American Dream Dead Research Paper

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Well that is a really indeed a really tough question. Depending on who you asked, you might get an answer like, the American Dream was since the dead when the word “Corporation” was formed. Now if you were to ask a dutiful patriots you might not get similar answer. Before I go on and brandish my reasoning that suggest whether the American Dream is dead or not, I must first ask myself what does the term “American Dream means to mean or you? When I visualize the term “The American Dream,” I vividly recollect memories of gas price wishing it was $2.80 cents a gallon while flaunting the 99 cents benchmark as if it was a registered trademark. I also envision homes with the American Flags waving flawlessly with the signs of freedom and unity. …show more content…

Today, you will be lucky to see one home out of every hundred to carry the American flag. There lies my case, the American Dream is unfortunately dead but the good news is, it can be resurrected by us common people, and hopefully the people on top I.e., the rich, the politicians and the corporation will see that and also begin the plan of resurrecting the long lost dreams itself. Here are some few formulas to arise the American Dream from the dead. First, we have got to accept people for who they are and remember that all lives matter. Inasmuch as the word Nigger is offensive to people of colors, the same goes for the word racist. To call someone a Nigger is with-out-a-doubt saying that person life’s is meaningless, useless and therefore unworthy to be in this world, changing the syllables makes no difference. The word racist too is a word use to by someone you devalue a fellow human being base on the color of his skin, and don’t believe his/her race should integrate with that particular race. What we failed to realize is that we as the common people were programmed and brainwashed to live by standard that represent good and bad. White being good and Black being bad. It goes like this, since the slavery days that dates centuries ago, blacks has always been deemed inferior. With that being said, we carry a monkey on our back. Example: statistics comes up every year claiming blacks have the highest drop-out rate, highest prison population rate and so on. When a black kid sees that, he become hopeless and loses the ambition to succeed, because a statistically speaking, he has better chance to fail. So he might ask himself why do all the extra hard work to prove some white theory is unjust than do what society have already predestine me to be. It goes the same for a white