Essays 91 - 120
the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, 2001 and A Raisin in the Sun, 2001). This essay offers an in-depth overview of this Hansberry play...
Gatsby, and in Truman Capotes Breakfast at Tiffanys, first published in 1958. Both define the American Dream as the exclusive pro...
In a paper consisting of five pages this autobiographical text is considered in terms of a female Polish immigrant coming to Ameri...
was a Louisiana wife steeped in the traditions of the plantation South. She married prosperous Leonce Pontellier so that she coul...
Ambition and a self-made determination, and the freedom to achieve anything that one sets his or her mind to were the basic concep...
night light. It sits in bedrooms and living rooms but has become something one does in place of nothing. Rather than sitting and r...
and can see the cages from afar, I begin to run out of sheer urgency but always wake up before finding out if they are still alive...
In eight pages Lyndon Johnson is examined in a consideration of the texts Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Go...
This paper consists of eight pages in which the writer in a narrative of a newspaper reporter reveals the American Dream as it was...
In five pages the author's reflections of the American Dream in characterizations of the novel such as that of Easy Rawlins are ex...
Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is compared and contrasted with F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby character. The Ame...
In five pages this paper discusses how these films reflect expansionism, individualism, success, economic wealth, the 'American Dr...
In 7 pages this paper examines the portrayal of the American Dream in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger,...
Glauser regards race more as a social construct than a physical characteristic. As such, whether "intentional or unintentional, o...
money and even littler time to "enjoy" U.S. culture. Often times, however, these immigrants can turn their heritage into an asset...
won the Nobel Prize for Literature (The National Steinbeck Center, 2002). John Steinbeck was very talented at creating s...
In six pages this paper examines how the American Dream, family relationships, and tragedy of Willy Loman within the context of th...
some of lifes toughest questions, questions that are still asked by todays family. Those questions include family values, abuse an...
Loman in Death of a Salesman is a rather pathetic character. He is average, almost typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is som...
"Tortilla Flat" set in Monterey, California tells of a tale of several wanderers who end up staying at the homes of Danny which we...
In 5 pages this paper discusses how Franklin and Fitzgerald presented morality and the American Dream in a comparative analysis of...
Zakaria traces what he calls the "hollowing out" of the American middle class and the chaos that has wrought on the economy and th...
society . . . profoundly agrees with Marxs great discovery that it is social rather than individual consciousness that determines ...
This 5 page paper delineates the importance of political expression as it manifests in this blockbuster movie. Mainstream cultur...
matter how an author chooses to draw the portrait, the mother figure is one of the primal archetypes of human society. This paper ...
In two pages Sister Carrie is examined in terms of the American Dream and Carrie's social climbing. There are no other sources li...
as "The Jazz Age." When not numbing themselves with superficial pleasures, young people were pursuing the American Dream, as tran...
is silly as the family lives in New York City. And "Happy" is ridiculous; perhaps Willy thought that if he gave his son that name,...
considerations in Death of a Salesman. There are three shifts created by Millers "time bends" in the play: the historical time (19...
The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...