What Is the American Dream?

What is the American Dream? Is a question that will be answered differently every time it's asked to a different individual. Everyone has a different opinion regarding what is the American Dream and what it takes to make the dream a reality there's a simply explanation to this: People come from different places, and everyone has a different story to tell. No two lives are just alike, there are going to be people who have experienced different trials and tribulations, people who have seen what you haven't, people who's struggle has been a little rougher than yours, people who's dreams have been shattered, people who haven't lost hope, people who believe all hope is gone, and people who feel that what was lost is finally found. The American Dream is a dream viewed in a different perspective of everyone.

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> My Opinion of the American Dream

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> When people come to America searching for the dream, everyone is given a chance to succeed, however, it is extremely rare to exceed the social barrier. Although this may seem pessimistic, one's surroundings often shape their character and their incentive to succeed. If a person were to grow up in a poverty-stricken area for all of their life, the only experience that person would have with the adult world would be of low income and most likely low education. Due to inductive thinking, this person may draw the conclusion that all places in the world are like that one area, and their goals or standards will be lowered to the level of life that they know. But only in America is everyone given a chance to succeed. In most countries, the social level in which you are born is the one that you must stay in for your whole life. In the United States, public education is available, as well as many financial aides given for colleges so that one may go on to achieve their goals in life. America

> is a country of equal opportunity, but those who want to succeed must fight the battle to rise above the standards that were branded upon them as a child.

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> Not to stray from the topic but Martin Luther King spoke some very wise words when he made this statement in his famous I Have A Dream Speech.

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> "I say to you today, my friends, that even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow. I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American Dream."

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