Equality Is Only a Concept In America We as American citizens are taught by the Declaration of Independence that “All men are created equal.”(Irish, 748). [is this the ideal opening sentence?] Through this ideal, we infer that we each have an equal opportunity to live “The American Dream” by acquiring wealth and power by paying our dues and working hard. [P may want to excise “Equal” since the point of the paper is that there …showed first 75 words of 1649 total…

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