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Canada's Economy and Immigrants' Effect

In fourteen pages Canada is examined in terms of its economy and the effects of immigration as a result of its postwar policy. Th...

Carl Jung's Views on Symbols, Dreams, and Individualization

This research paper analyzes Jung's psychoanalytical theories written in his Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams. The author...

Elizabeth Martinez's Article 'Scapegoating Immigrants Immigrant Bashing on the Rise'

In nine pages this article by Elizabeth Martinez is discussed. There are no other sources listed....

Great Depression Entertainment

The radio was an important entertainment form. Television, in contrast, was just beginning to make its entry into the American ho...

American Society and Italian Immigration's Impact

Charm, 2004). Parents needed their children to help farm and/or work in the family business, and so the idea of education was see...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Material Wealth

own enjoyment so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eye...

Book Review of Joseph J. Ellis’ His Excellency: George Washington

that George Washington was fueled foremost by ambition. He wrote, "Ambitions this gargantuan were only glorious if harnessed to a...

Homer Hickam/October Sky

of this minister, and "his belief in Gods sense of humor and His fondness for neer-do-wells," inspired Sonny, as this fueled the ...

Dream Theory and Freud's Critics

period between consciousness and sleep. This period lasts approximately ten minutes until Stage II commences, lasting another fif...

Italian American Authors and Three of Their Works

section, the reader comes to know Rimanelli as "a lover of words" (Tamburri 473) and also as a "free collector of paper joy and pa...

Attitudes Towards the DREAM Act: Developing a Survey

Opinion / Agree / Strongly Agree 4. I am generally accepting and tolerant of other cultures and ethnicities. Strongly Disagree /...

Wolfman Case and Other Topics

The treatments Breuer and Freud developed for treating hysteria had an impact on the development of psychoanalysis. This is discu...

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, ...

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 ...

Interpreting the American Dream

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

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...

Puerto Rican Obituary and the Nuyorican Community

of the Puerto Rican dream to its death and the deaths of those who made up his poets society, but it is a stretch to say that it m...

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 ...

Jay Gatsby, The American Dream and His Failure to Grasp It

as the finest American novel ever written. It retains its power because it is a sort of dual effort: it praises the American Dream...

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,...

"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 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 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. ...

'Lost Generation' and the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

who does not exhibit the same or nearly the same amount of wealth and material possessions. The lost generation of America is ext...

Fools Crow by James Welch Questions Answered

(Welch 391). In both of these instances, Welch uses descriptive language to set the tone for what Fools Crow is feeling and thinki...

Blood In, Blood Out

applied to the characters at different times, but the two that seem most effective are Merton, and Shaw and MacKay. The term "Amer...

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...

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...

African American Experience in the Poetry of Langston Hughes

this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...

Strange Life and Literary Journey of Hunter S. Thompson

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