Nick Carraway, too, was seeking his piece of the American Dream by moving to New York from the Midwest to take job as a bond salesman " I decided to go east and learn the bond business. Everyone I knew was in the bond business- (p. 7). ... n dreams": success, money, notoriety, status, etc. ... The responses from the two women above are almost laughable in their ethereality - here are two wealthy women, having achieved portions of the American Dream (through financial wealth, property and stature) who cannot only not speak, but are seemingly paralyzed by their own trappings. ... "All rig...

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David Rodriguez AP American History 9/26/03 Presidential Outline Thomas Jefferson I. ... As for expansion, the purchase of the Louisiana Territory allowed Jefferson to achieve exactly what he had dreamed of. ... War may have been avoided, but by closing all American ports Jefferson created his own new crises. ...

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Politics in t While the attacks themselves are a focal point for many scholars, I will focus not on the attacks, but rather I will ask questions as to why the attacks happened and why it hurt so much to see others smile happily at the sight of our pain. ... Much of this is taught to us at an early age, that everyone wants to be American and that the "American Dream" is the only way to live a full and happy life. ... I will address these questions by reviewing foreign newscasts and magazine articles, interviewing international politics experts, and finally interviewing an expert in Amer...

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World War I, a war fought to "destroy the axis of evil" and to resolve conflicts between belligerent countries, brought nothing but turmoil and numerous dilemmas to the warring nations; politically and economically. ... Peace was thought to have been restored among the world. ... When the American people saw that the economy was flourishing, they felt that they were on a pedestal, protected from the river of uncertainty, economic depression and the failure of the "American Dream." ... Most obvious is that fact that World War I had devastated European business. ... This attempt to have a const...

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The method of research that I used was literature review. ... If it is true that equal opportunity doesnt exist in American than the idea of the "American Dream" would be false. ... The more money your parents have the more opportunities you have. ... However I dont have any statistics to prove that at this time, I hope to accomplish that in my research. ... I will review five journal articles that are relative to the focus of this paper. ...

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I believe that Five Easy Pieces is a continuation of Easy Rider, and directly comments on some of the same themes and ideas that the earlier film presented. ... I don't know what happened to it ... ... However, this time there are no rednecks or bigots to prevent him from realizing his dream. ... When Bobby has been staying out all night she plays "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" when he comes home. ... She has an extremely negative view of life and wants to have nothing to do with American society. ...

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Media plays a large role in arousing the public's interest in the fantastic.21 The novels of Anne Rice, a gothic-horror writer, appeal to a large audience, and her three book series have quite a cult following. ... Another famous author with a large cult following is Stephen King.29 His works have gained a great audience not because of their characters or stories, but because of King himself. ... Many movies and books have been devoted to this "king of horror."30 Both of these authors, Rice and King, along with other writers, journalists, and novelists, serve to bring the supern...

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Through slow and rough at times with still some underlying issues still present today, improvements have been made, to the point that we now have our first African American President. ... This great man not only accomplished his goal but proceeded to open the doors for millions of others to have the opportunity to follow in his footsteps. ... Ill just touch up on Martin Luther King's historic moments because to speak on him would be the entire paper and I would like to cover multiple monumental moments of this era. ... King gave his famous "I have a dream" speech. ... To have the l...

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In order to answer this question you have to know the definition of psychological and historical theories. ... An old man bending I come among new faces, Years looking backward resuming in answer to children, Come tell us old man, as from young men and maidens that love me, (Arous'd and angry, I'd thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war, But soon my fingers fail'd me, my face droop'd and I resign'd myself, To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or silently watch the dead;){Whitman, 198} Other poems of wartime are Calvary Crossing a Ford' and ...

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First, the war was ignited when the separate countries of the Axis began to fulfill their ambitious dreams to conquer land for themselves. ... For Germany, the harsh circumstances left from the Versailles Treaty of World War I planted seeds for a future war. ... Consequently, many problems and conflicts were left over from World War I for Germany and Italy. ... Between Wars (WW I and WW II) Twenty-one years before World War II began World War I ended. ... In total, 10 million soldiers and civilians were lost their lives in World War I. ...

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It is disgusting that women have to fight for rights to be equal to men as well as fight for reproductive rights which should already have been a right controlled by women because only women have the power to reproduce. ... I remember Dr. ... We never have seen god in person but the image we have of god is as a man. ... As I read this story I remembered my teenage days and how girls would get certain repetitions simply off of sexual behavior. ... I highly doubt that when a female dog has sex with various male dogs the other female dogs ostracized her from their group. ...

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The following ten events have affected the nation culturally, politically, economically, socially, and diplomatically. ... Without the events occurring, we may never have the materials that we do today. ... A single individual seemed to have murdered an entire era (Holiday). ... In 1918, as one of his Fourteen Points summarizing Allied aims in World War I, United States president Woodrow Wilson presented a plan for a general association of nations. ... The covenant was formulated as part of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I, in 1919. ...

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Though Barbie's aren't all bad, and I, sure a large portion of girls who had them turned out just fine and maybe even married their Ken. ... When will they reach their dream size? ... Joe but could that have a more negative impact on younger children then we ever expected? ... After realizing the negative impacts that they could have on younger kids. ... Though Barbie's aren't all bad, and I, sure a large portion of girls who had them turned out just fine and maybe even married their Ken. ...

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In fact, they have left their country of birth behind forever. ... Exactly forty years have passed, and Vietnamese refugees and immigrants have proven extremely successful in recreating the sense of identity in America through cultural enclaves and entertainment. ... To the Vietnamese, Little Saigon expresses a distinctive and indispensable Vietnamese character, Tran- a 65-year-old Vietnamese woman says, "I don't come to buy things, I come to see people, strangers mostly, who come...to do ordinary, everyday things, but in an environment where, because of the familiarity of faces and...

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Woodrow Thomas Wilson, twenty-eighth president of the United States, might have suffered from dyslexia. ... Our laws are still meant for business done, by individuals that have not been satisfactorily adjusted to business done by great combinations and we have got to adjust them, 2in that big business was unjust and somebody needed to watch out for the people, and Wilson was just the man to do that. ... Determined to avoid entering World War I, he rigorously pursued neutrality. ... In the end not even Woodrow Wilson could keep the United States out of World War I. When the Germans declared unl...

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The 1800s Even in 1820, when America was a fledgling nation still insignificant in the eyes of world-class powers such as Britain and France, it still dreamed of an overseas empire rivaling that of Great Britain's. America's imperialist tendencies already were manifested in the subjugation of various Native American tribes and a key piece of legislation that would help determine US foreign policy for years to come and have repercussions to this day. ... Spanish-American War Having already annexed Hawaii and forced Japan to embrace western contact by duress, the United States was ...

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Under such system, children of non-American ethnic have had a special treatment in their early academic career. Children of minority groups have been thought various subjects in their native tongues. ... Mexicans have been the main source of cheap labor in America. ... "Some Latino leaders have tried to describe Unz's measure as immigrant bashing, but their case was weak. ... But Latino support seemed to have shrunk with every new poll. ...

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These R&R sites, otherwise referred to my the soldiers as I&I (Intoxication & Intercourse), are clubs and bars in which the waitresses (prostitutes) especially cater to the soldiers sexual desires. ... In this world market, Thailand and the Philippines have played the role of whorehouse to the world. I have chosen to explore militarized prostitution in Asia because of the following reasons. ... Morale stands for the tendency the soldiers have to deliberately demean Korean people and degrade women. ... What they do not have in their own countries. ...

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Precedents work the same way; you cannot have design without first having precedents. ... The engineers even went as far as writing a computer program in order to analyze the dynamic response to wind and vibration the additional "spine" portion of the tower would have. As a designer of the tallest free stand structure in the world that is going to be located five miles from an international airport, I would certainly deem it important to check FAA regulations before spending a significant amount of money on additional testing, engineering, and computer software. ... Unfortunate...

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This is all but a programmed answer, the "American way" or the "American dream". ... I will argue yes. ... Homosexuality is one of these sexual forms that have begun to gain ground, but only very slowly. ... Big Gay Al is an entertainer at the USO show for the troops in which he sings a song "I"m Super" in which homosexuality is the basis for the song. ... From then on Stan is on search for the clitoris, when he asks Kyle if knows where to find it at he replies, "I don't know, is that like finding Jesus?". ...

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AMARICA IN THE 1960"S The sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change: assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, "Camelot", civil rights, women's liberation, a controversial and dec...

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Given this groundwork, it is apparent that memory can have a paramount and considerable effect on how events, stories, information and more importantly, history is written and passed on from generation to generation. ... Sound like a bad dream? ... Survivor Aya Nakamura stated, "It felt so good to get out of the gates, and just know that you were going home finally, but home wasn't where I left it though our home being bought by a different family, different decorations in the windows; it was our house, but it wasn't anymore. It hurt not being able to return home, but moving into a n...

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Many of the border agents have been accused of committing sexual assault, verbal abuse, and torture on illegal crossers (Anil 4). ... In recent years, most detention centers have received complaints of both overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in the facilities. ... The worksites' related raids have caused an immediate impact on the undocumented workers and their children. ... Many of the arrested parents were afraid to admit that they have children, lest the US government deport their children as well. ... These people have several things in common: they hold a negative perception of l...

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Every culture have its own image on how and why one person should be considered as more attractive and appealing than the other person. ... (Linsey 110) Perhaps these men and women had the idea that if they would have lighter skin color they would have better opportunities in succeeding in their career and personal life. ... In the 1950s the ads in the news papers were informing women that having lighter skin though bleaching would make them more attractive to men. ... Could this be a delicate move of British companies to make more money and brainwash Jamaicans that somehow if they will hav...

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In his movie, "Sleep Dealers," director Alex Rivera takes his viewers decades into the future where none of these burdens related to immigration exist; the borders have been shut down and the only interaction that the United States maintains with immigrant workers is through robots controlled by Mexican workers in factories across the border in Ciudad Tijuana, Mexico. ... " Rivera is trying to make the point that capitalist societies want to make a profit and go outside their countries either to find better products or to have products produced cheaper. ... This event in the movie is ...

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