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The Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzo

reviewer also points out, there is simplicity and beauty to this prose that is not evident in Puzos later work. In the...

Dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X

In six pages this essay compares the dreams of each of these African American activists. Five sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Death of a Salesman - Willy Loman and the Betrayal of the American Dream

This 6 page paper discusses the concept of true and false values in the play Death of a Salesman. The writer argues that Willy Lom...

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Dreaming

feel lonely." All characters seem to have a variant of this dream as well, whether the place is, that which will allow them to b...

Faulty American Dream in House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

In eight pages this essay considers how each of these works reveal the American Dream to be flawed as reflected within their diffe...

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...

A Consideration of 'The Day Of The Locust'

indifferent to their fellow human beings because of the tremendous disappointment and disillusion heaved upon them. "Scattered am...

American Dream in Death of a Salesman

more and more about Willys life, than it is not some innate tragic flaw in his character which has led to his misfortune, but a co...

American Dream and Hochschild

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

Strange Life and Literary Journey of Hunter S. Thompson

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

American Dream in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman II

II, Miller was able to show that the American Dream as a way of life is a sham -- and why. Death of a Salesman tells the story of...

Suburban Dream Subverted

In eight pages this paper examines the shift from Orson Welles' perceptions of the American Dream to the subversion represented in...

Mythical American Dream

of many prevailing myths of the time. Keseys belief was that LSD was going to usher in the alternate reality and spirituality that...

African American Experience in the Poetry of Langston Hughes

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 ...

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...

The American Dream in Advertising

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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

The Myth of Er and Scipio's Dream as They Relate to American Society

not go to reincarnation necessarily, but rather to the idea that death does not end life. On the other hand, New Ageism, Buddhism,...

Peter Novick's That Noble Dream American Historical Profession

In five pages this paper critically examines the text and the views expressed by the author within. Twelve other sources are cite...

American Dream Vacation in the Hawaiian Islands

Flowers are everywhere and people wear leis or flower necklaces in Hawaii. Hawaii has Polynesian culture with the luaus and the H...

American Dream Defined in Poltical, Social, and Cultural Landscape Transformations

In five pages prejudice and bias that result from behavioral and cultural differences are considered in terms of the works 'The Sp...

American Dream of Home Purchase

In five pages the American housing market is examined in terms of supply and demand, social effects, and narrowing the class based...

Pohl and Kornblum's Space Merchants and Edward Albee's The American Dream

In five pages these two texts are discussed in terms of their themes and presentation of social issues. There are 4 sources liste...

Carlos Bulosan and the American Dream

xenophobic and violent, rank with discrimination and hatred for those who were different; Bulosan endured "several years of racist...