Reflection About The American Dream

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People have always hailed America has the land of opportunity, the land of freedom, home of the free. In fact America has even spurred on its own “saying” known as “The American Dream”. The Oxford Dictionary has the American Dream defined as: “The ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative”. However, through the years the full understanding of the American Dream has changed, the goals of the nation has shifted. I believe as Christians we must look back to the past beliefs to gain a greater understanding of where as a group of people we are headed. Romans 15:4 states: “For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.” I love how it says everything written in the past was there to teach us, therefore we must use history to glorify God through our studies. First we must look at the Puritans who started their journey to America in the 1630’s. John Winthrop preached a wonderful sermon to the people to prepare them for the new land they were about to inhabit. Personally I believe Winthrop summarized what he …show more content…

George Washington claimed it was the policies of America which is what made it great when he stated: “The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation”. Thomas Jefferson believed it was the Freedom of America that made it great when he said: “… freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and

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