Working title: The American Dream.

• In life I believe that the definition of the American dream has changed dramatically over the decades, and the notion changed even more after September 11^th 2001

• My project will show this in action by exploring Americans from a wide variety of life, some struggling in our society along with others that are excelling.

• Ultimately I want the audience to feel a true connection to the American dream, and understand that each American has their own style to achieve the American dream.

The subject of my projects would be from the following categories

Firefighters -common day heroes in America, a major symbol of Americans post 9/11, I would meet one from mount pleasant / I know one in Detroit named Kyle Cummings. I would like to show him in action saving lives and stuff like that.

Army / Michigan Militia –US, is in a war that is protecting the American dream, either a vet that is coming home from Iraq, or Afghanistan. I think that this is one of the most important one because these are the people that are fighting and dying to try and conserve our American dream.

Tea Party – A group that is made to protest how America is mostly conservative. This would be necessary to show because they are a good example for our freedom in America to express our views and we have the ability to gather.

Impoverished person – possibly a homeless person or a family I know that is in the process of loosing their home. This will show the change in the American dream and take an indepth view on how their American dream is not as perfect as many may think.

Jim Jacques, average American house foreclosure will interview on how through out his life the American dream had changed, and how he feels about the current state of the nation.

I would like to set up a random street interview that questions people about what their views on the American dream are. This would be completely random and show a variety of people that may have some interesting stuff to say.

Through these interviews I want to take a critical look on how Americans view them-selves.

This project will have many different parts in it to show this and the order that I present it in is going to go back and fourth on what the people I interview say; showing one view then another, every one will have something different to say and I believe that they cant be ordered until I put it all together

The impact that I would like to make is to show how we need to take a critical look of what modern day America actually looks like. Ultimately I would like to inspire people to feel American again.