young woman, my grandmother immigrated to America from Brazil. Though she struggled with English, she fought to become successful in this new land. She taught me not to give up on my dreams, saying that anything is possible with enough hard work. My grandma inspires me every day to become a better person, and to truly reach my goals. I did not grow up with money. My dad lost his job when I was young, and our family has struggled to recover. However, we were all taught not to become beggars, but
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“Stephen Cruz” Studs Terkel gives a strong opinion on the American dream. He says, “The American dream, I see now, is governed not by education, opportunity, and hard work, but by power and fear. The higher up you go, the more you have to lose. The dream is not losing.” (Terkel pg. ) This is interesting to me because I have never viewed the American dream with a negative outlook. History classes always put the idea that the American dream was a fantasy of a perfect life. It went along the lines of
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desires has spread rapidly. People long for this need they have to be rich and determined to make it become possible as if it were their salvation. This idea that “anyone will achieve success through hard work” proves itself invalid (Fitzgerald). The American dream creates a false sense of expectations of a perfect life and reality. In The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald the American Dream plays a big role. So it is not shocking that this
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F. Scott Fitzgerald criticizes the American Dream in his novel , The Great Gatsby. He shows the readers that during this time period the American dream was centered on riches, material wealth, youth and selfishness. People show no regard towards strong moral values and chose material wealth. Hypocrisy and corruption are a way of life for the elite high-class society. Tom is hypocritical in his possessive views of his relationship with Daisy. Gatsby and Wolfsheim’s morals are corrupted by their money-god
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generation. These immigrants came to America to work, so they could make their own American Dream possible. The American Dream wasn’t possible for the factory workers, because the safety regulations prohibited them from being happy at work. The American Dream for them was to be able to go to work and feel safe and secure in their workplace. Safety regulations in the factory would have allowed the workers to have the American Dream of being comfortable and safe in their work place, live the pursuit of happiness
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Stahl 1.) Is it possible to have the American dream, the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative, with the country's current levels of income inequality and lessening economic mobility? The concern over a widening gap between economic classes in our country has come to the forefront of the political stage. Many say, that the possibility of achieving the American dream many once sought after
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The American Dream is a wish that someone really really wants that they truly believe can become possible but is currently unachieved. In the story Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, written about and during the Great Depression in 1937 California, he demonstrates how everyone in the book has their own version of the American Dream. The people that will be used are Curley’s Wife, Candy and Crooks and they are 3 totally different people who all have one thing in common: an American dream. One
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struggling. Although it may seem that most Americans face financial and economic challenges, there are indeed many Americans who are quite stable. A strong argument can be made that the American dream is not dead, but is yet attainable through genuine desire, hard work, and saving and investing. As it was coined decades ago, the American dream had a totally different meaning than its understood definition in the new age. As stated in an article, the term “American dream”, coined in the 1930s during the depression
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a tragedy about the struggles of a middle class family living in Brooklyn, New York during the 1940’s. The play is a scathing critique of an American society that places emphasis on hollow materialistic values. Arthur Miller personifies the struggle between what society believes to be the “American Dream” and the middle class family trying to make that dream a reality, through the play’s protagonist Willy Loman, who is a depressed, overworked, and spiritless working man with delusions of grandeur
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despising his personality and corrupted dream but feeling drawn to Gatsby’s magnificent capacity to hope. Using Nick as a moral guide, Fitzgerald attempts to guide readers on a journey through the novel to illustrate the corruption and failure of the American Dream. To achieve this, Nick’s credentials as a reliable narrator are carefully established and reinforced throughout the story. The American Dream is a sensitive and beloved topic in American culture. Discussing its failure and corruption
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