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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

the details of the "American Dream," and what this term has come to mean in our culture. This page asks "What is the American Drea...

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

are proud. The main character, however, although she wants to own the house someday, is embarrassed by the house because she feels...

more and more about Willys life, than it is not some innate tragic flaw in his character which has led to his misfortune, but a co...

indifferent to their fellow human beings because of the tremendous disappointment and disillusion heaved upon them. "Scattered am...

In some cases, Hochschild is absolutely right - gaining the American Dream requires a great deal of reality check, and not moving...

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...

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...

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...

for the taking, he can carry on - he can endure the countless humiliations of having his territory dwindle to a small region in Ne...

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 ...

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

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...