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    City is a good place City is a big place where you can see busy people; establishments open for business and vehicles in a hurry. A place where you can go shopping‚ eat specialty foods‚ play electronic games‚ enroll in a prestige schools‚ do better transactions and do whatever you want. Crime is also present in a city but then government functions are most probably accomplished and can be experienced there. Better roads‚ police assistance‚ and better government infrastructure. I grew in a place

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    October 30‚ 2007 Success‚ Comfort‚ Happiness‚ and Prosperity: The American Dream The ideology of the American Dream can be traced back to the flood of immigration in the early twentieth century. Families from European Countries sailed on boats from months to read the great promise America held. They left their home countries and everything they had to lead successful and prosperous lives in the US. Another form of the American Dream arose in the 1950s after the US successfully win World War II

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    February 2014 We‟ve all heard of the American Dream and the concept of being „American‟. But what is the American Dream? What defines it? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary‚ the American Dream is an American social ideal that stress (egalitarianism‚ i.e.) a belief in human equality especially with respect to social‚ political‚ and economic affairs‚ and especially material prosperity. In Fitzgerald‟s The Great Gatsby‚ the concepts of the American Dream are assessed. The novel shows characters

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    Unattainable American Dream The Great Gatsby‚ a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is a story of misguided love between a man and a woman. Fitzgerald takes his reader through the turbulence and trials of Jay Gatsby’s life and of his pining for the girl he met five years prior. The main theme of the novel‚ however‚ is not solely about the love shared between Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. The main purpose is to show the decline and decay of the American Dream in the 1920’s. The American Dream

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    For decades people have had American Dreams they dedicate their lives‚ giving it their all for the goals that they have set up for themselves. However‚ while seeming to be a good motivating factor for Americans‚ most of the time these dreams are unsuccessful or unattainable for the people that work so hard toward them. Since there is more often failure in achieving an American Dream‚ many people have negative opinions toward the concept itself. The best description of this ideology is reflected by

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    The Great Gatsby A person that pursues the American Dream often has the goal of being the wealthiest and‚ the most popular person around. This picture is also painted in F. S. Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby‚ with Jay Gatsby being the “rich and the famous”. Mr. Fitzgerald communicates through this novel his own version of the American Dream with the symbolism indicated in the story. This novel takes place in the 1920’s during the Jazz Age‚ where drinking and living on the “line” is seen as being

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    The Great Gatsby and the American Dream One would say the American Dream is somewhat like the sun. On the outside‚ sometimes it is one of the most beautiful things in the world‚ but to really know it‚ and all of the dangers that come with it‚ one has to dig into the dangerous and corrupt insides. In The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts the 1920’s as a time of decay of social and moral values; evidence of this is the greed and the pursuit of pleasure. Jay Gatsby’s constant parties epitomized

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    What exactly is the American Dream some say its undeniable riches‚ others say having a family and a house. In his novel The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald suggest that the so called American Dream‚ is nothing but just a dream that can never be attanied. He uses characters like‚ Tom‚ Daisy‚ and Gatsby to show the corruptness in old money and new money‚ and the dissatifaction of those who have everything but can’t fill the empty void that they seek. Fitzgerald uses the old money versus the

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    The Great Gatsby‚ a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ introduces us to the narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ who tells the story of how he became a friend of a mysterious‚ wealthy man‚ Gatsby‚ and how he learned of Gatsby’s tragic life story. Interestingly‚ there are many themes and ideas that the novel‚ The Great Gatsby explores but Gatsby’s pursuit of the American dream is one of its prominent themes. The novel explores the idea in multiple ways and some of these ways being symbolism‚ dialogue and actions

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    During the Great Depression there were many deaths. For example‚ starvation from the lack of food and many more of the deaths were caused by dust pneumonia. The Great Depression made people died‚ face discrimination‚ and bankruptcy. First‚ effect of the Great Depression was the large death count. One main factor‚ of these deaths was the dust pneumonia caused by the dust storm. A quote from the book‚ Out of the Dust‚ by Karen Hesse‚ “Pete Guymon took ill with dust pneumonia.” [140] Another‚ factor

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