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    idea of the American Dream a single time throughout his novel, The Great Gatsby, but despite this he makes a subtle statement on what the American Dream is in the 1920’s. The American Dream is the idea that if you live in America, and you work hard, you can get rich. Fitzgerald develops a theme around the American Dream through Gatsby, how Gatsby’s story reflects the true meaning of this dream in the 1920’s, and how the novel covers what wealth and dreams have to do with the dream itself. The…

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    Dream Theory Everyone on planet Earth dreams, whether they claim they dream or not. Dreams are a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person’s mind, typically occurring during REM sleep. But, why do people dream? Many famous psychologists have come up with theories on why humans dream and the purpose of a dream is. One such psychologist is Sigmund Freud with his famous, yet non-scientific, theory that dreams are symbolic expressions of a person’s unconscious conflict or…

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    Lennie's Dreams

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    The main question of this book was, were they going to fulfill their dreams? And what did we get as an answer? This story tells us that although people have dreams they want to pursue, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they will be granted. People will do anything to make their dreams true, despite the obstacles. Take for example, George and Lennie’s dream. Despite dealing with the incident at Weed, George had his hopes up that he would be able to start over, even with Lennie.“‘With us it ain’t…

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    importance and influence of dreams, the passing down of ghost stories during the Middle Ages, the physical impact ghosts and spirits had over the living, and artwork from the time period…

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    driveway? I’m sure one day we all had shared a dream like such, which was worry and carefree, until it came down to deciding what car you were going to go out in. One day all those fantasies will seemingly come to an end without you even realizing this has happened, the thoughts and dreams of all those lavish toys at your dispense are now in a garbage disposal being brought to the dump, while you have not settled for the best job, car, and house you can get. They weren’t the ones once envisioned…

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    Dreams, Hopes, and Plans Steinbeck seems dreams are foolish and unnecessary and only lead to more sorrow. No matter how much sometimes you dare to dream, send happy thoughts into the universe, no matter what you do some of your dreams will never come true and that's sad. It's not because of something you did or did not do; it's because of your condition. George and Lennie’s dream – to own a patch of land to call home – is so present in Of mice and men that it appears constantly. In fact,…

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    I Have a Dream In the year of 1963 on August 28th a pastor name Martin Luther King Jr marched with thousands of people across the city of Washington D.C. Where he arrived at the Lincoln Memorial and gave the greatest speech that went down in history called I Have a Dream. This speech was about how African Americans were not being treated fairly across the United States and that it had to be stopped. Martin Luther King Jr. successfully persuades his audience by using ethos, pathos, and logos by…

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    The typical American dream is to have the all-American family with the wife, the husband, a son and a daughter, a steady income, a nice house, a two-car garage, but it is more than that. People come from all over the world to escape poverty and hardships from their own countries and come to America to make something of themselves or to simply have a peace of mind for their family. This is the land of opportunity where all sorts of people with different race and religion are supposed to be…

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    was run and that was her goal and make it come true. Bethany had an arm amputated and that was difficult for him to do many things, and more his dream was to surf because we have both arms not only to do things if not balance and in surfing it takes a lot of balance, Bethany at first was discouraged because she knew how it feels have a arm and it was Disappointing that the shark has bitten her, most of the people's reaction would it be like that. People can learn a lot with these two girls,…

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    ever been in a situation where you had a dream that you've always wanted to come true but someone crushes it or says it won't happen even how hard you try to accomplish it? In a Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry proves the dreams of Walter, Beneatha, and Mama come true, but not exactly how they expected. All of their dreams revolve around the life insurance check from the late Mr. Younger, each of the family members have their own plans of what they can do with the check, which ultimately…

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