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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"The American dream"”.
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The American dream starts here
… 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 over-saturated with end-of-days …
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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
Currently, there is a gap between what is offered via the single-family homeownership model in the United States and what is desired by home consumers. Home consumers make one of the biggest investment decisions in their lives primarily based on utilization needs. The state of the housing market, …
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Robert Zemeckis, Hollywood & the American Dream, 1978-1994
… an astonishing run of commercial success at the US box-office, with eight of the eleven movies he made between 1984 and 2004 becoming top ten hits in their respective years of release. These included two year-end number ones in Back to the Future in 1985 and Forrest Gump in 1994. Taking …
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Losing home: Housing, displacement, and the American Dream
<p>Over the past decade, new oral history archives and self-publishing platforms have led to an explosion in the production of memoirs and oral histories of homelessness. This dissertation frames the growing genre of homeless life narratives as a form of urban theory that has been largely displaced …
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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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Encasing the American Dream: The Story of Plastic and Steel
This thesis considers a preservation understanding and treatment for mid twentieth-century building materials that were designed and promoted to appear “brand new” in perpetuity. Based on their significance as pervasive mid-twentieth-century building materials, as well as their broader social, …
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They, Too Sing America : Braided Narratives About Immigrants and the American Dream
… explores issues of immigrant identity such as otherness, loneliness, and unhomeliness, 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 …
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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
<p>The aim of this 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 …
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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
This project traces 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, …
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Crime, Media, and The American Dream: The Role of Media Consumption in Institutional Anomie Theory
Messner and Rosenfeld’s 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 …
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Archibald Macleish, Spokesman for Democracy: A Rhetorical Study of His Advocacy of the American Dream
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T23:56:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317432.pdf: 12524425 bytes, checksum: f48788e79470f3d9af1e1ee7e4b623d6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Hungering for the American dream: Filipino farmworker foodscape in San Joaquin County, California (1939-1965)
… an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Numbers And Neighborhoods: Seeking And Selling The American Dream In Detroit One Bet At A Time
<p>The study of numbers gambling in Detroit offers an important perspective on the concept and performance of community cohesion within the urban fabric of the United States. Research is limited concerning the role numbers gambling has played in community cohesion. This dissertation expands the …
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