Pro. Two 3.06GHz 6-core Intel Xeon processors powering my beast‚ that’s 12 cores in total. Eight 8GB sticks of
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