Miami: A city where dreams survive

Miami: A city where dreams survive

Miami is more than beaches and tropical weather. At the start of it all, there was a man who had a dream. The research question I seek to answer is : Why is Miami a city where dreams survive? George E. Merrick was the founder of Coral Gables and the University of Miami. He had a dream that seemed impossible to accomplish at the time. He made it happen with hard work and perseverance. A few months after the cornerstone laying of UM, The Great Miami Hurricane in 1926 hit the city of Miami on September 17.  It killed over 300 people in the city and caused damage. The university still opened on schedule and the city managed to recover. Today, Coral Gables and the University of Miami are successful. The intended audience for this project is people who are mobiles in Miami. This research question is important because it allows the audience to see all the conflict the city has gone through and how the history of Miami represent dreams that have survived in people back then and still today. 

Some specific topics I would like to include are how the founding and growth of the University of Miami are symbolic to what the city is. The University has endured much hardship over the years and still stands today as a strong institution. Also, the city of Coral Gables and the city of Miami have flourished to what they are today because of visions that people believed in. Why do I describe Miami as a city of dreamers? I hope to answer this question by attempting to make a connection between the founders of Coral Gables and the university to the exiles that have come to the city. The exiles that come to Miami come with a dream of freedom and a better life. Miami is made up of exiles and exiles are the ones who have transformed Miami to a diverse place. This is something that sparks a passion in me because I am a big dreamer. I have dreams that through the University of Miami will be accomplished. George E. Merrick decided to take a chance and dream. If he wouldn’t have, I wouldn’t even be writing this paper. Miami was founded on dreams and continues to be a place where others can have dreams that survive.