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Published: 16.10.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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  • Essays 'The American Dream is Alive and Well.', 1.
  • Essays 'The American Dream is Alive and Well.', 2.
  • Essays 'The American Dream is Alive and Well.', 3.
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The American Dream is Alive and Well
It is part of the ethos of this country that you ought to be rich. You ought to be, unless you have taken some specific vow of poverty such as priesthood, scholarship, teaching, or civil service, because money is the way we keep score. This feeling has been a long time in the making. It goes away sometimes in depressions, when briefly wealth becomes suspect and poverty is not dishonorable. The rest of the time, poverty is very close to criminal. (Smith 249)
This is an excerpt from the concluding chapter of The Money Game by the bestselling author Ad…

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