American Dream Then, Now

Passed down from generation to generation has been a love and respect for one's land, country, and taking good care of one's property and environmental issues kept up on. Such as recycling, keeping our environment free of liter, and doing the best we can to care for the needs of out wildlife animals too. Keeping up on the repairs of on's home so that perhaps a future generation may inherit a place that may not put them into dept with upkeep just to live in it. We the internet sure, but have kept the family tree going on ancestry.com. We still celebrate the same old holidays as always, and care for our sick in hospitals and doctors offices. We still have bars and what was once called a saloon is now a strip club. We still explore our lands and different cultures or ways of life. We still fight and war over religions and politics. We all still long for a time of peace and prosperity here. Not much at all has changed in some ways today, except for the more obvious things we are all getting out of bankruptcy now as a country when our Great-Great Grandparents had the Great Depression. We have the Great many things remain the very same for us today ours called a recession as they have always been before, here they are all back again for us today. It's as if we have just been handed over the world, from our Great-Great Grandparents themselves today. We are the first of generations in a many long years to be known to never be able to do as well as what our Fathers had done before us, be it either financially or just simply having the good old traditional American family still. It all sounds so hopeless, and it would be if our dear old Grandparents and parents had not of thought of this all ahead of time for us and worked out a bit of a support systems to see us through just barely these very tough days. So that we may have that opportunity to advance and grow more as they had the chance to do already, they want the very same for there beloved children now today too. So, even though many twist turns and struggles it all will still remain the same at least.

Although our Great-Great Grandparents never lived to see it, they did talk of days things would be more advanced. Today we have those very things that they could only imagine in those times, computers, cars run without gas, wind and solar energy's, recycle plants, organic foods, unemployment assistance and food banks. Even more affordable or HUDD housing programs, grants that help all go to higher education and jobs, even the talk of a Universal healthcare system. Plus our very first ever African American President of the United States of America. These I am pretty sure our forefathers may have all talked about a bit, but most likely knew that they would never get to see them in there lifetimes. So, we can just imagine that the American dream for some has changed at least somewhat anyway. From those times into today's, I would say there has been a vast improvement in some areas yet still a vast lacking in others. In which we may see some change in yet in our lifetimes still.

Starting very young more people taught about there surroundings and farm and having a computer stetting learning environment readying them for important and much needed jobs in the future. With the farm experiences they are also more opened up to the world and perhaps will care for and respect there planet more because of this. There is much hope with our future with children being raised in these ways. We can also see that the main strengths and American spirit is holding true to many past beliefs that have proven to lead to great new inventions for today and our futures. Such as the electric cars, if an old environmentalist had not of been worried enough about the air emissions we may never of had this new car that needs no gas. Also,if another elder thinking had not of invented our computer first we may never have these great new class rooms. Our elders also thought of wind energy first with the wind mills long ago, we used this idea and added onto it but without the original we may never have gotten to it. Of course all credit goes to our wonderful elders, when having a multi generational home if they were not here at all in the first. Tell me just how that would work out? So, in conclusion I find that we have come a long way but it is indeed to the most part the love of our forefathers that we have done so. This out of great respect and thankfulness for it all, may be just the very same reason's that we do choose to keep some of those old original American dreams of the past going still today.