While these losses, combined with admittedly high unemployment in the past few years, have contributed to seemingly dismal prospects for prosperity in the United States, I believe that the ideals and values of the American Dream are still very much alive. ... I would redefine the American Dream today as the potential to work for an honest, secure way of life and save for the future." ... Living the American Dream meant going from dirt poor to filthy rich and becoming more than you could have ever imagined. ... I agree: gov­ernment funding for Wall Street and struggling businesses makes the ec...

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You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars of startup money. ... I recall the day I went to the embassy to request my Student Visa: after I convinced the officer why I wanted to study by telling him my ambition and dreams, he told me, "Anything is possible in the land of opportunity. ... From the moment the President burst on the 2004 election, I believe Obama has served as a living example of the American dream – proof that in this country anyone can succeed, even a skinny black man with a funny name. ... " Reading this bo...

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I slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like." ... Her dream of riches and of belonging to a social elite blinded her from the chance that perhaps she could have tried to make her marriage with George work and hence achieve happiness and was, in fact, this very dream that resulted in her downfall. ... Instead, his main dream is to for his wife and him to move to the West, as he suspects his wife having an affair and wants to take her away from it all: "I've been here too long, I want to get away I just got wised up to something funny the last two days I"m going to ...

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I slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like." ... Her dream of riches and of belonging to a social elite blinded her from the chance that perhaps she could have tried to make her marriage with George work and hence achieve happiness and was, in fact, this very dream that resulted in her downfall. ... Instead, his main dream is to for his wife and him to move to the West, as he suspects his wife having an affair and wants to take her away from it all: "I've been here too long, I want to get away I just got wised up to something funny the last two days I"m going to ...

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The ashes in the Valley act as a symbol of the death of the American Dream. ... The people that lived in West Egg were relatively new to having money, they made plenty very quickly and were not used to the new wealthy status. ... Nick Carraway's first vision of Gatsby was when he: Stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have swore he was trembling I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been at the end of a dock . ... I don't think he had ever reall...

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He has A good looking, expensive haircut and I stare at it, admiringly, while He starts humming along to the musak station."" ... "I tell you, my man, this is the American Dream in action! ... I was tempted to have my Attorney pull into the next airport and arrange some kind of simple common law contract whereby we could just give to this poor unfortunate bastard- (p17) In many ways the two main characters, Bateman and Duke, couldn't be more different, but the reader gets an underlying feeling that as both livin...

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To get this happiness, Jay must reach into the past and relive an old dream; to do this he must have wealth and power. ... We see when Myrtle asks Tom to buy her a dog, "I want to get one of those dogs...I want to get one for the apartment" (31). ... You have to keep after them all the time" (36). ... questioned Nick, "Yes...but of course I'll say I was" (151). ... Through the years the citizens of America have corrupted this dream and turned it into something quite opposite of the original meaning -- greed. ...

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I slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like." ... Her dream of riches and of belonging to a social elite blinded her from the chance that perhaps she could have tried to make her marriage with George work and hence achieve happiness and was, in fact, this very dream that resulted in her downfall. ... Instead, his main dream is to for his wife and him to move to the West, as he suspects his wife having an affair and wants to take her away from it all: "I've been here too long, I want to get away I just got wised up to something funny the last two days I"m going to ...

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She exclaims, "Lena – I'll work I'll work twenty hours a day in all the kitchens in Chicago I'll strap my baby on my back if I have to and scrub all the floors in America and wash all the sheets in America if I have to – but we got to move! ... This dream of hers is similar to the American Dream at the time. ... Commenting on Ruth's statement about their not being black people living in Clybourne Park, Mama persists, "Well, I guess there's going to be some now (Hansberry 72). ... Please don't do it Man, not with that money oh God Don'...

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In this quote, he describes that every man will have some dream in his life, and though he may spend his whole life dwelling on such a hope, he may not even take the time to understand it. ... "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams---not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion," Nick acclaims in the novel. ... Another quote follows: "He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. ... Though Gatsby may have been the base of the corrupti...

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THE AFFIRMATION OF THE TRUE SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN DREAM IN A SOCIETY WHICH HAS DISTORTED THAT DREAM. 1) WHAT IS THE TRUE SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN DREAM? ... Through the narrator, Carraway: "When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart." ... Daisy might also be: "I"m glad it's a girl. ... (p. 100) "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams-not through her own fault, but ...

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I could not remember having a dream that was as scary as this. ... I half expected her to have some kind of harmful weapon in her hand. ... On the same token, if I was running from some random person, the dream would probably not have stayed with me as long. ... This means that dreams and experiences have to be unique in order to have staying power. If I have the same bad dream every night. ...

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I could have been seeing that it was a bare place, with no hope of escape, or at least I thought. ... I was anxious to get home that day, and not do anything, because I didn"t have work that day for some reason. Before I fell to sleep, in my dream I remember just thinking I only had one period left in the day. ... I had a problem with the detention, because I have had very few in my high school career, and the Marc of my dreams was upset to get one that colleges would see. ... The dream startled me quite a bit, because I had been asleep in the dream, and in real life so I was unable to dis...

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The dreams of having the perfect life were cut short when reality settled into the Loman family's life. ... Willy begins to lose touch with reality as he comes to grips with the realization that the goals which he has engraved in his sons minds, have not been fulfilled. ... The play Death of a Salesman occurred during the time period after World War I. ... I believe Americans perception of the dream was far from reality. ... That's why I thank almighty God you"re both built like Adonises. ...

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The Dream and the Reality Lavish parties, twirling dresses, dapper men, and illegal alcohol fill the roaring times of the 1920s. F. Scott Fitzgerald's story "Winter Dreams- reflects on this overzealous period. The tale tells how sometimes even with great motivation dreams cannot turn into reali...

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In this stage, "story like dreams occur" (322). . ... A dream of running away from something chasing you can wake you with heart pounding, and blood pressure high, most simply will shrug and go back to sleep knowing that it was just a dream. ... It does not have to be an interference with life. Parasomnias have been around for many centuries, with all of the advancements in science and medicine today one should not have to suffer as they did hundreds of years ago. As William Shakespeare stated in Hamlet," O god, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count myself king of infinite space, we...

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My American dream has been influenced by the problems, and circumstances that I have gone through in my life. ... I want to have a family, kids, and a husband. ... I came from having it all to having nothing. ... My American dream would have been different if I still lived in the Dominican Republic. ... Jose Vargas reminds me of when I came to this country and the dreams I had in his short story "My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant" because he shows how tough situations can lead us to have different dreams and aspirations. ...

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The last method I discovered to become lucid within a dream was to visualize what the dreamer would like to do within that dream. ... Spend 10 minutes writing down some dreams each morning and one will find that not only will their dream recall and intensity increase, but may have greater chance of having spontaneous lucidity within a dream. ... One way to incubate a lucid dream is to say to oneself "I will have a lucid dream tonight" while performing meditation or self-hypnosis. ... Personally I have tried in the past to acquire the ability to dream lucidly but all my attempts ended in failur...

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But didn't we all have dreams of what we would be when we were older. ... We had, we have so many dreams but why don't we all pursue them? ... I would have probably just started my first year of school when mum put me into ballet. ... I decided I finally had to take a small grasp at my dream of becoming a mermaid. ... And although teaching is something that I have always wanted to do and I know I will be relatively happy doing, people like me and myself are trapped by dogma. ...

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I have a few dreams. ... I have wanted to do this for a long time, and I do think that this dream is achievable. Another dream I have is to be one of the best session drummers in the world. ... I try to keep this dream achievable by practicing my drums everyday and showing off my talent whenever I have the opportunity. ... Another dream that I have is to inspire world peace. ...

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Aurora of a Dream Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman", has an aurora of a dream. ... Past actions have changed the present drastically. ... Biff and Happy have a completely different view of success from Willy. ... It's the only dream you can have- to com out number one man." ... And I won't send you on the road." ...

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His dream, and his struggles to achieve his dream have intent to basically conquer hem. ... In the beginning of the play Walter Younger and his wife, Ruth, are observed of having a fight over Walter's dream: to become a 'mover and shaker' in the business world. ... "Man say to his woman: I got me a dream. ... Mama, I don't know if I can make you understand... He didn't want just to have enough money to provide for his family, but he tells his mother, "I want so many things". ...

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Mama and Ruth have similar dreams in the aspect of family happiness, but they differ in means of attaining their happiness While the family's dreams aren't too much to ask for, the given circumstances make them harder to attain. ... I was happy with the fact that Mama went ahead with buying the house because at least her of her dreams could be real. ... I don't know what it is-but he needs something-something I can't give him anymore. ... While Ruth sincerely wants Mama to use the money how she wants to, I think she feels like giving Walter what he wants will put their marr...

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Throughout the book Fools Crow, written by James Welch, many characters have visions and dreams. ... One would argue that these dreams and visions in the book really don't have any meaning. ... "I had no choice but to try and hide so I crept over to the girl, put my hand over her mouth and crawled into the robe with her" (74). ... White Man's Dog thought to himself "Such a dream would have been a sign of bad medicine and they might have turned back" (76). ... The third dream is a dream that White Man's Dog and Kills-close-to-the-lake, a woman in his tribe, both have. ...

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Americans have abused the American Dream to make it most convenient for their lives. ... The American Dream, almost everyone has heard of it, but there have been so many different renditions of it and variations of each definition that it does not necessarily have one concrete meaning. ... I think that the crash of this American Dream is shown in two separate parts of the movie. ... Here, I believe is where Thompson wanted to show what Vegas and the American Dream really were. ... That is why everyone is portrayed as reptiles, to illustrate how cities like Las Vegas have corrupted America and ...

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