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Showing 1 to 20 of 116 for “"American dream"”.
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The American dream starts here
This collection of essays examines a family--created, sustained, and broken--through their lives in a small town, by war, and by each other. Essays include "Highlights From the Apocalypse," in which the narrator examines familial prophecy and tragedy and their place in the context of a culture …
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Store House : unpacking the American dream
Since 1950 the average US home has grown from 1100 square feet to over 2600 square feet. During this same period the average family size shrunk by a person, meaning that per capita residential square footage has more than tripled in less than 60 years. What's more, if one looks at residential …
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The Institutionalization of the American Dream
… traditional societal pressures to pursue the American dream of home ownership. Even though the purchase of a home is one of the biggest investments the average American will make it rarely is evaluated solely as an investment because the timing and market conditions are normally dictated by …
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Robert Zemeckis, Hollywood & the American Dream, 1978-1994
… very centrally with US social values, recent American (i.e., baby boomer) history, and the concept of the American Dream. Significantly, this run coincided with the peak years of the culture wars, an era in which questions around American national identity and US history since the 1950s were …
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Losing home: Housing, displacement, and the American Dream
… highlights the violent geographies of the American dream, in which both political economies of urban housing and heteropatriarchal cultures of domesticity produce racialized and gendered cycles of displacement. Further, it enables a radical reimagining of domestic space as a potential site …
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Urbanizing the American dream : symbiotic housing for Baltimore
In the 1950s, the American dream of owning a suburban single family home was directed at one demographic, the nuclear family. America's resources seemed limitless: industry marketing and government policies encouraged over consumption and enabled middle class families to buy their own mass produced …
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Cooperative housing and the American dream--examining resident participation
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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An American Dream: The Fatal Gambit For Sutpen And Gatsby
… The Great Gatshy, as men of distinctive American character in fatal pursuit of the American dream. The attainment of that dream, defined as an individual goal of personal success, which is sought in a state of unlimited possibility, which is ultimately expressed in socially acceptable …
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Encasing the American Dream: The Story of Plastic and Steel
… these products, helped to create an ideal American kitchen, a symbol of postwar prosperity, patriotism, and progress. In addition to explaining the history of how these materials were produced, marketed, and used, this thesis provides a practical guide for preservation professionals, …
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Exodus industrious : a new American dream for the next industrial revolution
… at a critical moment in the history of the Americanism. Exodus is the story of capitalism and industry, and its antithetical decline which destabilizes a nation. Industrious is the story of the American Dream, a prodigal tale of the excess of Americanism, which was once rooted in a belief …
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They, Too Sing America : Braided Narratives About Immigrants and the American Dream
… and analyzes the pervasiveness of the American Dream in American culture. This work uses the vocabulary of Race theory and Postcolonial theory to offer a fuller understanding of the challenges that immigrants face when attempting to assimilate into the United States. Furthermore, this …
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This is not my beautiful house : cohousing as an alternative American Dream
This work addresses my hopes and concerns about what a community could be. Somerville housing is made up largely of rental properties. As in any rental housing endeavor the occupants consider themselves lucky if the monthly rent is reasonable and the property is well cared for. They arc considered …
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The American dream and literature: how the themes of self-reliance and individualism in American literature are relevant in preserving both the aesthetics and the ideals of the American dream
… paper is to examine how selected works in the American literary canon contribute to defining, constructing, and sustaining the basic principles of the American dream, in which each individual has the unlimited opportunities to achieve personal freedom and prosperity. Through the examination and …
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“The Sunlit Prison of the American Dream”: Representing Carcerality in Contemporary American Fiction
This thesis argues that contemporary American literary authors are reconfiguring the genre of prison writing to better represent and encompass the ever-extending reach of the carceral State in the twenty-first century. This new form of prison writing can be better understood as carceral writing, as …
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THE AMERICAN DREAM: THE EFFECT OF MERITOCRACY BELIEFS OF WOMEN ON FUTURE EXPECTATIONS OF SEXISM
Members of stigmatized groups differ in the degree to which they feel that society can be accurately described as meritocratic. Previous research investigated the effects of endorsing or rejecting meritocracy beliefs on women's predictions of future sexism, and found that after a sexist event, …
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The Dark Side of the American Dream: Individual Agency, Hard Work, and Public Mass Shootings
… the origins and continuing existence of the American Dream. The American Dream refers to the belief that hard work will result in success and upward mobility for future generations. In other words, American culture views each individual as the master of their own destiny, provided they work …
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Crime, Media, and The American Dream: The Role of Media Consumption in Institutional Anomie Theory
… (IAT) is based on the assumption that the “American Dream” produces a society that is obsessed with the pursuit of success and dominated by the economy. Thus, crime is prevalent in the United States because individuals are willing to cut corners in order to attain the “dream” for themselves. …
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