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When I think of The American Dream, the first thing that comes to mind is the principles on which our country was founded. But if I had to distill it to a single word, it would be “freedom”. It was the promise of freedom that initiated the first migrations from Europe that populated the original colonies. Since then, wave after wave of immigrants from around the world have flocked to our shores—all seeking the promise of freedom and its many fruits. The result is one of the world’s most culturally and intellectually diverse societies, and one that has arguably become the most powerful and wealthy nation on earth. However, generation after generation, the American Dream and the American way of life have become quite different from what they once were. Taking their freedoms for granted, people have perverted “the pursuit