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Career Real Estate Agent
1,575 words
As far as I can think back I always enjoyed being
in an office setting. My father used to be an
Insurance Salesman when I was little and whenever
I had to stay at his office for one reason or
another I would always pass the time away happily
playing office even answering some calls for my
dad. As I got older my dad used to give me tasks
to do like filing or stocking the insurance
applications for him. Now when I look back it
doesnt seem like a very important job but I used
to enjoy that I was he...
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Death Of A Salesman Good News
688 words
The Many Faces of Death Death is seemingly a
defined term, but its not. Through usage of
language can be made to represent physical,
spiritual or emotional death. Only by closely
examining the exact language used can one
understand the death taking place, and the effects
that stream into everyones life. Willy Loan dies,
this is known to be true. He crashes his car in
order to show Biff how important he was and to
provide money for his wife. We see the funeral, we
know he has died, but could he h...
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Tragedy And The Common Man
906 words
In Arthur Millers 1949 essay, "Tragedy and the
Common Man, " Miller began by saying, "In this age
few tragedies are written. " This particular essay
was published in the New York Times, was also the
preface that was prepared for "Death of a
Salesman" in 1949. Before Millers "Death of a
Salesman, " there was only one type of tragedy
that which fit Aristotle's definition. For
Aristotle, plays of tragedy had to revolve around
kings, gods, or people of high class. In these
classic tragedies, the dic...
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Money To Pay American Dream
759 words
The American Dream is not the same for everyone,
however it is a universal goal that many desire.
The American Dream has been a common theme in
literature. In Death of a Salesman, written by
Arthur Miller, the idea of the American Dream is
depicted by the, main character Willy Loan. Willy
has a very distorted view of the American Dream.
Aiming to achieve fortune and success is what
blinded Willy from reality. It sent him on a
downward spiral. He became so obsessed with who he
wanted to be and wi...
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U S Budget Deficit Good Or Bad
1,934 words
"Spending financed not by current tax receipts,
but by borrowing or drawing upon past tax
reserves. ", Is it a good idea? Why does the U. S.
run a deficit? Since 1980 the deficit has grown
enormously. Some say its a bad thing, and predict
impending doom, others say it is a safe and stable
necessity to maintain a healthy economy. When the
U. S. government came into existence and for about
a 150 years thereafter the government managed to
keep a balanced budget. The only times a budget
deficit exis...
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Walter Lee Middle Class
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Dreams and Dreaming People use dreams to live
through the crass mishaps of life. But, dreams
need be attainable within boundaries of one? s
ego. In the play, Death Of A Salesman, and Raisin
In The Sun, characters extend their egos into?
super egos? ; therefore, the dream becomes
unattainable. People often use dreams as a basis
for their lives. Dreams between Willy Loman, of
the Salesman, and Walter Lee Younger, of The
Raisin are very similar. Their dreams prove to be
far from an average person. ...
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Death Of A Salesman Willy Loman
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Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller As the
curtain is being pulled up, we find Willy Loman, a
depressed 60 year old salesman, who is returning
from a business trip. Willy has two sons named
Happy, and Biff, both of whom are complete
failures. The failures of both his children cause
Willy to go insane, and he plans to kill himself.
He thinks that if he kills himself his son, Biff,
will see how well liked his father was and he will
come to love his father instead of arguing with
him all the time....
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Willy And Linda Death Of A Salesman
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Essay Death of A Salesman By Arthur Miller We cant
all become what we want to be and further more,
others cant become what we want them to be. In the
play Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller, Willy
wants to become a very successful, big, respected
salesman. But as he could not reach his longed for
dream and as his reality starts to sink, he starts
to use his very vivid memory to escape his present
problems. The ways in which people deal with there
personal conflicts can differ as much as the pe...
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Death Of A Salesman Biff And Happy
665 words
Certain works of literature contain special scenes
which contribute to the work as a whole. These
special scenes include weddings, funerals,
parties, and other social occasions. In social
situations like these, peoples true
characteristics are exhibited. One work of
literature which contains a special scene is in
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. In this
work, the main character, Willy Loman, goes
through a troubled life of false achievements. The
funeral scene reveals the true feelings the ...
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Death Of A Salesman Reader Sees
669 words
Character Analysis Assignment All of the
characters in the performance? Death of a
Salesman? have special traits that are indicative
of their personality and literary purpose in the
piece. Each serves a particular purpose and
symbolizes distinct goals, functions, or
qualities. One by one, the author places every
character in a specific location to contrast, or
emphasize another character? s shortcomings,
mistakes, or areas of strength. For example, an
author might place the drama? s antagonist i...
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Death Of A Salesman Point Of View
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Death of a Salesman -Character Sketches In the
play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, the
main character, Willy Loman, is a struggling
salesman. Toward the end of the play, Willy
commits suicide by crashing his car. Willy Loman
is a complex character who confuses illusion with
reality. In a way, Willy has two personalities in
this play. The one we see in the present action is
a tired man in his sixties. The other Willy is the
one we see in flashbacks. He is young and
confident. In Act Two, S...
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Willy Cannot Face Runs Away From A Problem Biff
833 words
In Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller shows that
when a person runs away from a problem, he is not
solving the problem, but allowing the problem to
grow. The longer a person runs away from a
problem, the bigger the problem will get. Sooner
or later, the problem will catch up to the person,
and it is that time when the problem will have its
biggest impact on the persons life. Willy Loman,
an aged traveling salesman, always escapes the
fact that he and his two sons are not successful
people. He fl...
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Willy Believes Commit Suicide
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In Arthur Miller s, Death of a Salesman, the
character of Ben is used as a catalyst to fuel the
development of the main character, Willy. Ben
appears in three major flashbacks throughout the
story. In the first flashback, Ben makes his
appearance to give Willy happiness because to
Willy, money means happiness. The second time Ben
appears, he is used as a scapegoat to show that
Willy has a hard time dealing with the truth. The
third and final time that Ben appears is in Willy
s hallucination to h...
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Death Of A Salesman Arthur Miller
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Death is such a contradicting situation. It is
always a sad event, but in some perspectives it
may or may not be a joyous event. Not to say that
death should be celebrated, just to point out that
life may have been a more dramatic experience. For
my first novel in G. T. I read Death of a
Salesman, a play written by Arthur Miller. Arthur
Miller was born in 1915, in New York City. His
parents were well To do until the depression. He
attended college where he won three drama prizes.
Death of a Sale...
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Death Of A Salesman American Dream
567 words
Death of a Salesman The best example of physical
action in Death of a Salesman is the scene between
Willy and Biff involving the woman. In this scene
Willy and the woman are in a hotel room together
when a knock is heard. Willy does everything he
can to avoid answering the door, but eventually
has to. Before he answers the door he orders the
woman into the bathroom. When he answers the door
Biff is there. To Biffs surprise there was a
half-dressed woman in his father hotel room.
Willy, in an att...
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Willy Dream
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The American dream has been a dream of being able
to grow to fullest development. ? Epitomizing the
democratic ideals and aspirations on which America
had been founded, the American way of life?
developed for the benefit of the simple human
being of any and every class. ? J. T. ADAMS The
epic of America (1938) Playwright Arthur Miller?
s? Death of A Salesman? could be described as a
study in the American Dream ideology, a system
that at times is indescribably brutal and at other
times benevolent...
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Death Of A Salesman American Dream
304 words
Death of a Salesman and True West can be compared
in terms of their visions of the American dream.
Both of these plays focus on characters that spend
their lives pursuing this dream and fail at
happiness as a result. In Death of a Salesman
Willie Loan is a tragic man who is so obsessed
with trying to live up to an ideal that he has
become disillusioned and has developed a loose
sense of reality. He tries so hard to be
successful and well-liked that this passion
overrides his ability to recognize...
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Traveling Salesman Sharp Contrast
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Josh Stanley Mrs. Mc Micheal TR 8 am Priority In
the short stories Gimpel the Fool and Death of a
Traveling Salesman we meet two characters that are
vastly different and yet very similar. One is
Gimpel, a na? ve Jew living in Russia that is the
joke of the town, Frampol. The other is R. J.
Bowman, a traveling salesman, who is judgmental
and rather suspicious about most things. Bowman in
the story is very sick and has had a car accident
where he needs to retrieve his car from a ditch
and receives...
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Black E Mo Color Of Their Skin
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There were two cops. One said You niggers have to
learn to respect police officers. The other one
said, If you yell or make any noise, I will kill
you. Then one held me and the other shoved the
plunger up my behind. He pulled it out, shoved it
in my mouth, broke my teeth and said, Thats your
censored , nigger. ' (Abner Louima) The police
officers that allegedly performed this act of
racial violence on August 9, 1997 had no reason to
brutally beat and sodomize Abner Louima. They beat
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Lot Of Inner Conflict Death Of A Salesman People
341 words
The book Catcher in the Rye, had a lot of inner
conflict with the main character. He ended up
having to go to a headshrinker to help him with
his problems. He had no idea what to do with his
life and didnt think about what he should do
before he actualy did things. He did do a lot of
things for other people though. He helped those
nuns. He gave them ten dollars for their charity
box. He also had a lot of troubles with school. He
got kicked out of other schools, and he really
didnt care. All he w...
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