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    * The banking industry produces some of the most lucrative profit margins around. If you are interested in starting your own bank then you need to be prepared for the fund-raising‚ organizing and form filing required to set one up. These steps will help make the process easier * Evaluate how practical it is for you to start a bank. Look at your business experience. You will need to have business management skills‚ financial management skills and fund-raising skills. * 2 Get to know

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    Willy embraces‚ “The whole wealth of Alaska passes over the lunch table at the Commodore Hotel...that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked!” (Miller 86) Willy Loman uses the physical manifestation of diamonds as a notion to support his son Biff‚ and illustrate to Biff what one has the possibility to attain when they are truly successful

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    The play‚ ’Death of a Salesman’‚ uses Willy Loman’s frequent day dreams to give the audience insight into his mind. Viewing the hallucinations allows the audience to see important events in the Loman families past and also provides justification for the actions of the characters in the ’real time’ of the play. Willy’s fantasies are crucial to the development and structure of the play. This essay will outline the importance of dreams within ’Death of a Salesman’ focusing in particular on the prominent

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    value one might argue that this could be transposed to the basic concept of the American Dream. Therefore for every American Dream there is also an American Nightmare. However Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is in no way‚ shape or form such a thing. Miller is meeting us halfway and describes the life of a man who is unconsciously disillusioned and who lives in denial‚ nurturing the wounds society has inflicted upon him with the memories of better times and who is‚ in the end‚ driven to suicide in

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    Hope of the American Dream in Death of a Salesman The American Dream is something every American family strives to achieve some families push too hard to get to the place where they feel that they have achieved this dream; this is the case in the life of the Lomen family. The Lomen’s are the typical American family in the 1940’s. Willy and his wife Linda are a middle class family with two sons named Biff and Happy. Willy is an ageing traveling salesman that is struggling to accept

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    Willy Loman’s home in Brooklyn. Willy is 63 years old and is a traveling salesman. He feels that he has yet to reach a level of success that would allow him to stop traveling and afford the bills. As we come to know Willy he is always complaining to his wife Linda about their son Biff who has failed to find a steady serious job. Willy being an argumentative man tries to get his son to see the joys of being a salesman. Referring to many flashback of the memories Willy once had. Compared to

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    Katie Merriman Stage to Screen 1/22/13 Death of a Salesman/You Can’t Take it With You Death of a Salesman opens with Willy Loman returning from a business trip. He is an older gentleman and it is apparent in the first few paragraphs of the play that he has some sort of problem. He talks to himself and has vivid flashbacks from when his children were younger (he interacts with them) and regretfully remembers when he refused to go to Alaska with his brother‚ who subsequently discovered a diamond

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    Kachramani Filia ENG 275 Instructor: Dr. Pappas "Death of a Salesman" by Miller and "A Doll’s House" by Ibsen "Death of a Salesman" and "A Doll’s House" are two plays that were written in different centuries. In these plays‚ among other things‚ is presented the place that women hold in the family‚ as well as in the society. Although in many aspects‚ the two protagonists of the plays‚ Linda and Nora respectively‚ appear to have things in common‚ at the same time they are very different‚ since Nora

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    Sharp April 28‚ 2013 Women’s oppression The two plays‚ A doll’s House‚ written by Henrik Ibsen‚ and Death of a Salesman‚written by Arthur Miller‚ included the theme of women’s role in society. Both plays depicted how the role of women in society at this time was. The women used for this theme in A Doll’s House include Nora‚ Mrs. Linda‚ and the nurse. The female characters in Death of a Salesman are Linda‚ the woman from the hotel‚ and mrs. Forsyth. In both stories‚ the female character are given

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    Arthur Miller a playwright‚ who wrote Death Of A Salesman and The Crucible‚ among many others. He was cynical and questioned the norms‚ but that’s what made him brilliant. His characters fought with dilemmas that symbolize societal issues. He combined his characters inner struggles with social awareness. Arthur Miller was born in Harlem‚ New York in 1915. His father lost his clothing store during the Great Depression and his family had to move to Brooklyn. Miller started writing plays when he was

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