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American Character Essays and Term Papers
Gatsby's DreamJay Gatsby, the central character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
symbolizes the American dream. The American dream offers faith in the
possibility of a better life. Its attendant illusion is the belief that material
wealth alone can bring that dream to fruition. Through Gatsby, ...
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Martin Luther King Jr. 3King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968), American clergyman and Nobel Prize winner, one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. King’s challenges to segregation and racial discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s helped ...
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Death Of A Salesman: Minor Characters And Their Affect On The PlotIn the play, Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, three minor characters affect the plot. These characters are Ben, Charley and Howard. The minor characters help the story's protagonist, Willy, develop extensively throughout the course of the play; therefore, they are key elements in the ...
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Life On The FarmWhat if the animals ran the world? George Orwell tried to answer this question on a smaller scale in his 1945 novel, Animal Farm. Animal Farm is a satire on Stalinism and the Russian revolution. Orwell wrote this novel at a time when communism was on the rise and Joseph Stalin ruled with an ...
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Fifth BusinessIn Fenstad’s Mother, by Charles Baxter, character is a very essential element to the story. The main character, Harry Fenstad, is a complicated person, but it is his mother, Mrs. Clara Fenstad, who I feel is a more important and complex person. In this brief paper, I will explain why it is my ...
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The Vampire Genre By V Sthe VaAttempt to define the vampire genre by tracing it's history. Discuss also the importance of generic conventions and audience expectation.
When discussing vampire genre we must first try to define what a genre is. A genre is a particular type of media commodity. It has certain features and ...
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Nisei Daughter“Even with all the mental anguish and struggle, an elemental instinct bound us to this soil. Here we were born; here we wanted to live. We had tasted of its freedom and learned of its brave hopes for democracy. It was too late, much too late for us to turn back.” (Sone 124). This statement is ...
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Frederic RemingtonFrederic Remington was an American illustrator and writer who worked for Hearst's New York Journal during the Spanish-American War. His paintings and writings mostly reflected on racism and imperialism that was going on in the 1900s and specialized in the Old American West. He was in favor of the ...
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History of a Strong Powerful Woman: OprahWanting to have relative complete control over the company, Oprah made herself CEO, giving only her long-time lawyer Jeff Jacobs 5% ownership (his share would rise to 10% when he became company president in 1989). After negotiating the successful syndication of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Jacobs had ...
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Swallowing PrideIn The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell defines and describes the archetypal hero in great detail so that familiar and seemingly commonplace stories may be understood and appreciated more deeply. He states, “The hero is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and ...
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All My SonsThis was my first play I have been to since I was in middle school when I had to go see Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. This was the first play that got me into the theater. My thoughts going into this play was a bit skeptical because I did my research on the play and it didn’t seem to me like ...
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The Kite RunnerThe Kite Runner
The setting in the story takes place in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the United States from 1975 until the present day. The main character and protagonist in the story is Amir. Amir tells us about the unique relationship he has with Hassan, a Hazara boy. In The Kite Runner, ...
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Edgar Allen Poe vs Stephen KingEdgar Allen Poe is the father of the Gothic writing style and is considered the greatest gothic writer of all time. Poe has had an immense influence upon many modern gothic writers like Stephen King. This is evident in Stephen Kings’ work through his use of the same elements of Poe. In Stephen ...
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Emerson and FranklinMelissa Triano
Professor Hicks
ENGH 2326
27, September 2012
Emerson and Franklin
Franklins Poor Richard was well known and influential, and presses the point of individual hard work and success. As Smailes expresses in an article, “The monthly poems, which usually deliver some moral ...
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Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong and Mary Anne's TransformationTim O'Brien uses the story "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong" to illustrate the horror of war. Through the dynamic character of Mary Anne, O'Brien shows us how war can radically change a person forever. By focusing on a female character, O'Brien successfully demonstrates that no one is immune ...
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Willie Loman and Oedipus As Tragic HeroesWillie Loman and Oedipus
This paper is based on two tragic heroes namely Willie Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and analyzes their tragic characters and the final tragedy which befalls them according to Aristotle's definition of a tragic hero. The paper ...
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Cassandra Clare’s Trilogy – The Infernal DevicesCassandra Clare’s Trilogy – The Infernal Devices
New York’s Times bestselling author, Cassandra Clare, places her audience into an alternate universe full of mystery, love, confusion, and identity crisis in her three-volume pre-quell, The Infernal Devices. In this trilogy, Cassandra Clare ...
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