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    nothing like a dream to create the future.” The quote means whenever you have a dream‚ the dream shapes and sets your future. Hugo’s quote is correct because dreams are the key to setting your goals so you can achieve further in the future. In Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun‚ this quote is true because of Walter’s dream to be the man of the house‚ Benethea’s dream to live past society’s expectations of an African American woman and become a doctor‚ and Mama’s dream is to have her family

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    In 1963‚ a speech was given to over 200‚00 people In Washington D.C. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s most famous speech‚ his I Have A Dream Speech. One big significant part of his speech was the amount of imagery‚ which was used in half of the speech. Imagery was used throughout his speech to depict both the hardships African Americans have faced and also the future they hope to achieve. He uses vivid nature imagery in order to allow the masses to understand and relate to his ideas in yet a simple‚ but

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    King fit the bill. There are few people walking the earth who are not familiar with his “I Have a Dreamspeech. Dr. King had a premonition of his own death and drafted this speech as a sort of pre-eulogy that he delivered himself. It is surely one of the most moving and memorable speeches of all time. It rings down the valleys and off the mountain tops with Dr. King’s vision of a world that he dreams could be. It is a eulogy of possibilities and hope rather than of defeat and death. Dr. King

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    The American Dream‚ Family‚ and Fighting to Fulfill Dreams all have a predominant role in Raisin in The Sun‚ and throughout the plot all of these issues are addressed. As the play goes on‚ you can see and learn the character’s hopes and aspirations‚ and the obstacles and problems they will face to try to fight to see their dreams happen. As a colored family in the 1960’s in suburban Chicago‚ due to what was going on in the times around them‚ this family believes that maybe colored people are being

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    A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry‚ is a play that portrays the life of the Younger’s‚ a poor African-American family living on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s. The play opens as Mama‚ the elder of the family‚ is waiting for a $10‚000 insurance check from the death of her husband. Once the check arrives‚ the family struggles to decide how best to use it‚ but every adult member of the Younger family has their own idea as to how they think the money should be used. As the play progresses

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    I Have a Dream Speech Theme: During Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dreamspeech‚ there were many problems brought about concerning equality and freedom of the black population. What he wanted to get across to the people was that the United States was not abiding by its own laws and beliefs‚ so he wanted to get the theme of equality and racial justice across to his audience. This is considered his theme because this was the underlying message he wanted to get across to all those who heard

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    The historical narrative document “I have a Dream” is a political speech which was delivered by Martin Luther King on the 28th of August 1963 in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. The speech was aimed at the 250‚000 Civil Rights supporters‚ both black and white‚ who had gathered for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom‚ a key moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. One imagines that Martin Luther King hoped that his words would not only be heard that day in Washington

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    selfish thinking of only himself and not worrying about her dreams.

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    Paper A Raisin in the Sun‚ a play written by Lorraine Hansberry‚ embodies the struggles of a black family in the 1960’s living in Chicago. Everyone in the Younger family seems to have an ambitious dream that they are all trying to achieve with insurance money earned by Big Walter. Walter Lee Younger‚ the man of the family‚ is a motivated man that is unhappy with his job as a chauffer. He has big dreams of opening up a liquor store to become a businessman so he can diminish his family’s poverty

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    Rashmi Bansal’s book‚ I have a Dream‚ is a collection of stories of 20 idealists who using their creative‚ innovative and entrepreneurial skills decided to use these skills to bring a change and dedicated their lives for the greater good of the society. The entrepreneurs in this book‚ instead of developing business models for profits‚ decided to use it as tools for the betterment of society. Like any other Rashmi’s books‚ this book too has been divided into three categories: The Rainmakers‚ The Change

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