Graduation Speech: Pursuing The American Dream

We have heard a lot about people entering our country for the sole purpose of having their children born here so that they become citizens of our country. And we call our citizens Americans. But what is America, and what is an American? Is it just a person born here? And is America just the name of a geographical territory in the Western Hemisphere.

Dan Rather once stated,"A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity." Which means after all the struggles you had to go through to accomplish that dream that you had. Everything will be worth it because all the doors will be open and overflowing of opportunities. And you don’t create a new nation, like ours was created, without having a clear idea of what you want it to be. If we don’t know what we want to be as a nation, it’s like we are sitting in a

rowboat without oars, going wherever the current and the waves push us. Like a ship without a rudder, it has no destination or goal. As long as it doesn’t sink, everything is alright.

Before we became a nation we set out by building ourselves on a set of morals that, I believe, we have tried to keep up with.

We have failed often in our progression, but I think that given a good historical perspective, anything we have done has been done infinitely worse by other superpowers of the world. We are an amalgamation of every culture, every race, every language, every culture in the world. We are regularly overcome with new ideas that take root, spread, adapt, evolve and constantly reshape our own cultural fabric. This has helped to make us one of the most technology innovative nation in the world."The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that." Said Marco Rubio, and what he meant was that people this of America with streets of gold and once you get here your dreams come true. But it's isn't all about be a right roller, but accomplishing the goals and the dreams that you dreamed

about.

" No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote." Stated Hillary Clinton, even when we are in war in the time of depression. We the people still say together to help each other though our tough times, and that soon we will win the victory.

Where the old command was to love your neighbor, the new rule is to not offend your neighbor. And you can never be too sure what will do it. You can otherwise ignore him, but just don’t offend him. Don’t say anything or do anything that he might not like.