Throughout the week were preparing to write an in-class essay for today. In preparing for this essay, I began to learn how America really was, I learned that the modern day still follows the one American Dream that has always survived. Equality has and is always a problem in the modern and past world, or America. Martin Luther King Jr. is famous for fighting for the rights of colored people and never giving up. But what about other people oppressed or segregated by society. Langston Hughes poem "Let America be America Again" explores the discontentment with America of those who are oppressed for who they are, no matter what race or color. Hughes suggests that they where the ones who built America, yet are treated unfairly because of their class or what they do. The American Dream is not a simple question, it depends on who you are asking. To some it is equality, to some it is being successful, to some it is living in peace, to other it is getting an education, the American Dream had many parts to it. For this week though, I'm just sticking with the idea that the American Dream is equality.
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