The American Dream Report

Okay, so in my English class I have to write a report for a contest about what is people's American Dream? 1st prize gets 1000 dollars, 2nd prize gets 500 dollars, and 3rd prize is 250 dollars. 250 words MAX!
To the point: I need ideas! (I have writter's block!) Can you guys help me?

My ideas:
freedom
getting a job

To me, the American dream is the ability to HAVE your own dream. It's not about following an orthodox path of life, or having your every decision set in stone. It's about your life, lived the way you want to live it, free from governmental or social persecution. It's about being your own person, with the right to live the way you want, making your own decisions and having your own voice.

It's loving who you want to love, it's living where you want to live, it's having the knowledge that you have rights and you can act on those rights. It's the small towns and big cities, it's Washington D.C., it's Boston, it's Pearl Harbor, it's everything that the country has been through, and come out better because of it.

For many generations the "American Dream" was considered living in a nice house, having a good job, having a good car, and having a family that you love.

I think it is much more than this now. The "American Dream" really is what everyone wants for themselves. Their dream is their own special version of the "American Dream" that only they can have. It is specific to them and no one else and being in Amercia we are very lucky (to the point we're spoiled) to have many resources to make that dream possible. My "American Dream" is... (WORLD DOMINATION!!! OH YEAH! YOU KNOW IT!!! xD)

well..my opinion as a Filipino student,the American Dream is about well,,umm,,

well,it's freedom.......

why?cause America has the Statue of Liberty!the symbol that symbolize freedom..a person is like a bird free to fly and roam around and if it is caught it cries..well that is a bit far but yeah..it is for me another is the American Dream is like reaching the most stage where you became really HAPPY..you got it all..

that's my opinion..

BTW,your report is kinda complicated..

It reminds me about my report "What is the meaning of being an American?"
I went critize happy with that one. >8}

i'm not an American but we have once i report that tells about nationality of the Pilipinos..