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  Americans Dream in Every Direction    "What are we all aching to do? What do we want?...Nobody could tell. Nobody would ever tell." ~ On the Road, Jack Kerouac

Wandering #5, Patricia Morris, 2000  **And we all want different things. **  "Who drove cross country seventy-two hours to find out if I had a vision or you had a vision or he had a vision" -//Howl//, Allen Ginsberg 

Americans ambitions aren't lofty...their ambitions are to take “objects which are within reach” (De Tocqueville)  “Property, power, and reputation” is the height of our goals (De Tocqueville ) www.spring.org.uk/ images/shoe_shopping2.jpg
 * Some of us have been completely swallowed by the material world...** 

"I didn't want you to think I was just some nobody" - Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby 

We get caught up in trying to have the "right" kind of life... <span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(161, 38, 38); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">

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<span style="font-size: 13.2pt; color: rgb(151, 32, 32); text-align: center; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**But for some Americans, these things do not fulfill their dreams**

<span style="font-size: 106%; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">"We keep on living in hopes of catching it once for all" ~ Kerouac. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">

The 'it' some of us search endlessly for is <span style="color: rgb(241, 139, 30); font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">passion <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">, <span style="color: rgb(242, 99, 195); font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">love <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">, <span style="color: rgb(0, 159, 255); font-size: 132%; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">kindness, <span style="font-size: 132%; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">"something burning in the night" <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(161, 38, 38); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 150, 255); font-size: 110%;">"How do you get somebody to love you?" ~Pecola, The Bluest Eye [|www.giggamusic.com/ index.php?t=about_us] media type="youtube" key="CxGN29njs3Q" height="319" width="410" <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128); font-size: 130%; text-align: right; display: block;"> "I've always depended on the kindness of strangers..." ~ Blanche DuBois, A Streetcar Named Desire <span style="color: rgb(142, 0, 255); font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; text-align: center; display: block;"> <span style="font-size: 143%; color: rgb(142, 0, 255); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; text-align: center; display: block;">And PEACE <span style="color: rgb(142, 0, 255); font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; text-align: right; display: block;"> media type="file" key="Peter, Paul, and Mary - Where Have All The Flowers Gone.mp3"

Where have all the Flowers Gone? ~Peter Paul and Mary

Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing? Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago? Where have all the flowers gone? Young girls have picked them everyone. Oh, when will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the young girls gone, long time passing? Where have all the young girls gone, long time ago? Where have all the young girls gone? Gone for husbands everyone. Oh, when will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the husbands gone, long time passing? Where have all the husbands gone, long time ago? Where have all the husbands gone? Gone for soldiers everyone Oh, when will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the soldiers gone, long time passing? Where have all the soldiers gone, long time ago? Where have all the soldiers gone? Gone to graveyards, everyone. Oh, when will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the graveyards gone, long time passing? Where have all the graveyards gone, long time ago? Where have all the graveyards gone? Gone to flowers, everyone. Oh, when will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing? Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago? Where have all the flowers gone? Young girls have picked them everyone. Oh, when will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn?

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Grace's Reflection for this page

Second page: The American Beauty Third page: The Puritan Survival in America Fourth page: Racism in America