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Miscommunication in Two Works

matter how an author chooses to draw the portrait, the mother figure is one of the primal archetypes of human society. This paper ...

Restoring the American Dream

Zakaria traces what he calls the "hollowing out" of the American middle class and the chaos that has wrought on the economy and th...

An American Dream Tragedy, The Great Gatsby

This essay describes the thematic function of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Six pages in length, ...

Private and Public Lives of Lyndon Johnson

In eight pages Lyndon Johnson is examined in a consideration of the texts Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Go...

How a Newspaper Reporter in the 1940s Might Perceive the American Dream

This paper consists of eight pages in which the writer in a narrative of a newspaper reporter reveals the American Dream as it was...

Nick Carraway's Perspective on Gatsby

This essay asserts that Nick Carraway's narration presents Jay Gatsby's story in terms of Freudian psychology and as paralleling ...

The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane, and Cinematic Reflections of America

In five pages this paper discusses how these films reflect expansionism, individualism, success, economic wealth, the 'American Dr...

Loman and Gatsby Compared and the American Dream Evaluated

Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is compared and contrasted with F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby character. The Ame...

Walter Mosely's American Dream Reflections in Devil in a Blue Dress

In five pages the author's reflections of the American Dream in characterizations of the novel such as that of Easy Rawlins are ex...

American Dream and Materialism in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

society . . . profoundly agrees with Marxs great discovery that it is social rather than individual consciousness that determines ...

Easy Rider

This 5 page paper delineates the importance of political expression as it manifests in this blockbuster movie. Mainstream cultur...

Works by Sinclair Lewis, Horatio Alger, Susanna Rowson and the American Dream

In 7 pages this paper examines the portrayal of the American Dream in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger,...

Benjamin Franklin and F. Scott Fitzgerald on the American Dream and Morality

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Franklin and Fitzgerald presented morality and the American Dream in a comparative analysis of...

American Dream in Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

In two pages Sister Carrie is examined in terms of the American Dream and Carrie's social climbing. There are no other sources li...

The American Dream and Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

that "the one who dies with the most toys wins" which is illustrative of the desire so many people have to own the best house, the...

King/"I Have A Dream" Speech

on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...

The American Dream: Martin Luther King Jr.

of the paper examines his life and work as they relate to such qualities. The American Dream: Martin Luther King Jr.: His Life...

The Audacity of Hope by Barak Obama

examines the values that Americans hold dear to them, as well as illustrating his own values. It is perhaps somewhat difficult to ...

Kelly's Expanding the American Dream

able to construct homes inexpensively (Kelly, 2004). Additionally, he would bypass union workers for those who came at a lower pri...

Death of a Salesman and the American Dream

of the American Dream with Benjamin Franklin who seemed to prove that through honest and hard work an individual could find succes...

Themes: Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men

work and survive, this dream is simple and very powerful Throughout the Great Depression people left their land, when it was use...

"Death of a Salesman" as an Analogy for the Death of the American Dream

belief in the "American way," but even at the cost of his sanity he is still unable to succeed. What he has done is to instill the...

Langston Hughes/Critical Response to 2 Poems

opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...

The American Dream: Harper Lee and John Steinbeck

who is noble, honest, and humble. He fights for the rights of an African American accused of raping a white woman even though the ...

"We Be Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara, and "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason and the American Dream

The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...

The American Dream and Its Death

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,...

American Dream in Death of a Salesman and The Great Gatsby

as "The Jazz Age." When not numbing themselves with superficial pleasures, young people were pursuing the American Dream, as tran...

The Idea of Dreams from Toni Morrison and Alain Locke

Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...

The American Dream as Embodied by Benjamin Franklin

commission to go to Europe to buy supplies for a new printing house, but was abandoned when he got off the ship (Kindig, 2006). A...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson and the American Dream

"well aware of the way African American identity had become irreducible to a simple set of criteria" (Favor 28). In The Autobiogr...