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OPPORTUNITY

A McDonald's restaraunt [|photo link] Starbucks logo[| photo link]

Both Startbucks and Mcdonalds are huge corporations that were started by somebody with an idea. Because of the great opportunity that America offers, almost anybody is able to achieve economic success.

Cadillac Escalade [|photo link]

One quality of the American character of success is materialism and acquisition. Materialism is in some ways tasteless and unneccessary. Personal and financial gain in America is usually not seen as an oppprtunity to better the world, but more so as an opportunity to accumulate luxuries.

The American Dream is something that people living in America value, yet at the same time, many Americans spend their entire lives in search of achieving one dream and in many cases they are never able to reach their goals.

So yo all I want to do is just tell them cats On the real, keep your game high man, keep it up Word up, never stop your goals man, On the real I'ma get a sneaker just like y'all -Raekwon the Chef

[|America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better] -Anthony Walton

the American Dream played a major role in F. Scott Fitzgerald's __The Great Gatsby__. Gatsby lived out what many consider to be the American Dream in search of another dream - being with Daisy

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms father....And one fine morning-" (F. Scott Fitzgerald __The Great Gatsby__ p. 180).

The Cover of __The Great Gatsby__ [|photo link]

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