The American Dream

The American Dream

One of the greatest quotes that Gary Colombo states in Rereading America is: “Can we exist as a living community if our greatest value can be summed up by the slogan “Me first”? (294-295).Analyzing this, and the fact that I am a young immigrant student who is planning his future in the American community, makes me ask my self “Can we?”. I have always had this inside desire to be somebody important in my life, to make my parents and myself proud. Is The American Dream still out there? Can it still be achieved with hard work and a lot of education? Is Real Estate the right path as a career for my future? Am I going to make it?

I wish life was easy, and have answers for all of my questions, but it is not quite like that in the real world. America has recognized for quite some time a severe problem with its educational system. The fact that such a rich and powerful nation as this can have such high illiteracy, dropout rates, and poor conditions of many lower class schools, is met with shock and outrage by most people from this country and immigrants from abroad. It has reached the point where a child born into poverty is practically doomed to remain