Dream Essay

    The American Dream is a lifelong objective that many Americans aim for. This Dream is not the same for every person in the United States, and throughout the course of American history, it has changed gradually. From the beginning of time, the dream was to own land and to live off of it, but now it has branched out into so much more.  According to Google Dictionary the American Dream is “the ideal that every U.S. citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative.” This is not always the case because though Americans work for what they have and to be where they are, the American Dream is not always attainable. Some believe that the American Dream is just a dream and sometimes it is, but it can also be a reality. To attain the reality of the “dream” there are obstacles that differ for everyone. Of these challenges are wealth, gender, inequality, race, and social class. The American Dream can remain a dream or become a lifestyle depending on the hard work one is willing to put in.

What is the “American Dream” everyone talks about? The term “American Dream” was first coined by a historian named James Truslow Adams. This term is used to describe the America way of life. It describes how every U.S. citizen should have equal opportunities and the freedom to be able to achieve their passions and dreams while completely disregarding the social class. It is also the importance of economic security and wellbeing which is being able to have the resources and tools to live a comfortable. Also stated in the Declaration of Independence, “all men are created equally” with the right of “life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness” (U.S, 1776). Is the American Dream attainable? I believe that the American Dream is what individuals think about the United States and how in this country they would be able to get a job, and be able to fulfill their dreams. I also think that the dream of ours was once achievable, but not anymore. The American Dream is slowly dying. There are many sociological concepts which help us support the idea why it is vanishing.

Achieving the American Dream is like fighting over the last TV on Black Friday. The American Dream is very limited. A person has to have a certain background to achieve it. The American Dream is an illusion. America wants one to believe that they have the perfect set of materialistic things to make their life better. The American Dream consist of having money, a nice house, a great looking car, and a family. Not everyone can achieve that though because of the barriers that they have in this country. The American Dream is not achievable by all people because individual’s divergent backgrounds.

The “American Dream” is a complicated topic to discuss. It has many different meanings depending on who you’re talking to. To me it means to have a healthy and happy family with a nice house and to do what I love to do. For many people their dream or even my dream is not attainable. I do not think that the “American Dream” is attainable for everyone. Some people do not have the perseverance or are not born into a situation where they can get an education. Some people may have that drive or the education or talent needed to accomplish what they want.

The American Dream is one of those terms that people refer to when talking about immigration, financial status, and so much more. But what does the term really refer to? People used to think of the American Dream as financial prosperity, religious and financial freedom, and all around success. Now, the term may mean something similar, but people are much less focused on it. If anything, the American Dream today is focused on gaining material goods and proving your bank account is larger than your neighbors. With today’s economy, laws and regulations, immigration customs, and overall attitude towards work, people are seldom focused on achieving the American Dream.

The American dream, for most people, is exactly that – A dream. It’s make believe, fiction. It’s what we think American should be like, not what it actually is. The American dream will always be out of reach for common people. The majority of people I interviewed said something along the lines of, “the American dream is to be given a chance to do something or be something you want to be.” This opinion seems to be too optimistic. Everyone wants more than what they have. It’s not enough to be given the chance, you have to succeed. What it takes to succeed is an entirely different aspect of the American dream.

What is your own version of the American Dream? Money? Living a big house or having a nice car? I believe these are values that most of people define to them what the American Dream is. The American Dream has alway been challenging to receive happiness; but as an Americans, we had worked our way from inequality to freedom.

The American Dream : Dead , on Hold , or Alive ? The American Dream is still around but nowhere to be accomplish .People have became more selfish by the year not knowing what in reality they were doing , now the american dream is dead because there really is not a reason behind it. Even though people normally say that everyone has the same opportunities, The american dream is dead because people don't achieve it due to money issues and in how people just want more so it's harder for others to get where they want to be.

According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, the American Dream is defined as “a life of personal happiness and material comfort as traditionally sought by individuals in the U.S”, but is this all there is to the American Dream? While the term “ The American Dream” has a few interpretations, one of the most popular is “ Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” (Declaration of Independence) which is the dream that most Americans strive for. In simpler terms, The American Dream is the opportunity of the pursuit of freedom, opportunity and satisfaction of needs and wants. However, one problem surfaces with the American Dream…What happens once it has been reached? (Ask Burchfield for help here))).

The American Dream can be interpreted many different ways and has changed drastically over time. Is it having a lot of money and a healthy family? Is it having a big house and nice cars? But the question really is, is the American Dream really even achievable? In the book The Great Gatsby it describes a man named Gatsby who was perceived to be living the American Dream, but did he really complete it? What even is actually the American Dream?

The Pursuit of the American Dream is a concept that is controversial in the twenty-first century. Many individuals discuss whether or not it still exists today and if it is still attainable.

What is truly the American Dream that people have been trying to achieve all these years? Is it that Dream of making it big in America, where people hear the successes stories from rags to riches or does it go beyond things like money, expensive cars and houses. The American dream itself has no set definition to its meaning, people can only assign what they think is the right term for it. For this paper and research on the American Dream The definition that I came up with is that the achievement of the American Dream does not come from possessions but more so from each person personal achievement of happiness while not interfering with others achievement of happiness. While this definition of the American dream is broad it is already not achievable.

"You'll never see an object in dream that you haven't seen in your daily life"

For many years my mother’s, mother and my fathers, father and before that have always dedicated themselves to a patron god or goddess. Or let’s just simplify it, a deity. Trying to find your path is a tradition, a right in a way. Some say you choose your patron deity and some say the patron deity chooses you. I asked for signs. I asked for dreams in the direction I needed to go to figure out who I was meant to be a follower to. I had some ideas as to who they might be but still wondered, who would be my patron deity? Then one night Badb claimed me through a dream. She showed me I could be strong and she would guide me through. I saw her by a creek where I grew up in Arvada washing clothes. She is preparing me for something. I just don't

This dream that is obviously about my feeling about having intercourse without being married. It also hints that my mother may be a part of it. I am from a family where religion is a big part of us minus my dad who is not religious at all, my mother always says that we should wait till we get married before we have sex and that weighs heavy on me. The devil, which, is my shadow/trickster is my unconscious desire of wanting to have sex with the guy that I am talking to even though I am not married to him. I have been spuriously this desire, even before I started talking to this guy for a very long time. It is not like I am a virgin, but in the back of my head I always hear wait till you get married in my mother’s voice. Jung says that the