HOW TO ACHIEVE THE AMERICAN DREAM       PT1        1700W

How does one achieve the American Dream? The answer undoubtedly depends upon one’s definition of the Dream. John Winthrop envisioned a religious paradise in a “City upon a Hill.” Martin Luther King, Jr. dreamed of racial equality. Barack Obama holds the belief of reclaiming the American Dream. All men dreamed for what they perceived as perfection. Yet the question remains, how does one achieve this success? How is the Dream realized?

Americans have traditionally devoted their efforts to thrift and hard work. During the Colonial Period, Benjamin Franklin showed an example that “Early to Bed, and early to rise, makes a Man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” Americans of the Early Republic dreamed the country to be democratic and powerful on world stage. Abraham Lincoln insisted that the “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”