Alex Espinosa Mr. Ulloa Accelerated English 11, period 1 28 January 2017 The American dream: to what limit? Only 1 out of every 32 people accomplish the dream they set forth to attain. There is of course a line in which a person should never go cross, as shown in the novel “The Great Gatsby.” The novel is a story of a love that existed long ago between Gatsby, the main character and his focus in life Daisy. Though the story is about living the American dream the novel shows Gatsby overcoming his past of a poverty lifestyle then building up towards an unconvincing amount of money and a not so much of a social place that was considered the 1920s of NYC, evened with possibly the most amount of money in NYC he is still rejected by the “old money” …show more content…
Lost in the sense that they lose the initial idea of their own dream through a mental change. A horrible thing that this country’s dream had ever experienced was the Vietnam war with president Nixon as the man in office. During the Vietnam war with president Nixon, the 37th president and one of the few to ever resign from the executive office, spread this idea to the whole nation that he’d made a promise that in his very first term that he would bring home all the U.S. troop levels from Vietnam. He pursued the American people with his plan named "Vietnamization," the plan Vietnamization was that the U.S. would not take part in the war, though it leaves the Vietnamese army to continue to wreak havoc to anyone who can become a possible threat. Despite President Nixon making his promise to bring our American army back home, American infantry levels who are still in Vietnam remained the same as they were, and the Nixon administration took the war and turned it to one of America’s greatest screw ups. Nixon not only lying in saving men from going to war, but another as well in the area of slavery. Slavery was a terrible event that America did, the idea of a person having power over person just because of color or race was without any doubt inhuman. One of our presidents decided back in the 1800s that to keep the native Americans out of their rightful