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…is a strong-willed, determined, and able woman. While she fantasizes about a beautiful home surrounded by a white picket fence, her real “American Dream” is to be reunited with her children and to truly live happily ever after.…

…periods: Puritans(1630-1760), the Age of Reason(1760-1820), Romanticism(1820-1860), Realism(1860-1910), Modernism(1910-1940), and Post Modernism(1940-present). The Puritans came to America to realize their dream of building a new secular society patterned…

…Two authors expressed their feelings, doubts, and predictions about the current state of the American people in the 19th century in independently written essays. They further strove to show what they believed the essential American citizen should become…

…, years of drought in the midwest and the downward spiral of business in the 1890's devastated many of the nation's farmers The growth of the railroad was one of the most significant elements in American economic growth., in many ways, the railroads hurt…

…In the novel "Of Mice and Men" a major theme is the journey to live out the American dream. The American dream is a difficult concept to describe because the dream may be different for different people. The American dream may also be different depending…

…Essay: The Great Gatsby What is the "American Dream"? How does the characterization of Gatsby in the Great Gatsby represent and undermine it? Although "The Great Gatsby" is filled with multiple themes such as love, money, order, reality, illusion…

…In the novella of mice and men the author, Steinbeck, is portraying the failure of the American dream during the great depression in the late nineteen thirties. The American dream dates from the early settlements that were forming in the early sixteen…

…My, , Interpretation of the American Dream What is the American Dream? This is the question I asked myself over and over again as I am sure everyone else was doing when they sat down to punch out this essay on their keyboards. But when I thought…

…The American Dream has always been a part of our lives. The meaning of the American Dream has stayed the same, but what the dream is has changed greatly. What do I mean? The American Dream is and always will be the goals Americans want themselves…

…American Dream The idea of the American Dream has dominated American literature since the founding of America. The American Dream is what people see as the life for them and how they try to fulfill it. Many people have their own idea of what…