BARACK OBAMAS RISE TO PRESIDENCY      pt1    1300w

The American Dream has inspired Americans for hundreds of years. In the 2008 American president election, Americans created brand-new history with their own votes. Barack Obama won historic US election and has become the first African American President of the United States after more than 200 years, reclaiming the American Dream and making the Dream vivid and alive in American contemporary society. Why is the American Dream attractive? How Barack Obama’s rise to presidency is regarded as the symbol of the reality and truth of the centuries’ old American Dream? What is its implication in contemporary America? This paper will start with the American Dream which Barack Obama has mentioned many times in his speeches, and will proceed to analyze Barack Obama’s success as a typicality and up-datedness of American Dream and then its implication to the contemporary American Society. The American Dream still plays an important role in modern times. It is still attractive, alive and possible in contemporary America.