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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 ...

US Political Contributions of Webster, Clay, and Calhoun

In eight pages this research paper examines the statesmanship attributes of these three great Americans. Five sources are cited i...

American Economy Growth and Changes After the Great Depression

standard was to let prices and wages fall. The Government Steps In By 1932 hundreds of banks had failed, hundreds of manufa...

Speeches of Great African Americans

In six pages the speeches and writings of Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington are discussed and reacted t...

Great American Frederick Douglass

In six pages this research paper celebrates Frederick Douglass's life and achievements as he transformed himself from illiterate s...

Europe and American International Business

In thirty five pages this paper explores in great detail US based businesses and their European prospects and consider how major A...

The Great Gatsby and American Greed

intelligence and talent to work in ways that are less than reputable in order to pursue an illusion of beauty. Making his fortune ...

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...

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...

American Historical Contributions of Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin

revolutionary Americans divided up into planter democrats and capitalist elitists. According to another school, the basic division...

Reflections on Several Famous Literary Works

as being mostly unforgiving of mans shortcomings, inasmuch as he implies that humanity has turned into a selfish, egotistical and ...

American Media and National Stereotypes of Germany and Great Britain

You Being Served, all serve up their own dose of British humor and stereotypes. Each show depicts the typical frouncy old woman wh...

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...

War of 1812 and its Causes

In eighteen pages this paper examines the possible causes for the War of 1812 including war hawk pressure, 1807's Embargo Act, the...

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...

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 ...

Gordon S. Wood/The American Revolution

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

Internal Migrations

own language. "Indian" is the name Christopher Columbus gave to the natives he met when he came to the New World, believing he was...

Terrorism/Comparing Countries

the threat of bio-terrorism (Dammer and Fairchild 304). France : France, also, has long had to cope with terrorism, as the Frenc...

Evolution of the Nation

In addition, "[M]ost of the major railroads failed" (Panic of 1873, 2005). While the public tended to blame the government, the c...

Thoreau/Importance of Wilderness

requirements of the wilderness can be defined as the "difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony" ...

Social Conditions in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle

or migratory work. This is where the powerful social issues come into play. In Boyles work we see the main character is a suppos...

Great Depression Entertainment

The radio was an important entertainment form. Television, in contrast, was just beginning to make its entry into the American ho...

Dark Suspense Elements in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...

1900 to 1980 American Social Progress

in the century? What can be done about it? Poverty may be understood and defined as either a concept that comes from low income o...

Early American History and Free African Americans

my opinion, yet I consider our condition but little better than that....After all, methinks there are no chains so galling as thos...

1865 to 1945 American Economy

Today, people know when they put their money in the bank, it is insured by the government, at least up to a certain amount of mone...

Nick Carraway, the American Dream, and The Great Gatsby

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

Baseball Being Ruined by Steroids

national pastime" (Small, 2005, 6). National pastime or not, however, baseball is no less susceptible...