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Essays 151 - 180
"well aware of the way African American identity had become irreducible to a simple set of criteria" (Favor 28). In The Autobiogr...
on The Great Gatsby, "As Puritan values gave way to an unrestrained craving for money, power, and other forms of gratification, th...
In five pages this report examines how Gatsby depicts a corrupted variation of the American Dream in Fitzgerald's classic 1925 nov...
In five pages this paper discusses Warrior Dreams by Gibson and The End of the Victory Culture by Englehardt in a consideration of...
In five pages the success story that was Benjamin Franklin and his American Dream of a life from his 1706 birth until 1757 is dis...
In a paper that consists of seven pages the American Dream is considered within the context of Benjamin Franklin's early life and ...
In seven pages this paper examines the excesses of the American Dream and its criticisms signified by the characterization of Jay ...
In nine pages the loss of the American dream as Fitzgerald portrays it in the moral decline and incest themes in his novel is disc...
based on alcohol. And yet, the story is both hilarious and heartbreaking. After all that modern readers have heard about Fitzgeral...
In eight pages this paper compares these works in a discussion of collective community's importance over the individual and the ho...
includes urban culture, and a variety of lifestyles, money still is important in a culture that demands the consumer to "buy now" ...
he worked to establish expanding international trade opportunities between Mexico and the U.S. Garzas company is listed as one of ...
in his youth. While Franklin is a firm advocate of hard work, he never advocates work merely for works sake. He disliked his fathe...
In six pages this paper examines how the American Dream, family relationships, and tragedy of Willy Loman within the context of th...
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...
"Tortilla Flat" set in Monterey, California tells of a tale of several wanderers who end up staying at the homes of Danny which we...
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...
Hauptmann School of Public Affairs defines "public affairs" in terms that underscore the significance of the inter-relationships t...
the story talks of how Maggie was a determined young woman and how she actually became financially stable enough, even during the ...
Glauser regards race more as a social construct than a physical characteristic. As such, whether "intentional or unintentional, o...
sometimes the only way to achieve peace. Doniphon admires the idealism of Stoddard and the two form an unlikely bond. The movie cl...
for the taking, he can carry on - he can endure the countless humiliations of having his territory dwindle to a small region in Ne...
and honor were really worth possessing. The Great Gatsby In first discussing Fitzgeralds story we look at the man who is Gats...
In eight pages this paper examines the shift from Orson Welles' perceptions of the American Dream to the subversion represented in...
of many prevailing myths of the time. Keseys belief was that LSD was going to usher in the alternate reality and spirituality that...
II, Miller was able to show that the American Dream as a way of life is a sham -- and why. Death of a Salesman tells the story of...
be permanently altered when Thompson ran afoul of the law (Medenhall, 2004). A series of arrest would eventually land him...
means just that-and he must be about His Fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented ...