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    My American Dream For many years people have always been living in America but do not really know what the American Dream really is. I feel that the American Dream can vary on what it means because most people think very differently. To me though the American Dream means what I have accomplished in life‚ how I make my life decisions‚ and the way I am able to live life to the fullest. I have read and seen many different scenes in life that have made me to make the definition

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    American Red Cross Volunteering is a great way to get involved in your community. I think volunteering is something everyone should do at least once in their life. Volunteering is a great way to give back to your community and the sense of pride you feel afterwards is like no other. There are numerous charity organization with which a person can volunteer. For example‚ The Salvation Army‚ The Red Cross‚ United Way‚ Meals on Wheels‚ etc. All charities help with different things. Some help feed

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    Once the African Americans were freed they began to enjoy many of the simple things in life that we take for granted today‚ (Shultz. n.d.). They could go out and buy a dog if they wanted. They could hold meetings without having to worry about white people supervising them. They tried to become landowners. Many of them also moved around a lot‚ sometimes just to get away from the plantations where they once served as slaves‚ and others moved to looked for relatives and loved ones who had been sold

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    Nineteenth-Century American Literature‚ with respect to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women‚ that this piece of sentimental literature has a “profound awareness of the relative fragility of the biological family and a commitment to strengthening and redefining it according to the logic of love”(Weinstein 4). Through Weinstein’s claim‚ she states that biological‚ familial ties are not what define a family; it is‚ however‚ through the love that the family shares with one another which makes them a true family

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    The American Revolution changed the American society politically‚ socially and economically by the creation of the Declaration of Independence‚ paper currency‚ Women’s rights and slavery. The American Revolution brought tremendous effects on the Americans. One major approach to undergo in this change is the Declaration of Independence. George Washington declared a change in the society because he thought it was time to get away from the Britain’s power. "If men were angels‚ no government would

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    What is the American dream? There is no exact answer as to what the American dream really is. The best way to really put is the main goals and ambitions American citizens have for their lives. The issue with it though is that‚ sometimes individuals can’t reach their dreams. As stated in the Atlantic “We have more social problems than other countries‚ and that’s a worse problem than inequality.” (O’Brien 1). Religious discrimination is still a major problem that plagues this country today. America

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    Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) remains a caveat to the Americans chasing the American dream. He presents the fruitless chase of American dream by Sam Loomis (John Gavin) cannot marry Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) because of his financial difficulties. In order to lead an ‘American life’ in the suburbs they need money. The aspirations‚ desires everything ends in tragedy for both. For Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) also the idealised figure of mother crumples down from its edifice and hence the exaggerated

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    The American Revolution was the revolt of the English colonies in North America that occurred between 1775 and 1783‚ which resulted in the establishment of the United States. The Independence of the United States is considered the first American Revolution (the second was the Civil War). It was a landmark in the Old Regime crisis because it broke the unity of the colonial system. The thirteen American colonies were formed from the seventeenth century. In the late eighteenth century‚ there were 680

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    The American Hero

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    The American Hero Every child has fantasy’s of being a super hero and leaping tall buildings in a single bound or staring death in the face everyday and somehow finding a way to escape. All of these imaginative thoughts have been derived from the past literary works by the great writers of the early American literary period. These early writers entered society into a world of action and adventure‚ where one can see spectacular events unfolding through the eyes of a notorious man of

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