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The Concept Of The American Dream

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As America developed and developed all through the nineteenth century, so did the idea that America

was not quite the same as different nations: It was a place that is known for unparalleled open door,

where anything could be accomplished if a man hoped against hope sufficiently enormous. Alexis de

Tocqueville, a Frenchman who went to the new country in the 1830s, called this conviction "the appeal

of foreseen achievement" [source: Cullen]. American visionary scholar Henry David Thoreau, in his 1854

book "Walden," enunciated it thusly: "On the off chance that one advances certainly toward his

fantasies, and tries to carry on with the life he has envisioned, he will meet with a win surprising in like

manner hours".

The words "American dream" progressively started to show up in daily paper articles and books in the

mid-to late-1800s, regularly in reference to tough pioneers who traveled westbound to look for fortune,

or to European workers who landed in U.S. ports looking for better employments and homes. By the mid

twentieth century, it was a doublespeak for upward financial portability - the prototypical American

clothes to newfound wealth dream. In Sherwood Anderson's 1916 novel "Blustery McPherson's Son," for

instance, the creator depicted his hero as "an American multi-tycoon, a man amidst his cash making,

one who had understood the American Dream.

Be that as it may, the idea of the American dream, as Adams characterized it, really existed well before

him. In 1630, John Winthrop gave his "city upon a slope" sermon to his kindred Puritan pioneers as they

cruised to Massachusetts in 1630. In spite of the fact that Winthrop never utilized "dream," he

articulately natty gritty his vision of a general public in which everybody would have an opportunity to

succeed, as long as they all cooperated and took after Biblical lessons.

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Running Head: The concept of the American Dream Assignment: The concept of the American Dream Student Name Institutional Affiliation Running Head: The concept of the American Dream As America developed and developed all through the nineteenth century, so did the idea that America was not quite the same as different nations: It was a place that is known for unparalleled open door, where anything could be accomplished if a man hoped against hope sufficiently enormous. Alexis de Tocqueville, a Frenchman who went to the new country in the 1830s, called this conviction "the appeal of foreseen achievement" [source: Cullen]. American visionary scholar Henry David Thoreau, in his 1854 book "Walden," enunciated it thusly: "On the off chance that one advances certainly toward his fantasies, and tries to carry on with the life he has envisioned, he will meet with a win surprising in like manne ...
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