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The American Dream and the American Family
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Katarina Bajer This paper will focus on the impact of the American Dream on the American family with a particular emphasis on the period of the Roaring Twenties. By using Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby as a representative novel of the period the aim is to show that family background has a significant impact not only on how individuals pursue the American Dream but also the extent to which they achieve or fail in their endeavors. The diversity of the family backgrounds of the main characters...
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The American Dream and the Consumer Culture in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie
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Sandra Hlaban This paper examines the notion of what the American Dream and its consumer culture has meant to individuals throughout the history of the development of American society. As to fully understand the reasons of the creation of this notion, this study takes a closer look at the first American colonies in the light of their religious beliefs. The paper explains the principles that the Dream is built on as well as the virtues that reflect on modern society. Furthermore, the study makes evident...
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The American Dream from the Immigrants' Perspective
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Sandra Dadić The aim of this paper is to explore the American Dream viewed from the immigrant’s perspective. Various definitions of the American Dream are presented as well as the Dream’s origins with a particular focus on the meaning of the American Dream for the immigrants. The paper highlights the four waves of American immigration by explaining who, why and when came to the Unites States, and what were their expectations. Immigrants have commonly viewed the United States as the country that...
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The American Dream in the Media
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Filip Akmačić Many African Americans in the United States today have a negative view of the country’s racial progress. Despite their significant contributions in the settling and development of the country African Americans still have not achieved equal citizen’s rights as guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. The present study has shown that through decades of hardships and inequality, African Americans have not been given an equal opportunity to...
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The Animal Motif in Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
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Sandra Savanović This paper analyzes the animal motif in Edgar Allan Poe’s selected works. It focuses on three animal motifs in four of Poe’s works – the short stories “The Black Cat,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” and “Hop-Frog,” and the poem “The Raven.” The paper argues that the three animal motifs, the black cat, the raven, and the orangutan, personify certain elements of the human nature – feelings, emotions, human constructs, phenomena of the human society, and the stages of...
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The Attitude towards Women in Kerouac's Novel On the Road
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Andrea Štefić The paper will discuss the Beat Generation, its historical background, aesthetics of writing, key figures of the movement, and their most prominent works, with special emphasis on features and publication of the novel On the Road. The thesis will also discuss the position of women throughout history and then explicitly analyze the attitudes of men towards women in Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road. It will debate the perspective, behavior, and language used to describe and talk about women...
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The Awakening of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening"
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Mirijam Filipović This diploma paper elaborately describes the awakening of Edna Pontellier’s character. She gains her independence, liberation of her real character and sexual desire through series of little awakenings. Women’s position in the late nineteenth century is being discussed, because in this novel, through the character of the main protagonist Edna, Kate Chopin is showing experiences of a woman trapped in that time. With her naturalistic narrative style Chopin has perfectly depicted a woman...
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The Awakening of the "New Woman" in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
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Maja Fabijanac This paper discusses the development of female psyche in nineteenth century American literature. Three literary texts by prominent female authors were taken into consideration as a model for this research – the novel The Awakening (1899) written by Kate Chopin, Trifles (1916), a play in one act by Susan Glaspell, and A Room of One’s Own (1929), an essay on feminist criticism by Virginia Woolf. This paper is divided into three chapters, each discussing one particular author. Chapters...
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The Battle Against Racial Discrimination in America: Peaceful Protests
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Jelena Karakaš The United States was created upon the claim that all men are created equal but when one takes a closer look into American history, it becomes evident that those who were not of the white race suffered discrimination, exploitation and deprivation of basic human and civil rights. Despite the hardships and hatred directed at them, the African Americans chose to gain equality and overcome the prejudices and discrimination by fighting violence using chiefly non-violent methods. The aim of the...
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The Beat Generation and the American Counterculture of the 1960s
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Izabela Tomakić This paper analyzes and presents a survey of American mainstream culture of the 1950s, the Beat Generation, and the counterculture of the 1960s. Both the 1950s Beat movement and the hippie movement of the 1960s were a reaction to the affluent and materialistic capitalist society of the 1950s and 1960s. They emphasized uniqueness and beauty of the individual, and attacked the dehumanizing effects of materialism and industrialism. These movements were critical of the mainstream culture and its...
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The Byronic Hero in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
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Dunja Dujić Emily Brontë’s only novel Wuthering Heights challenged the traditional literary conventions due to its exploration of themes of desire, violence, and complexity of human emotions. Despite the initial neglect, the novel has gained recognition as a timeless classic. The archetypal hero created by Lord Byron served as an inspiration for Heathcliff, the protagonist of Wuthering Heights. This paper aims to analyze Heathcliff’s character by drawing upon the characteristics associated with the...
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The Challenges of Translating Advertisements and Slogans
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Ana Komljenović The paper studies translations of advertisements based on the strategies used for translating advertisements and slogans. All the advertisements were translated or adapted from English into Croatian, and analysed according to a set of strategies, which are often used in the translation of advertisements. The set of strategies that is presented in the paper was made through a close examination of relevant literature in the field of advertising and translation. The main source of data for...
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