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  • The Collapse of the American Dream

    The Collapse of the American Dream

    The Collapse of the American Dream Prosperity, job security, hard work and family union are some of the concepts that involves the American Dream, generally speaking. Some people think this dream is something automatically granted; or in contrast, as in the story “Death of a Salesman” written by Arthur Miller, as something that has to be achieved in order to be successful in life. The play takes issues with those in America who place to

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    Submitted: May 11, 2010 By: Bred
  • 12th Night - Orsino

    12th Night - Orsino

    William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night depicts the trials and faults of several characters’ loves. There are many downfalls and unrequited loves, and the story basically ends up in a confusing love triangle. He especially shows the many quirks of Orsino in his quest for winning the true love of Olivia. In this play, the reader can easily understand the many mistakes that Orsino makes in love. For a majority of the play, Orsino is very

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    Essay Length: 712 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 12, 2010 By: Artur
  • Acquainted with the Night

    Acquainted with the Night

    Acquainted with the night Another classical poem written by Robert Frost is acquainted with the night. Written in 1928, acquainted with the night is a short poem that talks about the life in the city and how depressing it can be. Using imagery and other aspects of city life, Frost depicts the city as a lonely area where only night can give comfort to its many citizens. Darkness is one of the most predominant symbols

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    Essay Length: 334 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 12, 2010 By: Mike
  • Friday Night Lights

    Friday Night Lights

    Friday Night Lights The remake of a real story should have the same setting, props and the characters that are playing the real people should have the same type of personalities right? Not so fast people. The story of the 1988 Permian Panthers was remade in a film that goes by the name of Friday Night Lights. I was very disappointed when I came out of the movie theater because this movie was not all

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    Essay Length: 793 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 12, 2010 By: Mike
  • Death of the American Dream

    Death of the American Dream

    Death of the American Dream In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, all the characters are, in one way or another, attempting to achieve a state of happiness in their lives. The main characters are divided into two groups: the rich upper class and the poorer lower class, which struggles to attain a higher position. Though the major players seek only to change their lives for the better, the idealism and spiritualism of the American Dream is

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    Submitted: May 12, 2010 By: Victor
  • A Long Day’s Journey into Night

    A Long Day’s Journey into Night

    Reference to Metamorphosis The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and Eugene O’Neill’s, Long Day’s Journey into Night have many connections to each other. One of the strongest connections with the two stories is the theme of isolation. Mary isolates herself from the rest of the family as she constantly goes up to her room and shoots herself up with morphine, similar to the way Gregor Samsa isolates himself in his room, away from the rest of

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    Submitted: May 14, 2010 By: Andrew
  • In the Heart of Night

    In the Heart of Night

    nspired by Beckett’s literary style, particularly in �Waiting for Godot’, Stoppard wrote �Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead’. As a result of this, many comparisons can be drawn between these two plays. Stoppard’s writing was also influenced by Shakespeare’s �Hamlet’. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as minor characters exist within Shakespeare’s world providing Stoppard with his protagonists. However, the play is not an attempt to rewrite �Waiting for Godot’ in a framework of Shakespeare’s drama. In studying these

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    Essay Length: 1,414 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: May 15, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Dreams of a Child

    Dreams of a Child

    Dreams of a Child The television show known as Robotech depicts the lives of somewhat average people rising up into new challenges, and defeating those challenges to survive. The cartoon starts off with a young man hoping to stay close to his childhood friend and mentor by becoming a pilot for a fighter squadron. In the cartoon, aired in 1985, the main character achieves his dream, however marginally and begins to improve to the

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    Submitted: May 15, 2010 By: Janna
  • Night Talkers by Edwidge Danticat

    Night Talkers by Edwidge Danticat

    The poem “Night Talkers” by Edwidge Danticat shows how a man mostly seems to get his feelings out of his childhood when he is talking in his sleep. He shares these same feelings with his aunt, who also talks in her sleep about nightmares. Talking in his sleep, Danny informs us as the readers about issues that have hauntinged him in his past. And what? After reuniting with his aunt and talking for a bit

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    Submitted: May 17, 2010 By: Bred
  • Major Themes of Mark Haddon’s the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

    Major Themes of Mark Haddon’s the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

    While trust is a somewhat common theme in modern novels, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time manages to show how this idea affects people who live under atypical circumstances. Haddon tells the story through the eyes of Christopher, a fifteen-year-old autistic boy whose view of life, as well as his understanding of the world, is drastically different from that of any other teenager. Christopher is extremely sensitive, and is only comfortable in

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    Essay Length: 653 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 17, 2010 By: Mike
  • Two Kinds: Setting of an American Dream

    Two Kinds: Setting of an American Dream

    Two Kinds: The Setting of an American Dream Amy Tan’s short story “Two Kinds” chronicles the childhood memories of Jing-mei, a first generation American citizen, and her mother Suyuan Woo, an immigrant to the states. This account tells of a daughters struggle between her Chinese ancestry and American expectations for success, along with her mother‘s aspirations of greatness for her daughter and Jing-mei‘s battle for her own will. Set in San Francisco in the 1950’s,

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    Essay Length: 577 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 18, 2010 By: regina
  • The Creation of Night

    The Creation of Night

    There was no denying it: the thing was hideous. Though it had a roughly human shape with more or less proportioned head, neck, torso, and limbs, it was devoid of normal human features; it had a smooth, flat face with wide-set, opaque eyes, round nostrils where its nose should have been, a lipless slit of a mouth. It was fashioned naked yet had no navel, nor genitalia, and its surface was a sheen of sickly,

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    Submitted: May 18, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Failure of American Dream

    Failure of American Dream

    The American Dream is a dream that glorifies fame, the pursuit of success , and power. It is the idea if needing to have to have material goods in order to feel successful and obtain a higher status. In The Great Gatsby, The Winter Of Our Discontent, Babbitt, and Death Of A Salesman there are many similarities between the backgrounds of the main characters that attempt and fail at the American dream. In these novels,

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    Submitted: May 19, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night

    Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night

    Dear diary, Yesterday, there be a horrible day. Uncle found me, Betty, Susana, Mercy, Mary and Tituba, conjuring sprits in the woods. When he leaped out of a bush so suddenly Betty was frightened and then fainted. Today, when she did not wake the whole town cried witchcraft. I tried telling them it was only sport, but they would not believe me, they were surely going to whip us, so when me, Betty, Mercy and

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    Submitted: May 21, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Distrust and the American Dream

    Distrust and the American Dream

    Distrust And The American Dream Dreams and trust are two things that make life more livable. Without dreams you have nothing to work towards and without trust you have no friends you can rely on. The impossibility of the American dream and the general attitude of distrust people can have Steinbeck brings into light in his novel, Of Mice and Men. He uses empathy towards characters and situation to show that a change in these

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    Submitted: May 21, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Why the Nba Dream Is Ruining College Basketball

    Why the Nba Dream Is Ruining College Basketball

    WHY THE NBA DREAM IS RUINING COLLEGE BASKETBALL The National Basketball Association is a corporate powerhouse with installments in nearly every major city in the United States. With the exception of European soccer, professional basketball generates more money per season than any other sport in the world. NBA superstars carry as much authority in the entertainment business as the most popular actors, comedians, and musicians. Even the guys who are last off the bench are

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    Submitted: May 22, 2010 By: Top
  • The Dream Scheme: Why We Dream What We Dream

    The Dream Scheme: Why We Dream What We Dream

    The Dream Scheme: Why We Dream What We Dream Topic #2 There are many sides to the dream debate ranging from psychoanalytical to neurological to spiritual. Write an essay stating your belief behind the logistics and reasons/lack of reasons for dreaming. Throughout history, dreams have been occurring. From the Egyptians to the Greeks, and the Mayans to modern Americans, dreams have been recurring episodes taking place during sleep. While there are many different theories about

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    Submitted: May 22, 2010 By: Fatih
  • I Have a Dream

    I Have a Dream

    More than 40 years ago, in August 1963, Martin Luther King electrified America with his momentous �I Have A Dream’ speech, dramatically delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. His soaring rhetoric demanding racial justice and an integrated society became a mantra for the black community and is as familiar to subsequent generations of Americans as the US Declaration of Independence. His words proved to be a touchstone for understanding the social and political

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    Submitted: May 23, 2010 By: Mikki
  • The Dream Act( Pro Dream Act)

    The Dream Act( Pro Dream Act)

    The Dream Act The Dream Act, also known as the Development Relief Education for Alien Minors Act is a "Bipartisan (support for two party lines) that addresses the tragedy of young people who grew up in the United States and have graduated from high schools, but whose future is circumscribed by our current immigration laws;" as told by the National Immigration Law Center. The Dream Act is not only a proposed bill but a dream

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    Submitted: May 23, 2010 By: lilly
  • Critical Aalysis of Don Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

    Critical Aalysis of Don Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

    In Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," he depicts the inevitability of death through repetition and diction. Furthermore, he portrays the stages of man's life in his comparison to "good men, "wild men," and grave men." Finally, Thomas' medium of poetic expression presents itself in the villanelle. The villanelle's persona speaks in this poem as the son of a dying father. Line sixteen states "And you, my father,…" and this proves the

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    Submitted: May 25, 2010 By: Ali
  • Crazy Dream

    Crazy Dream

    My family and I planned to take a trip from our hometown, Alert Alabama to Chicago Illinois for the weekend. Our lives are very earth, very basic. There are four of us. Our name is the Tuckers and we live on a farm. Or I could say we rot on a farm. My name is Andy Joe Tucker and I am 18. Life is very boring there in Alabama, let me tell you, man. Our

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    Submitted: May 25, 2010 By: Max
  • Bats! Flying Creatures of the Night!

    Bats! Flying Creatures of the Night!

    Bats! Flying Creatures of the Night! Bats. Usually the first thing to enter a persons mind when they hear this word is "Scary, vicious, rats with wings." But bats aren't really like that at all. That image was just created by Hollywood in their attempt to frighten others. Bats are apart of a whole different order than the rodent. There are approximately 1,100 species of bats in the world, which is about twenty percent of

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    Submitted: May 27, 2010 By: Anna
  • The Great Gatsby, the Perverse American Dream

    The Great Gatsby, the Perverse American Dream

    The American Dream is an ideology that through hard, honest work and determination, you can achieve success in The United States of America. In the novel “The Great Gatsby”, F. Scott Fitzgerald alludes to the concept of The American Dream in a time just after World War 1 and he achieves this through many characters and the environment in which they live and interact in. The main character of the novel has often been characterized

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    Submitted: May 28, 2010 By: Stenly
  • The Darkness of Night

    The Darkness of Night

    Night by Elie Wiesel The Darkness of Night I am a witness to one of the most inhumane genocides in history. Night, a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, is a primary source of this event. Primary sources are powerful tools, which explain specific facts about what occurred in the past. By reading Night, I became a bearing witness of the Holocaust and have the right to express my feelings about it and

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    Submitted: May 29, 2010 By: Steve
  • The Dream

    The Dream

    The Dream In the early twentieth century, film maker and producer Adolph Zukor met Jesse Lasky, owner of Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company. The two men admired each others previous work and, in 1916, decided to combine forces. They created Paramount pictures and had one of the most familiar slogans in the film industry, "If it's a Paramount Picture it's the Best Show in Town". Proving their slogan true they started turning out more

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    Submitted: May 30, 2010 By: Max

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