Do All Americans Live Up To The Five Ideals

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Do you think all americans live up to the five ideals? The five ideals are opportunity, liberty, democracy, equality, and rights. Americans have not lived up to the ideals in the past and present. The question is will they live up to them in the future? The ideals opportunity and rights have not always happened in history. During the great depression is a good example of not living up to the ideal opportunity. There was hardly and jobs for people so they weren't getting paid. So they didn’t have to opportunity for a job to get money for a house, food, clothes, etc. Before the nineteen twenties women didn't have the right to vote. Not was that not their rights but also not having the opportunity to not get to have a say in their government.

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