For my essay I am going to answer the second prompt. It a little easier for me to talk about this topic because my parents are currently living out the idea of the American dream with their business. For me the idea of am American Dream is being able to become whatever you want to become. People from all over the world live their whole life wishing they could just have a little of what Americans have today. The idea that you are responsible for what you can become and how successful of unsuccessful you are. No one to hold you back or say its illegal for you to succeed.
I believe that the American dream very much exist. Its just that our society has become so lazy that it takes a special person to actually achieve the dream. People have become so complacent where they are at that they settle for the situation they are in and don't strive for what they really want.
We really do have two concepts of the American Dream. One is what Schlosser describes which is the big corporate industries making huge amounts of profit all over the world. And then there is the reality of the dream where you could never get anywhere in corporate unless you start a business of your own.
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