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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...

matter how an author chooses to draw the portrait, the mother figure is one of the primal archetypes of human society. This paper ...

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

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...

as the finest American novel ever written. It retains its power because it is a sort of dual effort: it praises the American Dream...

and honor were really worth possessing. The Great Gatsby In first discussing Fitzgeralds story we look at the man who is Gats...

In some cases, Hochschild is absolutely right - gaining the American Dream requires a great deal of reality check, and not moving...

The treatments Breuer and Freud developed for treating hysteria had an impact on the development of psychoanalysis. This is discu...

This essay describes the thematic function of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Six pages in length, ...

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

Opinion / Agree / Strongly Agree 4. I am generally accepting and tolerant of other cultures and ethnicities. Strongly Disagree /...

This essay asserts that Nick Carraway's narration presents Jay Gatsby's story in terms of Freudian psychology and as paralleling ...

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

won the Nobel Prize for Literature (The National Steinbeck Center, 2002). John Steinbeck was very talented at creating s...

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...

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

Ambition and a self-made determination, and the freedom to achieve anything that one sets his or her mind to were the basic concep...

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

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

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

and can see the cages from afar, I begin to run out of sheer urgency but always wake up before finding out if they are still alive...

girl who is rejected by nearly everyone. In fact, so too is her family as the lot of them is cursed with ugliness and rejection. ...

the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out...

some of lifes toughest questions, questions that are still asked by todays family. Those questions include family values, abuse an...

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

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

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

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