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Overcoming Obstacles In Achieving The American Dream

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Everyone has their own ideas and concepts of “The American Dream” however; it is not so easy to actually achieve and attain it. Many factors play into what it takes to maintain “The American Dream” such as where a person comes from or how they were raised. Not everyone is capable of actually achieving their own dream but it doesn't stop them from having it set as a goal to reach. Many obstacles stand in the way such as growing up in an unequal society, not working towards the set goal, and not having a quality education. Unfortunately, people cannot choose who they are, what they look like and what they believe in which often creates a roadblock to them being able to achieve their full “American Dream”. As Martin Luther King Jr. said in his I …show more content…

Not everyone is born with a wealthy family and cannot always save money for big financial decisions such as investing in a good college education. Groups such as the lower class have a harder time attaining education because they simply cannot afford to send their children to good schools and quickly find themselves in heaps of debt. Attending college, offers many more opportunities to finding a great paying job and to help network and get on the right track for their life dreams. Even though money may be tight, it will be worth the hardships in the long run because the life they will live once they reach their goals will be all worth it in the end. Without a good education it would be difficult to know how to manage money, how to attain a job, and things like that and will help when applying for the positions of someone's dreams offering them more experience so that they look better in the bigger real

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