The American Dream In Daily Life

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The American Dream I believe is being able to sustain a daily life and to be able to hold yourself without anyone else. To James Truslow Adams The American Dream is “The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each per ability or achievement." The American Dream is different to many people to some it is by getting the biggest house and the richest car but to some it is being able to know that you can live a daily life without being in danger. In movies and in video games the American Dream is overrated. People in come to America for freedom but sometimes people take it for granted. The American Dream is believed to get help from everyone but people can only …show more content…

In Scarface, he worked hard to get where he is but he did it the wrong way but he said that “In this country, you got to make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.” What this says to me is that you must work hard for what you want because that the only way you can go in life. In the movie, The Wolf of Wall Street it shows he worked hard even though he had a bad past” No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and capabilities you gleam from it. And that is the basis for all change.” People do not understand what the American Dream is till you get here the people who work hard get somewhere in life and the people who live life lazy do not get anything. If you work hard when you first start your life in America, you can make it easier for your children. Some people must deal what their parents did wrong but they still have a big idea for their life they had to start all the way from the bottom. Breionne Carter, 22 lives in a suburb of Austin, Texas, and has big dreams. Now working at Dairy Queen, she is saving up to attend community college. Someday, she hopes to become an entrepreneur, creating companies that provide jobs for others in her community” The world is changing. I have the opportunity to do things my mother couldn't do". If you work hard for what you want, you can live the American