The American Dream In The Epic Of America By James Truslow Adams

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AMERICAN DREAM IN AMERICAN SITCOM F.R.I.E.N.D.S Chapter I- Introduction The American Dream is a national culture of the United States, the set of principles (Democracy, Rights, Liberty, Opportunity, and Equality) in which freedom includes the opportunity for wealth and success, and an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few obstacles. In the definition of the American Dream by James Truslow Adams in his book “The Epic of America”, published in 1931, "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless of social class or circumstances of birth. At that time the United States was suffering from the Great …show more content…

According to The Dream, this includes the opportunity for one's children to grow up and receive a good education and career without artificial barriers. It is the opportunity to make individual choices without the prior restrictions that limited people according to their class, caste, religion, race, or ethnicity. “The American dream” has become a widespread way of expressing the American Way of Life. The American Dream" always has something individual. That is, why till today no one succeeded in giving a universally acceptable definition of the term. To make "The American Dream" come true all Americans have to work together. "The American Dream" is supposed to be for each American, despite all social groups. According to Adams too many Americans have built mistrust towards "The American Dream" because they did not reach what they hoped for and also had expected. People think that American Dream is the connection to being wealthy and the ability to achieve everything that one wants through hard work and passion from rags to riches. It is the dream of living an easy, happy and fulfilling life and the most important features being faith and equality. "The American Dream" also is about liberty and America being the country of unlimited …show more content…

He quits his job and becomes a junior copywriter at an advertising agency when he realizes that he wants to follow his dream of writing. Chandler has a strange family history as he was the son of an erotic novelist mother and a gay, Las Vegas star father. He is of Scottish lineage. Chandler is famous for his sarcastic sense of humor and bad luck in relationships. Chandler marries Monica, one of his friends and they adopt twins when they realize that they will never be able to make kids. Before his relationship with Monica, Chandler dated Janice Hosenstein and subsequently broke up with her many times. Chandler was Ross Geller's roommate in college. Chandler met his friend Rachel Green while celebrating Thanksgiving with the Geller family during his first year at college. Ross Geller Ross is a paleontologist and has a Ph.D. from Columbia University, calling himself as "Dr. Ross Geller." Ross is well-known for being attractive, lovelorn, sharp and shy. Ross has had a crush on Rachel Green since high school and they have an on-again, off-again romantic relationship. He was born on December 18, 1967 and was raised on Long Island, New York; he is the older brother of Monica Geller. Ross and Monica are Jewish and see themselves as at least cultural Jews with Ross taking a more active role in wanting to educate his son, Ben, which he had from his first wife whom he later

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