- Henry David Thoreau
Horatio Alger
• Born in Revere,
Massachusetts, January 13, 1832, Horatio Alger, Jr., grew up in a Calvinist home with a strong focus on education and religion. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard Divinity School in 1852.
Henry Ford
• Ford suffered two unsuccessful attempts to build his dream
with the Detroit Automobile Company and the Henry Ford Company. Then, in 1903, along with other investors including coal merchant Alexander Malcomson, Ford and his team contributed $100,000 and incorporated as Ford Motor Company. Henry Ford became chief engineer and vice president and later bought out his partners.
Horatio Alger
• In recognition of
dividuals who have achieved the American Dream, no other organization has done more than the Horatio Alger Association Of Distinguished Americans.
Dream Makers
• If one advances confidently in the
direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hour.
• In 1908, Ford realized his ambitious dream of building an
automobile for Americans that was reasonably priced, efficient, and reliable with the introduction of the Model T. To meet the increasing demand, Ford moved to a larger factory in Highland Park, Michigan. It was here that Ford put to work his innovative, assembly line, bringing the automobile to the worker, thus saving tremendous time and resources. Within the span of ten years, half the cars sold in America were Model T’s.
The American Dream
Defining your own American Dream
• The phrase the American
Dream came into the American vocabulary starting in 1867 when writer, Horatio Alger came out with his book ―Ragged Dick.‖ It was a rags-to-riches tale of a poor orphan boy in New York City who saves his pennies, works hard and eventually becomes rich. It became the model that through honesty, hard work and strong determination, the American Dream was available to anyone willing to make the journey.
Abe Lincoln
• A Lifetime of Persistence—
Age Challenge
• 22 Failed in business. • 23 Defeated for • • • •
• • • • • •
• •
Legislature. 24 Failed again in business. 25 Elected to Legislature. 26 Sweetheart died. 27 Had a nervous breakdown. 29 Defeated for Speaker. 31 Defeated for Elector. 34 Defeated for Congress. 37 Elected to Congress. 39 Defeated for Congress. 46 Defeated for Senate. 47 Defeated for Vice President. 49 Defeated for Senate 51 Elected President of the United States
Abe Lincoln
• The question is asked
over and over again. How was it possible for a young boy born into poverty in a log cabin in the backwoods of Kentucky with little formal education to rise up and become the 16th President of the United States, and perhaps America’s greatest President ever?