...My American Dream started out with my college education and how I would be attending the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. My scholarships rounded to about seventeen thousand dollars and later I became a Nurse Practitioner. My spouse also worked in the medical field and we had a nice house and cars. I believe that my American Dream can be achieved if I work really hard in school and focus on making my future a successful one. This American Dream that I have can be accomplished by setting goals high enough to challenge me and make myself work harder for the things that I desire. In order to achieve this dream, I have to change some of things I tend to do in high school. For example, I am known to procrastinate with work that needs to be done....
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...The immigration of individuals to the United States is not out of the ordinary. People of all different backgrounds and beliefs come to this nation to pursue the “American Dream”. My mother “JoAnn” is one of the many who immigrated into this country to pursue that dream for not only herself but for her family as well. The first question I asked my mother was, “What culture did you come from, where did you go, and how long did you stay?” She responded saying that she was originally from Kerala, a southern state in India where she spent the majority of her life. Once she graduated college she used her degree in nursing to travel to several different Middle Eastern countries like Egypt, and Israel and it was during this time that she began her...
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...The story of the American Dream is as old as the Republic itself: come to America for a fresh start, work hard, seize the opportunities here to do better than your parents, and reach financial success for the benefit of your family. Does that American Dream still apply in today’s rapidly changing world, particularly in Silicon Valley? While my life so far looks like the culmination of an American Dream, I have been unaware that there are many people who do not live my lifestyle and who lack my opportunities. Many live hard lives of financial struggle, including my ancestors, as I only recently learned. Although I believe I have personally experienced the American Dream, I have begun to realize that many people around me and from my family’s...
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...What is the American dream? The American dream is a combination of personal and common goals, but those goals differ from person to person. For example, one person may have the goal of owning a car and a house by time they are 25 years old while another may have the goal of achieving the highest level possible in their workplace. As well as, my American dream is by the time I am 24 i will be in college and working toward majoring in chemistry so I can become a pharmacist. It all depends on the person and what their outlook and goals are in life. Also, a big part of my American Dream is my family because they are a huge impact on my life. They have pushed me to be the best I can be and push me to do my best when it come to...
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...stressed. Endless amounts of homework to accompany the numerous AP classes, extensive hours invested into after school activities, and the desire to be a venturous teenager is just my typical lifestyle. Never without someplace to be or something to do leaves me constantly stressed and awfully tired, but it is just what it takes to live the exciting life that I crave. The pressure and expectations I put on myself are high,but it is just the price to pay to ensure the best possible future for myself. When my parents were growing up, their standards and dreams were much more traditional and had much less pressure and competitiveness. Their idea of the American dream was to go to college to get a good job, get married and have kids, and live a successful, happy life. Both of them had to work hard to get where they are now and eventually fulfilled their dreams. The reality of the American dream now is that we don’t all live for the same dream and instead all strive for...
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...¨It is all worth it, if it allows one child to be able to change the world¨ (243). This quote is just one of many that Travis Mills says in his book that really gets me in the heart. After reading this quote, it makes me want to work harder and do the best job that I can to be the best person that I can be and to allow me to become successful and happy in my life. After writing my I-Search and exploring my American Dream, I now understand what I takes to be in the military and the time and effort that goes into it. The moment I started the I-Search, I realized that this project will better help me understand what I want to achieve in life and how I want to do it. I also learned a lot about the skills I will need to gain. Hard work, dedication and never giving up, are some of the main lessons that I learned....
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...A stereotypical part of everyone’s American dream is the ability to go to a college or university and obtain a degree and further their lives. Since this idea was popular enough to become a stereotype, people must have a reason for including it. Mine is simple, I have a passion. My earliest memories of my obsession with the natural world stem from when I must of been four or five, waddling around my uncle’s backyard. I engrossed myself in every detail of his lakefront backyard, flowering bladderwort on the lake, tiny juvenile American toads hopping around my feet, and towering pitch pines above my head; I was in heaven. Next I start exploring the 171 acres of wildlife refuge known as Cedar Run, sitting right in my own backyard. Visiting the...
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...I wouldn’t say I’m spoiled, just fortunate, that I married a generous man, and live in a gated community. Jerry and I married four years ago and haven’t yet started a family. He partnered with his best friend, Tony in the J&T Real Estate, we were living the American Dream, a home, a prosperous business and money in the bank. My life was marvelous until one day my nosey neighbor, Mrs. Kennedy stopped by, she wasted no time letting me know Jerry was a cheater. “I saw him going in one of those sleazy motels on Hill Street.” I quickly remind her, “He works in real estate and I’m sure he was checking on the motel for a prospective client.” “Huh, I’m sure that’s what it was,” she said, knowing how someone sneaking into a motel looked,...
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...The American dream is what has drawn a variety of people to come to the United states. My parents immigrated from Guadalajara, Jalisco Mexico twenty three years ago. They came to the United States thinking life would be less complex as well not having to struggle financially. My parents were taken out of school by the sixth grade to work in order to help out the family. My parents didn’t want to put my siblings and I through the same situation. Their dream was for us to get a better education or career so we could succeed in life. So far none of my siblings have been able to make that dream possible. My brothers have been in and out of juvie and have been deported back to Mexico. My sister got pregnant her senior year and she decided...
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...Journal entire 4 Arron Vitale The phrase American Dream is the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. what dose American Dream mean in my own mind is the dream of being successful in America, what my American Dream is to be a Video Game Designer and help make video games that fans and people would love and cherish and see a game I helped on become the game of the year the steps to my American Dream is to graduate FHHS and go to SCC to learn different programming languages and to soon start actual programing and come up with ideas to make my dream video game after SCC I want to find a Collage that offers Video Game Design and attend there...
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...My trailblazing family’s thrifty efforts were legendary in our neighborhood. We started reusing and repurposing way before it was trendy. We made do with what we had and made what we had do more in order to awkwardly swim toward the Dominican American dream. Frugality is a game, or at least we made it into one. A game of who can save the most money by turning off lights, keeping the heater off and going to the library when the apartment got too hot. A game of who could make a skirt out of a short dress or find a scholarship for swimming lessons at the Y.M.C.A. The act of conserving money, the audacity to solve problems no one has thought of before is what set my family apart. Together we share our victories in a little tribe of four Amazon warriors partaking in our own version of the show, Survivor: NYC edition. The phrase “making do” could evoke connotations of stagnation and despair for some; but for me it is about understanding my situation and being proactive. The values I gained...
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...As a Mexican-American, it’s hard to know to wich world I should identity myself; I really feel Mexican when I eat spicy foods all days or when I dance banda in the party's, but that feeling goes away when I speak English in school or even in my house. As a Mexican, I feel myself a true, native, Mexican born American. So I am Mexican-American. Althought sometimes I feel confused as to wich world I belong to, for me there’s no question I’m first Mexican; I’m the result of my parents American dream, I use to live in Mexico and I know how to work and talk like all the Mexican people do, but when I speak english I reveal my obvious American nationality. Sometimes I feel really sad and angry when someone refers to me as an allien or...
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...People often dream about the perfect house with a white fence around it. In that house they usually have it filled with 2 kids, husband or wife, and a dog in the yard watching over the family. With mom watching the kids as they are are running around on the deep green grass and smell the fresh air, no troubles, no stress. She looks over at and sees dad is outside cooking on the grill. As soon as she opens the door to go outside with glasses of cold sweet lemonade, she is hit with a wave of delectable smells something from the meat sizzling on the nearby grill, the delicious scent wafting in the air. That is the American dream. But not everyone has the opportunity or chance to even experience that dream. For me as a child, my dream was to...
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...than I did to achieve the American dream. My parents, as children suffered below the poverty line. What I mean is my mom had to wear ripped shoes to school and walk two hours to school every day. While my dad with five sisters and one brother, plus himself, so you can imagine how they got fed and clothed. After that, they experienced the Bosnian war as well. They lost lots of things in the war like the house, family members and they even adopted a teen kid. Who parents and siblings were killed by a bomb, leaving him the only survivor. Later on, after the war, my parents fought for two years for green cards so, they can move to America. They didn’t want to go at first, but a family member was offered to go to America due to his suffering in the starvation camps. My sister was born during the last two years in the...
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...“Between the World and Me” is a book by Ta-Nehisi Coates about the history of Americans taking advantage of the fact that they have created a system of oppression and discrimination against black people. The narrative is expressed in the form of a letter addressed to his son, through a collection of stories and experiences, from the author’s perspective as someone who lives under the repressive system. Coates’ principal message to the audience is that despite the fact that American society is set up in opposition to the success of black people, black people must not stop struggling to continue to fight for equality. The first takeaway I got from this book is that it has a largely negative focus on the relationship between “Americans who believe that they are white,” and black people. From my personal perspective, while it is important to understand the negative, Coates failed to provide the audience with a balance. There are some positive instances in the relationship between white and black people, in...
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