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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...

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Tragedy and Economics

In six pages Miller's play is examined in terms of the tragic consequences that resulted from the American Dream of economic prosp...

1920' American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In seven pages this paper analyzes how the 1920s' American Dream is presented in The Great Gatsby by author F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...

Great Society of Lyndon B. Johnson

In five pages LBJ's envisioned 'Great Society' is examined within the context of Doris Kearns Goodwin's Lyndon B. Johnson and the ...

Private and Public Lives of Lyndon Johnson

In eight pages Lyndon Johnson is examined in a consideration of the texts Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Go...

How a Newspaper Reporter in the 1940s Might Perceive the American Dream

This paper consists of eight pages in which the writer in a narrative of a newspaper reporter reveals the American Dream as it was...

The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane, and Cinematic Reflections of America

In five pages this paper discusses how these films reflect expansionism, individualism, success, economic wealth, the 'American Dr...

Walter Mosely's American Dream Reflections in Devil in a Blue Dress

In five pages the author's reflections of the American Dream in characterizations of the novel such as that of Easy Rawlins are ex...

American Dream in Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

In two pages Sister Carrie is examined in terms of the American Dream and Carrie's social climbing. There are no other sources li...

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,...

American Dream and Materialism in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

society . . . profoundly agrees with Marxs great discovery that it is social rather than individual consciousness that determines ...

Easy Rider

This 5 page paper delineates the importance of political expression as it manifests in this blockbuster movie. Mainstream cultur...

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" ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote and the American Dream, a Critique of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's “The Great Gatsby” and Truman Capote's “Breakfast at Tiffany's”

Gatsby, and in Truman Capotes Breakfast at Tiffanys, first published in 1958. Both define the American Dream as the exclusive pro...

Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska

In a paper consisting of five pages this autobiographical text is considered in terms of a female Polish immigrant coming to Ameri...

Comparision of 'Tar Baby' by Toni Morrison and 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin

was a Louisiana wife steeped in the traditions of the plantation South. She married prosperous Leonce Pontellier so that she coul...

An Overview of A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, 2001 and A Raisin in the Sun, 2001). This essay offers an in-depth overview of this Hansberry play...

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...

Four Novels and the American Dream

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. ...

F. Scot Fitzgerald and a look at the American Dream

Ambition and a self-made determination, and the freedom to achieve anything that one sets his or her mind to were the basic concep...

Cognitive Cinema Theory and Narration

night light. It sits in bedrooms and living rooms but has become something one does in place of nothing. Rather than sitting and r...

Santos Garza, Chief Executive Officer of Counter Technology Inc.

he worked to establish expanding international trade opportunities between Mexico and the U.S. Garzas company is listed as one of ...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and 3 Issues

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

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...

America and I by Yezierska

In five pages an essay by immigrant Yezierska entitled 'America and I' is critically assessed with assimilation in America, the Am...

Willy Loman's Nightmarish American Dreams

"Happy" The irony of the situation is doubled by the shadow (and what is the shadow of a dream,...

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...

Comparative Analysis of The Great Gatsby and Six Degrees of Separation

In a paper containing seven pages the American Dream is compared and contrasted in these works. There are three bibliographic sou...

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...

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...