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Gas Stations Soviet Union
1,226 words
Another element that was present in the 1950 's
was automobiles. Automobiles were something that
everyone once dreamed of owning. Now after the
war. they could finally own one. Automobiles of
the 1940 's were dull and very plain. This was
because designers were too busy designing tanks,
planes, etc... for the ongoing war. The major
event that took place that changed the way cars
looked and how they performed happened on October
14, 1947. This was when Chuck Yeager broke the
sound barrier. From t...
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Theodore Roosevelt Migrant Workers
1,331 words
Unlike the majority of immigrants of his time,
Jacob Riis assimilated easily into Americas
melting pot. A Dutch born police reporter and
amateur photographer, Riis dove into the
impoverished streets of Americas most populated
city and proved to the upper classes that horror
does exist next door. In his early days of church
exhibitions and in the writing of his novel, How
the Other Half Lives, originally published on 15
November 1890, Riis depicted the color lines,
tenements, stereotypes, careers...
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End Of World War National Debt
554 words
In the early days of our government debt was
considered to be a last resort. The only
justification for debt of any significant amount
was a war. By 1849 the U. S. Government had
accumulated a surplus of 70 Million Dollars.
Immediately after the Civil War the debt stood at
3 Billion Dollars. By 1900 this had been reduced
to under $ 1 Billion. By 1919, the end of World
War I, the debt had climbed to $ 25. 5 Billion. In
each of the following years the debt was reduced,
and by 1930 stood at $ 18. 1...
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Forced To Work Factory Owners
824 words
American dream promises equal opportunity to
pursuit ones happiness, personal wellbeing, and
reward for all those Americans and immigrants who
endure, overcome, and ultimately prevail
hardships. However during the era of American
Industrialization, many people were exploited and
forced to work or else face starvation. New
inventions increased the rate of production and
the efficiency of the workers, thus greatly
increasing profit. Success of capitalism further
promoted continuation of exploitati...
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Aggressive Behaviors Richard Nixon
1,229 words
Richard Nixon is usually depicted as the man you
love to hate, glorified for being at the root of
controversy in Americas history. But in Oliver
Stones film Nixon, viewers begin to love the man
that grew up in Whittier, California. As the son
of a poor grocer, Nixon is depicted as a boy
striving for acceptance, and the chance to use
this acceptance to fulfill the American dream.
Without having any real previous knowledge about
Richard Nixon, other than what I saw in All the
Presidents Men, I fea...
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Forrest Gump Ping Pong
1,047 words
No, this isn't another essay about Forrest Gump
and - oh, the great American dream. Instead, it is
an essay about the marketability of a movie in
which all else is secondary. You have to
understand the producers of Forrest Gump in order
to understand why it succeeds. The producers, in
the end, like every other being on earth want
their movie to succeed. Forrest Gump, however
great all the themes one may find it, is just
another well-conceived product. Forrest Gump isn't
just about the American D...
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The Bluest Eye By Toni Part 1
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"The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison Tony Morrison
became the prominent American writer of the second
half of the 20 th century mainly because of her
novel The Bluest Eye published in 1970. The family
relations, beauty and ugliness cruelty and love
are in the focus of the novel. The novel is
written by a black writer and though formally the
novel is about the family relations, its essence
is much more complicated than just a story about
family relations. The novel The Bluest Eye raises
a question o...
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Argyle Sweater Vests Barbie Like Figure Style
1,714 words
American fashion in the 1950 s Fashion is a
significant aspect in peoples lives, and is
influenced by various parts of society. Mostly
there are useful reasons behind certain fashion
trends, but there are some trends that have no
evident origin or purpose. It was different in the
USA, where wartime restrictions had been quickly
removed, and where the new consumer society was
forging ahead helped by new developments such as
the start of the credit card system in 1950. But
these differing conditio...
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East And West East And The West
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Orientalism in Film The word orient comes from the
Latin orient which means the east. During the
history Orient was the shifting term and it
changed according to historical changes. First
Orient used to be the eastern part of Europe. In
nineteenth century the North Africa and the Middle
East and India were called Orient. For America
Orient is the East Asia. In more general sense
Orient is the opposite to the West and means
something different, foreign or exotic. The term
Orientalism defines the ...
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Theme Of Automobile In Great Gatsby
559 words
Theme of Automobile in Great Gatsby Symbolism is
an invaluable literary tool that may be employed
by authors or playwrights to aid in the
development of characters or to display themes in
novels and plays. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses
symbolism heavily in his text The Great Gatsby.
Various symbols appear throughout the respective
text that allow the reader to gain insight into
characters personalities and also add value to
major themes and ideas in the texts. F. Scott
Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby is...
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American Medical Association Effects On Children
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Advertisement Influence on Children For years, the
population has been exposed to different forms of
media. Newspapers, magazines, television, films,
radio, and more recently the Internet are ways of
promoting ideas, spreading news, and advertising
products. Children are viewers of advertisement
and it is not a secret that advertisement
influences their perception of world.
Advertisement can have both negative and positive
effects on children, but unfortunately its
influence in the majority of c...
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Doesn Acute T George And Lennie
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(From the Reader´ s Digest Great
Encyclopedia Dictionary, Third Edition) dream n.
Train of thoughts, images, or fancies passing
through mind during sleep; Conscious indulgence of
fancy, reverie, thing of dream-like beauty, charm,
goodness, etc. As it is described above, a dream
is something you indulge in, to escape momentarily
from life. This seems to be the context that John
Steinbeck intended his characters in Of Mice and
Men to dream in. They are all craving for
something in the case o...
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W Norton Amp W W Norton
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Each Generation Of Americans Must Define What Each
Generation Of Americans Must Define What It Means
To Be American Each generation of Americans must
define what it means to be an American (William
Jefferson Clinton) On 4 July 1776 the American
colonies issued a Declaration of Independence from
Britain, written by Thomas Jefferson; in it were
listed the grievances that colonists felt towards
the British government in general, and King George
III in particular. The American people no longer
accep...
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Curley Wife Mice And Men
2,280 words
? Frankenstein and Of Mice And Men are different
in almost every way. ? They are written in
different times, by different classes of people
and in different areas of the world where life is
dissimilar to the extreme. ? The primary
characters are nothing like each other, and the
books are written in contrasting styles. ?
Frankenstein is about a scientist who
inadvertently creates a monster in his pursuits of
the reanimation of deceased creatures. ? It is
concerned with the life of the scientist a...
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Frederick Douglass American Dream
1,168 words
Frederick Douglass was an emancipated slave who
passed from one master to another until he finally
found the satisfaction of being his own; he went
through almost as many names as masters. His
mothers family name, traceable at least as far
back as 1701 (FD, 5) was Bailey, the name he bore
until his flight to freedom in 1838. His father
may or may not have been a white man named
Anthony, but Douglass never firmly validated or
rejected this possibility. During transit to New
York (where he became ...
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Jay Gatsby Foul Dust
353 words
One Frome The Great Gatsby One of the most
prominent themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald? s novel,
The Great Gatsby, is of the American Dream. This
dream can be many things to many different people,
but everyone does have some sort of goal that they
want to accomplish in their life. For Jay Gatsby,
the dream is that through wealth, power, and
financial stability, one can acquire pure
happiness and self-satisfaction. This happiness
that he is reaching for is to be reunited with his
love from days past,...
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Dream Of Owning Environmentally Friendly
1,408 words
Not until the spread of the Industrial Revolution
in the late nineteenth century, has man possessed
the ability to adversely alter, on a global scale,
the geologic and climatic cycles that have existed
for millennia. Planet earth, which man calls home,
is approximately 5 billion years old. The science
of paleontology tells us that man is a relative
new comer to the planet. Modern man did not arrive
on the scene until approximately 10, 000 to 15,
000 years ago. Developments in hunting,
agricultur...
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Gatsby Dream American Dream
259 words
Dreams and goals can never be fulfilled if they
are never dreamt, and sometimes even those that
are imagined and toiled for are lost along the
way. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses
symbolism to clarify Jay Gatsby's detachment with
the American Dream. Gatsby is convinced that his
path to happiness is lined with riches and
popularity, although he will never find
contentment by changing to fit the mold.
Fitzgerald uses the rich to symbolize the
destruction of a country and failure by i...
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Jay Gatsby James Gatz
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What is the American Dream? In the Websters New
World Dictionary, dream is defined as: a fanciful
vision of the conscious mind; a fond hope or
aspiration; anything lovely, etc. In F. Scott
Fitzeralds novel The Great Gatsby, the lead
character Jay Gatsby defines the American Dream
as: everyone can rise to success no matter what
his or her beginnings. In the First chapter of the
novel, Nick Carraway, the narrator of the story
gives us a glimpse into Gatsby's idealistic dream.
No-Gatsby turned out ...
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Joads Leave Oklahoma Leave Oklahoma They Must Endure Land
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The American Dream and the hardships of finding it
As the Joads leave Oklahoma they must endure the
long trip to come. Many things can go wrong with
the trip and many things do go wrong with the
trip. Hopes of California may be shattered arrive
there. Many people have said why are you going to
California every thing is gone no more land to
buy. The Joads did not believe this they thought
that the people were lying so they could have more
land for themselves. As the Joads leave Oklahoma
they must...
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