Do you still believe in the American Dream ?

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we'll be discussing the American Dream. So let's get right into the definitionprovided by Oxford language. The American Dream is the ideal of equality andopportunity that is available to any American, allowing the highest aspirationsand goals to be achieved. Examples of the American Dream include owning yourown house, starting a family, having a stable job, or owning your own business.So how did the American Dream come to be? What do we know now? The FoundingFathers who declared independence from England based their belief oninalienable rights. They are credited with creating the concept of the AmericanDream. These men held that the right held that the rights of life, liberty, andpursuit of happiness or natural human rights. They founded a nation in whichindividuals could live the life they wished and be free from the constraintsof their birth class all day. Although this concept was eventually named theAmerican Dream by writers, people's interpretations of it have evolved significantlyover time. I want to talk about the evolution of the American Dreambecause it helps you. I feel like for me, it helps me understand more reallyhow it's changed over the years. So the dream was realized in colonial Americathrough the interactions between social classes. The new experience of equalitywas written about by people. At that time. Workers felt that they could raisetheir status with hard work and were able to communicate honestly with theirbosses. The American Dream inspired many people to race for land during thewestward expansion and led hard lives on the frontier. Because of theirdiligence, they were able to establish themselves on a portion of the vast landthat was available to pioneers and homesteaders. People battled. People, battledone another to acquire a plot of land for themselves because they had a veryindividualistic and competitive conception of the American Dream. Americansfound a common dream at the beginning of the 20th century, one which they hadbanded together to improve the conditions faced by a majority of Americans.Franklin D Roosevelt, 1s um, famously known. Maybe some of you guys know himas FDR and his New Deal programs promise safe, healthy futures for everyAmerican. A new understanding of the American Dream. It was the idea thateveryone should have the opportunity to achieve the American dream. It was acommon belief among those who pushed for American involvement in the WorldWar Two. 1s Um, I feel like the war gave. 2sAmericans like the opportunity kind of like to show their idealism to therest of the world, kind of because, you know, like freedom of speech. 2sFreedom of religion. 1s Freedom of fear. And there's one more. 1sFreedom of wants. 1s They're the four fundamental freedoms that FDRdefined as the American Dream. 1s It's like. 1s The Americans thatwere fighting in the war they like fought to protect it. The American dream. Ifeel it's like the American dream was being lived by the people. 1sWho could provide for their families, protect them, and practice thereligion as they saw fit and express their emotions? Eventually, the men camehome from World War Two with a renewed vision of the American dream. Homes inTibet, inhabited by contented, content families who took summer