What is the American Dream? This is the question I asked myself over and over again as I am sure everyone else was doing when they sat down to punch out this essay on their keyboards. But when I thought about what my answer could be, I couldn't settle on one specific thing. I decided that it was because the American Dream can be so many different things, it just depends on what perspective I look at it from. I narrowed it down three ways; there is the American Dream in the broad sense of just being in America, there is the American Dream from the perspective of a female, and then there is the American Dream that I experienced growing up as a child in America.

In the broad sense, I thought of the American Dream as obtaining freedoms. I put myself in the shoes of someone coming to America to live the American Dream and tried to imagine all of the things I would be look

Looking at the American Dream from the perspective of my sex, I saw things in a whole new light and my thoughts went in a totally different direction. The American Woman's Dream is to be a successful businesswoman not restricted by my sex. It is the dream to manage a career and raise a family with high values and morals. It is having the right to choose whether I want to get married or stay single and still get respect from my peers and society. As a female, I see the feminist American Dream as the breakdown of our patriarchal society replaced instead by men and women in a mutually respecting relationship working together without racial or sexual tensions.

Though not all of you may agree or relate to these ideas I view as parts of the American Dream, from my experiences it includes freedoms unrestricted by race, sexuality or class rankings. The American Dream is not static or unchanging, more accurately it is so

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