Sentences with phrase «american dream starts»

On Monday, several library directors movingly described the public's response to their participation in the American Dream Starts @ your library initiative, a program that helps libraries provide literacy services for adult English - language learners.

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«My father told me repeatedly, as early as 8 or 9, to realize I was living in a land literally of opportunity and that I could be the American dream — and start a business.»
The American restaurant business has been shaped by many entrepreneurs, so determined to realize their dreams of owning a hot dog cart or starting a restaurant that they sell everything they own to raise cash.
The U.S. Residential Housing Market: What's Next (panel discussion) David Blitzer, the Chairman of Standard & Poor's Index Committee started with the question «Is owning your own home still a part of the American dream
«From a standing start 240 years ago — a span of time less than triple my days on earth — Americans have combined human ingenuity, a market system, a tide of talented and ambitious immigrants, and the rule of law to deliver abundance beyond any dreams of our forefathers.»
«From a standing start 240 years ago — a span of time less than triple my days on earth — Americans have combined human ingenuity, a market system, a tide of talented and ambitious immigrants, and the rule of law to deliver abundance beyond any dreams of our forefathers -LSB-...]
Our start - up got to live the American dream thanks to the open internet, and I want to be able to tell aspiring entrepreneurs with a straight face that they can build the next Reddit.
«Obama is the president now, and keep blaming republicans for his 4 years failure» The mess start with Clinton and the american dream and most american tryng to have a house and spend great proportion of salary,
In the US, only the rich with good educations and access to start - up money can have a fair shot at «the american dream» / capitalism.
Sure, David goes on to say that he was uneasy with such a claim and wasn't even sure that it was true, but still... how do you write a book which is supposed to be about taking back your faith from the American Dream and start the book by stating that you are the youngest megachurch pastor in American history?
This anger / hope / repeat cycle is likely to repeat itself until we American citizens wake up and start taking responsibility for our own problems, and our own dreams.
I see us helping start a lot of American dreams for a lot of other people.
Tom + Chee began as a dream of two Ohio couples who persisted through all the ups and downs of starting a business until they achieved their version of the American Ddream of two Ohio couples who persisted through all the ups and downs of starting a business until they achieved their version of the American DreamDream.
It all started in 1913, when Charlie's great, great grandfather, Charles Peltzer, left Pretty Prairie, Kansas for Southern California to pursue the American Dream.
The football club and that what it started out as is now a business who's main sauce of income is a football team and run on American lines where winning a trophy is only a pipe dream.
Jetboil is an American based company that started in 2001 with a dream of making a far more efficient and compact cooking system.
We are there when our constituents need to get passports for that trip of a lifetime, are eagerly starting their own business with hopes of becoming the next Steve Jobs, buying their first house, paying off their mortgage after 30 years or proudly reciting the oath of allegiance to become a part of the American dream.
Hello I am Cubam American looking for the girl of my dream that would like to move to the US with me and start a new life together,, Are you her.Must like outdoors Motorcycles and enjoy to travel.
Satire about a bumbling Iranian immigrant who wins the green card lottery and moves to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of becoming an American hero and unwittingly becomes embroiled in a conspiracy to start the next world war.
However, as the daring theft unfolds through each of their perspectives, each of them start to question whether their attempts to inject excitement and purpose into their lives is simply a misguided attempt at achieving the American Dream.
It would have been so easy to package this biopic as the classic American dream, starting with an adoption and step - parents before moving on to that fabled suburban garage where Jobs and Steve Wozniak dreamt up the future of computing.
Adam Rapp is well - known for not pulling his punches, so brace yourself for his latest, Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling (starts September 13 at CSC), a surreal play that promises to «lift the veil on the lives of two wealthy American families» in Connecticut.
There's more to the official synopsis: «As the daring theft unfolds through each of their perspectives, each of them starts to question whether their attempts to inject excitement and purpose into their lives is simply a misguided attempt at achieving the American Dream
«Lowlife» Synopsis: In search of a new start and the American dream, a Polish immigrant is manipulated into a life of prostitution by a charming but wicked man on the mean streets of Manhattan, until a dazzling magician tries to save her.
Neighbors By all appearances, new parents Mac (Seth Rogen) and Kelly Radner (Rose Byrne) are living the American dream — complete with an adorable baby girl and a beautiful new started home in the suburbs.
Overall, U.S. students end up pretty much where they started out in life, the antithesis of the American dream.
Like the parents at West Lake Middle School, where I started this story, these parents believe in a version of the American Dream that includes a guaranteed access to a school that will accept their children for who they are and provide a benchmark of education quality that is expected in a country that professes to «lead the world» in all aspects of human enterprise.
He came to the U.S. in 1991 to pursue the American dream, starting with working at a dealership's finance and insurance office.
The Chevrolet Spark starts at $ 13,875 and is a fine little Korean automobile, but a few grand added to your debt is going to feel awfully heavy if you're just trying to scrabble a tiny mousehole into the little corner of the American Dream the Baby Boomers have relegated to you.
Koerner, a Wired contributing editor and author of «Now The Hell Will Start,» tells how a piano legend in a sharkskin suit lived the American Dream by leaving it behind.
Starting a business and earning income from that business is truly the American Dream.
Thanks God we got a wake up call (my wife was laid off) and we started looking for another way to live the American dream, which is still alive.
I want American dream, I want to buy a house, I want to buy properties and start a business.
As of late, there truly is no bad time to visit this beautiful South American country and the reasons really are in your favor so you better stop dreaming and start doing!
Diana is an American expat who quit her job in public relations to start a travel blog and head across the Atlantic Ocean to chase her dream of sharing travel stories with readers.
The show starts with typical images of the American dream, surfers out on the West Coast, trains that took the pioneers west and baseball players, but there is the angst behind too.
A great place to start is to check out the Center for A New American Dreams» Simplify the Holidays Campaign.
My grandfather started selling insurance in the 1950s and insurance eventually granted him the American dream.
Graduating college, starting your career, getting married and buying a home in the suburbs is still very much the American Dream.
It'll probably start with a higher minimum wage, but before long we'll be questioning things like how we value work, how we allow work to value us, and whether or not the American Dream is still a thing.
The group's American - made version of the American Dream got its start in December 2011 when Dudley Powell, an Orlando - based products distributor, opened an email video attachment of an ABC News segment about builder Anders Lewendal's attempt to build a home in Montana using all U.S. products and workers.
Americans dream of growing up, finding a home, and starting a family; they dream of owning their own piece of land and proudly knowing «it's mine.»
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