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  • Unattainable Dream

    Unattainable Dream

    An Unattainable Daydream In a world full of cheaters, liars, and con artists, the last person anyone should lie to is themselves. However, that is exactly what took place in Raymond Carver’s, “Neighbors.” In this story, Bill and Arlene Miller were left with the opportunity to take care of Jim and Harriet Stone’s apartment while they were away visiting family for ten days. The Millers had grown weary of their lives and often felt jealous

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Kevin
  • It’s Just a Dream

    It’s Just a Dream

    It’s Just a Dream When one hears the word “America,” one may associate that with freedom and democracy. For many others, the idea of opportunity and refuge comes to mind. These ideas enabled people to develop the American dream. For many years, the American dream was a contagious fantasy that plagued the world with the belief that prosperity and happiness will arise by coming to America. It offers false hopes to its followers because it

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: David
  • Dreams and What They Mean

    Dreams and What They Mean

    Dreams and What They Mean Psychologists seem to fall into two groups regarding dreams. The first group believes that dreams have no real purpose; while the second group believes they do have a purpose, although this group cannot reach a consensus on what the purpose might be. Sigmund Freud is probably the most famous of the dream theorists. He believed that dreams helped to preserve sleep by keeping individuals from waking as a result of

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: regina
  • Helena Monolouge - a Midsummer-Night’s Dream

    Helena Monolouge - a Midsummer-Night’s Dream

    Created excrpt from Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' in the character of Helena. (right after Demetrius and Lysander have told her they were in love with her) Oh, how did these things come to pass? I have grown used to Demetrius treating me with ill manner, but not Lysander. Why, he himself told me that he and Hermia were to escape through this very forest so that they could proclaim their love and, without the peril

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: David
  • Summer Reading

    Summer Reading

    Over the course of this summer I read four books. The books I read were Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J K Rowling, The Giver by Lois Lowry, Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix, and Number the Stars by Lois Lowry again. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J K Rowling was the first book I read this summer and I really liked it. I decided

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Fatih
  • My American Dream Compared to the American Dream in Death of a Salesman

    My American Dream Compared to the American Dream in Death of a Salesman

    What is the "American Dream"? The "American Dream" has as many definitions as there are souls that strive for it. I know that my "American Dream" is being able to have the freedom of choice and helping others that I care about get their dream as well. Willy Loman's definition differs from mine; he is looking for social status and material belongings, instead of true peace and happiness within. The "American Dream" is the idea

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Jon
  • A Bad Dream

    A Bad Dream

    A Bad Dream COMM/105 Ted Mierzwicki August 20, 2005 Word Count 818 A Bad Dream At 2:30 pm, I was walking out the entrance doors of Oxon Hill high school in Oxon Hill, MD. My friend Kim skipped school today to spend time with Shaun, her new boyfriend, so I had to walk home by myself. As I walked towards my house on Leyte Drive, I noticed a burgundy Mercedes that resembled my stepfathers' car,

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Artur
  • Dreams and Reality

    Dreams and Reality

    Dreams and Reality Dreams…do you have any? Of Coarse you do; everyone does. Everyone has dreams and personal desires that they would wish to fulfill. Dreams provide us with something to look forward to in life and they even sometimes comfort us: but these can often be misleading in reality. Dreams could be within your grasp one minute but slither away and demolish the next. This is portrayed in the novel Of Mice and Men

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Steve
  • Opportunity: The Main Ingredient to The American Dream

    Opportunity: The Main Ingredient to The American Dream

    Opportunity: The Main Ingredient to the American Dream Opportunity is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as “A good position, chance or prospect for achievement” which can be easily connected to the idea of The American Dream. After all, isn’t America known as “The land of opportunity”? Throughout time, many cultures have migrated to America, and still come for that matter, in search of a better life through hard work and dedication to their particular cause. Throughout

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Myths About Sleeping and Dreaming

    Myths About Sleeping and Dreaming

    Myths about Sleeping and Dreaming There are many myths about sleeping and dreaming. Many of those myths came from a far truth. Meaning that from a fact they added to it and made a myth. There are three different myths; I will be talking about on this paper. The first myth is very common and to certain point a lot of people believe it: Everyone needs eight hour of sleep a night to maintain sound

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Tasha
  • American Dream

    American Dream

    The American Dream "The American Dream is "that dream of a nation in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with options for each according to capacity or accomplishments. It is a dream of social stability in which each man and each woman shall be able to achieve to the fullest distinction of which they are essentially competent, and be distinguish by others for what they are, despite of the

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Bred
  • Hubert Selby Jr.’s Requiem for a Dream

    Hubert Selby Jr.’s Requiem for a Dream

    Hubert Selby Jr.’s Requiem for a Dream In Selby’s 1978 novel Requiem for a Dream each character succumbs to self-gratification, which eventually and inevitably leads to self-destruction. The four main characters, Harry Goldfarb, Sara Goldfarb, Marion, and Tyrone C. Love each suffer from individual addictions, be it their dreams, illegal/legal narcotics, or even television. “Ultimately not only their bodies and minds, but their very souls are destroyed by their addictions” (Giles 104). Harry, a middle-class

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Maggie’s American Dream

    Maggie’s American Dream

    Maggie’s American Dream Maggie’s American Dream is Margaret Comer’s inspiring biography written by her son James P. Comer. It also doubles as the autobiography of James P. Comer himself. It a great story of a person overcoming obstacles to reach their goals and dreams. Maggie was born in Woodland, Mississippi. Her parents were Jim and Maude. Her father was a sharecropper, even though he was more educated that the man he worked for. He was

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    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Mike
  • Requiem for a Dream (2000)

    Requiem for a Dream (2000)

    Requiem For A Dream (2000) In life there are many choices, like any choice you make in life there is always the up or downside to it. For example if you buy a lottery ticket the up side you may win, the down side you may waste a lot of money. If you do drugs the downside you may lose everything you have including your life to get more drugs. Requiem for a Dream is

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    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: Janna
  • American Dream in Death of a Salesman

    American Dream in Death of a Salesman

    Death of a Salesman The term "American Dream" has many diverse meanings. For some, it may be to become wealthy and live in big houses. For others, it could be to simply live a productive life that contributes to society. Wanting to live the "American Dream" is the conflict in this novel that opens the doors to many interpretations that can be related to wanting to be successful. The setting of "Death of a Salesman"

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    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Prologue to an American Dream

    Prologue to an American Dream

    In a small, flat world, society exists only within itself. The people preoccupied in their own universe simply cannot fathom a world outside their own. Some historians cite the first gleam of a true “American Dream” didn’t surface until the first colonization. However, in three historical films, recreations of very early distinctions in the very first American dreams are exposed for their accuracies and their faults. The spirits that voyaged onward, heading for a

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    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Mike
  • Field of Dreams

    Field of Dreams

    Field of Dreams is a movie about second chances. With Ray, building the baseball field in his backyard it is Ray’s second chance to have a relationship with his father who, is dead and while alive did not have a good relationship with his son. It is Terrance Mann’s second chance to go see a ball game at Fenway Park. Shoeless Joe’s and the other Chicago White Sox who were kicked out of the game,

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    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Max
  • Summer of 17th Doll Review

    Summer of 17th Doll Review

    Year 12 Literature SAC Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll The play “Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll” is a mixture of people’s inability to grow up and let go of dreams, in a typical Australian atmosphere in the nineteen fifties. Ray Lawler focuses on showing the characters finally waking up to their lives and realizing they don’t live in “heaven, “ within in a simple plot. These techniques allow readers to connect and understand the disillusionment

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    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: David
  • Enstines Dreams, a Summary

    Enstines Dreams, a Summary

    For a man who dressed in college sweatshirts, wore no socks (like his students), and was kicked out of Germany for his religion, Einstein's Dreams is an impressively intellectual book. It discusses theories of time in story settings from man and woman to friend or foe. Beginning with Einstein sitting at his desk as a patten clerk in Switzerland, it leads you through his theory of time, how is slows and speeds up. The book

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    Submitted: January 29, 2010 By: July
  • Dream Analysis

    Dream Analysis

    Dream Analysis To understand the functioning of dreams is a concept that we may never fully comprehend. For years scientist and psychologist have contemplated and came up with many different theories that have attempt to explain dreaming and its purpose. One explanation includes the principle that dreams make connections between old memories, such as a traumatic experience for example. These connections are also influenced by the dreamer is experiencing. The theory states that our dreams

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    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Edward
  • Dreams

    Dreams

    We call the mental activity that takes place during sleep dreaming. Everybody dreams, although most people are able to recall only a few, if any, of their dreams. Dreams are purely personal experiences, and the dreamer alone is witness to the dream. Areas of dream research I believe important are the physiological occurrence of dreams, dream content, and dream interpretation. The physiological occurrence, or how the dream physically happen, could be one of the least

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    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Fatih
  • A Day in My Dream House

    A Day in My Dream House

    A Day in My Dream House I just finished my daily habit of jogging around the neighborhood and I was walking slowly towards my house. It is a single level American style house with a small beautiful garden. The house was coated with pale pink paint and a brick-red roof stood onto it. The house looked like it was well taken care of. As I kept walking, my eyes were pampered with the colorful flowers,

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    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Mike
  • Hoop Dreams

    Hoop Dreams

    Hoop Dreams Hoop Dreams is a story about two young men who want to become basketball players in the NBA. The author Ben Joravsky wrote the book. The idea for the book came from the documentary movie, Hoop Dreams, which is a true story. Arthur Agee and William Gates are the names of the two boys who were followed from eighth grade to twelve grade to do the movie. Arthur Agee was a 5'6 125

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    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Steve
  • Death of a Salesman - Victim of Dreams

    Death of a Salesman - Victim of Dreams

    Death of a Salesman – Victim of Dreams In today’s society, people tend to live in their own little world. With all the stress and issues brought upon them, they feel the need to escape. In doing so, they create their own fantasy world in their heads. An ideal place where everything is perfect and all the things they desire are present. In creating this fantasy world, it results in dreadful consequences that sometimes lead

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    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Mike
  • ‘a Midsummer Night's Dream'is one of Shakespeare's Best-Known Comedies.With Close Reference to Two Scenes, Show and Discuss the Variety of Different Kinds of Comedy Possible to Be Found in the Play

    ‘a Midsummer Night's Dream'is one of Shakespeare's Best-Known Comedies.With Close Reference to Two Scenes, Show and Discuss the Variety of Different Kinds of Comedy Possible to Be Found in the Play

    GCSE English Coursework ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is one of Shakespeare’s best-known comedies. With close reference to two scenes, show and discuss the variety of different kinds of comedy possible to be found in the play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ hereon after referred to as MND, has its plot closely circled around comedy. There is something potentially funny about every single character in the play. However, almost no one will find every character funny.

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    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Top

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