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Characters of Robert Cohn in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

now wealthy and has achieved all he set out to do. In this chapter we see many different things which tell us that Jay is nothing ...

Restoring the American Dream

Zakaria traces what he calls the "hollowing out" of the American middle class and the chaos that has wrought on the economy and th...

Interpreting the American Dream

in the sense that opportunities for success are not actually equally distributed, but the ideal holds true in some sense in that t...

The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane, and Cinematic Reflections of America

In five pages this paper discusses how these films reflect expansionism, individualism, success, economic wealth, the 'American Dr...

Walter Mosely's American Dream Reflections in Devil in a Blue Dress

In five pages the author's reflections of the American Dream in characterizations of the novel such as that of Easy Rawlins are ex...

Private and Public Lives of Lyndon Johnson

In eight pages Lyndon Johnson is examined in a consideration of the texts Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Go...

How a Newspaper Reporter in the 1940s Might Perceive the American Dream

This paper consists of eight pages in which the writer in a narrative of a newspaper reporter reveals the American Dream as it was...

Easy Rider

This 5 page paper delineates the importance of political expression as it manifests in this blockbuster movie. Mainstream cultur...

Works by Sinclair Lewis, Horatio Alger, Susanna Rowson and the American Dream

In 7 pages this paper examines the portrayal of the American Dream in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger,...

American Dream in Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

In two pages Sister Carrie is examined in terms of the American Dream and Carrie's social climbing. There are no other sources li...

The American Dream in Advertising

includes urban culture, and a variety of lifestyles, money still is important in a culture that demands the consumer to "buy now" ...

An Overview of A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, 2001 and A Raisin in the Sun, 2001). This essay offers an in-depth overview of this Hansberry play...

Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska

In a paper consisting of five pages this autobiographical text is considered in terms of a female Polish immigrant coming to Ameri...

Comparision of 'Tar Baby' by Toni Morrison and 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin

was a Louisiana wife steeped in the traditions of the plantation South. She married prosperous Leonce Pontellier so that she coul...

Santos Garza, Chief Executive Officer of Counter Technology Inc.

he worked to establish expanding international trade opportunities between Mexico and the U.S. Garzas company is listed as one of ...

Dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X

In six pages this essay compares the dreams of each of these African American activists. Five sources are cited in the bibliograp...

America and I by Yezierska

In five pages an essay by immigrant Yezierska entitled 'America and I' is critically assessed with assimilation in America, the Am...

Faulty American Dream in House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

In eight pages this essay considers how each of these works reveal the American Dream to be flawed as reflected within their diffe...

The Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzo

reviewer also points out, there is simplicity and beauty to this prose that is not evident in Puzos later work. In the...

American Dream and Ernest Hemingway's Story 'A Clean Well Lighted Place' and John Ford's Film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

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

Cognitive Cinema Theory and Narration

night light. It sits in bedrooms and living rooms but has become something one does in place of nothing. Rather than sitting and r...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and 3 Issues

In six pages this paper examines how the American Dream, family relationships, and tragedy of Willy Loman within the context of th...

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...

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...

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 ...

The American Dream and Its Contemporary Meaning

In four pages the past and present meanings of the American Dream are examined. There is no bibliography included....

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, ...