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The American Dream In Cullen's My American Dream

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“I have learned this, at least, from my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” The American Dream is a happy way of living that is thought of by many Americans as something that can be achieved by anyone in the U.S. especially by working hard and becoming successful.Although there are quite a few outlooks on my American Dream, several ideas presented in Cullen’s The American Dream that even up with my own personal American Dream such as upward mobility, equality, and home ownership.

For most people, they dream of fame and fortune, and one of those people was me. I dreamt of living in mansions and being the most talented and known actor.”...unlike in the Dream of Upward Mobility, fame and fortune were all the more compelling if achieved without obvious effort. This is the most alluring and insidious of American Dreams, and one that seems to have become predominant at the start of the twenty- first century”.This quote from Cullen’s The American Dream made me realize that to get to fame and fortune you need to work hard for it.An example would be the new show that aired its first season on Freeform in April called Famous in Love which explains how life changes for ordinary college student Paige after she auditions for a movie and lands a role in the big-budget blockbuster.Paige had beaten out A-listers who have already assured the roles and a nationwide casting call because she worked hard and was good at what she does and it shows hard-work and dedication can take you a long way.

Another dream that I and Cullen relate to is the dream for equality for all races (also sex, sexuality, and etc. but we'll save that for another essay).”The object of the [Fourteenth] amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of
King of America: The Dream of Equality things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either. Laws permitting, and even requiring, their

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