What is the American Dream‚ and who are the people most likely to pursue its often elusive fulfillment? The American Dream has come to represent the attainment of myriad of goals that are specific to each individual. While one person might consider a purchased home with a white picket fence their version of the American Dream; another might regard it as the financial ability to operate their own business. There is no cut and dried definition of the American Dream as long as any two people hold a
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The American Dream‚ something once thought to be the American lifestyle that once achieved‚ one’s life may be considered perfect. It started out simple‚ owning two cars‚ owning a large house in a suburban neighborhood‚ married with two children‚ and owning your own business. This may the American Dream after World War II has ended; however‚ because of the economic crisis‚ the increase of major corporations‚ and the cost of living; over the years‚ reaching this goal has been a very difficult to achieve
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Gentrification happens to most cities at one point or another. It means that investors renovate neighborhoods to make them more appealing to people of the middle and upper classes. In theory gentrification sounds like a positive thing‚ but in reality it can have a negative effect on the lower class people who inhabited these neighborhoods first. Short writes that every city has projects where very poor people live‚ often in public housing. The projects often come with crime‚ food deserts‚ and a lack
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also as a country which makes the impossible possible. Yes‚ it is the “American dream” I am talking about. No doubt‚ it has led a certain number of people to incomparable success‚ though nobody takes closely to their heart how that success was achieved. The majority of people is too blind to recognize the price the “American dream’s” attainers had to pay and no one can blame them for those thoughts. Nevertheless‚ the “American dream” idolizes all greatest qualities of a properly moral man:honesty‚trust
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The Effect of Positive and Negative Word-Of-Mouth on Consumers’ Brand Evaluations Introduction Traditional word-of-mouth communication (WOM) is verbal testimonials between consumers about product performance‚ service quality and mode of operating. WOM may be negative (NWOM) or positive (PWOM) and both employ strong influences on a consumers brand evaluations‚ which is the decision process to evaluate alternative brands. Previous studies have found that PWOM is likely to intensify a consumer’s brand
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behaving or occurring in a way expected. Example: marriage‚ job‚ moving or living home‚ having children‚ retire‚ etc. 1) Marriage: it can be positive as an individual will learn to cope up with someone‚ will share bills and house with the partner so there will be no more stress of paying the bills alone and will start a family with partner. Negative effects is children could find it hard or uncomfortable if one of the parents remarry. Stressful marriage can lead an individual to develop harmful habits
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to Wikipedia‚ the American dream is defined as a national ethos of the United States of America‚ a set of ideals in which freedom includes opportunity for prosperity and success and an upward mobility achieved through hard work. Individual perspectives and definitions of the American dream differ. Most see it as home ownership others especially the immigrants see it an opportunity they never had in their home countries at prosperity. I personally would define the American dream as an opportunity
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Being positive or negative are habits of thoughts that have a very strong influence on life. Positive and negative are directions. Which direction you choose? People are always affected by anything that surrounds them‚ be it for good or otherwise and We may not be aware about how social influence plays a major role in gaining the trust of those looking up to them. We are influenced by so many different things some of them are from our peers‚ television and media‚ video games‚ family‚ teachers
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Positive effects of the internet Internet‚ as most of us know‚ is a large network of networks‚ which communicate with each other by means of data packets. Internet is regarded as the largest information base. Today‚ Internet has become an integral part of our daily lives. We depend on the Internet to update ourselves about current news and rely on the communication platform it offers to get in touch with our near ones. The information from all around the world is just a click away‚ thanks to the
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reconstruction many things were accomplished‚ which means that our nation was faced with many positive and negative effects. Some of the positive effects included new opportunities for the common public and former slaves. For example‚ the common public was presented with its first public school system‚ new roads and railroads‚ as well as orphanages for children and institutions for the mentally ill. One of the negative effects of the war was the physically and economically drained south. After the war‚ the south
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