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    of the play Death of a Salesman is the portrayal of the mind of Willy Loman‚ broken in a desperate search for his own identity and his status as a human being. His mental confusion is such that he moves uncontrollably from present reality to dreams of the past and back again‚ his grasp on normality becoming less and less reliable. Arthur Miller has contrived this brilliantly‚ at first allowing Willy to describe how his memory has been betraying him as he drove along ‚ lapsing into dreams so that he

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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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    The play “The Death of a Salesman” is a prime example of the American dream. Willy Loman wanted the typical American dream from the beginning of the play to the end. Willy wanted to be successful‚ well liked‚ well known and to be able to pay his bills without a problem. The American Dream is a completely realistic and reasonable goal for anyone to set for themselves and their family. Throughout Willy’s life he rarely made the attempt to become more than he was‚ he believed everything would be handed

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    StrengthsQuest Paper My Strengths are Discovered! “By the end of the day you must achieve something tangible in order to feel good about yourself. No matter how much you may feel you deserve a day of rest‚ if the day passes without some form of achievement‚ no matter how small‚ you will feel dissatisfied.” (PH.Ds‚ Clifton‚ O.‚ Anderson‚ E.‚ Schreiner‚ L.‚ Pg 26) When I read this quote in our StrengthsQuest text I felt as if I was describing my own personality while starring at myself in the

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    Maya Angelou: Maya Angelou was born on August 4‚ 1928‚ in St. Louis ‚ writer and civil rights activist is known for her 1969 memoir‚ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ which made literary history as the first nonfiction best-seller by an African-American woman. In 1971‚ Angelou published the Pulitzer Prize-nominated poetry collection Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ’Fore I Die. She later wrote the poem "On the Pulse of Morning"—one of her most famous works which she recited at President Bill Clinton’s

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    In the epic poem Gilgamesh‚ the main theme is Gilgamesh’s quest to defeat the demon that is in the back of every human’s mind at all times: death. His quest to defeat mankind’s penultimate battle proves futile in the end‚ yet could Gilgamesh be considered to be immortal in a different sense? Immortality can exist on two planes: both a physical and metaphorical world. Gilgamesh did fail is his quest to live tangibly forever‚ and therefore seeks everlasting life in an allegorical sense. If he could

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    character‚ Willy Loman in the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller was full of flaws. Willy looked up to his older brother‚ Ben. Ben tells young Biff and Happy “when I was seventeen I walked into the jungle‚ and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich” (Miller 1298) Loman admire his older brother because he made money. He tried too hard to be rich. When Biff and Happy tell their father about the Loman Brothers idea‚ Willy calls it a “one-million-dollar idea!” Willy real focuses

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