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'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...

Early American History Law Contradictions

independence brought the final break with Britain (Holton, 2000). Further, it was the refusal of these same individuals to joint t...

The Life and Works of Emma Lazarus

in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...

Elaine T. May's Homeward Bound and Post World War II Society

history and the so-called cultural revolution of the 1960s that marked a return to normality, as it continued the liberal progress...

The Poetry of Wheatley and Hughes

experiences were good ones, and quite unique when compared to slaves in the south. As such "racial equality is not a theme to be f...

Proud Shoes by Pauli Murray

doctorate there in 1965 (Pauli Murray). Among other positions, Murray was a civil rights lawyer, "a professor, a college vice pres...

Reasons Behind Colonial America's Decision to Revolt Against England

Interestingly, however, although we looked to our mother country for that support, little was forthcoming. The early years of the...

Book Review of Thomas Paine's Common Sense

was apparently encouraged by leading minds of the time the work was completely his, indicating he was not working, so to speak, fo...

Meso American Civilizations of the Aztec, Maya, and Inca

In six pages this essay contrasts and compares these early Meso American civilizations in terms of organizational, agricultural, r...

American Dream's Failure in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This sense of optimistic euphoria was forever captured in F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby. Its featured charact...

Global Consequences of the Spanish American War

This paper examines the 1895 to 1898 Spanish American War in an overview of its global consequences past and present in 10 pages....

Analysis of Mona in the Promise Land by Gish Jen

In five pages this paper examines and analyzes this Chinese American novel first published in 1996....

Asian American Experience in Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen Number 2

This paper discusses how emotion is used by the author in the depiction of the Asian American experience in the novel. There are ...

Using Structure to Develop the Story in How to Make an American Quilt and The Color Purple

This 9 page paper describes the way in which two authors use structure to develop the ideas in their books. The works under consid...

Native Americans Viewed Differently in Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan and The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

In seven pages this paper examines the role the historical time periods of the authors played in these very different glimpses of ...

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

In five pages this report examines the history of the massacre at Wounded Knee and how the author increases reader awareness of is...

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....

In Favor of Socialized Health Care in the United States

In fourteen pages this author considers the many Americans currently without any type of health car insurance in order to make the...

African American Playwright August Wilson

as befits an author who had been writing virtually one play a year since Ma Rainey had its first reading in 1982 at the Eugene ONe...

The Life and Works of Lorraine Hansberry

scars that never healed (Hansberry, 52). Lorraine felt that the scars were academic as well; she was convinced that there ...

Gender and Race Issues in Management

This paper examines the role of African-American women in corporate management. the author provides relevant statistics and infor...

Mexican American Communities and the Implications of Alcoholism

In eight pages this paper examines how the Mexican American community is affected by the social problem of alcoholism with compari...

Liberty Men And Great Proprietor The Revolutionary Settlement On The Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 by Alan Taylor

is his exemplary way of addressing the how these longstanding conflicts stood to ultimately establish and characterize Americas ec...

A Neutral Look at the Battle at Little Big Horn

This six page report analyzes this historical masacre from an objective perspective. The author carefully interweaves the perspec...

Establishment of Literature in America

In six pages American literature and its establishment are considered in a discussion of various authors from Mark Twain to Carl S...

Comparison of Second World War Jewish Genocide and Extermination of Native Americans

In five pages this paper defines genocide and then examines it in a comparison of practices against Native Americans and Jews with...

Racism and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In five pages this paper examines how racism is attacked by the author in this classic American novel. There are no other sources...

The Good Society by Robert Bellah, et al

negative" (p. 10). They explain that an "institution" can be as simple as the social custom of shaking hands as a...

Qualitative and Quantitative Research Studies

At the same time, it is also the case that Black women...

Culture, Identity, and Roots in the Writings of Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe

society as a whole had become better educated by the mid-19th century, a new market presented itself for stories, regional sketche...