I don’t want anything jeopardizing my success so if I happen to meet someone with the same goals or mind frame it could work, but if not, I will have to wait until I feel I am ready to settle down. I don’t want to just prove to my family that I succeeded… I want to prove it to myself that I made it. Nothing is better than living your American Dream and having that feeling of succeeding. You just feel like the happiest person on earth. You feel like you’re unstoppable and like everything you have worked towards is finally falling into place.
Dzulfiqar Widjaja MW ENG67 9:50 Different World There always has been difficulties and benefits when you moved out from your own country to a new place. Firoozeh Dumas’s book, Funny in Farsi relates her story to a memoir of growing up in the United States. But later on, she managed to live and grow up with many expectations in her life. Coming from a different country is not something that is easy to handle. Dumas and her family experienced many difficulties when they first time came to United States.
Regardless of the content of each individual version of the American dream they all include the belief in the opportunity to achieve some form of quantitative or qualitative success. Therefore, in order to better understand the existence of so many different versions of the American dream it would first be helpful to define the different ways in which success can be measured. In her book Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation, Jennifer Hochschild[5] states that definitions of success involves measurement as well as content. She classifies success into the following three categories which have important normative and behavioral consequences: Absolute success- "In this case achieving the American dream implies
Jhonathan Lopez English 11, Section 3 Mr. Fernandez 3-11-13/ UFT What is an American? Many people think that to be an America, you have to be born in America. That is false, its not about where you were born or where you come from, its about the way you use your rights to be successful. Being an American is being able to live the American Dream. It is all about the opportunities and freedom that you are given just for living in America.
The American dream is sought after and imagined by everyone who comes to America. It is the main reason that people come to America; they come for freedom as well as to one day attain the idea of a perfect American dream. It theoretically symbolizes what you have accomplished in life and what you wish to one day have. In my personal opinion if any person wants come to America to live a life of happiness, be released of religious persecution and the freedom to say what you feel, then it can be accomplished. This is the first thing you get as soon as you become an American.
For generations parents have told their children about the luxuries of the American dream, building a lifestyle based on the principles of what this great country was founded upon. According to Bob Herbert a New York Times columnist it no longer exists. Cal Thomas author of this essay writes in response to Herbert stating that the dream is still alive. Herbert’s main argument is that we are in denial about the state of the economy and that the American Dream is for the most part dead. He lists many examples of “a country in sad shape”: unemployment, nonstop wars, reduced services, and failing schools.
With these immigrants, come the differences each share regarding this so called “American Dream.” Depending on factors such as family support, background, and attitude, the American Dream may change in its details from individual to individual; however, all who come to this country or who were born here ultimately desire freedom. America won its independence from Great Britain fighting for their freedom and that is exactly what immigrants have been doing; they are facing “battles”, whether it’s internal or external, to get to what they eventually have in America, as quoted by Thomas Jefferson, “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” The American poet, born in New York, Emma Lazarus is best known for “The New Colossus” a sonnet written in 1883. It’s line written on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty placed in 1903. As a Jewish American woman, Emma Lazarus faced the challenge of belonging to two, often, conflicting worlds. As a woman she dealt with unequal treatment in both.
What would you do if you needed to move to a new place? Within the book The Witch of Blackbird Pond, written by Elizabeth George Speare, Kit goes through a lot of moving to a new place and making new friends, but she became tougher and more courageous. Kit must move to a colony in Connecticut after her grandfather dies. She had to leave everything behind, including her friends, house and money. Then she had to survive on the ship for two months.
English II Essay 4 Jennifer Duncan December 4, 2010 An insight in the American Dream The American Dream is a dream of a nation which people can reach their highest potential. It is a dream of social stability in which every man and each woman have the full distinguish of what they are, despite of the conditions of birth or gender. The essays”Declaration of Sentiments by authors Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and the essay “I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King, Jr. illustrate two different times in American history. They were both martyrs and spoke of injustices against citizens of America. Both authors show some lines of thought on what the freedom in the American dream means.
Today it is said that america still provides access to the American Dream. Don't be fooled into thinking that freedom still lies within america. The American Dream is capable for some people. it is not however capable to everyone which is why america is not a land of opportunity. America is not the land it use to be.