Americans Break Hearts and Guitars "American ________! Stay away from ___!" Fill in the blanks. Go ahead‚ I dare you to. I know‚ this is an academic paper‚ but that doesn’t have to stop us from a friendly bout of Mad Libs. So what did you pencil in? "Diabetics" and "excessive sugars"? No. Odds are‚ you filled in "woman" and "me"‚ respectively. Even if you had never before heard "American Woman" by the Guess Who‚ after watching Lester Burnham‚ the protagonist of American Beauty‚ calmly‚ cooly
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“L’Oreal and the Globalization of American Beauty” I. Key Problem From the inception of L’Oreal‚ in 1907‚ until the late 70’s the global beauty market was largely fragmented and characterized by the domination of local consumer preferences over the search for global efficiencies. Though consumer product companies had been gradually moving toward beauty products and cosmetics‚ the 80’s marked a monumental industry shift when major conglomerates‚ such as Unilever and P&G‚ began to buy leading
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The Pursuit of Happiness The American Dream is acquired through hard work and sacrifice and allows normal people in society to believe that material prosperity is what defines success. The aspiration to achieve the American Dream is the catalyst to believing that material possessions are more important than spiritual values. Hard work and vigor is essential in being prosperous in life‚ and excellence must be preserved in oneself. The spirit‚ the will to excel‚ and the will to win is what one must
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economic dreams of most Americans.
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Birth of the American Salesman “salesmen not only fed America’s thirst for consumerism‚ they shaped it.” Why does America have a thirst for consumerism? Anybody can acquire the ability to sell goods and provide services. However‚ certain qualities must be present in order to be efficient. To be the best salesman‚ just being able to sell goods and provide services‚ won’t get you very far. One must go above and beyond the normal expectations of society in the workforce. In Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
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Postmodern American authors share many themes highlighting communal pressures on ill adjusted characters. This is a direct result of the collective American desire to diverge from conformity‚ a common view shared by many progressive people in the 40s and 50s‚ including Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. Picture white picket fences lining newly mowed green lawns‚ each house nearly identical‚ sheltering a providing husband and dainty housewife committed to one man. To break from this archetype would
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Term Paper: American Beauty What are the costs of living in a success-driven‚ consumer-oriented‚ image-obsessed society? This challenge to contemporary America’s suburban culture finds a voice in Sam Mendes’ 1999 movie American Beauty. The film’s complex subtlety underscores its implication that subtlety itself is a casualty in our society. American Beauty’s tagline exhorts viewers to “look closer‚” but the film expresses ambivalence concerning what is revealed by closer inspection. On one hand
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Willy’s fails to recognize the grief-stricken love available in his family‚ and the play offers this failure as the real tragedy. Even with this flaw of character‚ Willy makes the most fanatic sacrifice by committing suicide in his effort to leave an inheritance that will permit Biff to accomplish the American Dream. These are very contradictory aspects of his character‚ and seems that the first promotes the latter. Willy Loman is a pathetic figure however. He does not achieve the self-realization
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Inner vs. Outer Beauty What is beauty? Well‚ beauty is defined as the qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses. But to us‚ beauty is a personal phenomenon. While we instinctively know what appeals to our sense of beauty‚ defining what determines attractiveness is not always easy. After all‚ whether someone is beautiful is a matter of opinion right? What is attractive to you may not be attractive to me. So this raises the debate; which is better Inner or Outer beauty? Many
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Arthur Miller’s "Death of a Salesman" reflects the numerous issues post-war United States was dealing with during the late 1940’s when it was written. Death of a Salesman was written and published in 1949‚ when the United States was booming with new economic capabilities and new found power‚ resulting in a golden age regardless of the growing tensions of the threat of communist invasion. Racial violence and the escalating issues regarding the deluded American dream that was turning out to be quite
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