American Dream Dbq

The American Dream is accessible to everybody in America and those who are coming to America. America has so many opportunities and chances, you just have to work hard and get back up when you fall. Those who fall and refuse to get back up make the choice to fail. We all have chances and opportunities to achieve our American Dream it just depends on how far you will go to achieve it. There are so many opportunities here in America, and with those opportunities comes many challenges and chances. Barack Obama says “ Through hard work and perseverance my father got a scholarship to study in a magical place, America, that shone as a beacon of freedom and opportunity to so many who had come before.” (paragraph 2 and page 89). He

For example Martin Espada when he says in his poem at sixteen, I worked after high school hours at a printing plant … Ten years later, in law school.” (lines 1,2 and 22 and page 83-84). He starts his American Dream by working at a printing plant and then ten years later he is in law school. People will argue and say that people who start working in high school struggle more than those who don’t work in high school. They could counter with words for David Wallechinsky “ many average Americans are struggling- squeezed by rising costs, declining wages, credit card debt and diminished benefits” (paragraph 2 and page 60). How bad do you want it is what it really comes down to just because you are struggling doesn’t mean you can not get through

William Zinsser says “ a failure- and the right to fail is one of the few freedoms” ( paragraph 3 and page 93). Your failures only help you and make you strong in achieving your American Dream. Steve Smith Jr. says “ I work hard out of fear… Fear of failure… Or me, i don’t want to go back to failure. I have nothing else but to work harder than the next man”. They used their struggles to there own advantages in achieving their dream and it has made them what they are today. People will say that failures can also ruin your chances and use evidence from Yezierska ‘I felt that the America of my dreams never was and never could be.” (paragraph 96 and page 21). Yezierska could have achieved more though she constantly received offers to help her achieve more but she didn’t want to risk failing, even though she is successful she pretty successful just imagine how much happier and better her life would have been if she would have not been afraid to fail and accept those offers. Everyone has the opportunity but it is their choice to decide how much they really want to achieve and be