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The Idea of Dreams from Toni Morrison and Alain Locke

Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...

'Lost Generation' and the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

who does not exhibit the same or nearly the same amount of wealth and material possessions. The lost generation of America is ext...

Fools Crow by James Welch Questions Answered

(Welch 391). In both of these instances, Welch uses descriptive language to set the tone for what Fools Crow is feeling and thinki...

Is Attaining 'the American Dream' Realistic?

in a double-wide trailer. Others see economic success as comfortably being able to pay the costs of living in a city, without eve...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and Willy Loman's Wrong Dreams

and new trends. He could not open his mind to new ideas concerning anything, including his family. In essence, he was a man with a...

Essay on 1999 Documentary Nuyorican Dreams

at an alternative school which he founded. Robert is an eloquent spokesman regarding how the culture of poverty harms minority mem...

Langston Hughes/Critical Response to 2 Poems

opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...

Themes: Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men

work and survive, this dream is simple and very powerful Throughout the Great Depression people left their land, when it was use...

"Death of a Salesman" as an Analogy for the Death of the American Dream

belief in the "American way," but even at the cost of his sanity he is still unable to succeed. What he has done is to instill the...

DeParle/American Dream

Hauptmann School of Public Affairs defines "public affairs" in terms that underscore the significance of the inter-relationships t...

The American Dream: Harper Lee and John Steinbeck

who is noble, honest, and humble. He fights for the rights of an African American accused of raping a white woman even though the ...

Death of a Salesman and the American Dream

of the American Dream with Benjamin Franklin who seemed to prove that through honest and hard work an individual could find succes...

The Audacity of Hope by Barak Obama

examines the values that Americans hold dear to them, as well as illustrating his own values. It is perhaps somewhat difficult to ...

Maggie’s American Dream by James Comer

the story talks of how Maggie was a determined young woman and how she actually became financially stable enough, even during the ...

Lena, the American Dream, and Willa Cather's My Antonia

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, and the American Dream

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

'Harlem' by Langston Hughes

questions rather than declarative sentences. Also Hansen (2002) points out that the tentative "maybe," which is part of this sole...

Analysis of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Immorality

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

U.S. Migration by Mexican Immigrants Seeking the American Dream

money and even littler time to "enjoy" U.S. culture. Often times, however, these immigrants can turn their heritage into an asset...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and the Character of Happy Loman

is the assistant to an assistant. Hap lacks even the smallest spark of introspection or self-analysis, but rather is the embodimen...

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 ...

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...

Setting Importance and American Dream Theme in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

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

Articles on 1983 Economic Prosperity

In five pages the economic prosperity of 1983 is contrasted and compared in the articles 'Restoring a delicate balance; after a ba...

Carl Jung's Views on Symbols, Dreams, and Individualization

This research paper analyzes Jung's psychoanalytical theories written in his Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams. The author...

American Dream of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Prize as well as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award when it was produced and published in 1949....

American Dream as Represented by Frederick Douglass and Benjamin Franklin

In five pages this paper examines how these important men's lives reflect the concept of the American Dream as depicted within Nar...

Insights into Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In five pages the American Dream and its deceptiveness as depicted in Miller's tragic drama are examined. Three sources are cited...

Senior Citizens and Rex L. Jones' Poker and the American Dream

In five pages this paper considers the reasons why elderly individuals play poker in hopes of capturing part of the American Dream...