American Dream Progression

Within life everyone experiences challenges that they must overcome. People set goals in their lives that they want to achieve. One strives to conquer the challenges life provides and accomplish the goals they sets for themselves. For the pioneers of the New World, within the Age of Exploration, the achievement that they desired was the American Dream. Although the American Dream is not an actual goal that can be definitively achieved it has had some powerful impacts on the American society. To this day the American society puts emphasis on this conquest but the ideals associated with this dream have changed through time. During the Age of Exploration, the New World had just been discovered. When this new land was explored, it offered a

It changed from being the opportunity to escape an old life and create a better one in the land of the free to being the idea that of one works hard enough then they could accomplish anything. Today the way to achieve the American Dream is to rise from the depths of poverty and become a well-off outstanding citizen. To show off one's American ingenuity and achieve their life goals, whatever they may be. A picture that society evolved the American Dream into is a family of four living a nice house with a white picket fence and a big yard and two cars in the drive way. People today strive to achieve this goal and they dream of having it. It is a coveted ideal that one fantasizes of being able to possess. As in the Age of Exploration, the people of today dream about the American Dream but really how truthful is this

As for many Americans today, the American Dream is just simply not reality. There are instances where someone can work as hard as they can and still not be able to achieve their life goals. The opportunity to "achieve" the dream is not extended to everyone. Everyone is not provided with the same opportunities to advance their education; they are also not given the same chances to enhance their life. In the beginning years of American history the freedoms described within the constitution were not extended to everyone. In America there is still the rich and the poor, there is still different classes of wealth just as there were in England during the Age of Exploration. The American Dream is a fantasy that people hope for, wish for, and dream for but in reality it does not exist. The American Dream is a term which was used as propaganda by the English to convince some of it's people to move away from their home land to populate the New World to claim it for their country. In society today it is subtly used by the upper class as a way to control the lower class. It is used to make the lower class compliant and determined to reach the upper status because it appears as though the upper class has achieved the American Dream. Even though the American Dream is simply untrue that doesn't mean it can't have an impact on a society and improve it for the