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It seems as though much of the people during the decade of the 80's sought to be
financially secure before anything else. Money was the way to everything, and without it,
nothing could be attained. It was the building block to everything else they did, and could
determine much of what your life would represent. Though this appeared to be the
majority, it was not true for 100% of the people during the time. To some, such as
women, politics was the way to the American Dream...success, happiness, and
contentment.
For many, the American Dream was to be successful in life, raise a family, get
married, and live happily ever after. But the question that lurked throughout the decade
was "how" to achieve that. For my subject, my father, his main goal was to get educated
in order to move up in the business world, get to a point where he could make a sufficient
enough salary to support a family, buy a home, and live in happiness. That was his dream,
his goal. Looking at......

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