Dreams Literature Reviews Samples For Students

The national ethos of Americans everywhere is no better represented than by the ever-present, American Dream that has captivated a worldwide imagination since its inception along with the beginning of the Unites States’ existence as a country. For many years, the American Dream has described a world of opportunity in which people of varying cultures and backgrounds enjoy equality in their pursuit of richer, fuller lives. It was this dream that brought the first immigrants to America in the first place, and it was again this dream that gave them the necessary impetus to stay and to improve the conditions of their ...

The Great Gatsby is an American based novel that was written in the year nineteen twenty y five by Fitzgerald F. Scott. The Novel primarily focuses on a very young and rich boy known as Jay Gatsby. Major themes handled include the theme of change and resistance, idealism and social encounter. The novel is with no doubt a good piece of art and I always find myself reading it over and over. The novel's ending is indeed a very fabulous one and captures the attention of its reader. Here is how the novel ends:
"And as I sat there brooding on ...

The novel The Great Gatsby was written by F. S. Fitzgerald in 1925. It continued the Dreiser’s theme of the American tragedy. The events took place in the Jazz age. Imagine a country at the height of its economic growth. The world is ruled by money, luxury, prosperity, and well-being. The twenties were the happiest time in the United States. Nobody could even imagine the Great Depression. At the street musicians started to play improvised jazz, which displaced the old classical styles in music. It was the golden age in the American literature that gave us the works of ...

American literature knows many authors who had a tragic destiny, who quit early and did not implement what their gift engaged for. Amid an American life, these authors were perishing from loneliness and alcoholism. They stayed with no help and without a word of participation, as if they were in an abandoned desert. Every event like this repeatedly calls the attention of intellectual people all over the world to vice of American capitalistic culture and American lifestyle, which is extremely indifferent to people’s destinies. In the period of time “amid two wars”, there was the most evident drama – the tragic ...

Throughout the entire play, Shakespeare shows that sleep is important to the development of the events in the story. Arguably, sleep serves as the channel that runs through the life of each character in different ways. As the characters sleep, they become unaware of the events that happen. In turn, the characters attribute the events in their sleep to dreams as they are unable to explain the events in their sleep. Sleep and dreams overshadows the main idea in the play and lead to the theme of dreams versus reality. The title of the play suggests that the events ...

Question 1

In the poem, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by the renowned poet Randal Jarrell, the poet tells about an unnamed gunner serving in war for his nation. The poem is one of the works about war and its horror. The protagonist of the poem is a gunner serving in the war. He was forcefully made to come to war by the government, disturbing his satisfied life.
Three characteristics of the protagonist are discussed as follows. First of all, the protagonist is not much of a patriot. The protagonist is not in the war on his own will, or ...

Family, Identity and the “American Dream” in Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller's 1949 play, Death of a Salesman tackles the issues of identity, family dynamics and the pursuit of the “American Dream” using the Loman family as a model to illustrate these concepts. The play starts with Willy Loman, a traveling salesman, returning from a botched business trip. Willy expresses disgust towards his oldest son, Biff, who has failed to do anything substantial with his life. Biff and his younger brother Happy take their father out to dinner where Biff has a flashback to the time he visited his father in Boston and discovered Willy was having an affair with a receptionist. He confronts his ...

The Grapes of Wrath is a novel written by John Steinbeck as he gives the story revolving around the family of Joad. The novel illustrates oppression and hardship that faced the migrants’ workers during the great depression. In depth it is a political tract that governed collectivist action on oppressing those looking for jobs. In the same sense, the speech that was delivered by Martin Luther King on the oppression of the black people has a lot of similarities as compared to the The Grapes of Wrath. Martin Luther speech covers the oppression nature of the blacks as well.
The Declaration's ...

Midsummer Nights Dream is a play by William Shakespeare that explains the events surrounding the marriage between Hippolyta and Theseus who was the Duke of Athens. The adventures of four young lovers also take centre stage in the play. Shakespeare makes use of magic fairies to bring out some of the most and hilarious bizarre situations in the play Midsummer Nights Dream. He uses magic to embody supernatural power of love which is symbolised by the use of love potions by people in the play to win lovers (Shakespeare, 14). Shakespeare uses magic to create an unreal world in which ...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream has many things to say about the themes of love and marriage; it is mostly portrayed as something foolish and impetuous, with youthful lovers making rash decisions and falling into literal spells. This is most acutely displayed with the subplot wherein theatrical fool Nick Bottom is turned into an ass and wanders into the forest. Titania, having been exposed to a magic potion on her eyelids, looks upon Nick, who now has an asses' face. The two characters meet, and Titania showers him with affection, including the efforts of Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Mustardseed and Mote, several ...

Introduction

For answering this question in relation to three of the couples of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Hermia and Lysander, Helena and Demetrius and Titania and Oberon), there must be initially analyzed the love between them. Love takes various shapes and there are different ways to love: sincere and tender, having one another when others oppose the lovers’ feelings (as it is the case of Hermia and Lysander), obsessively or accidentally (as it happened in the case of Helena and Demetrius), or with passion and feelings of possession or jealousy (which define the love between Titania ...

The American dream is a set of values, ideals and freedoms. These values also include success achieved through determination and hard work. James Adams Truslow in 1931 defined the American dream as the effort to make people’s life better and richer giving them an opportunity to exploit their abilities and enjoy their achievements The American dream is rooted in the declaration of independence by Thomas Jefferson, which agitates that all men are equal. This essay will look at the theme of the American dream as was envisioned in the Declaration of Independence.
On July 1776, the second constitutional ...

Blog 1

How much happy do you have?
The presentation by Tami Cromar was an interesting and eye-opening one. She talked with passion and believed with everything that she said. She believed that without goals and objectives, it would be hard and difficult to achieve dreams that one has set. Tami spoke this when she came to speak in out college about how to manage entrepreneurship. It was an interesting presentation about how to set and achieve goals. She started her career as an Architectural Designer and she did this as long as she still had the passion of it. ...

This paper focusses on the subject of deferred dreams and we study three poems in this regard. The poems ‘Wild Nights’ by Emily Dickinson, ‘Harlem’ and ‘Let America be America Again’ both by Langston Hughes, all highlight the pain of deferred dreams in different ways and related to different circumstances.
Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘Wild Nights’ is a love poem expressing sexual passion and love. The poem falls into the genre of lyric poetry, there are three stanzas in the poem and each one has a quatrain. The poem expresses ardent affections and yearning to unite with the lover. The ...

Literature Review

Abstract
This literature review paper focusses on the subject of the role of dreams and the relationship between those dreams and hope. For this purpose three readings of different genres have been selected, to see what and how the three writers have expressed their dreams. The three pieces of literature under study are, a poem called ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ by William Blake, Martin Luther’s speech ‘I have a dream’ and the speech by Abraham Lincoln, popularly known as the ‘Gettysburg Address’.
‘The Chimney Sweeper’ by William Blake addresses the issue of child labor and the social oppression that a ...

I think this text is an incredible display of human anguish and desperation - I think it is a brilliant play because of the real and relatable emotions it elicits in its audience. The play itself evoked feelings of sadness, envy, and frustration in me during my reading - I felt bad for the characters in the work, as this family was constantly tortured by the difficulties of living life in America, as well as the difficulty of achieving the American Dream. I particularly identified with the character of Tom, who uses the movies and the fire escape as a means ...

Lorraine Hansberry’s renowned play A Raisin in the Sun is a potent narrative of what it meant to be an African-American in the United States during the 1950s of the previous century. Every member of the Younger family has his own individual dream, whether it is Beneatha’s desire to become a doctor or Walter’s need to have money in order to provide for his family as the only man the Younger women can lean on, but they all go about attaining this dream in different ways. Like most other characters in the play, Walter feels trapped by his ...

The influence and effect of dreams on human health has been a subject of much study and research by medical and psychological professionals for centuries; dreaming is said to dramatically affect our abilities to process information, handle stress and anxiety and a plethora of other unique outcomes. Based on the prevailing literature of many health professionals, the act and ability to dream is closely tied to our health and emotional well-being. Kopp et al. (2008) perform a meta-analysis of existing theoretical literature on the connection between dreams and health, examining the importance of dreams and dream sequences in promoting proper health, considering ...

Introduction

Resilience and Perseverance are the greatest qualities that enable us realize our dreams. Once a goal is set, it is the perseverance and resilience that keeps us on track and ensures that we achieve the goal. When one knows exactly what he/she wants and is fully determined to achieve it, he/she gets it whatever the cost. The book Jonathan Livingston seagull gives a true account of what can be achieved with resilience and perseverance. The movie Pursuit of Happyness also focuses on the same theme and reveals how success can be achieved no matter the obstacles. No matter the situations we ...

Alice Walker’s short story, Everyday Use, is written from a central first-person point of view. A reader can tell this because the story is told from the “I” point of view, from Mama’s view. She is central in all that happens in the story. She is a participant and not just an observer.
The story is a good example of subjective narration, because the narrator, Mama, has a definite opinion about what she describes, the people involved, and is not attempting to be objective about her thoughts or the events that happen. She shares her inner thoughts and fantasies, like ...

Loneliness is part of human condition

Steinback’s novella Of Men and Mice is set in a grim economic dystopia of migrant workers on a Californian ranch where the two protagonists Lennie and George share the dream owning their own farm someday despite the meagre conditions they were subject to. The novella has been applauded as well as criticized for its staunch realism or what was portrayed as realism in cases of excessive sentimentality. In this paper, we shall compare and contrast the two main characters of Lennie and George in order to reflect on a theme that is relevant for each and every one of Steinback’s ...

The American Dream lured wave after wave of immigration, primarily from Europe, in the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. This dream taught that if you came to America and worked hard enough, you would succeed. There was enough room, enough of a market, enough hope, and enough freedom for everyone who came to the United States to do well. This dream enticed so many people to come to the country from overseas that the government decided to put quotas in place to limit the number of immigrants from each country in the years before World ...

All American Sestina by Florence Cassen Myers

This remarkable poem is surely one of the finest which has ever been written to describe the American Dream and all its fallacies and controversies. First of all it manages to create a situation where the American Dream is constantly invoked and described as something which is full of ambiguities. In one of the passages, Myers describes a ‘six pack Bud’ in the sense that this epitomizes the obvious imbalances that there are with fantasy and reality.
Myers also has other interesting aspects in the poem which create a sense of archaic dominance and there are some rather negative views of ...

Horror through Imagination: How do Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, and Shirley Jackson create suspense in their stories “Harvey’s Dream,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Lottery”

Introduction

Suspense is a literary style that is adopted by most authors to invoke the creative minds of the audience. Therefore, the authors intentionally fail to draw a conclusion to an event in a story, but instead live it upon the audience to think. On the other hand, mystery is an occurrence that is beyond human understanding, and in most cases it is associated with murder. This essay is anchored on these ...

Introduction

Healthcare involves the collaboration of various medical organizations, institutions, and providers, all of whom manage their own data under different storage and retrieval systems, and though practical and efficient within the target system, there is a lack of uniformity in structure across other systems (Masud et al. 2012). Moreover, there are often variations in data compiled from the same resources. This lack of synergy between the various data storage systems, and the types of information stored, preclude the sharing of data among the various healthcare professionals, institutions, and organizations. E-health systems, on the other hand, allow the storage and retrieval ...

Plot Summary

The Great Gatsby is a book that focuses and tries to give the events of a fictional town and characters. The plot is focused on Nick a former graduate scholar and a war veteran who is the narrator of the story that the novel aims at putting across. Nick takes up employment as a salesperson in the City of New York, where he settles and takes up residence in long island near the exclusive mansion of the rich mysterious jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is known in the town due to the exclusive and huge parties that he holds in his residence. During Nick’s ...

Martin Luther King was a civil rights leader who fought for the rights and economic freedom of the people with color. He fought through non-violent demonstrations because he believed in love and togetherness. King was resistant against status quo and he fought for equal state between the blacks and whites and overall for the equality of the whole world. His main message through his speech “I have a Dream" was love and togetherness between the blacks and whites. He delivered his speech in order to stop racial segregation in schools and other organizations. He wanted to solve the dilemmas facing the ...

The short story, ‘Ethan Frome’ written by Edith Wharton in the early 1900’s, tells the story of Ethan who grew up on a farm where his descendants lived and worked and died. Ethan’s story is told from the first person point of view and details the story of a sad and unfortunate young man who lives in a New England village. The choices that he has made have him trapped hopelessly in situations that befall him one by one. Ethan had left home to study technology at a college in Worcester. He had big dreams of living in the city where ...

Introduction

The poem “Magic of love” by Helen Farries is a simple and plain poem whose theme is love. The poem comprises of four stanzas each bearing four lines. The following is an explication of the poem.

Elaboration of the poem

In the first stanza, Farries begins by acknowledging the presence of a gift that can lighten up someone or “give a lift”. She goes on to state that, that gift which is love, is a blessing capable of bringing about happiness and comfort.
In the second stanza, Farries likens love to a star in the night stating that love can brighten someone’s faith. She also states ...

Presentation and Analysis of two literary works – Reflections on the way both literary works ‘The Road not Taken’ and ‘A Worn Path’ representing different writing kinds, a poem and a short story respectively, approach the same thematic core, the one of a Journey’s Symbolism – Comparison and contrast of both works in terms of their context, writing style, underlying meaning
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Abstract

This paper will present you with a comparison and contrast of two literary works. Both the literary works which have been chosen, belong to the same theme, the one of a journey’s symbolism. The first work which will ...

In the history of human thought, there were various issues, which even the brightest minds could not explain or measure in materiality of human perception. One of such issues is and always will be love and its nature. Shakespeare was one of those who managed to perceive the nature of love and explain it in his works. The play which unravels his perception of the nature of love is “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. The aim of the present paper is to outline what Shakespeare meant under the nature of love and how he explained it in his play. ...

The world of literature has always intrigued one and all with the sheer quintessence of art and aesthetics. The readers from all the corners of the globe have been immersed in the aesthetic charm and affective appeal of the literary works of the literary artists who have proved their genius though their unparalleled portraiture and content that have left an immortal mark in the very innermost core of thee hearts of the avid readers. The history of literature goes on to document the works of many such stalwarts who have left the readers stirred to the core. James Joyce ...

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Death of a Salesman
First response:I respectfully disagree with your view that Willy Loman should be considered a protagonist in the play “Death of a Salesman” just because he and his son Biff affect each other’s character. Aristotle made numerous remarks about the definitions of drama, and laid down specific parameters about what an ‘ideal’ protagonist should be in his work “Poetics”. However, underneath the fault of his character lie his greatness, ambitions, and dreams. His inability to fulfill those dreams, as well as his tragic flaw, and most especially his desire to manifest those dreams around him were the ...

Exploring he theme of Isolation in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short stories; “The Minister’s Black Veil”, “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Birthmark”
Nathaniel Hawthorne is the author of many short stories in which he portrays his characters with some dilemma where they must make up their minds about what is wrong from what is right. His stories end with morals that can be learned through his characters’ actions. Most of the stories he wrote are filled with themes of guilt and there are many themes of loneliness and sadness. His main characters are reclusive and lived sheltered lives. ...

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Life’s Journey
The poem ‘Ithaca’ by Constantine Cavafy written in Greek in 1910 and first published in its original language in 1911, is a dramatic monologue written in five stanzas and characterized by its lyricism, rhyme in its original language version, and symbolic meaning. The poet addresses his audience in second person, thus making the poem easily accessible to and individually adopted by his readers, talking immediately to their souls. The thematic core of the poem is the journey that every individual is to fulfill in his / her own life, having chosen or drawn his/her own path. ...

Question 1:

The civil rights era was an era that goes down in America’s history as the stepping stone for equality. It was characterized by events that were and are still celebrated as US’ most important stepping stones to full democracy. One of Martin Luther King’s most famous speeches, I Have a Dream, he gives some of the hopes that he desires to see. He describes his desire to see black people, referred to as “sons of former slaves”, living in harmony with the whites referred to as “the sons former slave owners” (James, 2004).
The Civil Rights Movement ...

There was a slightly divisive view of how many authors in the 19th century viewed the West, and how it pertained to the American Dream. Mark Twain looks at the West with an innocent eye; he saw it as a vast frontier that was filled with boredom, but punctuated with moments of adventure; that is clear from his retellings as a boy of the steamboatmen who came through in a flash through his hometown. –“When a circus came and went, it left us all burning to become clowns; the first negro minstrel show that came to our section left us all suffering to try ...

Classic English Literature

On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous speech “I Have A Dream” at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The speech is a call to end racism and discrimination. The speech is the epitome of the civil rights movement in America. Through his speech, King shared his dream of living in a world where there is true freedom and equality. He dreams that someday America will be a nation where people will not be judged according to the color of their skin but through their character. The speech is a persuasive and inspirational speech which uses the appeal to ...

Jay Gatsby is the protagonist of the novel The Great Gatsby. He is a very wealthy man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. As narrated by Nick Carraway, Gatsby is famous for the lavish parties he throws on Saturdays but no one really knew where he came from, what he did or how he got his wealth. As the novel progresses, we soon learn that he was born James Gatz in North Dakota. He acquired his wealth through the sheer determination and also through criminal activity, as he vowed to do anything to win Daisy. Tony Buchanan, on the ...

The play by Lorraine Hansbury is a story that is based on the experiences of a black family within an estate in a Chicago neighborhood. Poverty and abject poverty for that matter is a central theme within the play. Various incidences and scenarios are used to describe the state of poverty of the family. The most common problems revolve around investments, and the family tends to have more conflicts in line with the money issues. Broadly, although Lorraine Hansbury’s “A Raisin in the Sun” touches on many themes, pro-integration is one of the things that come out strongly in the play. This ...

Literature: The Second World War and its Aftermath /A Century Ends

A poem by Theodore Roethke ‘My Papa’s Waltz’ is a representative of postwar lyrics. It describes father and son relationships, narrated retrospectively from the point of view of an adult, who used to be a participant of the action.
A question whether the poem pictures violence towards the child or on the contrary presents us warm relations between a youngster and a grown-up remains arguable. The author shows the act as a beautiful, graceful dance – the waltz. This fact directs us to the idea that for the narrator this experience was not horrible at all. He does not try to idealize his ...

"Young Goodman Brown" - Symbolism

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Young Goodman Brown," the titular character is a pious, faithful man in Salem, Massachusetts who leaves his wife to run a mysterious errand out in the forest.. Along the way, he encounters many different people and situations along the way, eventually resulting in a horrific dream that shows the fallibility of humankind and the ineffectiveness of Christianity. Hawthorne tells the tale of a naive, faithful young man who begins his fall from grace and acknowledging the presence of evil in the world, especially in other people. The story is rife with symbolism, and ...

The portrait of black urban life that emerges from the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks is a very mixed one. On the one hand, she uses colloquial language to describe the lives and destinies of black youth in urban areas, although she also mixes very informal language with highly ornate expression as if to show how barren their lives are. Elsewhere she presents a largely pessimistic view of the black experience of urban life, but manages, at the same time, to demonstrate signs of hope.

In “We Real Cool” she uses the language of young black men to comment on their self-centredness ...

Introduction

In poetry, every piece of work is unique in its own way. However, most pieces of poems follow standard forms. Poems can be entertaining and or educating, depending on the poet’s choice of the role of the poem. The special characteristics that are shared by all poems include:

• Use of limited amount of words as most words are cut out.
• Poems are meant to be read and hard at the same time.

In poetry, there is the emphasis of important words, which may lead to creation of rhythm or repetition.
In this work, I have analyzed four ...

Literature Review: Comparison-Contrast Organizational Plan

Each of the stories “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid and “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen introduce a Girl to the reader through a third party, the narrator. Ironing is an activity in both stories. Kincaid’s Girl is receiving many lessons on how to wash clothes, cook pumpkin fritters and other household duties including ironing her “father’s khaki shirt” and “khaki pants so they don’t have a crease” (380). Ironing is only one of the tasks in a long list of tasks Girl needs to learn and to do.
On the other hand the Olsen’s ...

Finding a person who will do anything and face every danger in the name of love is very hard. ‘The Heartless Lover’ and ‘The Dedicated Lover’ stories are very insightful when it comes to this. The compassion and distinction that is carried out on this paper focuses on the notion of figurative differences, that is, between The Heartless Lover and The Dedicated Lover in the two stories. They explore the circumstances when love is tried and how fatal it sometimes turns out to be from the storyline.

In the two stories, the topic of love is exploited insightfully in a ...

Part I

While Child Protective Services might find the dance that unfolds in Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” to be a bit unsightly, it is clearly an event that the little boy enjoys, finding it a moment of bonding with his father. The fact that the boy’s “mother’s countenance/Could not unfrown itself”(Roethke 7-8) suggests that she disapproves of the father drinking. Indeed, the father has had more than a couple of shots, as the mere smell of it on his father’s breath turns the boy dizzy. This use of alcohol may well be just a form of solace after a long ...

Introduction:

Technology is progressing every day. Technology has also impacted on the daily lives of the people. Not only it saves time in doing different things, but in many ways it shapes out attitudes and behaviors too. In particular, electronic Media, TV has been affecting the life, culture, values, practices and attitudes of all the generations. So the impact of TV has been one such technology that has impacted lives of many people.
Children are seen as the future of any nation or country. They are always quite innocent and get influenced quite easily. They are facing the real ...

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A woman is always considered less and is demeaned in this male dominating world. The play A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen is a good portrayal of feeling of a woman. Nora, whom the author depicts as a doll in his play, is an innocent and patient character. She lives with her husband Torvald Helmer, who recently has a job as a manager in a bank. Torvald treats her as a child and does not give her proper care as a wife needs. The entire story gets a new turn when Nora encounters Krogstad, who start blackmailing her. The author in his play A Doll’s ...

Psychology

Psychoanalysis is considered as a treatment concept that relies on observation that people are often unconscious about various factors that influence their behavior and emotions. Originally the concept of psychoanalysis was developed by Sigmund Freud and later developed and modified by various experienced psychoanalysts. These unknown factors entail the source of considerable unhappiness and distress, where sometimes is acquires identifiable symptom trait and at other times troubling personality characteristic. Those factors may, therefore, cause difficulties in love relationship or the workplace, or mood disturbances and self-esteem. Because those factors are unknown, the advice of family and friend, self-help books, or ...

- Introduction
Holocaust literature focuses on a multitude of different experiences, personalities, ethical choices, and behaviors-- both on the part of the victims and the perpetrators. Much of the literature that has been written on the subject focuses on the facts of the Holocaust; however, some of the literature focuses on the experiences of the victims and the aftermath that they experienced as a result of the Holocaust.
However, because this literature focuses on the same central event, it’s possible to identify many common themes that are woven into Holocaust-related short stories, poetry, drama, memoirs, and novels. In ...

Two Kinds is a short story by Amy Tan in the book The Joy Luck Club. Tan writes about the intricacy of a daughter and mother relationship who migrated from China to America. The short story is about a Chinese-American girl named Jing-mei. Jing-mei lived in American and her mother believed that, as long as one lives in America, he/she can be anything she could ever wish to be and therefore, she was working hard to find her daughter’s talent. Jing-mei’s mother constantly tests her daughter for any talent, but any time she tries, no talent is found. The lack ...

Edgar Allan Poe is a prominent American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, whose works are popular with the readers all over the globe. The timeless themes of Poe’s stories and the struggles of his characters are indeed remain relevant nowadays. His cocktail of death, love and suffer is of an undying combination. His short stories and poems are sodden with darkness, agony, mystery and obsession of inevitable death, they thrill and excite. The Pit And The Pendulum, The Black Cat, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Fall Of The House of Usher are only a few of his ...

Retaining Careers Contribute to Child Well-Being and Future

Introduction
The purpose of this literature review is to assess various researches into the positive impacts of being a working mother, and to assess whether or not working mothers have positive impacts on their children’s well-being and future when compared to stay-at-home mothers. Evidence suggests that working mothers can serve as good role models and caregivers for their children in comparison to mothers who stay-at-home with their children (Figes 1) (Heinrich 122) (Sherman 1). The labor participation rate of mothers with underage children was almost 70 percent in 2013 (“Latest Annual Data”). These statistics suggest the importance and ...

American Life after the Cold War

American family life before and during the Cold War, as well as the changes commenced by the baby boomers have all been the subjects of numerous studies. One of the major acclaimed contributors in this regard is Elaine Tyler May, whose book Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era first published in 1988 contains a detailed analysis of the American family life, perception of gender roles and equality, as well as the results of the Kelly Longitudinal Study (KLS) that gradually reveal the realities of the nuclear families inside life. The central idea of the book is confinement ...

I Came to buy a smile — today — by Emily Dickson
Emily Dickson has a mastery of poetic form and rhetoric that places each reader can directly connect with. In the poem “I came to buy a smile-today,” is one of the most critical rhetoric poems of all the time. In The poem, Dickson desires to buy a smile an indication of happiness from a vendor. She claims to have gold, diamond, and rubies, the precious metals that all humans wish to have, but for sure, no one can buy happiness.
She wonders how much she can bargain to get the smile for ...

Introduction

Race, gender and power are issues that affect our day-to-day life and can hinder or promote progress, depending on how they are handled. Race and gender are issues that a person has to live with as he or she has no choice once found to belong to a particular group. There am2qare challenges that comes with being born in a certain gender depending on expectations of the society. Power, on the other hand is an occurrence that can happen or disappear depending on the circumstances. Since the issues of gender, power and race are part of our life, it is necessary for ...

Dishonesty in Relationships Dishonesty is one of the most challenging things that occur in relationship. It is so challenging that it brings out a sign of betrayal to the second party; this happens especially when the relationship is incorporates a man and woman who intend to marry in the near future or are already into marriage. Dishonesty and betrayal breaks relationships by cheating, lying, and manipulating. Relationships cannot build on lies. Neither can they survive without trust and respect. Ideally, morals are among the most important elements of life according to the themes of the American dream. Engagement is behaviour that ...

Applied behaviour analysis and animal behaviour

According to (Bekoff, 2013), behaviour analysis refers to a scientific approach that helps an individual to understand why animal and people do and behave the way they do. After studying behaviour analysis an individual develops the capacity to understand how both human beings as well as animal’s behaviours are affected by the various events that take place. This includes the event that are there in their physical and their social environments. Teacher’s researchers and parents make use of behaviour analysis to tell how the physical and social environment impacts on behaviour change.
The study of behaviour analysis ...

This essay aims at comparing and contrasting the theme of fantasy and wishful thinking as presented in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1949) and also in Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie (1945). Both playwrights have intensively used characters who resort into habits of escapism into fantasy and wishful thinking to free themselves from their miserable existence. The main sources of their predicaments are their consistent failures in achieving their dreams, little interaction and communication with family members coupled with personal insecurities. Due to these facts, they all have a common problem which is frustration and boredom. They resort ...