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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...

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...

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. ...

American Dream and the Writings of John Steinbeck

the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out...

Overview of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

some of lifes toughest questions, questions that are still asked by todays family. Those questions include family values, abuse an...

Mary McCarthy on the American Dream of Willy Loman

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

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...

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...

An American Dream Tragedy, The Great Gatsby

This essay describes the thematic function of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Six pages in length, ...

Nick Carraway's Perspective on Gatsby

This essay asserts that Nick Carraway's narration presents Jay Gatsby's story in terms of Freudian psychology and as paralleling ...

Interpreting the American Dream

in the sense that opportunities for success are not actually equally distributed, but the ideal holds true in some sense in that t...

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...

Blood In, Blood Out

applied to the characters at different times, but the two that seem most effective are Merton, and Shaw and MacKay. The term "Amer...

Differences/Liberals, Democrats, Republicans, Conservatives

Today, this term is used in a derogatory sense by conservatives to mean people who support "big government and wasteful, giveaway ...

The American Dream: Martin Luther King Jr.

of the paper examines his life and work as they relate to such qualities. The American Dream: Martin Luther King Jr.: His Life...

"We Be Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara, and "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason and the American Dream

The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...

Implementing Information Technology Compliance

comparison IT application controls are designed to ensure that specific applications are functioning correctly, which may include ...

The Absurd

philosophers and playwrights, addressed themselves to the reality of the absurdity of life and argued that that its reality should...

Cultural Meanings of Silence

things for the good of all the community, and that winning is good for all, not just the individual. There are apparently...

'Cinderella' by Anne Sexton

stage for us, with the different levels of meaning of this story at the different times in our lives, when it may have been read t...

What ‘Literacy’ Means Today

search engines and cant find the information she wants, its because she has either spelled something wrong, or searched "for the w...

Concepts of Insider and Outsider Cultures

In sixteen pages this paper discusses minorities and social mainstream individuals in a consideration of what is meant by 'insider...

Plains Indians' Tipi

plains. Their mobile lifestyle necessitated mobile housing. The tipi was the result. Sometimes misspelled as "teepee", the tipi...

A Personal Statement of the Meaning of Literature

I can find myself truly empathizing with the individual. If the story is written from the third person perspective then it is like...

2 Meanings of Humanities

In three pages this essay considers the general and liberal arts meanings of the humanities concept....

Spelling Simplifying

this is not something which happened quickly and in discrete stages....

Business and Contingency Thinking

companies that had offices in different areas, either nationally or internationally there is also an indication of the mitigation ...

Crime and Hate

the curtailment of hate speech would be beneficial to such a goal. And indeed, such a solution sounds simple enough : Point an ac...

Life and Times of Vlad Tepes, the Original Dracula

out of the hands of Vlad the III. (Vlad 1996) Vlad III eventually did manage to regain the thrown of Walachia by conspiring with...

The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud

In a paper consisting of five pages the text's purpose and meaning are examined....