American Dream
Introduction
The American Dream is the characteristics and set of ideas which promotes peoples’ success through hard work and dedication and that they should have a better life, be rich and everyone should be satisfied with the opportunities available to them. The opportunities will foster the living standards of people including those of children. The social class of different people does not matter, what matters is what people have attained which contributes to their daily living standards.
The American dream is attainable through; freedom and rights whereby schools are made free to everyone and equal opportunities for employment and this is due to no discrimination in education system. Another one is having a happy life with a good job and success in life. Having a job promotes a happy life to a happy family hence creating ones ‘wealth for his or her future. Also the dream is attainable by achieving education in social implications in unexpected ways despite a humble background (Squire, C.1994).
One of the barriers to attaining American dream is racial discrimination. Race and economic back ground is a major role to economic mobility for Black Americans and is shown by gender and education. Joe R. & Nikitah,I. (1994) states that White American are dominant in the organizations compared to the black ones as the whites are paid more salaries, their living standards are high compared to the lifestyle of the blacks in the society. Another barrier is wealth inequality whereby White Americans have more wealth than the blacks. This inequality is due to the factors of market like economy, interest rates and higher rates of unemployment among minority groups.
Another barrier to attaining American dream is social security of the people. Mesa-Lago, C. (2007) states that social security program keeps poverty away for the ageing Americans but many people are worried the program may be broke in the near future. This is because there is risk of pensions and the national savings rate is going down all the time. So securing retirements and family debts for many people in the society is at risk too. Families being unstable financially is another barrier to American dream. The families are unstable in the sense that most people are struggling with health crisis and families cannot have peace of mind if they are battling with diseases all the time.
During manufacturing of oil and gas extraction, the people of Louisiana get affected by the activities carried out during that time. Stanley N., Kiran T., Paul E. & Colin H. (2016) states that the emissions polluted to the environments are very dangerous to people’ s health. No clean air to use by those people as the air is polluted one which is harmful to the body when they have inhaled it. Another factor is damaging marine ecosystems. The marine get affected by the wastes being drained to the water and there is no any form of regulation put into place to control drainage of waste products. No clean water to use as the water is polluted from the wastes drained to the ecosystem.
The other factor of oil and gas extraction is job creation to the. The industry has created many jobs to people around the area hence boosting their living standards despite its negative impact to the environment. For the jobless people hanging around practicing robbery or dealing with drugs, at least they have a place to utilize their time properly and earn a living. Another factor of oil and gas extraction is energy independent to people. Without the extraction of the substance, they will become dependent on exporting energy supply which leads to economic control from outside America.
The people of Louisiana do not trust the government and corporation anymore because their needs are not meet and they are overregulated in the society. This is shown by obtaining a development permit, a drilling permit and lastly an operating permit before its operations. This hostility lead to voting of a change. They voted Trump because of his business experiences which will help the Louisiana people to operate and manage their money without any scandal. Robert, S. (2017) states that the interests of Trump was serving people and not much into political systems hence balancing the country’s budget.
They also voted him because of making deals which will change America to prosper again. He wants America to be debt free from Obama’s debts. So they looked at him and thought this is the man who will help them regain from the debts they have as a country. Also Robert, S. (2017) says that these people also believe that the American dream will be revived if they vote for him. The fact that Trump supports the American dream, they voted him in because he will assist them to shape their wealth and their future.
Conclusion
The American dream aspires most people to change their lifestyle by first changing their mind on how to focus to a successful life. To be self-reliant one needs to study hard, have a job, have a happy family and be successful in their lifes. American dream provides the basis to control the destiny of many people and improve their living standards in the society. As song as life is challenging, many people should learn on many ways to explore which will change the lifes of many people in the society.
References
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Mesa-Lago, C. (2007). Social Security in Latin America: Pension and Health Care Reforms in the Last Quarter Century. Latin American Research Review 42(2), 181-201. Latin American Studies Association. Retrieved May 3, 2019, from Project MUSE database
Joe R. & Nikitah, I. (1994) Racial Barriers to African American Entrepreneurship: An Exploratory Study, Social Problems, Volume 41, Issue 4, Pages 562–584, https://doi.org/102307/3096989
Stanley N., Kiran T., Paul E. & Colin H. (2016). Environmental and Economic Impacts of Crude Oil and Natural Gas Production in Developing Countries, International Journal of Economy, Energy and Environment. Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 64-73. Doi : 10.11648/j.ijeee.20160103.13
Robert S. (2017). ‘I, the people’: a deflationary interpretation of populism, Trump and the United States constitution, Economy and Society, 46:1, 20-42, doi: 10.1080/03085147.2017.1302060
