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[The Great Gatsby](www.unc.edu/~jwladyb/Gatsby.pdf)Jay Gatsby reached The American Dream, he at first didn’t have a lot of money, but he worked his way up and he reached what he wanted to do. He did it all for a reason though, which he thought reaching The American Dream would help get the girl, being rich back then was everything, the rich was with the rich and the poor was with the poor. The rich frowned appoun the people that reached The American Dream.
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In the 1930 it was the great depression, the years before were amazing, everyone could buy anything they wanted but when the economy failed everyone lost everything they had.
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There were a lot of good things going on in the 60's, but the country was in so much debt and they had a war going on, and there was no way they could get enough money so they could get out of debt.
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1970's They always had a high demand in everything but they always had a low supply. There was an energy shortage because of the oil shortage going on all around them. But the debt toll actually went down.
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1980's The nation endured a deep recession through 1982. MAny companies went bankrupted as well as people did. Farners were hit hard as interest rates rose and the crops price fell.
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1990'sThe 90's were the best, our debt toll was at 3.6 million dollars.
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House Percentage 62% of houses were lost
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Housing 1.2 Million houses were lost.
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2013 $16,771.4 billion as of March 31
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For someone who really wants The American Dream a mid-twenty year old from Georgia was on the talk show “Steve Harvey”, he has his own segment called “Harvey’s Hero’s” And he found this guy who started out with nothing, his mom was a drug addict, she got shot outside their house and she ended up going to jail and he had the choice to either stay in California (where they lived) or move to Georgia with his Aunt and Uncle, and thats what he did. He was a normal student in school, but he realized h
