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    ENGL 101.49 4/24/2014 The American Dream The American Dream is a personal thing. Each person’s belief or thought on what the American Dream is‚ is different than anybody else’s. There is one noticeable commonality between every person’s dream though: the dream is to live a better life socially‚ monetarily‚ and happier than your parents did. The conflicts at the time help to determine what aspect of life you wish to improve upon‚ but it will always be the same principal as long as America stands

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    American Romanticism

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    The Literary movement and story I decided to choose was American Romanticism‚ and “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. American Romanticism is a literary period in American Literature that lasted from 1800s to 1850s. The movement itself started off as an offshoot of the European Romanticism artistic movement‚ “It arose as a reaction to the formal orthodoxy and Neoclassicism of the preceding period. It is marked by a freedom from the authority‚ forms‚ and conventions typical in Neoclassical

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    AMERICAN REGIME One can say that the major contribution brought to the Philippine literature under the American Regime (1898-1941) is the production of the Philippine Literature in English‚ which is divided into three different time frames : The Period of Re-Orientation (1898-1910); Imitation (1910-1925); and Self-Discovery (1925). The Philippine Literature in English saw it’s dawn with the introduction of free public instruction and the use of English as a Lingua Franca in all levels of education

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    American West

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    American West The “American West” is not what many people think of when they hear those words. People think of it as cowboys and Indians fighting on the Great Plains and in the canyons or the travel across rugged terrain traveling as fast as they could for the gold rush. In all honesty the west started as soon as the Americas began to be colonized and many historians say it begins at the Proclamation Line of 1763. They had many struggles with the Native Americans‚ the French trying to take their

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    Quiet American

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    The Quiet American is an anti-war novel by British author Graham Greene‚ first published in United Kingdom in 1955 and in the United States in 1956. It was adapted into films in 1958 and 2002. The book draws on Greene ’s experiences as a war correspondent for The Times and Le Figaro in French Indochina 1951-1954. He was apparently inspired to write The Quiet American in October 1951 while driving back to Saigon from the Ben Tre province. He was accompanied by an American aid worker who lectured him

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    American Revolution

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    Writing Assignment 3 America had a goal after the American Revolution‚ and that goal was that the United States would inevitable expand all the way west‚ to the Pacific. Through out 1790-1850‚ Westward expansion was the main goal of most presidents who fell in this time period. The country grew geographical from “Manifest Destiny”‚ socially & culturally from the increase of immigration‚ and economically from cotton in the south. Even though there were tons of problems that arouse from these

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    American Farmer

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    American Farmer Style Analysis Prompt In his Letters from an American Farmer‚ Michel Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur establishes a strong‚ determined attitude toward both Europeans and Americans. He points out specifically the idea that many citizens of America were emigrants from Europe. He develops this idea mentioning what he thinks of both these immigrants’ past and current countries. He conveys that he has a strong favor of America over the egregious Europeans through America’s well-founded

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    The American Dream

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    The American dream is sought after and imagined by everyone who comes to America. It is the main reason that people come to America; they come for freedom as well as to one day attain the idea of a perfect American dream. It theoretically symbolizes what you have accomplished in life and what you wish to one day have. In my personal opinion if any person wants come to America to live a life of happiness‚ be released of religious persecution and the freedom to say what you feel‚ then it can be accomplished

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    American Gangster

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    INTRODUCTION American Gangster tells a story about how the emerge of drug traffic and trade was in the streets of Harlem‚ New York. Denzel Washington plays real life gangster- Frank Lucas back in the 70s that was originally from North Carolina. Lucas moves to Harlem and is apprenticed under a notorious crime boss- Bumpy. Russell Crowe plays detective Richie Roberts – a New York detective that has a task to bring the drug trafficking and corruption between the police department to heel. In the

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    Hadaway Honors Grammar Mrs. Lindsey March 10‚ 2014 The American Dream: 1920s and Today The 1920s were new times for Americans. Wealth‚ leisure‚ and social events replaced the frugality and hard work that had defined America for decades before. A country built on the backbone of ingenuity and a “work before play” philosophy was transformed into a wasteful‚ carefree time. Gatsby fulfils the typical embodiment of the 1920s American dream; a man squandering his fortune on lavish parties‚ expensive

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