Unit 4 American Dream美国梦Text AThe American Dream means different things to different people. But for many, particularly immigrants, it means the opportunity to make a better life for themselves. For them the dream is that talent and hard work can take you from log cabin to White House. Tony Trivisonno did not rise quite so high, yet he managed to make his own dream come true.美国梦对不同的人有不同的意义。
但对许多人，尤其是对移民而言，它意味着改善自己生活的机会。
对于他们，美国梦的含义就是才能与勤劳能让你从小木屋走向白宫。
托尼•特里韦索诺并没有爬到那么高，但他成功地使自己的梦想成真。
Tony Trivisonno 'S American Dream托尼•特里韦索诺的美国梦Frederick C. Crawford弗雷德里克•C•克罗弗德1 He came from a rocky farm in Italy, somewhere south of Rome. How or when he got to America, I don't know. But one evening I found him standing in the driveway, behind my garage. He was about five-foot-seven or eight, and thin.他来自意大利罗马以南某地———个满地石子的农庄。
Chinese Dream——思政122 XXX 59号Abstract：The Chinese dream is so beautiful that we are all looking forward to realizing.Chinese Dream belongs to every Chinese. With that goal in heart, we will be more confident to overcome the difficulties in the future.Keyword:chinese; dream; achieve; struggleAfter visiting the exhibition The Road To Rejuvenation, president Xi Jinping deliver an important speech at the meeting and pointed out that realizing the great revival of Chinese nation is Chinese Dream of the time. therefore, “Chinese Dream” has become the most popular word in China.Our new president Xi Jinping said: the Chinese dream is a dream of national strength prosperity and people's happiness. Our people have an ardent love for life. They wish to have better education, more stable jobs, more income, greater social security , better medical and health care, improved housing conditions and better environment, They want their children to grow well, have ideal jobs and lead a more enjoyable life. To meet their desire for a happy life is our mission."Chinese Dream belongs to every Chinese. With that goal in heart, we will be more confident to overcome the difficulties in the future.No matter you and I in the life, having a dream is great, big to a country, small to a person. A country without dreams, that is a sorrow and sadness to his nation; A person without dreams, he or she is considered to be the walking dead, because the dream is the innovation, the dream is the future.The American dream accomplished the United States today, so China needs more the Chinese dream to success in the future. Chinese dream is to realize the great revival of the Chinese nation, to build a prosperous democratic and socialist country, to achieve common prosperity. However, this is a difficult process, yet I do believe our Chinese dream will come true one day with forward courage and confidence of victory.Dating back to the old society, our nation, because of weakness, was insulted by other so called developed countries. Our nation, especially in Han and Tang, early Qing dynasty, used to be very prosperous while other times wasn't. The situation wasn't changed until the found of the People Republic of China .But even in nowadays, facing the challenges and opportunities, our nation still has a long way to go. The nation and every patriotic individual are pursuing the Chinese dream, which shows our Chinese people's expectation of our nation's thriving and powerful, and individual's happy life.Chinese dream, the chairman of china Xi Jinping explained it roundly, has been like a spring breeze that warms every Chinese heart. The Chinese dream symbolizes national prosperity and national rejuvenation .we can't erase the memory that the USA used to bomb the Chinese embassy built up in Yugoslavia. On one hand, we Chinese protest the American's absurd deed absolutely, at the same time, what we should be lost in thought ? Out of question, our nation wouldn't be insulted by others if powerful enough. In modern time, the proposition of Chinese dream has its far reaching meaning. With the keen competition in modern society, we have no choice but to adapt it. With the expanding of hegemonism and power of politics, China has the responsibility to preserve the peace and development. Therefore, china should realize Chinese dream to be powerful.Chinese dream also symbolizes people's happy life and social harmony. The Engel coefficient describes the lever of material life. During the past decades, the index is very high. People mainly depend on the material life, having no enough time, money, and energy to pursuit spiritual life. Fortunately the development of China makes it possible. Chinese spiritual life has improved, living a happy life, especially the emergence of square dancing which enrich people's life. No one is willing live in violence and crime. Although the government has taken anticorruption policies, the army and police has fought crime, the work ofsocial harmony still has long way which is difficult and challenging. The Chinese dream mens the society is very harmonious, which satisfies every Chinese benefits.The Chinese dream is so beautiful that we are all looking forward to realizing. Dream is in front,meanwhile we are on the way. So lang as we Chinese unite closely to fight for the Chinese dream, the dream will come true finally. And at that time, the dawn of victory will come into our eyes.“I have a dream” Martin Luther King ever said, in his speech, the American dream in his heart is that there is no discrimination and prejudice but pursuit of fairness and justice. Of course, I have a dream, my dream is very common, my dream is very ordinary, but beautiful and sweet.My dream is to become a teacher, you know, teacher is said to be a holy and glorious career. Some people compare him to a gardener, with hard sweat to irrigate in students; Others regard teachers as candles, they lit up others but burn themselves.Being a teacher is my dream, I tell myself that a little bit of process everyday means it is close to dream a little. Anyway, I will try my best to realize it, even if I have no superhuman genius and I do believe only after efforts can we achieve our dreams.I always ask myself what can I do for our great Chinese dream? Aswe all know that the wiser the youths are ,the wiser the nation will be；the wealthier the youths are ,the wealthier the nation will be；the stronger the youths are ,the stronger the nation will be. Here the word wealthy means: enriching our knowledge reserve. As a new generation of science, everyone here shouldering the great historical mission of making china powerful and strong. You may say that this may exaggerate our role, but I want to say you are wrong. If I am a little screw our great dream may be a multifunction and complex machine. Through this example I just want to say I am very tiny but I am indispensable .。
American DreamThe former South African President Nelson Mandela wrote a letter to congratulate Obama: "Your victory proved that all the world should be for the courage to dream, da re to dream to make this world a better place." Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd also cited U.S. human rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King's well-known "I have a dre am" to congratulate the new President of the United States: "Today, the United States let this dream come true!"We all have dreams, but do you know what the American dream is? In my opinion, America dream is a popular belief that hard work will bring forth America's bounty in the form of material well-being. Whoever you are and wherever you were born, you o nly need to devote yourself to course or business, you will find the life‟s bounty. Ther e is a proverb in china, which is “do not ask hero where he comes from.” So, the Ame rican dream tells us don‟t give up easily and do your best.The American dream is reflected on details.For example, as everybody knows, Americans like to play and watch American foot ball games very much. We can‟t image how they like it. Once upon a time, there is a Chinese go to the Hawaii. He found a job there and worked hard to pay for the high c onsumption. One day, he got up early and went to the factory to work as usual. But he noticed a strange situation that there were few people than usual on the street. He was confused and then an old lady came and said, …why not you go to see the American fo otball games‟. The Chinese didn‟t know what to say and the old lady said again …you a re a man who don‟t have dreams‟.The reason why the lady said like this is that this game is American dream. How sm all and concrete their dreams are. Of cause it is easy to achieve. When we Chinese we re young, our teachers always ask us to write down our dreams in the future. One said he want be a writer and the other said he want to be a scientist. The dreams like these are so far away and we can‟t achieve them in a short time. However, the American dre ams are so available and they can make them come true in a short time. We can‟t say Chinese dream are poorly than Americans. But the fact is, they can have the feeling of the success in advance. This is the happiness in the eyes of the American. They can a chieve their dreams every time everywhere.Historian and writer James Truslow Adams coined the phrase "American Dream" in his 1931 book Epic of America: The American Dream is that dream of a land in whic h life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each a ccording to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper class es to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistru stful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, reg ardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.From the views of writer James Truslow Adams we can know that Americans alwa ys do what they can do. They think watching a football game is more important than t heir works.But why their treat their dreams like that. I think the reason is that living in Americ an is harder than other countries. As we all know, American is full of pressure and is d ifficult to find a job. Even though you get the job, you will find that your pay is low a nd your job is unstable. You must work harder and harder to get the pay and worried t hat what you can do if you lost the job. People living under this situation will feel tired and unhappy. They need to adjust their state of mind, or they will be break down. The only way to feel happy is doing tiny things like watching a game. It is easy to do and easy to feel happy. Now, I have a conclusion. Living in America is not an easy thing. Do Americans have no far-reaching dreams? The answer is yes. There is a famous p erson in USA.Forty years ago, there is a poor guy living in the American slum. He was ten years old and has a bad health. However, he had a dream to be a president in the future. This dream is too far too him. But he never gave up and makes a detailed plan. There is a s ituation. Before he becomes a president, he must be a governor. Before he becomes a governor, he must have enough money. And next he needs to marry a woman who wa s born into a rich and influential family. And this requires him to be a famous person. The best way to be famous is to be an actor of Hollywood. But how can he be a memb er of Hollywood. He must be strong and have a muscular body. So what he should do now is to exercise his body. And this is what he can do when he was ten years old. Subsequently, he became a famous movie star in Hollywood and marries the girl he dreamed. He is famous for the movie …Terminator‟. Now he is the governor of Califor nian. I think everybody knows who he is. His name is Arnold Schwarzenegger. After doing that, the distance from his final destination is not far. But now he‟s old and he m ay give up. But he is still a successful man. He realized his dream from exercising bod y. If his first dream comes true, his next destination will be clear and close. As long as he goes on, he will realize his far-reaching dream. This is why he successes. And this is the American dreams.We Chinese also need to study from Americans, especially his detailed dreams. Wh en we make a huge plan which we can‟t realize it right now, we should find something detailed we can do to be close to our final destination. Do not worried the distance an d the time far from the destination. There is a Chinese proverb: Nothing in the world i s difficult for one who sets his mind to it. We should have a dream and a detailed plan. After that, all we should do is to make them come true.Watching a football games will be a good way to be happy for Americans. We Chin ese do this too. But the difference is that Americans think watching games is the most important thing and nothing can stop them. Are they crazy? No, this is just an attitude to life. They can get happiness easily because their requests are low. In fact, most of u s are ordinary people .Why not we reduce our requests and then we can get more happ iness even the happiness is small. Everybody can be happy. Lots of people are just car eless. They can‟t see the happiness around of us. For example, we are going to buy the things we lost and suddenly we find it; we buy a ticket and then we find that this is th e last ticket; we forget our keys of the house but we notice that the window is open. T he happiness like these is always around with us. What we should do is just finding th em.From American dream and happiness we can get more useful knowledge of our live s. In fact, realizing dreams is also a piece of happiness. Paying attention to details and never giving up are the effective ways to success. At last, happiness is just around you .。
