Asleep to the Dream Historically, America prides itself as a place of freedom and expression. A place where people could live a free, prosperous life for themselves and their descendants. For citizens of the United States, the American Dream is a common value that lies at the very heart of the nation. “The American Dream is the aspirational belief in the US that all individuals are entitled to the opportunity for success and upward social mobility through hard work” (Dictionary.com). But in America, are all individuals entitled to the same opportunities for success? What does it mean to “make the world a better place?” A continuing theme in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me is the belief in the dream, and the impact of the dream on his life as a man of African-American descent. “A very large number of Americans will do all they can to preserve the Dream” (33). The ideas that Coates expresses throughout the book serve the opinion that as a black man living in the United States...
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American Equality
One of the greatest values in American history is equality. Our nation was founded on the idea of all people having equal representation and treatment in the nation. Every single person living in the US is unique and different in their own way but they are still represented with equality in our society-everyone has the right to an education, everyone can vote, everybody has the freedom to practice their own religion, etc. Our government was founded off of the preservation of equality, this explains how the founding fathers wrote the government for America off of equal treatment for everybody after leaving Britain under the unjust rule of King George III. Today everybody is entitled to the same freedoms including freedom of press, speech, religion, belief, etc. and everyone is allowed to express themselves openly and freely. Then why does a nation founded on equal treatment and equal government need to discriminate against people ...