Everyone Has Dreams, But To Carry Them Out Is The American Dream

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a young child and
was raised in a one bedroom apartment that he shared with his parents and
brother. Still he had a dream, the American Dream, to own his own business.
This dream for him came about when he was a young boy and read the book
The Rothschilds, by Frederic Morton. In this book he read about a family
that came from nothing and built up a fortune through hard work
perseverance and most of all ambition. It was this yearning to carry out
their dream that motivated the Rothschilds, and it was the book about them
that motivated my dad to carry out his dream. He said that “...once I read
that book[The Rothschilds] I knew what I wanted to do, I wanted to own my
own business and be like the Rothschilds.”
In 1982, my younger brother had just been born, and my father lost
his job. Things seemed hopeless for us; we would almost certainly lose our
house. My mother was working two jobs, from seven in the morning to ten,
sometimes eleven at night; and my father couldn't find a ...

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