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opportunity. Out of that thinking comes the "American Dream," the idea that anyone can ultimately achieve success, even if he or she began with nothing. In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, we follow Willy Loman as he reviews a life of desperate pursuit of a dream of success. In this classic drama, the playwright suggests to his audience both what is truthful and what is illusory in the American Dream and, hence, in the lives of millions of Americans. Unusual in its presentation of a common man

Ph.D., The New School for Social Research, 1997. Address: (Home) 20-41 41st. Street # 2 Astoria, NY 11105 Telephone: (718) 267 0844 Email: javier.auyero@stonybrook.edu(Office) Sociology Department Office: SBS N-433 State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-4356 Telephone: (631) 632 4884 Fax: (631) 632-8203Education University of Buenos Aires, Licenciatura (Sociology), 1991. The New School for Social Research, M.A. with honors (Sociology), 1995. The New School for

Biographie Edward Hopper est né à Nyack (état de New York) le 22 juillet 1882 dans une famille de commerçants prospères.  Attiré très tôt par le dessin, il suit des études à la New York School of Art où l'un de ses professeurs, Robert Henri, exercera une grande influence sur lui. Il lui apprend à représenter des scènes réalistes de la vie urbaine. Hopper est un peintre réaliste et un graveur américain qui exerce essentiellement son art à New York, où il a son atelier.   Au début de sa carrière

FGLC 60102—26/10/2004—KATHIR—124361 Global Crime Vol. 6, No. 1, February 2004, pp. 8–18 North American Organised Crime Jay S. Albanese The Italian– American mafia is one of the most enduring images of organised crime, but separating fictional images of organised crime from the real thing has not been easy. Overall, organised crime is a continuing criminal enterprise that rationally works to profit from illicit activities that are often in great public demand. Its continuing existence is maintained

the United States by "the people of France" in 1886. Standing on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, it welcomes visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans traveling by ship. The copper-clad statue, dedicated on October 28, 1886, commemorates the centennial of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence and was given to the United States to represent the friendship established during the American Revolution. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi sculpted the statue and obtained a U.S. patent

mardi 11 septembre 2001, dix-neuf terroristes détournent quatre avions de ligne afin de les écraser sur des bâtiments hautement symboliques du nord-est du pays. Deux avions sont projetés sur les tours jumelles du World Trade Center (WTC) à Manhattan (New York) et le troisième sur le Pentagone, siège du Département de la Défense, à Washington, D.C., tuant toutes les personnes à bord et de nombreuses autres travaillant dans ces immeubles. Les deux tours - dont les toits culminent à un peu plus de 415 m

version of what he had written. In September of the same year Wright registered for mathematics, English, and history courses at the new Lanier High School in Jackson but had to stop attending classes after a few weeks of irregular attendance because he needed to earn money for family expenses. His childhood in Memphis and Mississippi shaped his lasting impressions of American racism.[2] Chicago Wright moved to Chicago in 1927. After finally securing employment as a postal clerk, he read other writers

Institute of New York University and Yale University, which made him part of the elite. He worked at the New York Stock Exchange until 1912 where he decided that his savings were sufficient to quit his jobs and start writing books. He was chosen in 1919 by the U.S. delegation to attend the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. He wrote several books, such as The Founding of New England, which was acclaimed by the critics. He died in 1949, member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Historical

The Great Gatsby, F.S. Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author Francis Scott Fitzgerald, first published on April 10, 1925. F.S. Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) is one of the most famous American authors of what is called “The Lost Generation” of the Twenties. – Notably with E. Hemingway & G. Stein -, authors who lived in Paris after the First World War. This term has latterly been used as shorthand to designate groups of young people

On the Threshold of a new world Commentary Introduction Extract from a book by Mark Helprin called Ellis Island and other stories. The passage deals with the arrival of an immigrant in the Usa at Ellis Island. 1st person narrative : “I” The passage can be divided into 3 parts: * Lines 1 to 15 : Physical tests * Lines 16 to 31 : Intellectual tests * Line 32 to the end : The American dream First I’m going to talk about the narrator’s situation, then I’ll show why immigrants