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Louis Armstrong, An American Musical Genius

This paper examines the career of Satchmo, Louis Armstrong. The author argues that Armstrong is one of the great American Jazz le...

Nick Carraway's Narrative in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In seven pages this paper argues that the shattered illusion of the American Dream and its impact are embodied in Nick Carraway's ...

American Civil War and Baseball

In five pages what would become the great American pastime as it was played during the Civil War is examined. Seven sources are c...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Slavery

In five pages this paper discusses the author's perspectives on slavery as reflected in this great American novel. Five sources a...

Supernatural Subtleties in The Shining by Stephen King and Beloved by Toni Morrison

In six pages this report examines the thematic subtleties of the supernatural in these two great works of American fiction. Five ...

Benjamin Franklin

In eight pages The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is used to gain some insights into this true Renaissance man and great Ameri...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote and the American Dream, a Critique of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's “The Great Gatsby” and Truman Capote's “Breakfast at Tiffany's”

Gatsby, and in Truman Capotes Breakfast at Tiffanys, first published in 1958. Both define the American Dream as the exclusive pro...

Literary Interpretation and Analysis of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

the modern world was a study in contrasts between interior and exterior, so too was modernist literature. There was often the con...

Robert E. Lee and Ulysses Grant

In twelve pages the lives and experiences of these great American generals are contrasted and compared. Six sources are cited in ...

The UK and American Multinationals

part of the European Economic Community. It s seen as an inevitability that the single market will go ahead and it is a matter of ...

An Analysis of Fitzgerald's Novel, The Great Gatsby

This paper analyzes F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The author argues that the work qualifies as an excell...

Great Britain and the Incidences of Suicide by Hanging

method of suicide was increasing. The main increase in this group can be determined by age. Those under 45 showing the biggest inc...

The 1960s and American Liberalism

In five pages this paper assesses American liberalism as they manifested themselves in JFK's New Frontier and LBJ's Great Society ...

Comparative Analysis of Feminist Art Views

it should be judged by a different criteria then is usually applied to mainstream art. Higonnet may have been evasive as to her ...

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 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 ...

A Book Review of Milton Meltzer's 'Brother Can You Spare a Dime'

In 5 pages, this paper focuses on a popular middle school textbook's exploration of the Great Depression's economic crisis and the...

Historical Plausibility of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In 5 pages this great American novel is analyzed in an historical overview of the relevant 19th century issues including children'...

Great Society of Lyndon B. Johnson

In five pages LBJ's envisioned 'Great Society' is examined within the context of Doris Kearns Goodwin's Lyndon B. Johnson and the ...

“How to Write the Great American Indian Novel” by Alexie

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Alexie’s “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel”. An explication is carried ...

Discussion Questions on American History

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at American history. Discussion questions are answered in short essays about civil righ...

Diane Ravitch, Her Views on American Public Schools

countrys leading educators and has been a vocal advocate for both testing and accountability initiatives in the public schools. A ...

Early American Attempts at Self Governing and Relations with Great Britain

won freedom from religious oppression. Christie suggests that the bottom line and that which caused many of the compoundin...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the American Dream

means just that-and he must be about His Fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented ...

'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...

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...

American Dream and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

In seven pages this paper examines the excesses of the American Dream and its criticisms signified by the characterization of Jay ...

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

on The Great Gatsby, "As Puritan values gave way to an unrestrained craving for money, power, and other forms of gratification, th...

Corruption of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In five pages this report examines how Gatsby depicts a corrupted variation of the American Dream in Fitzgerald's classic 1925 nov...

Corruption of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In four pages this paper examines how the theme of corruption is represented within the context of Fitzgerald's 1925 novel masterp...