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    1. Kaylapenton 07 Sep 2021
      As the recent struggles over civil rights, women’s rights, and gay rights illustrate, the American Dream is not a static concept. Although Americans have historically associated the American Dream with the values of freedom and equality of opportunity, these values have under-gone various iterations over the years.

      Our rights have been as risk for a while. Our rights are at debate wether they should be taken or who should be able to recieve the right the use their rights. such as cases. when someone is arrested we have seen in many cases where certain people get a fair trial and some are put up to fail and locked away even if innocent they make it possible to point evidence towards an individual. So who's not to say that applies with this "American dream" illsuion of who really succeeds and who doesn't.

    2. Kaylapenton 07 Sep 2021
      Th e linking of the American Dream to equality of opportunity is particularly important to understanding the Dream’s endurance. Equal-ity of opportunity is a powerful concept, because, unlike other individ-ual rights that can be easily taken away by authoritarian governments (e.g., freedoms of speech and religious worship), it is a state of mind that is virtually impossible to eliminate.

      2020 unfortuantely is the perfect example of our rights being easily ignored or taken away by a government authortiy. So the american dream can connect to equality perfectly. Many of our high class individuals are caucasions steming from a long history of wealth from early historical moments. In the lower class would be afrian americans as well as hispanics who are seen as less then or in some events seen as nothing to the high class. So it is more difficult for the lower class individuals to climb the ladder to reach that higher class lifestyle because of steretypes of high authority power taking away oppurtinties for those individuals.

    3. Kaylapenton 07 Sep 2021
      One reason the American Dream endures is that it has been closely intertwined with deeply held American values, especially freedom and equality of opportunity

      Like many we have learned from a young age that we have the freedom to voice our thoughts, we have the right to protect ourselves, we have the right to practice whatever religion we choose along with many more rights given to us as birth. With that we learned about this "American dream", parents and elders always told us "you work to have a good living. If you study and get a good job you'll have everything sorted out". I know doctors and federal agents who get paid great and to us they are living the American dream but those individuals are the most depressed. So is part of this American dream to sacarfice our happiness? is it written in grey ink in the tiniest of fonts so we can read it when we sign away feeding into this belief?

    4. Kaylapenton 07 Sep 2021
      Th e fact is that the American Dream is deeply embedded in Ameri-can mythology and in the consciousness of its citizens. Th at is exactly what gives the American Dream its staying power, even in times when it seems as though it should surely die. Aft er all, myths last because they are dreams fulfi lled in our imaginations.

      There is no better way to describe the american dream other than a myth we all fuel with believing we can achieve it with hard work. Many die working because of this myth. They never had time to rest, it was all work day in day out. We can never be fully satisfied with life or ourselves if that american dream isn't achieved and that is what is so wrong with this illusion. It should die so then people can work on their terms, live life and rest when needed instead of being wired to think we can't have a good life if we don't work constantly.

    5. Kaylapenton 07 Sep 2021
      But this is a question that most Americans do not want to consider. Instead of questioning the American Dream, Americans are more likely to blame themselves when things do not turn out as they hoped. Nearly a half century ago, a mechanic admitted as much in an interview

      Many American's don't want to see this country as a illusion and most of our great sayings as just that "sayings" nothing more or less than words. The american dream is an illusion we all live with. What would all our hard work and prosper be for if it wasn't for that lavish gold ticket of a life. We don't want to see as it as a scam but rather turn on ourselves and call ourselves lazy or we didnt work hard enough.

    6. Kaylapenton 06 Sep 2021
      We have a long and arduous road to travel if we are to realize the American Dream in the life of our nation, but if we fail, there is nothing left but the eternal round. Th e alternative is the failure of self-government, the fail-ure of the common man to rise to full stature, the failure of all that the American Dream has held of hope and promise for mankind”

      Many even myself still believe that this "American Dream" is attainable if we just keep working and work hard at the most. Everyone desires for a pupose to their life so the american dream feeds into that illusion with sweet candied lies that has us still working for at the age of 60 when we should be comfortable enough that if we wanted to relax we could. Generations after another are raised into this american dream narative and we don't know how we came to have the thought to work endlessly for an unattainable goal but it was wired in through our unbringing.

    7. Kaylapenton 06 Sep 2021
      Try investigating people like me who didn’t have babies in high school, who made good grades, who work hard and don’t kiss a lot of ass and instead of getting promoted or paid fairly must regress to working for $7/hr., having their student loans in per-petual deferment, living at home with their parents, and gen-erally exist in debt which they feel they may never get out of.

      This is the lifestyle millions of people in America can relate to. A nine to five job that doesn't pay what it should and leads people to barely meet ends meats for biils, food, roof over their head, running clean water that cost an extreme amount. America is glorified and so far from the truth of how millions actually live and barely meet ends meat and may take a long time to get out of debts.

    8. Kaylapenton 06 Sep 2021
      Yet for many Americans, holding onto the American Dream has become increasingly more diffi cult.

      Many people come to the United States of America because there is a vast amount of oppurtunities for many if not all but the truth is that lavish lifestyle everyone envisions becames more and more difficult to attain without a large sum of wealth which many do not have. Many live within the middle class and that makes it difficult to attain this american dream life many think of when they think of fleeing to the U.S.A

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