The Dreamer

The Death of a Dream How far are you willing to go to achieve your dreams? Become a criminal? Lock yourself away from the rest of the world? Even live in an illusion? Just how much are we truly willing to sacrifice? Well, two novels try to show us just how far a human will go through two very complex and tragic figures. Jay Gatsby from “The Great Gatsby” By F. Scott Fitzgerald, a wealthy, suave but mysterious gentleman who wanted nothing more than the love of a woman to complete his…

Lorraine Hansberry’s play, “A Raisin in the Sun”, is about an African American family, the Youngers, who are surrounded by poverty, racism, and family conflict. The Youngers aspire to give themselves a better life to ultimately pass that down to future generations. Their conflict comes into play when the family receives an insurance check for $10,000 and has split decisions on what to do with it. Hansberry’s play suggests that poverty is a symptom of racism by using characters that seem to be of…

believed to give dreams to the people. Having them interpreted by a shaman is the only way to get answers to an illness, family trouble, problem with the tribe, or a life crisis. The most advanced form of dreaming for the Plains Indians occurs when the dreamer can control the dream they are having, thus gaining access to a great and sought after power. Irwin writes many times about this power and that if the Indians achieved it, they would then gain untold knowledge of the spirits they…

In this animated motion picture from DreamWorks, the movie opens with spectacular visuals, and proceeds into an interesting story. The hero, Hiccup (Jay Baruchel), the son of the islands chieftan, is an inept, bumbling dreamer. He manages to trap one of the most dreaded dragons that attacks his home. The relationship between Hiccup and the trapped dragon, Toothless, is central to the story; the sequences shown as hiccup nurses Toothless back to health are so cute and fantastic. Toothless, a very…

Is there transcendentalism today in our world? Yes, there is tons and tons of transcendentalism today in our society. They are found mostly everywhere and we do not notice it. They can be found anywhere in general like television, music, art speeches and literature. For my project, I found a song that relates to transcendentalism. This song is very well known and it is called “Imagine” by John Lennon. The song is about obtaining peace and fighting for what you believe in. This song shows many…

always tries to run away from her past running in to bad men and drugs. That perhaps this is the reason she enjoys the friendship she has with Forrest as her own life is not quite the American ideology. When Forrest joins the army he meets Bubba a dreamer in the shrimping business who on the opposite of Forrest that choose to enroll he was drafted. Forrest talk about how Bubbas mother and grandmother and so on where cooks you see the image of a woman of color serving a white man which was usual…

Greek medicine is traditional indigenous holistic healing system of Western civilization. This is based on healing arts that consist of natural remedies. It was believed that this type of medicine was a form of religion or magic where rituals were used as treatments for all type of diseases. It all began and systematized by the Greek philosopher and physician known as Hippocrates in the 4th century B.C.E. Medicine as many other things in life are expected to developed over the course of time…

Sun by Loraine Hansberry, the main theme is money and the characters differing opinions on how the insurance money should be spent. The first character, Walter, wants to spend the money on a risky business endeavor with his friends. Walter is a big dreamer and he is frustrated with where he is in his life and how he is providing for his family. The other character is Mama, Walters mother, she received the money after the death of her husband Big Walter. She doesn't understand how her children…

Depending on what animals, scenes, colors, etc. a person sees in their dream, they can be interpreted to determine how a person is feeling emotionally; consequently, dreams can lead to significant discoveries of the psychological well-being of the dreamer. Since every person is a unique individual, assorted elements of a dream can have distinctive implications. Say a person dreamed of a single red heart. For one, it may seem to be a symbol of love. On the other hand, for another, it may seem…

Caesar was a powerful and noble leader. He did everything with his power to make the Roman Empire successful. Caesar trusted his friends with difficult decisions he had to make, but there was one thing that not everybody liked about him. Julius Caesar was hungry for power and would do anything for it, even if that meant killing someone. The people he called friends soon got fed up with his addiction of power and started to plot the assassination of him. Despite the fact that Julius Caesar was…