... today adding secular and capitalistic overtures to its propositions, perpetrating a hegemony of class and social privilege. William Fahey in his book F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Dream, defined the "dream" as it connotes today. For Fahey, this dream involves "a rise from rags to riches, of amassing a great fortune that will assure a life of luxuriant ease, power, and beauty in an ideal ... ramifications of which almost, always culminates in sense of regret and sorrow, moral complexity, dissatisfaction, identity struggle and void in the soul. Carrie Meeber and the American Dream Fo...

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... of the challenges faced by American theatre in effectively disseminating its work to a broad generational demographic. Finally, I will examine the strategies and solutions being employed by the theatre community in an effort to expand theatre's visibility to, and engagement with, a new generation of potential audience members. CHAPTER ONE A Personal Perspective on Generational Homogeneity The first production I ever directed was arguably my most successful. While "Dream" (my ... adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream ... ...

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... overpowering her. Her confinement deprives her of freedom and liberation to be who she really is. It is a painful realization that the scholarships and prizes which brought her to New York are not enough to make her feel adequate and prepared for life. Instead of the award-winning American girl finding happiness by following society's rules, she is in a struggle with herself and ... the world. As Esther's "carefully built up public personality dissolve[s]," she echoes the feelings of Plath's real life struggle (Steiner 21). "As [Plath] became increasingly conscious of herself as ... , "...

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... the officials of the White Star line thought that more lifeboats would reduce the overall lavishness and comfort of the liner, so to them less was more. After climbing onto a lifeboat to save himself, Ismay had been accused of being a coward, fleeing from the disaster he was, at least to some extent, at fault for. Captain Edward ... J. Smith had his own heap of unintelligent choices, not quite as bad as Ismay's, but still added to the disaster. Unnecessary choices were made on that voyage, such as ... there not being any emergency drills nor familiarity of any kind in lowering and handl...

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... as an entity punk was an anarchistic representation of freedom and of sexual (and asexual) perspectives, identities and self-expression. It mocked the everyday standard existence of the American family, and the nine-to-five ethic. Bands like the New York Dolls, and the White Trash Debutantes dressed in outrageous women's clothing and played loud, distorted, simple progressions with hard, driving beats behind them. A ... of punk, and poets and authors like Patti Smith and Jim Carroll composed prose and verse that critiqued society and the so-called "American Dream"." One venue, the Merce...

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... the Americas. Most found unskilled work in America's cities such as New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. Many left with the intent of returning home after a few years after they had built up some capital. "They came to make money so that they could buy land back in Italy and improve their lot". Most of these Italians came to America in search of the "American Dream ... " . For many the move provided positive results, of those that were ... permanent residents in the United States, only 10% made a living through agriculture, although 75% of them had been peasant farmers in Italy. Italians...

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... -Americans participated in this mass movement. During the first decade of the 20th century, the infestation of southern cotton crops by insects called boll weevils diminished production and curtailed the need for farm labor. The CHICAGO DEFENDER, the most influential black newspaper encouraged blacks to leave. The paper held visions of the north as the land of freedom, a dream that has been in the hearts of black men and women since ... fraternal orders, political organizations, social clubs, and newspapers asserted an urban consciousness that became the foundation for the militancy and ...

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... "A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and pervade the very atmosphere-. The Narrator even makes a personal comment on it saying: "If ever I should wish for a retreat, whither I might steal from the world and its distractions and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley."" The time period of the story is never stated clearly which in ... my opinion makes the town feel even more remote. I see the theme of this story to be Do not be so obsessed ... describing a time period it seemed to be very vague such as...

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... - informed platform. I afraid to say that poorly cultural knowledge is due to the all junk television produced, been affected all generations. Finally, television is focused in produce entertainment to the audience. According to some statistics showed in an article of New York daily news, an American newspaper, the average American over the age of 2 spends more than 34 hours a week watching live television and ... programs related to popular TV shows. Is that the most of people is concerned more in popular shows and ... entertainment but the real situation is that the media as a medium ...

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... that there is a parallel between consumerism and quality of life. My population will probably be Union College students. Analyzing and critiquing the work of sociologists, social scientists, and historians before me, I will also review how consumerism has begun to shape the American way of life. Since World War II, there has been a growing consumer culture, which as many people point out, has caused ... a decrease in the quality of life in the United States. How has the consumer culture impacted social life in America? For example, Lasn, in his book, Culture Jammers ... abroad in Engla...

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... ; aisle, home to products like Skippy peanut butter and Easy Cheese. Not only are American clothing lines and food products available around the world, but American television shows and films are also watched abroad, giving the world a glimpse at American life even if they have never been to the country. And, because New York is such an important city, with about 8.4 million residents, making up about ... , my older sister and I were both born in London, and, while both of our parents are born and bred Americans, with average American accents, the two of us developed very obvious British ...

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... than in their leading cities of their countries. As consequence we cannot speak of a standard 'minority' or 'majority' model. The largest ethnic group is the British one representing 15% of the American population, on the second place are the Germans with a percentage of 13% and 11% are blacks. As a result of this mixture many Americans don't identify themselves ethnically because ... found different opportunities depending on the area in which they settled; nowadays this difference still exists. The income in New York is almost double than in Mississippi regarding the same eth...

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... were primarily made up of young adults, and their high concentration of previously unexposed Caucasians destroyed the herd immunity provided by large slave populations that tended to break the cycle of infection.7 Every expeditionary force that set foot in the American tropics was decimated by disease; some forces lost 75% of their men to yellow fever. ... that malaria, a mosquito transmitted disease, impacted the British expeditionary force in a similar fashion to yellow fever's effect on European forces in the American Tropics. This time the swampy rice plantations of the Carolinas pr...

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... Thus black boys are five times and Latino boys nearly three times as likely as white boys to go to jail. The largest evidence of racism prevailing from the criminal justice system is the gross over population of people of colour in the system. Whites comprise the majority of the American population, blacks about 12.7%, and Latinos represent about 11.7%. In 2003, blacks comprised 48.2% of ... bargains consist of promise of a longer sentence if a person exercises their constitutional right to trial. As a result, people get caught up in the system, with the American Bar Association stating...

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... proper taught to be one, learned his way to success as one of America's greatest painter in the nineteenth century. His works include many subjects - the civil war soldiers, landscapes, slavery, hunting and American women... Some of his works linked with significant national events such as the civil war. In 1859, after more than twenty years living in Boston, Massachusetts, he decided to go ... to New York and work as an illustrator for Harper's Weekly magazine. New york in the late nineteenth century was america ... there, he painted a lot of famous Civil war Painintgs and one of them...

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Walking down the streets, minding ones business, the average American takes for granted many immutable rights dictated through the American Bill of Rights. As the fourth amendement of the United States Constitution states: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue ... of rights bring an unquestionable hypocracy to the US Constitution. How can citizens be given the freedom of speech, press, and religion while federal surveillance can arrest them for such act...

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... Sixties and early Nineteen Seventies, these class struggles reached a boiling as evidenced by the massive prison uprising in Attica, New York. (Zinn, A People's History, 514) "The prisons in the United States had long been an extreme reflection of the American system itself: the stark life differences between rich and poor . . . and the use of victims against one another." (Zinn, A People's History, 515) In any given year, there ... from California, in August of 1971 at the hands of prison officials sent shockwaves throughout the prisons of the United States. (Zinn, A People's History, ...

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... where other rest districts of Queens were declined. The political stature of Flushing appears to be increasing significantly, with many Chinese from Flushing becoming New York City Council members. For instance, John Chun Liu, the first Asian American elected to the city council and Grace Meng became the first Asian American elected to Congress in 2012(Foner). In addition, ... many organizations are formed, such as the Chinese Immigrants Voters association and etc. Moreover, there are many cultural events in Flushing ... besides Chinese cultures, other cultural offerings are also availa...

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... who killed minorities." In response to these and other findings, figures of the left wing are speaking out. "The entire criminal-justice system is rife with racism, and this is nowhere more evident than in the administration of the death penalty," said Diann Rust-Tierney, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Capital Punishment Project. "What is this, some form ... their lethal fury by extolling the purported benefits that such killing would bring to the rest of society. The benefits of capital punishment are illusory, but the bloodshed and the resulting destruction of commu...

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... who killed minorities." In response to these and other findings, figures of the left wing are speaking out. "The entire criminal-justice system is rife with racism, and this is nowhere more evident than in the administration of the death penalty," said Diann Rust-Tierney, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Capital Punishment Project. "What is this, some form ... their lethal fury by extolling the purported benefits that such killing would bring to the rest of society. The benefits of capital punishment are illusory, but the bloodshed and the resulting destruction of commu...

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... to be a more tragic one, when we talk about the freedom of speech. After the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the pictures of the irradicated Japanese were not made available to the American public until 1980's (Roach 25). The following is an example of this "hiding" policy of the gatekeepers. In November 1983 the Americans had the chance to watch ABC's The Day After, which was a film set in Japan, about ... the survival of a small number of Americans after an atomic blast. The film dramatically showed the dark side of the nuclear technology. In 1982 a Canadian ... ...

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... from September to November 1986 and all of the New York Mob bosses received 100-year sentences. The case marked the first large scale use of RICO against the Mafia. It was a major blow to the Five families by imprisoning there top leaders as well as other men from the organization. Another example of then RICO was used against the American Mafia was during an eighteen month period ... in mid 1990s, when it was used to almost entire bring down the Lucchese crime family. Imprisoning the Lucchese family had made a huge impact on previously help Mafia businesses. Such as the garment industr...

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... less privileged and a "more equitable and inclusive society" (Porter, 1). Obama, a full supporter of enhancing opportunities involving community colleges, has said that "they are 'essential pathways to the middle class'" (1). While all of this might be true, it does not ensure that these students will finish their schooling. Community colleges do not provide enough security for students ... quot; (Porter, 2). College is being seen as something only for the elite and those that do not participate are not up to American standards. The solution does not only lie in the budget problems o...

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... by Hamlet, which is essentially a collage of file footage of families and poison (both realistic and cartoon) is an avant-garde deconstruction of the original play's masque, the effect on Kyle McLachlan's slimy yet sympathetic Claudius remaining the same. With "The Mousetrap" we see Hawke's film student Hamlet as the American auteur, consuming and altering many other sources to create a new product (much like much other ... American culture and this film in particular.) This Hamlet is typically American, grounded thoroughly in the culture and aesthetic of that nation (dressed in the war...

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... sorts for the arch-nemesis of the United States, the communist. Many of the people targeted in McCarthy's hunt were celebrities based solely on the reason that they spend a lot of time outside the country; Miller topped this exclusive list and in response he wrote "The Crucible" as an example to the people of America of the parallels between events in the 1950s and the 1690s. The American people soon ... realized that what they were doing was equivalent to the heinous acts committed in the 17th century, which eventually led to the downfall of belief in McCarthy's ... ideals. What the C...

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