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"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...

Contemporary Society, the Workplace, and Sexism

usually has some sort of grudge against the member of the opposite sex, or at least feels that the opposite sex in general is infe...

Student Degredation and Oppression Canon

In five pages this argumentative essay implies that the academic canon represents oppression and degradation for contemporary stud...

Myth of the American Dream

In three pages this paper discusses how consumerism is propelled by the American Dream myth. Two sources are cited in the bibliog...

Souring of 'the American Dream'

In two pages this paper examines the souring of the American Dream in a consideration of wages, educational access, and financial ...

Los Angeles and the American Dream

In a paper that consists of five pages the growth of the suburbs that has become so representative of the American Dream of home, ...

The Self Made Man in America

In a paper consisting of five pages a discussion of the American Dream and how it affects the concept of the self made man is exam...

Analysis of Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

In five pages the success story that was Benjamin Franklin and his American Dream of a life from his 1706 birth until 1757 is dis...

Ben Franklin and the Definition of the American Dream

In a paper that consists of seven pages the American Dream is considered within the context of Benjamin Franklin's early life and ...

American Dream and Ben Franklin

eager to work. This genuine willingness to be productive clearly served as a primal ingredient in his success. By the age of 10,...

America After Vietnam and Books by Gibson and Englehardt

In five pages this paper discusses Warrior Dreams by Gibson and The End of the Victory Culture by Englehardt in a consideration of...

American Dream Invention of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur

In six pages the inventor of the 'American Dream' myth is examined in a consideration of his contributions. Five sources are cite...

Langston Hughes' African American Poetry

In six pages this paper examines Langston Hughes' African American poetry and the common theme that is interwoven in poems like 'H...

Italian Immigrants Seeking the 'American Dream'

This first person narrative considers why an Italian family immigrated to the United States in terms of securing the 'American Dre...

Comparative Analysis of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

In four pages this paper analyzes human dreams in a contrast and comparison of these two award winning American dramas. Two sourc...

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...

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 ...

Loss of the American Dream in Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In nine pages the loss of the American dream as Fitzgerald portrays it in the moral decline and incest themes in his novel is disc...

The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitgerald

based on alcohol. And yet, the story is both hilarious and heartbreaking. After all that modern readers have heard about Fitzgeral...

The Girl by Meridel Le Sueur and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In eight pages this paper compares these works in a discussion of collective community's importance over the individual and the ho...

Mythology of Native Americans

cites that as many as several hundred thousand must exist collectively (Gill & Sullivan, 1992). Each myth that I came across was...

King/"I Have A Dream" Speech

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

The American Dream and Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

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...

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...

Reality TV/Why We Watch

lives. Ralph Rosnow, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Temple University, comments, "If people arent talking about other people,...

Kelly's Expanding the American Dream

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

The American Dream: Harper Lee and John Steinbeck

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

Langston Hughes/Critical Response to 2 Poems

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

Themes: Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men

work and survive, this dream is simple and very powerful Throughout the Great Depression people left their land, when it was use...