The Pros And Cons Of The American Dream

The American dream to me means, being in a place where I can feel protected by my community and also by my government. To have a stable place to call home, while being able to accomplish my personal goals and to have the opportunity to get the job that I want and to be able to provide a healthy place for my family to grow and to have the same equal rights as everyone else. That is my vision of the American dream. Even though we have achieved the American dream, it has not always been like that, the articles of “the Seneca Falls Declaration” and “the Triangle Shirtwaist fire” reminds us of how everything hasn’t always been like that. The securities to feel safe and protected in the worked place, and by the government, were some of the aspects

Also now the workers are protected from unfair working conditions. Every work place now has to provide training for their workers in case of a fire or a natural disaster. Back in the “Triangle Shirtwaist fire” the government didn’t protect these people the way it would have today. If safety regulations such as, proper fire ladders, doors not being lock, and having a fire plan were put in effect back then, many lives could have been saved. The ladders and fire escape were one big problem since many people had to “jump from the eighth, ninth and tenth floors” to their deaths (98). The doors being locked prevented many from escaping the fire. We also see that in the “Seneca Falls Declaration” the government didn’t give the same protection it did to the women as it did to the men. Many women had to live in the shadows of their husband, they held no voice in the law, they were not given the right to vote, and if unmarried and she was a property owner then she was to pay property taxes which benefit the government. Since then a lot has changed due to the fight of fairness for all women. Now in “the Seneca Falls Declaration” it is stated that all men and women are created equal and they hold “certain inalienable rights” which means that women have made many changes to laws that once only men could and they are now part of the government system (56). In the 1848 declaration women were deprive of their liberty and when married, in the eye of the law she was seen as “civilly dead” (57). Both events were missing the recognition from the government to put an end to the unbalance laws. Today every man and women has the ability to contest to their government if he or she feel that they are being discriminated. The laws have change for the rights of women everywhere and for the laws of the