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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

Glauser regards race more as a social construct than a physical characteristic. As such, whether "intentional or unintentional, o...

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 ...

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

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...

philosophers and playwrights, addressed themselves to the reality of the absurdity of life and argued that that its reality should...

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