The+American+Dream-

The American Dream ....and the greed that comes with it



 There has been a shift in the dream. People are no longer concerned with happiness, love, family, but greed, money, and power. We have all succumbed to the desire for wealth. 

"As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?" -Alexis de Tocqueville 

W hat we all desire.. E verything we dream about A mericans hope for it L ife is based on this T <span style="font-size: 150%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">he decisions we make try and aim for this <span style="font-size: 225%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">H <span style="font-size: 150%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">ow did we get this way?

-Alexis de Tocqueville
 * // “I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property.”

//** <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 19px; line-height: 27px;">
 * // “ //****// Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some…” //**
 * // -President Obama

media type="youtube" key="Co4hKgvPcQ8" width="425" height="350"

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //** It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. - Henry Thoreau


 * // “The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” //**
 * // -Theodore Roosevelt

media type="youtube" key="rD99Ev7JdAw" width="425" height="350" media type="youtube" key="zRTPKcJGwe4" width="425" height="350"

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //** <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-size: 160%; color: rgb(83, 83, 3);">Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. -Mahatma Gandhi

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">“And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night…So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 130%;">"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money of their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." -F. Scott Fitzgerald

Reflection on American Dream- <span style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139);">__Race in America-__