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

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...

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

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

sometimes the only way to achieve peace. Doniphon admires the idealism of Stoddard and the two form an unlikely bond. The movie cl...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

in the promised land did so through the exploitation of the land, its resources, and its natives" as is the case with Jay Gatsby (...

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