The American Dream

             By now the words: "The American Dream" have been used a vast number of times throughout history, ever since James Truslow Adams drilled the term into everybody's heads with the publishing of his book: The Epic of America from 1931. The term was also the original title of James Adams' book, but the publishers were sure that a title like that wouldn't sell one single copy, since people wouldn't pay money to read about a dream. Nowadays this seems a bit ironic since today's heaped measure of consumption, commercial and almost every single money making element in The United States of America is based on people's interest in The American Dream.
             In all commercials for an American product, there will be an element of The American Dream. Some commercials have little of this while others, especially political commercials starring George W. Bush, are almost marinated in The American Dream. For instance, George W. Bush did a commercial that applied to Latin American and Mexican youngsters, where the president himself speaks to these future students and tells them that all people should be able to have a first class education in America. While this goes on, an American flag fluttered in the background to the American anthem, and as the commercial is ending, George Bush winks to the camera as salutes in genuine American manor while saying hello to the youngsters outside the TV screen in their own language. A commercial like this is obviously an exaggerated example. Nevertheless the American industries are absolutely thrilled about the concept of The American Dream. In our time the term an the concept is an incredible money making machine.
             But why is it that a very big part of the American people find this concept so fascinating and reliable, when they're looking for a product on the American market? A part of the explanation has to be the American mentality when it
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