Reflection+2.1

=While America offers a tremendous amount of opportunity and freedom, it is only offered to some. The flag only waves over certain individuals. Freedom to many seems as easy a clicking a button, but as the first picture illustrates, they are sadly wrong. For too many, the American Dream is unattainable. In many parts of America, there is a "keep up with the Joneses" mentality. However, while this is ever-present, this mindset can only be executed by certain indiviudals associated within the wealthier classes in America. Because of that, many underprovelged indiviudals cannot keep up with the ever advancing soceity becuase they cannot afford to as well as the wealtheir class does not offer them the opportunity to because they are too focused on their own personal gains; the secondary matters. There is too much "I" in the American character and this needs to change. Otherwise the focus on personal gains will continue to dominate the minds of those that have the power to help. By not being exposed to the surrounding issues, these wealtheir individuals in society will have no inclination or motivation to make great change becuase they are so focused on what is happening personally to them. De Tocqueville quotes reflect this idea. And if this trend continues, many Americans will face their own __Boulevard of Broken Dreams__ as the last video clip suggests. To start to avoid this problem, America needs to shift to a more communal based society, however, it must be done the right way. =

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