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America Be America Again 'And If We Must Die'

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Part A
The way I interpret the definition of the American Dream would be to have more than what you essentially need. To have excessive wealth or education is defined as the true dream. If you have enough money for extra leisure activities or education that makes you an overqualified individual, you have profoundly succeeded the American Dream.

Part B In Langston Hughes poem “Let America Be America Again”, and in Claude McKay’s poem “If We Must Die”, both authors illustrate the same definition of the American Dream. For them both, the American Dream is to have civil rights for themselves and their fellow colored people. Hughes describes his dream as possible but not yet achieved. To demonstrate he states, “Must bring back our mighty dream

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