The Development of American Values and American Dream_英语专业毕业论文.docVIP

The Development of American Values and American Dream ABSTRACT: American dream is a reflection of American values. Many people believe that American dream disillusioned when the capitalism expanded itself in the nineteenth century. On the contrary, American dream did not disillusion at that time, instead, it still lived and changed as time goes by. This is probably because of the American values. It changed so as to cater to the times, and by the influence of American values, the American dream changed too. Nowadys, America has become the most powerful country in the world, and its new dream is influencing more and more countries. This paper studies on American values and American dream during different times, and exactly illustrate the American valuess impact on its dream. Keywords: American values, American dream, impact 1.Introduction of history In 1620, the world famous ship, Mayflower, landed in New England in the North American continent with 102 Puritans on board. These Puritans had suffered enough on their homeland, so they made a hard decision to live on a new continent. After they arrived on this continent, they were amazed by what they saw—the whole new continent was covered by dense forest, rivers flowed, flowers shined on the mountains, and animals run about in the forest. With the hope of a new freedom and democracy country, the Puritans reached an agreement to established a group and make their dream come true by their hardworking. This was the first American dream, the pursuit of freedom and democracy. But as time went by, the Puritans work had become a threat to the British empire, and this threat led to a war between the British immigrants and the British government in 1775. With major military and financial support from France, the patriots won the American revolution. And in 1789, with the complete of the Constitution, the United States federal government established, and the war hero George Washington became the first presid