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Land of Opportunity, a nickname for the United States, expressing belief in socioeconomic mobility in the United States; Land of Opportunity, a former nickname of Arkansas, United States; Land of Opportunity, a land policy of South Africa's Democratic Alliance party; Embu County, Kenya, whose motto is "The Land of Opportunities"
But there has been also the American dream, that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it.
Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.
"Like the land of opportunity, because I lived it. And it was such it was an amazing dream and I’m honored to have done it. But I have to share it.” ...
For example, a progressive agenda would guarantee that every young American has an equal opportunity to succeed, with universal health care, free college and trade school tuition, tax credits for ...
Illustration from a 1916 advertisement for a vocational school in the back of a US magazine. Education has been seen as a key to socioeconomic mobility, and the advertisement appealed to Americans' belief in the possibility of self-betterment as well as threatening the consequences of downward mobility in the great income inequality existing during the Industrial Revolution.
Sailing to California at the beginning of the Gold Rush. The California Dream is the psychological motivation to gain fast wealth or fame in a new land. Some argue that, as a result of the California Gold Rush after 1849, California's name became indelibly connected with the Gold Rush, and fast success in a new world became known as the "California Dream", [1] while others claim this concept ...
Here's where the top candidates could land. ... The same opportunity would not exist in New Orleans. Add in the Jets' collection of talented defenders, like Sauce Gardner and Quinnen Williams, ...