The Importance Of Chasing The American Dream

I was born in a middle class family in China and my parents care about me very much. Before I was even born, my farther adjusted the business hour of his clinic to make more profit by accepting more patients and my mother was a nurse who worked in my dad’s clinic, so they saved the money to send me to school and prepare to move to the U.S. Most of the members of my family already moved to the U.S. Moreover, once my aunt got her U.S. citizenship, she, as the sponsor, was able to apply for us to come. When I was 15, we finally got our immigrant visas and my parents told me we were ready for move to the America. Therefore, we sold everything we had in China we were staying at my uncle’s house in Hong Kong because we need to take the airplane from Hong Kong to Missouri, U.S. I still remember what my uncle said to me because he looked at me with a very serious face that caught my attention. “Qianxin, the America is different from China. I’ve heard people said life in the America is harder than China. However, if you work hard enough, you will get what you deserve.” The words are always in my mind. I tried to do my best in school and in everything because I want to be the person who can help my family.

To achieve the American Dream, one must work hard and have the dedication to be successful. There are myths relating to this dream leaving lower class members to wonder if the dream exists for them. People in lower class are told if they want to be successful they must put in hard work and true effort. Once they do, they see that they are remaining in the same position they started in. In “Class of America-2012,” Gregory Mantsios states the ideas of class in the US and explains them. One myth addressed in this selection is, “Everyone has an equal chance to succeed. Success in the United States requires no more than hard work, sacrifice, and perseverance: ‘In America, anyone can become a billionaire; it’s just a matter of being in the right

Many human resource departments do not acknowledge resumes anymore. In fact, many of the companies offer survival jobs instead of the jobs applicants actually apply to, therefore causing downsizing. I know many may think what is a survival job? A survival job is any job an applicant can obtain in order to put food on their tables. Housekeeping, taxi driving or car detailing, to name a few, are survival jobs that offer minimum wage or tips and no source of benefits.

Since I was a little girl, I always knew I had potential to do great things. I've always been good in school, but not maxed out my full potential. As I got older I learned more about what the "American Dream" is. Too many people say its money, the more money you make the better off you are. I have learned that money isn’t always the answer. The true meaning of the “American Dream is really success and happiness in any thing you do. But how do you really achieve that goal? Now a day’s education is the key to success. When I turned eight teen I made up my mind I was just going to graduate and work. I wasn't interested in college at all. I was tired

Although more and more people are having higher incomes as the minimum wage increase, the unequal opportunity to get income had make a wide gap, which cause the poor to have less chance to obtain economic security. In many researches, researchers found that not all the Americans have the same chance to move up in the ladder. In the news from the San Francisco Chronicle, Palominto writes: “In 2013, the top 1 percent of income earners in San Francisco and the Peninsula made 44 times more than everyone else: about $3.6 million compared with $81, 000” (qtd. in Palominto). This shows that rich are getting so much more income than the poor in San Francisco and even the whole America. The unequal distribution of income makes the poor Americans harder

The United States of America has been through, overcome, and made numerous mistakes over hundreds of years. America has had wars, slavery, the Great Depression, and so many other terrible circumstances and happenings in their country. Despite all of the events America has been through, they were able to overcome them. Therefore, they were capable of continuing to be a free country and allowing their people to worship, feel, act, think, and believe however and whatever they choose. For these reasons, I have extremely high hopes in regards to America moving toward a more unified and successful future.

Today, America still provides access to the American Dream since we all have rights. Some of those rights include the pursuit of happiness, right to equality, and the right to better our world. With these rights, it is possible to achieve the American Dream, it is within reach.

To me, the American dream would be nothing without motivation and making goals for yourself. Your opinion of an american dream could be the total opposite of what the person next to you thinks it means. The american dream is some kind of goal that drives you to succeed that goal. For example, my “American Dream” is making it big in the fashion and business industry. Because of this, I will be motivated to do my best in college and make goals along the way to get to the place I wanna be at. Back then, the american dream meat a family with a dog and kids with a nice red shiny car and white picket fence surrounding your house, but nowadays, the American dream can mean whatever you want it to be. The american dream is your own dream that you want

The American Dream is an ideology that many strive for; immigrants coming into the United States, whether legally or not, arrive here hoping that they may be the lucky ones that find it. Those born in poverty see the American Dream as an opportunity to excel, to have wealth and to live a life different than the one they had growing up. The American Dream symbolizes success. For the three women in American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation’s Drive to End Welfare by Jason DeParle, success represented different ideologies. For these women, and many others like them, the success myth holds simple barriers, like the color of their skin and the opportunities granted to them.

        Over the years immigrants have come to America in hopes of achieving their dreams and finding success. But is America really what it’s thought to be? Can their American  dream become a reality?  Everyone in America has the dream of achieving success and wealth through their own hard work and determination. But due to the vicious cycle of poverty most are unable to achieve their American Dream.  The cycle of poverty in America is affected by many factors including racism, high cost of living,    education, and mental disability/illness.

Our country was founded on the promise that all citizens would have the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This concept is referred to as the American Dream. It infers that equal opportunities are offered to all, and with hard work, achieving the American Dream is possible. However, facts and data present that achieving the American Dream is not as easy as it seems, high tuition fees, and high unemployment rates prevent hardworking citizens from accomplishing their goals.

The American dream is “the belief that anyone, regardless of where they were born or what class they were born into, can attain their own version of success in a society where upward mobility is possible for everyone.” It can be further explained as “the freedom to aspire to bigger and better things and the possibility of achieving them,” and “the freedom to accumulate wealth. Home ownership is frequently cited as an example of attaining the American dream. It is a symbol of financial success and independence, and it means having the ability to control one’s own piece of property instead of being subjected to the whims of a landlord.” (Investopedia)

The American dream is what maintains the steady flow of immigrants into America. Overtime the American dream has given a new hope to immigrants. People come to America in hopes to improve their lives in a way that makes them happy to be apart of the country. When people immigrate to this country and contribute to the betterment of society, they become American. When people look at this country and the citizens from the outside, they do not always see what Americans see as being American. Being American has taken on many different meanings over the years. What it means to be an American is a complex definition, however, three words that can best describe what it means to be an American are equal, free, and prosperous.

The “American Dream” is a notion that every single person who comes to this country strives for. The image of an a house in the suburbs with a white picket fence, the father is smiling going off to work a steady job, the mother is smiling and waving her husband off while she tells her son to stop getting dirty chasing the dog, and the daughter is playing with her dolls by the front porch and most of all being happy with what you have and are doing. In both, Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill and Moby Dick by Herman Melville, present aspects that relate to the American Dream. Both show financial contentment and love for family.

America is known as to many as “The Land of Opportunity”. It is supposed to be the place where people from all over come to work for their success, that success being the “American Dream”. Now if this is truly the case then every American should have the chance at the American Dream, but do all have the opportunities achieve such a goal? In America there is a large range of incomes between the citizens, some doing very well all the way to others who are making just enough to get by. Now, I do believe that all American’s have a chance to live a financially successful lifestyle, even if they come from an underprivileged background. We have all heard the stories about the guy from the projects getting out and having a great career, but these