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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,...

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

In two pages this paper examines how American small town life is unsympathetically portrayed in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis....

The Business World from a Literary Viewpoint

pictured as giving them a chance to live as equals with everyone-no upper classes-everyone doing as he or she pleased. Sinclair...

Sin in Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple and Herman Melville's Pierre

that part covered). Even in her disconcerted and distracted mental state after the birth of her child, Charlotte is able to pray f...

Susanna Rowson Writes the Truth

more than the all-too common story of a girl seduced and abandoned by a worthless man, it is a lecture that runs nearly 150 pages ...

Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt and Use of Satire

live up to its name with a great deal of glass, chrome and a lot of managers and executives with a great deal of attitude but few ...

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and the American Dream

They knew they could find workers who would work for almost nothing, and if they failed there would be perhaps 50 more waiting in ...

Girl, Interrupted And Borderline Personality

the DSM IV-TR (Therapydoc, 2007). The next one is due sometimes in 2012 (Therapydoc, 2007). It will no doubt change etiologies, di...

C.S. Lewis/Theology and Evangelism

be a universal perception of morality, that is, on the existence of natural moral law, that is an innate sense that is common to a...

Horatio Alger Dishing Up a 'Recipe for Success'

see this very clearly as Dick is on a boat and a boy falls in the river. Dick jumps in and saves him and it turns out that the fat...

Wealth in the 19th Century

are many who claim that during this particular time he was a man who truly abused and used his workers, and did nothing but gain i...

Self Made Man Ideology

It was his lecture "Acres of Diamonds" that brought him to riches, though (Center for History and New Media, 2002). He was on a na...

Life and Times of Colin Powell

them, it has to be thought. He was a well educated black man, successful, who spoke out firmly against affirmative action. Powell ...

The Parallels Between the Progressive Era and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

the bosses, the police, the politicians, and a myriad of other players. Sinclair reveals a dream which is interlaced by theft, pr...

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

in the book we first examine the introduction. In this introduction Lewis indicates that there are many different types of Chri...

Project Planning, Scheduling and Control by James P. Lewis

In six pages this paper analyzes Lewis's project management text. There are no other sources listed....

The American Capitalists, Carnegie, and Alger

despite Dicks destitute life, he ends up all right in the end. Hes considered the consummate hero, the ideal rags-to-riches boy (o...

Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rowson

In five pages this paper analyzes this text in terms of the parameters established with regards to finding love and venturing towa...

Main Street (Book Review)

a big city person comes to an outlying area and wants to make change. During the 1970s, Oliver Wendell Douglass was a character wh...

Lyrical Left Wing Greenwich Village Community

the writers within Greenwich Village had in the late 19th century and throughout the 20th century. The Greenwich Village writers i...

Honesty in Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

In ten pages this paper discusses how American clergymen reacted to Elmer Gantry, a novel by Sinclair Lewis. Ten sources are cite...

Social Mobility in Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger

In five pages this paper examines the importance of social mobility in this Alger tale that defined the story of the American conc...

Struggling Upward by Horatio Alger'

In five pages the ways in which ethical conduct follows examples established by role models and family as depicted in Alger's nove...

An Analysis of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

This 15 page paper analyzes Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, about the meat packing industry in Chicago in the early 1900s. The ...

Political Themes in Sinclair's, Flivver King

again, through characterization, the subtle nature of the differential is conveyed. There is a clear connection made between indus...

Sinclair Lewis's Character George F. Babbitt

in a job where capitalism and the desire for material goods is perceived as a priority in life. In this era, the success of an ind...

Analyzing Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt

because he is not at all athletic. In fact, he is rather pudgy and homely himself. He claims to like parties and social gatherin...

American Business and Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

In five pages this paper discusses 1920s' America and the middle class's business practices as represented by the protagonist of...

The American Dream

people are happy to work for practically nothing, low-skill labor is relegated to the food and service industries, which offer min...

Theology of C.S. Lewis

seen in the Narnia series. For example, in the Narnia stories, a principal character is Aslan, the "Lord of the Wood," is a "Chri...