Download or read book Dakota and the American Dream written by Sameer Garach and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When ten-year-old Dakota becomes bored sitting next to his mother on a park bench, he drifts off and falls into a dream in which he follows a squirrel down a game of hopscotch until he finds himself in a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures.The satirical tale plays with many themes characteristic of America and its corporate culture as seen through the expert eyes of a child, giving the story popularity with adults as well as children. From a rudimentary perspective, the novella is about the trials and tribulations of growing up, or overweight, or old. But from another more complex one, it concerns ridiculous points of sharp humor, such as the American Dream, the rat race, racism in the workplace, the corporate ladder and hierarchy, office romance, an unhealthy love affair with body image, the obsession with prescription medication, the work and coffee culture, the constant fear of losing one's job, the importance of golf in career success, happy hour and team-building exercises, age discrimination, and the diversity of dialect found in the United States.To define the charm of the Dakota book-with those wonderful eccentric characters the Greenback Squirrel, the White Mouse, the Black Rat, the Bigwig, the Chairman, the Big Boss, the Westchester Whelp, the 800-pound Gorilla, etc.-as merely an adolescent arousal would convey a lack of proper understanding, for it really comprises a satire on language, a corporate allegory, a reflection of contemporary history, and a parody of twenty-first-century children's literature.

Download or read book Endangered American Dream written by Edward N. Luttwak and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's most thoughtful and provocative strategists exposes the economic and cultural assumptions that have driven the U.S. to the brink of social and financial collapse. Edward Luttwak reveals a forceful new policy that can reverse America's decline.

Download or read book Northern Utopia Rebirth of American Dream written by Mat Chaudhry and published by Mat Chaudhry. This book was released on 2013 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Dreams written by Ian Brown and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful, moving collection of 170 portraits of Americans and their handwritten statements about what the American dream means to them. Shot by one photographer over twelve years, fifty states, and eighty thousand miles, American Dreams is a poignant, defining look at people from every walk of life and a remarkable exploration of what it means to be an American. Long fascinated by the idea of the “American Dream,” Canadian photographer Ian Brown set out to document, in photographs and words, what that dream means to Americans of all ages, races, identities, classes, religions, and ideologies. Over the course of twelve years, Brown traveled more than eighty thousand miles in an old truck, visiting all fifty states and connecting with hundreds of Americans. He knocked on people's doors; met them at town halls, diners, and factories; and approached them on main streets in small towns. He shot their portraits and asked them to write down their own American dreams. Their dreams and stories—which range from hopeful, moving, and optimistic to defiant, bitter, and heartbreaking—offer a fascinating, unparalleled perspective of the striking diversity and deep nuance of the American experience.

Download or read book The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in and describing the decadent period of 1920's America, Fitzgerald's lyrical verse is a tragically simple love story that is strangely profound. This is a haunting classic that stays with the reader.

Download or read book Hunter S Thompson and the Death of the American Dream written by Andrew Brewick and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The American Dream written by Jim Cullen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first "narrative history" traces the thread that binds the dreams and aspirations of most Americans together, exploring shared history and sacred texts--the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence--in search of the origins of these ideas.

Download or read book American Dreams written by Ian Brown and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful, moving collection of 170 portraits of Americans and their handwritten statements about what the American dream means to them. Shot by one photographer over twelve years, fifty states, and eighty thousand miles, American Dreams is a poignant, defining look at people from every walk of life and a remarkable exploration of what it means to be an American. Long fascinated by the idea of the “American Dream,” Canadian photographer Ian Brown set out to document, in photographs and words, what that dream means to Americans of all ages, races, identities, classes, religions, and ideologies. Over the course of twelve years, Brown traveled more than eighty thousand miles in an old truck, visiting all fifty states and connecting with hundreds of Americans. He knocked on people's doors; met them at town halls, diners, and factories; and approached them on main streets in small towns. He shot their portraits and asked them to write down their own American dreams. Their dreams and stories—which range from hopeful, moving, and optimistic to defiant, bitter, and heartbreaking—offer a fascinating, unparalleled perspective of the striking diversity and deep nuance of the American experience.

Download or read book From American Dream to God s Destiny written by Robert Louis Huber and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Indians and the American Dream written by Kasey R. Keeler and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the processes and policies of urbanization and suburbanization in American Indian communities Nearly seven out of ten American Indians live in urban areas, yet studies of urban Indian experiences remain scant. Studies of suburban Natives are even more rare. Today’s suburban Natives, the fastest-growing American Indian demographic, highlight the tensions within federal policies working in tandem to move and house differing groups of people in very different residential locations. In American Indians and the American Dream, Kasey R. Keeler examines the long history of urbanization and suburbanization of Indian communities in Minnesota. At the intersection of federal Indian policy and federal housing policy, American Indians and the American Dream analyzes the dispossession of Indian land, property rights, and patterns of home ownership through programs and policies that sought to move communities away from their traditional homelands to reservations and, later, to urban and suburban areas. Keeler begins this analysis with the Homestead Act of 1862, then shifts to the Indian Reorganization Act in the early twentieth century, the creation of Little Earth in Minneapolis, and Indian homeownership during the housing bubble of the early 2000s. American Indians and the American Dream investigates the ways American Indians accessed homeownership, working with and against federal policy, underscoring American Indian peoples’ unequal and exclusionary access to the way of life known as the American dream. Cover alt text: Vintage photo of Native person bathing smiling child in the sink of a midcentury kitchen. Title in yellow.

Download or read book Dakota Dreams written by Constance O'Banyon and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1988-11 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced into marriage to pay off her brother's debts, beautiful Lady Breanna Kendell was shocked to learn her betrothed was an Indian halfbreed. And Dakota Remington was in England only because of a deathbed promise to his father. But when the two met, a fiery passion held them both prisoners to love!

Download or read book The Philosophy of the Extreme Situation in Norman Mailer s An American Dream written by John Bremer and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dakota Dream written by James W. Bennett and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 1994 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being shuttled between foster homes and institutions for most of his life, fifteen-year-old Floyd Rayfield escapes from a mental institution to a Sioux reservation, desperately seeking a family and a home.

Download or read book Hollywood Beauty written by Ronald L. Davis and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At fifteen, Linda Darnell left her Texas home and normal adolescence to live the Hollywood dream promoted by fan magazine and studio publicity offices. She appeared in dozens of films and won international acclaim for Blood and Sand (playing opposite Tyrone Power), Forever Amber, A Letter to Three Wives, and the original version of Unfaithfully Yours. Driven by a stage mother to become rich and Famous, but unable to cope with the career she had longed for as a child, Darnell soon was caught in a downward spiral of drinking, failed marriages, and exploitive relationships. By her early twenties she was an alcoholic, hardened by a life in which beautiful women were chattel, and by the time of her death at age forty- one, she was struggling for recognition in the industry that once had called her its "glory girl.” Hollywood Beauty begins in the Southwest during the Depression, when Pearl Darnell became obsessed by the glitter of the movie world that would dominate her children’s lives. We follow Linda’s path from her Texas childhood and first public success–during the state centennial, in 1936–through her contract work with Twentieth Century-Fox in the heyday of the big-studio system. Film historian Ronald L. Davis documents Darnell’s discovery and marriages, the adoption of her daughter, the marking of many well-known films, and her emotional difficulties, leading up to her tragic death by fire. This is the story of a native teenager from a dysfunctional middle-class family thrust into the golden age of Hollywood. Hollywood Beauty examines America’s public worship of movie stars and superficial success–its motives and consequences–and the addiction to escapism that this worship represents.

Download or read book Samuel Clemens written by Frank McCahill and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Living an American Dream a Biographical Memoir written by William Nix and published by . This book was released on 2021-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his autobiography, Professor William D. Nix (1936- ) weaves together his family's experiences, and their emphasis on character and personal interactions. These have influenced his life, from humble beginnings in rural California to his rewarding career as a professor of materials science at Stanford University. Above all, this is a story of the wisdom and lessons of his parents, who came to California from Arkansas and Texas in the depths of the Depression, and of his wife, North Dakota native Jean Telford Nix. His earliest recollections tell of King City, California, in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and of Paso Robles during the Second World War. With the family's move to the Santa Clara Valley just after the war, Nix grew up in San Jose as the orchards of the Valley of Heart's Delight were giving way to the electronics and aerospace powerhouse of Silicon Valley. He and Jean raised their own family in Sunnyvale. Nix was at the academic center of the local technological revolution, as the first to graduate from San Jose State's Metallurgical Engineering Department and as a graduate student at Stanford. Known for his special qualities as a teacher, as well as a researcher, Nix developed an extensive academic family throughout his long, award-winning career at Stanford. He details his teaching and research, 1962 to present, along with that of colleagues and students, as the modern field of materials science transformed from a focus on metallurgical industries to a handmaiden of aerospace and microelectronics.

Download or read book Our Kids written by Robert D. Putnam and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The bestselling author of Bowling Alone offers [an] ... examination of the American Dream in crisis--how and why opportunities for upward mobility are diminishing, jeopardizing the prospects of an ever larger segment of Americans"--