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    your life would be absolutely perfect? The fact is‚ a million dollars isn’t reality for the everyday average person. The average person works hard for a living barely scraping by. We are reminded of this throughout Lorraine Hansbury’s play A Raisin in the Sun. One of the main themes in this play is that money can’t buy happiness. The character who best conveys this theme is Walter Younger‚ a lean‚ intense young man in his middle thirties‚ who works as a chauffer in order to support his family. In

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    Macer‚ work hard to make sure the cartel responsible for of all the drugs and the deaths of a few members of the task force are finally diminished. Throughout this whole journey‚ many issues involving race‚ gender‚ and class are identified and my paper will aim to focus and construct different arguments on the several issues that the film provides. When the film begins‚ Kate Macer‚ one of the cast member in the film is presented and is obviously some sort of agent. From one of the scenes at the beginning

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    I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King‚ Jr. and A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. There are three similarities between these two works. Both works discuss segregation‚ protest not becoming violent‚ and keeping the dream of equality alive. In Raisin in the Sun‚ Linder says‚ “It is a matter of the people of Clybourne Park believing‚ rightly or wrongly‚ as I say that for the happiness of all concerned that our Negro families are happier when they live in their own communities.” King says‚ “One

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    Atlıhan 21001123 Gender and Economy in Thai society; discrimination‚ bilateral exploitation‚ sex industry and hope for equality. Introduction Over the last decades‚ gender studies are in a worldwide demand due to escalating struggle for gender equality. Most of these studies have proven that each case has its unique chain of causality concluding with significant gender differences‚ indirect discrimination and finally‚ inequality. Besides universal facts and norms related to gender‚ some of those academic

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    Lorraine Hansberry‚ in her novel A Raisin in The Sun powerfully conveys the dream of her character‚ Walter Younger. Presented by having him explicitly ask for help to complete his dream‚ by having Walter reach his dream then fail‚ then by having those dreams change and become something new. Transforming from a man wanting to purchase a liquor store with the money from his father’s death just so he can become more wealthy‚ to wanting to support his family in their act of moving to a white neighborhood

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    Although they don’t appear as important characters‚ secondary characters serve an important purpose through the interactions they have with the main characters. The secondary characters we meet in A Raisin in the Sun all represent different aspects and people in the Younger family. George Murchinson and Joseph Asagai show us more about Beneatha‚ while Willy Harris shows us more about Walter‚ and Mr.Lidner and Travis show us more about the whole family. George and Joseph are Beneatha’s two boyfriends

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    dream of being or doing something they truly aspire and it can make them accomplish it. Even though this is possible‚ people can experience not having the support from people that are in their everyday lives. In Lorraine Hansberry’s play‚ “A Raisin in the Sun” and the novel “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros‚ both authors convey the idea that women must work hard for their dreams of having a better future even when men do not support their idea like Beneatha when she is told by his brother

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    Cited: Hansberry‚ Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. 1958. New York: Vintage Books.

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    Some readers feels that “money” is the most important word in the play Raisin in the sun because it has the most influence on the Youngers within the play. Such as buying the new house that they want‚ having enough money for education purposes‚ and many other necessities. Money also has a huge impact on the Youngers. Although money in their mind is supposed to help them‚ it makes things harder for them. For example‚ when walter goes to pursue his dreams to open up a liquor store and he ends up losing

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    New York. Eddleston‚ K.‚ Veiga‚ J.‚ & Powell‚ G Kent R.‚ Moss‚ S. (1994). “Effects of sex and gender role on leader emergence”. Academy of Management Journal‚ Vol. 37 No. 5‚ pp. 1335-47 . Lakoff‚ R Maltz‚ D.‚ Borker‚ R. (1982). A cultural approach to male-miscommunication. J.G. Gumpertz (Ed.)‚ Language and social identity. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press. Martell‚ R Mueller‚ S.L. (2007). Gender-based income disparity among self employed professionals. Journal of Enterprising Communities‚

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