In Between Dreams

What It Means To be American To be an American means not being afraid to follow your dreams and follow your heart. To be an American means be willing to fight for what is right and not just for yourself, but for other people you may like or dislike. An American is a hard worker that makes sacrifices for the greater good. It is okay to work hard and suffer and have delayed gratification. There are many songs that provide words that will move you and leave you feeling pride for your country. The…

In “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller, the main character, Willy Loman is an elderly man. He has come to a fork in the road of struggling with everyday life in modern America, in the late 1940’s. As constantly newer appliances and cars are being manufactured, Willy Loman is progressively tries to obtain the latest models for his family. As he slowly starts to lose his mind in this materialistic world, it becomes clear that the only thing he is really concerned about is keeping up with the…

All named arguments together lead to the result, that Donald Trump does personally not represent the American dream. Nonetheless, his political goals partly show similarities to the American dream. First of all, Trump himself was basically a rich born, upper class child of a father, who had already made his own fortune in his real estate business. Most of Trump’s best business deals were either based on family ties or his father’s financial support. Therefore it is not surprising Trump made…

The American Dream and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby go hand in hand with each other correlating one thing to another and depicting it for an audience. Having a dream and actually pursuing it is something that people have a hard understanding. For years, people worldwide have built up the American Dream as the ultimate lifestyle and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s display of his character Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby, contradicts this belief. The American dream is believed to be…

stars, or follow our dreams. As cliche as these sayings are, they are imprinted on the youth for a reason. Dreaming is an essential part of growing up. It is what keeps people inspired and continuously striving for better things in life. Perhaps it is because “dream” is such a serene, hopeful word. Consequently, dream also conveys unattainable wishes or unrealistic expectations. More often than not, dreams are just words. Yet, what happens when one tries to live within a dream? What happens when…

Character Study: Natasha Natasha is an essential character in War and Peace that spans the book from beginning to end. She is the daughter in the Rostov family, dear friend of Pierre, and love interest of Andrei. She starts out as a young 12 year old girl that develops into a woman over the course of the book. Natasha is expected to come into her true self in the midst of war and family crisis. This character study will analyze Natasha’s development in War and Peace by exploring her beginnings…

do a quick search on Google for Dreams, you will get over 7 million results including the definition of dreams which is “successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur usually involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep” (“Dream” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 18 January 2016). That definition sounds so scientific in comparison to the dreams I’ve had and while it is accurate in the science of dreams, I am certain that when you dream it feels like more than a…

Dale M. Kushner’s Understand Your Dreams by Using Jung’s “Active Imagination” takes on C.G. Jung’s ideas about the latent content of dreams to develop the thesis that states, what is hidden from our minds in the day-world becomes manifest in living color in our dreams (Para. 1). Reading Kushner’s thesis confirmed my ideas about what the underlying meaning of our dreams really are. According to Jung, “Our darkest dreams might contain imagery that illustrate our internal conflicts and…

less money at a farm than to work at an office, but Willy continually pushes him into a character of his fantasy, thinking that success makes everybody happy. Under his belief, he works himself until insanity, basing his happiness on the American Dream, which proves to be a lie. This marks his…

Dreams, I myself was never really interested in my own dreams until one night not too long ago I woke up with that unmistakable anxious feeling that one has after experiencing an unpleasant dream. It made me realize that I don’t talk about my dreams the good or the bad to anyone. Neither do most other people. That is because we as sophisticated adults tend to act as if bad dreams or any dreams at all are reserved for small children. Almost as if dreams were an unspoken taboo. However, dreams are…