What is the true state of the so-called "American Dream" today? ... In fact, the original term "Ameri­can Dream" was coined during the Great Depression by James Truslow Adams, who wrote that the American dream "is that Brandon King is studying political science at the University of Cincinnati and plans to attend law school. ... In many ways, the American Dream of today is a trimmed down version of its former self. ... The American Dream, however, is based on perception, on the way someone imagineshow to be successful. ... Only then will the American Dream remain alive for future generatio...

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The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement- wrote James Truslow Adams in Epic Of America' 1931. ... But the drug-a-delic duo stumble through Vegas in hallucinatory hopes of finding the American dream. ... Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas' also uses the idea of the American Dream as a key theme. ... "I tell you, my man, this is the American Dream in action! ... What people see on the outside of a wealthy, successful and powerful individual is not nece...

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It forms an irritable, "fed up" mood within the play. ... The dream begins to take form. ... This dream of hers is similar to the American Dream at the time. ... And with Walter's dream being out of the way Mama's dream is now the family's main concern. ... Those deferred dreams make way for more appropriate bounded dreams because they stand as barriers to other dreams, like the character Walter dream was to Mama's dream. this was proven by: characters, their barriers, and mood that was created by the setting. ...

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People "dream about whatever they do when they're awake. ... Much to her surprise, she discovered that she had roots in Grace and that her family did have a history within the community. ... Her reunion with Loyd opened her eyes to the beauty that she possessed within and that surrounded her both in nature and in her neighbors. ... Kingsolver created within Dr. ... Instead of realizing the true and natural beauty of things, he forced the pictures and the situations within his hallucinations to develop how he imagined fit. ...

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When I was in high school, I had a scary dream. ... But for me, this dream became one of the scariest dreams that I could recall in my recent lifetime. ... Often a good dream will affect my feelings during the dream whereas the feeling of a bad dream will linger with me long after the dream was dreamt-- like a scary movie. ... I had previously discussed how bad dreams were the best dreams. ... This I believe, above all else, is why certain dreams and objects remind us of experiences that have the power to stay within the confinements of our souls forever. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald's story "Winter Dreams- reflects on this overzealous period. ... Within a few years, Dexter acquires great wealth and gets involved as one of Judy Jones' many affairs. ... In "Winter Dreams- Fitzgerald creates a complicated character, uses paradoxes to describe the relationships present in the story, and produces a person who molds his life around his dreams. ... For instance, as a boy Dexter dreams of a better future. ... During his life, Dexter Green's dreams affect every part of him. ...

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From the very first scene and conversation in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the notion of dreams foreshadows the major underlying concept of the play, the suggestion that it is all merely a dream. ... There's that word "dream." ... Through the "healing" power of dreams, identity transformations occur, not once, but many times throughout the play, first, with Theseus and Hippolyta, then within the "love square" when all of them "dream away" their confused love for one another. ... And this weak and idle theme, no more yielding but a dream." ... The fantasy world is the most crucial i...

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In his dream, there is a lodge within an enemy camp containing young, pale, naked girls. ... After he had the dream, he kept thinking that it would be a good idea if he told Yellow Kidney, their leader, of this dream. ... The second dream that is positive is a dream that Mik-api, the medicine man, has about Raven, a bird. ... The third dream is a dream that White Man's Dog and Kills-close-to-the-lake, a woman in his tribe, both have. ... This is the place of dreams. ...

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"Douglass Proves the American Dream" The American Dream is the ideals of freedom, equality, opportunity, and a life of personal happiness and material comfort, traditionally held to be available for every American. Everyone's American Dream is different. There is not one dream for all Americans. ... Nevertheless, the American Dream was taken from slaves. They were basically brainwashed that they could not live out any dreams. ...

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The forest is conceived of as a place of possibility and, particularly in A Midsummer Night's Dream, a place of chaos and emotion, where surprising things can and do happen. ... A Midsummer Night's Dream, whilst having its more serious elements, in particular the way that it could have so easily been a tragedy and the play within a play, is a more light-hearted, frivolous romp in the forest with the central human characters, the Athenian lovers, showing little growth, development or even distinguishing aspects that can be used to separate them from each other. ... In A Midsummer Ni...

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He is so obsessed with his dream and he thinks no one could possibly understand it. He thinks that it was so important that his dream must be turned into a ballad. ... The character of Nick Bottom, through his mispronunciation of words, his desire to be the center of attention and his ability to show irony is able to create more comedy within in this famous comedy. ... Bibliography Shakespeare throughout his play highlights the comedic relief that Nick Bottom adds to the play A Midsummer Night's Dream. ... A Midsummer Night's Dream. ...

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The definition of the American Dream varies from one person to another. ... She crushed all hope that he ever had for achieving his dream. ... Fitzgerald not only tells a story within The Great Gatsby, but also contradicts the stereotypical perfect life. ... The theme of this song is constantly stressed within the American Dream. ... There are many issues that can be analyzed within The Great Gatsby. ...

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In a way Gatsby is in fact a perfect example of the American Dream in the way his exploits the rich though underhand means. ... The greatest change to the American culture of the 1920's came in the form of the death of the American Dream. Despite being set around New York The Great Gatsby is a mediation of the 1920's America as a whole in the sense of the American dream. Specifically the deterioration of this dream in an era of unparalleled prosperity and material excess. ... It was unquenchable desire for wealth and pleasure, it was hedonism, that made a casualty of the American dre...

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A very intense sensual and mystical event is happening in his present life, an event that links him with the folklore of his country, which hold within it the belief in the supernatural. ... Another detail we discover through the dream is the remarkable ability he has for seeing his own distant past occurrences. This connects us to the old world's system of beliefs and traditions about the power that lies within dreams, which enables a person to learn through them about the past, and predict the forthcoming, as anon, we discover about Antonio's faculty of seeing the impending futu...

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Generally, Eliot is disgruntled by the profound imperfections in men within his social order; which include two-facedness, laziness and indifference. ... This place of nothingness is what Eliot means by "death's dream Kingdom." ... The poet perpetually refers to images like kingdom, death's dream, and eyes as a way to understand death and time without end. ... Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom Let me go nearer In death's dream kingdom Let me also wear deliberate disguises Once the poet has experienced dream's kingdom the des...

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A timeless statement by Thomas Jefferson that epitomizes what the American Dream originally stood for upon the creation of our great country. ... Within the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. ... Gatsby is thus the novel's representative of the American Dream, and the story of his youth borrows on one of the dream's oldest myths: that of the self-made man. According to Dream, Design, and Interpretation in The Great Gatsby, James Gatz's attempt to become Jay Gatsby, his attempt to live out his invented history, entails an attempt to realize his "unutterable" dream. ... The Great Gatsby ...

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In the play A Midsummer Night's Dream love was a main concept. ... Demetrius who was deep within the enchanted woods, had not been able to find Hermia and his rival Lysander and fatigued his fruitless search. ... The irresponsibility of the fairies and their special powers opened way for turmoil within the lover quarrels. ... Power is the main basis for love within the play. ... These powers develop conflict and tension within the play and add excitement and drama within. ...

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Within The Fox and The Ladybird, it is possible to reduce these to the concepts of numerous dichotomies, a tripartite character composition, the dream as a vessel, animal and primitive connotations, and the will of the sub-conscious. ... In fact, it is almost as though their role within the tripartite becomes redundant. ... In The Fox, such subconscious power play is best revealed in the dreams of March. The first dream emulates the irresistibility of Henry in the singing she hears. ... These explanations for the instances of dream and trance are credible in Lawrence's Three Novella...

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The second stage is to struggle within you, to criticize yourself whenever you fail. ... Dreams are very important to. ... There are two types of dreams, which are: the truthful dream and the bolic dream. The truthful dream can be literally translated, and the bolic dream on the other hand needs to be interpreted by dervish. ... That which is hidden from you is known within the realm of the Divine Knowledge of God. ...

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.: 250,000 _ groups: _ traditional _ urban (just under half of present population) _ there are similarities in the beliefs of different tribes _ spiritual dimension of the land _ present life is continuous with the Dreaming _ totemistic: animals/plants have associated symbols _ naturalistic: living off the land _ tied to the land: each group has a particular relationship with a particular piece of land _ The Dreaming as being fundamental to Aboriginal Culture and Societies _ 5 distinct features of Aboriginal Spirituality: Spiritual " spirits are natural to the world _ each person ...

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An Analysis of the Dream Visions Depicted in Pearl and Solaris The medieval poem, Pearl, and the science fiction drama, Solaris, offer two uniquely similar takes on the "dream vision" genre. ... Pearl, like Solaris, is often debated as being a "consolation," a "primarily didactic" work within the dream vision genre that adapts certain narrative conventions of that genre to make the work function as an allegory (Prior 21). Ultimately, the exact kind of dream vision each work represents is not as important as how they both utilize conventions of the dream vision and present highly litera...

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In front of Willy's grave Happy vows to continue Willy's dream. " He had a good dream. It's the only dream you can have- to come out the number-one man. ... "He had the wrong dreams. ... This statement reinforces the fact that they are lost within their phony lives yet they don't seem to accept it. ... Within the past, present and future actions of characters the effects of a preordained outcome are clearly visible. ...

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Within the discovery of Tom's mistress and Daisy's bored unhappiness, he hears through many quickly forgotten words and unfinished conversations of a Mr. ... Gatsby had a dream, a dream of acquiring that green light representing two things the color of the U.S. currency and the selfish and superficial love of Daisy Faye. No price was too high to achieve that dream. ... Within this center were the sub-contrasting areas, West Egg and East Egg. ... It is the story of all our dreaming. ...

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Magic realism is the approach to a narrative in which fantasy occurs as commonplace within a fazade of reality. ... Allende's first claim pertaining to the application of magical realism, is the bringing out of people's dreams. This we interpret as actual dreams, fantasy, and idealism. ... Within the novel, the linkage between family members tends to be strongest between the female characters. ... Overall, Isabel Allende's magic realism is used to present dreams, superstition, and idealistic obsessions shared by all humans, amplified, but still within the context of a firm real...

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It is the tree of dreaming, intuition and deep emotions. ... My grandma always tells me that our deep unconscious thoughts speak to us through our dreams. ... He says your dreams will immediately become more vivid and meaningful. Starting in my freshman year of high school I have been writing down my dreams to see if I can detect a rhythm or pattern in them. ... When one of the willow's branches or twigs becomes disconnected, it will easily grow into a new tree if it finds some soil and water, teaching us that contained within a loss, or a new direction, is the capacity for growth and ...

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