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in the sense that opportunities for success are not actually equally distributed, but the ideal holds true in some sense in that t...

seeing her dressed up for she was obviously a young woman who was bare foot and bore unkempt hair. When the conversation progre...

we are offered the changing nature of that American Dream as it turned to something far more materialistic and powerful in a capit...

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...

questions rather than declarative sentences. Also Hansen (2002) points out that the tentative "maybe," which is part of this sole...

in his youth. While Franklin is a firm advocate of hard work, he never advocates work merely for works sake. He disliked his fathe...

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...

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...

girl who is rejected by nearly everyone. In fact, so too is her family as the lot of them is cursed with ugliness and rejection. ...

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...

the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out...

"Tortilla Flat" set in Monterey, California tells of a tale of several wanderers who end up staying at the homes of Danny which we...

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

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

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

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

Ambition and a self-made determination, and the freedom to achieve anything that one sets his or her mind to were the basic concep...

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

the story talks of how Maggie was a determined young woman and how she actually became financially stable enough, even during the ...

Hauptmann School of Public Affairs defines "public affairs" in terms that underscore the significance of the inter-relationships t...

They knew they could find workers who would work for almost nothing, and if they failed there would be perhaps 50 more waiting in ...

is the assistant to an assistant. Hap lacks even the smallest spark of introspection or self-analysis, but rather is the embodimen...

and new trends. He could not open his mind to new ideas concerning anything, including his family. In essence, he was a man with a...

at an alternative school which he founded. Robert is an eloquent spokesman regarding how the culture of poverty harms minority mem...

in a double-wide trailer. Others see economic success as comfortably being able to pay the costs of living in a city, without eve...

be permanently altered when Thompson ran afoul of the law (Medenhall, 2004). A series of arrest would eventually land him...

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

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...