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

"well aware of the way African American identity had become irreducible to a simple set of criteria" (Favor 28). In The Autobiogr...

the details of the "American Dream," and what this term has come to mean in our culture. This page asks "What is the American Drea...

period between consciousness and sleep. This period lasts approximately ten minutes until Stage II commences, lasting another fif...

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

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

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

commission to go to Europe to buy supplies for a new printing house, but was abandoned when he got off the ship (Kindig, 2006). A...

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

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. ...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

be permanently altered when Thompson ran afoul of the law (Medenhall, 2004). A series of arrest would eventually land him...

means just that-and he must be about His Fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented ...

this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...

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

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...

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...

Loman in Death of a Salesman is a rather pathetic character. He is average, almost typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is som...

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

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