The American Dream

The concept of the American Dream has changed over time. In the article "Rethinking the American Dream" by david Kamp,the author talks about how the American Dream has changed over time. This is totally understandable since we live in a new era where millennials have a different perspective of life and have adapted a new concept of the American Dream. The author talks about the fact that once the American dream was the pursue a good life style, liberty, and happiness. Now the author makes us think, is it possible to achieve the American Dream? One of his claims states that approximately 600,000 jobs were lost during the year of 2009. So the land of opportunities became the land of struggling for survival. He also mentions that the new American dream is being "interpreted to mean making it big or striking it rich". This means that people have become more ambitious of money, power, and success.

The article "Keeping the Dream Alive" by Jon Meacham correlates with the previous by giving opinions on weather this Dream is still possible. One of the author's claims establishes how today it is harder to move from social-economical status due to the consistent increase of healthcare, college, and housing. "There, brief, is the crisis of our time. The American Dream might be slipping away." There is a fine line between dream and reality, and the author wants us to be more realistic. Another claim he makes is that no matter how time passes society will keep moving forward. Now the real problem is facing the reality that this so called American Dream has been changing.