What is the American Dream? This is the question I asked myself over and over again as I am sure everyone else was doing when they sat down to punch out this essay on their keyboards. But when I thought about what my answer could be, I couldn't settle on one specific thing. I decided that it was because the American Dream can be so many different things, it just depends on what perspective I look at it from. I narrowed it down three ways; there is the American Dream in the broad sense of just being in America, there is the American Dream from the perspective of a female, and then there is the American Dream that I experienced growing up as a child in America.
             In the broad sense, I thought of the American Dream as obtaining freedoms. I put myself in the shoes of someone coming to America to live the American Dream and tried to imagine all of the things I would be looking forward to that would change once I arrived. It is all of the freedoms that came to my mind that I would dream to live. It is the right to choose what job or profession I will pursue. The American Dream is the ability to choose what religion, if any, I will follow. The dream is to live in a society where I choose who leads me and I have the power to vote against any representatives who do not take action on the issues I find important.
             Looking at the American Dream from the perspective of my sex, I saw things in a whole new light and my thoughts went in a totally different direction. The American Woman's Dream is to be a successful businesswoman not restricted by my sex. It is the dream to manage a career and raise a family with high values and morals. It is having the right to choose whether I want to get married or stay single and still get respect from my peers and society. As a female, I see the feminist American Dream as the breakdown of our patriarchal society replaced instead by men and women in a mutually respecting relationship working together withou...