I slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like." ... Her dream of riches and of belonging to a social elite blinded her from the chance that perhaps she could have tried to make her marriage with George work and hence achieve happiness and was, in fact, this very dream that resulted in her downfall. ... Instead, his main dream is to for his wife and him to move to the West, as he suspects his wife having an affair and wants to take her away from it all: "I've been here too long, I want to get away I just got wised up to something funny the last two days I"m going to ...

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I slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like." ... Her dream of riches and of belonging to a social elite blinded her from the chance that perhaps she could have tried to make her marriage with George work and hence achieve happiness and was, in fact, this very dream that resulted in her downfall. ... Instead, his main dream is to for his wife and him to move to the West, as he suspects his wife having an affair and wants to take her away from it all: "I've been here too long, I want to get away I just got wised up to something funny the last two days I"m going to ...

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The ashes in the Valley act as a symbol of the death of the American Dream. ... The people that lived in West Egg were relatively new to having money, they made plenty very quickly and were not used to the new wealthy status. ... Nick Carraway's first vision of Gatsby was when he: Stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have swore he was trembling I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been at the end of a dock . ... I don't think he had ever reall...

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I slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like." ... Her dream of riches and of belonging to a social elite blinded her from the chance that perhaps she could have tried to make her marriage with George work and hence achieve happiness and was, in fact, this very dream that resulted in her downfall. ... Instead, his main dream is to for his wife and him to move to the West, as he suspects his wife having an affair and wants to take her away from it all: "I've been here too long, I want to get away I just got wised up to something funny the last two days I"m going to ...

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My American dream has been influenced by the problems, and circumstances that I have gone through in my life. ... I want to have a family, kids, and a husband. ... I came from having it all to having nothing. ... My American dream would have been different if I still lived in the Dominican Republic. ... Jose Vargas reminds me of when I came to this country and the dreams I had in his short story "My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant" because he shows how tough situations can lead us to have different dreams and aspirations. ...

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American prosperity was built on the backs of middle class families, with one or both parents working in manufacturing and living their American dream. ... However the lives of the families of the workers that lost their jobs to offshoring have changed irreversibly. ... While offshoring stimulates the economies in developing countries, it is robbing middle class families in America of their American dream. ... This leaves very little hope for the American dream when offshoring is rewarded by federal tax laws, while the middle class standards decline. ... This leaves people who still have job...

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Unbridled materialism can be terrible and can have ghastly and horrid affects on the society, and of course, the American dream. ... "She might have the decency not to telephone him at dinner-time. ... "And I like large parties-they"re so intimate. ... It has changed from dreaming to be able to raise a family comfortably and to have your children do better than you did, to the dream of having more money than you know what to do with. ... CARS BOUGHT AND SOLD-and I followed Tom inside"(29). ...

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A Raisin in the Sun is a play about dreams and how an individual's dream can come into conflict with another individual's dream. ... Travis [will] have one of his own. And there's a yard where I could maybe get to grow me a few flowers"" (92). ... AND GOOD-BYE MISERY I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOUR UGLY FACE AGAIN!... His speech is softly modified into seemingly gentle ways to show how Northern whites deny racial discrimination, but the true intention is to protect the "hard-working, honest people who [have] a dream of the kind of community they want to raise their children...

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" Immigrants from the 1700s to modern day have all held one thing dear to their hearts that connect them and explain the reasons for why they come to America, and it is called the American Dream. ... You have no sense Margaret. ... I screamed. ... This quote shows the suffering Rose felt when she thought about the loss of her sister, and it shows that her American Dream of having a better life completed with her family was in risk of never being achieved. Family was a big part of the American Dream in the past and in the present because many immigrants did not have friends in America an...

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The authors deal with individuals who have been dislocated from the community that eventually saves them from disintegration. ... Night Swan takes up the narrative after we have been introduced to her via Josiah and the spotted cattle episode. ... Like Tayo in Ceremony, the protagonist of Animal Dreams undergoes a transformation through a journey. ... "We were a bad family I became a man with no history" (p 287). ... "I have made changes in the rituals but only this growth keeps the ceremonies strong" (p126). ...

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To get this happiness Jay must reach into the past and relive an old dream and in order to do this he must have wealth and power. ... Gatsby's personal dream symbolizes the larger American Dream where all have the opportunity to get what they want. ... Is having the American Dream possible? ... I like to come, Lucille said I never care what I do, so I always have a good time." ... The novel also teaches the lesson of being true to one's self and following one's own personal dream, not the one Americans are programmed to have. ...

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In my personal experience I have interacted with people from around the world, and it's amazing how some cultures are different and other are so similar. ... I know it's hard to believe that still in the 21st century we still have issues with racism, but it's harder to believe that those being racist are the ones in charge of our country. ... Just like you and I they're here to work and have a life, just like you. ... Education is the future of America and with the help of the Dream Act many students have the chance to follow their dreams and go to college. ... Even though ...

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The American dream, just that a dream. ... Freedom of speech, I can say what I want to say. ... In order for me to have the career I choose I must trade in my jeans for a suit and tie, because they are business atria. ... In order for me to be an individual I have to have access to all information even if is just music. ... I don't know. ...

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Martin Luther Kings" I Have A Dream speech made a great impact on the American culture. ... "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of creed. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the able of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice." By repeating I have a dream, martin Luther king mak...

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To him being successful, having lots of money and every material object imaginable will fulfill the entire American dream, and result in acquiring the woman he loves. ... should be accepted for having excessive amounts. ... At one party Jordan and a man spoke about the books, "Absolutely real - have real pages and everything. ... The richest people in the world cannot have everything. ... 'Cause I don't care too much for money For money can't buy me love.7 and Gatsby never realized this until it was too late. ...

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The literature these people have left behind, gives us some idea of just what their dreams were and how they either succeeded or failed in their quests for a better life. ... It was a great affliction to me to be ignorant of their natures, for I am very certain they are all valuable; specimens of them and of the plants I have preserved" (Columbus 108-109). ... Smith was born to a poor family and had the dream of becoming a gentlemen and somebody of importance. ... However, he never accomplished his dream and in his work, Unexperienced Planters, he summarized why he failed. ... The dream...

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Gatsby's admiration of the rich is rationalized in Nick's thought, "I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn't be over dreamed-that voice was a deathless song" (Fitzgerald 96). ... As the novel progresses, Gatsby is a hopeful young man who stakes everything on his dreams, not realizing his dreams are unworthy of him. ... Towards the end of the novel, Nick gives a sense of Gatsby's loss of hope and says: He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world. Paid a high price for living too long with a single d...

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Two of his most famous pieces are the, "I Have a Dream," speech, and, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail.... The, "I Have a Dream," speech is a very persuasive piece, for good reason. ... Although there are eight occurrences of this in the speech, the most significant was his line, "I have a dream.... In order to achieve this, he used many biblical references like, "I would agree with St. ... "I Have a Dream," and, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," are very powerful, but distinct pieces in history. ...

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There are many movies that portray Latin Americans as criminals searching for the American dream of being rich, living in a big house, but never having to work for their money. ... Now when somebody asks me personally if I see all Cubans as being the devil because I have seen Scarface I would have to answer no. ... I would have to answer yes. ... He sees other Cuban drug lords as having money and power wearing nice suits and driving fancy cars, and he knows he too could have everything that they have. ... Scarface shows the Cuban family as extremely poor searching for an American dr...

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The Great Gatsby has been an enduring work because the similarity of the characters can easily be compared to the socially elite of today and how things have changed since the 19th century. ... Daisy is married, but this doesn't stop her from having a love affair with Gatsby. ... The novel tells the reader that both men, Gatsby and Nick fought in World War I, allowing some understanding for why money was so important to both of them. ... Tom responds that he and Daisy have a common history that Gatsby can never understand. ... Living the American Dream is living in perfection, and tha...

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Every day, I don't lie to you, its constant. ... Many deportations involve immigrants who have little or no criminal history. According to the Human Rights Watch, 400,000 immigrants are sent to detention facilities not for having criminal offenses but for violating immigration laws. ... A journalist and National Public Radio commentator, Ruben Navarrette, questions the public: "How many Americans do you know who complain that it was their life's dream to pick strawberries, or tar roofs, or clean horse stalls, or do some dirty job but, darn it, an illegal immigrant got there first? ....

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In my context, I will look at the one done in schools and universities (Halimm, 241). ... Martin Luther King addressed issues in his book "I Need a Dream" which he felt must be changed within America so as to be considered the great nation of which he dreamt. ... He believed that everybody including his own kids were equal and were supposed to have a better future. ... The education sector should be one which molds the learners into living their dreams by acquiring the right standards of learning. ... The learners should have ambitions which they want to achieve in future. ...

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It can be argued that US entrance into World War I and consumerism [together] had a great impact on American society economically, socially and culturally. ... Following the conclusion of World War I, American sentiment towards foreign affairs changed drastically back to isolationism in order to avoid another overseas European conflict. World War I took the lives of approximately 110,000 soldiers and cost the US about $32 billion dollars in order to fund it. ... US entrance into World War I transformed it into an economic powerhouse that witnessed spectacular growth in industry, business, and ...

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He was able to deal with his family's instability by having a powerful imagination. ... Though his father never succeeded in becoming a successful businessman, he showed Ronald how to work hard and to have ambition. ... She also "taught him to dream, and to expect those dreams to come true" (p. 7). ... Reagan's dream was to "become a world free of nuclear weapons," and to achieve this dream he knew he had to work with the Soviets. ... They believed that Reagan knew, or should have known, what his National Security Advisors were doing. ...

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"I Have A Dream" is a famous speech that approached every desire and ideal he sought for through the civil rights movement. ... This abandonment of the Negro people has shown that the Constitution and Declaration of Independence have now been proven faulty and dishonest. ... King's central idea of the "I Have A Dream" speech is not to gain sympathy and pity from fellow citizens through references to the past, but to solely seek equal treatment that the Negroes of America have so desperately needed. ... When all of the desires and needs are met, the man who asks, "When will you be satis...

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