Does America Still Provide Access to the American Dream Essay

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    The Statue of Liberty embodies American independence and freedom. These principles are the foundation of this nation and give its citizens hope for a progressive and promising future. The immigrants who saw the Statue of Liberty from their ship hoped to live out the “American dream”, which also promised a future full of opportunity. The symbolic torch Lady Liberty holds signifies the light of freedom, however, the broken chain lying around her feet depicts our shameful and repressive past. She stirs

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    The American Dream

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    what the American dream is, but most can agree that it is a concept that provides us with the hope for a better life. To some people, the American dream is about being wealthy, practicing liberty, to believe in any religion, and to have better opportunities in life. Throughout history, many immigrants have migrated to America because they want to begin a new life and achieve the American Dream. Many Americans can debate that the American dream is not realistic because the United States does not have

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    Who’s next? It seems that the issue about race in American history never reaches an endpoint. The intersection of race, gender, contradiction has been continually crucial to shape the identity of minority American. As early as the first wave of Asian immigrants, Chinese immigrants, arrived in west coast, Asian Americans was haunted by anti-Asian movement and intense hostility. Foreign Miners’ Tax passed in 1852 was a representative of racial campaign between whites and nonwhites. The requirement

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    The American Dream

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    Everyone has heard of the American Dream and some even live to get the chance to experience this dream. People don’t actually understand how the American Dream is changing. In the recent years the American Dream has been more out of reach than ever before; being neglected in ways and prolonged by multiple factors in the economy. In the beginning the American Dream was a goal, a display of pride even. As a nation we showed people that with a little hard work, living a great life wasn’t difficult.

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    immigrates come to the united states for to escape poverty. Most people who leaves to come to America are young people. These young people moved from their homes to seek better job opportunities. This raised conflict with the American citizens this was because you had some people who were against it and others who seen absolutely nothing wrong with it. The people who had a problem with immigrates coming to America for job felt that they were taking job opportunities from them. They felt that the immigrates

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    like to be an immigrant coming to America for the first time? Having your parents tell you how wonderful life would be in this new country and all its glory of the American Dream. Then to find out that this greatness they talked about was the total opposite. In reality your family is living in poverty, freedom from discrimination, and it isn’t what you all imagined it would be when your family first came to a new country. It’s hard to define the term “The American Dream” because it has changed its meaning

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    “It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain the fullest stature of which they are innately capable”(Adams). The dream discussed in this quote is called the American Dream. The American Dream is meant to be accessible by every American citizen but history has shown that this is not necessarily true. People have struggled to achieve the American Dream throughout history mainly because of racial discrimination

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    Most people will do anything to pursue their dreams, like coming to a foreign country illegally to get a better education. Sometimes is not a choice, your parents migrate to the foreign country way before you are born, sacrifice everything they have so that you can have a lot more in the future. The United States is a place for dreamers. It´s the land of opportunities and resources that you wouldn't even think of back home. America is where everyone comes to better themselves, how they come here

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    The American Dream, a dream that changes meaning as it passes through each and every American in the U.S. This meaning has been altered to the point where the American dream revolves around money and some Americans don’t even believe that the American dream is accessible to them. I believe that the American Dream isn’t accessible to Americans because of the amount of money that needs to be pumped into it. The dream used to just be about living a good life and being happy but now we’re so focused

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    Go to school, get a job, and start a family. These oversimplified steps seem to resemble the American dream and find themselves constantly repeating in the back of prospering minds. We are taught from a young age that our grandparents, and for some of us even our parents, went through tremendous horrors to reach the sacred grounds of America. Consequently, we can only begin to thank them by becoming educated, obtaining a job, and starting our own family. These actions are deemed the most important

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