YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The American Dream and Its Contemporary Meaning
Essays 181 - 210
In seven pages this paper argues that the shattered illusion of the American Dream and its impact are embodied in Nick Carraway's ...
feel lonely." All characters seem to have a variant of this dream as well, whether the place is, that which will allow them to b...
illustrated in the frequent comparisons between the Long Island sections of East Egg and West Egg. As narrator Nick Carraway, a W...
This 6 page paper discusses the concept of true and false values in the play Death of a Salesman. The writer argues that Willy Lom...
In a paper containing seven pages the American Dream is compared and contrasted in these works. There are three bibliographic sou...
In eight pages this essay considers how each of these works reveal the American Dream to be flawed as reflected within their diffe...
A seven page paper analyszes this passage from the Bible and applies it to contemporary society to achieve deeper meaning. There ...
reviewer also points out, there is simplicity and beauty to this prose that is not evident in Puzos later work. In the...
In six pages this essay compares the dreams of each of these African American activists. Five sources are cited in the bibliograp...
In five pages an essay by immigrant Yezierska entitled 'America and I' is critically assessed with assimilation in America, the Am...
Hauptmann School of Public Affairs defines "public affairs" in terms that underscore the significance of the inter-relationships t...
examines the values that Americans hold dear to them, as well as illustrating his own values. It is perhaps somewhat difficult to ...
the story talks of how Maggie was a determined young woman and how she actually became financially stable enough, even during the ...
In five pages this paper considers the reasons why elderly individuals play poker in hopes of capturing part of the American Dream...
Glauser regards race more as a social construct than a physical characteristic. As such, whether "intentional or unintentional, o...
matter how an author chooses to draw the portrait, the mother figure is one of the primal archetypes of human society. This paper ...
as the finest American novel ever written. It retains its power because it is a sort of dual effort: it praises the American Dream...
there needs to be the cross cultural experiences, this creates understanding and is more likely to result in cohesion, as fear is ...
of the Puerto Rican dream to its death and the deaths of those who made up his poets society, but it is a stretch to say that it m...
Zakaria traces what he calls the "hollowing out" of the American middle class and the chaos that has wrought on the economy and th...
This essay describes the thematic function of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Six pages in length, ...
sometimes the only way to achieve peace. Doniphon admires the idealism of Stoddard and the two form an unlikely bond. The movie cl...
sexual liberties but always remains faithful to the spirit of the original play" (Balingit PG). The setting is quickly establishe...
for the taking, he can carry on - he can endure the countless humiliations of having his territory dwindle to a small region in Ne...
the town of Bisbee. "It is July 20, 1989, early afternoon, monsoon season in the Sonoran Desert, and I am going back to Bisbee. A...
naturally take its course. A decade later, unemployment was not a concern. The rate had been low during the nineties and in fact,...
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...
night light. It sits in bedrooms and living rooms but has become something one does in place of nothing. Rather than sitting and r...
in the sense that opportunities for success are not actually equally distributed, but the ideal holds true in some sense in that t...