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Lyons, Mark W. "American dreams /." Online version of thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11237.
Full textMartins, Natali Lameiras. "Portuguese with american dreams." Dissertação, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 2009. http://aleph.letras.up.pt/F?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=000196709.
Full textMartins, Natali Lameiras. "Portuguese with american dreams." Master's thesis, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/20375.
Full textLee, Jooyoung Kim. "Rap dreams." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1997614291&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textFirmin, Julia Anne. "Dividing dreams : race, class and the American Dream in DeLillo, Allison and Naylor." Thesis, University of Essex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.433549.
Full textPhillips, Steven. "American Dreams| Stories of Millennial Car Culture." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10623838.
Full textAmerican Dreams: Stories of Millennial Car Culture is a multimedia project that uses photos, videos, and an essay to profile two young men—German Coello and Corey McKenzie—involved in two very different types of car culture: stanced Hondas and Volvo rally cars, respectively. The project explores the automotive subculture and racing can have a profound impact on young people in terms of finding personal identity, and building positive and supportive relationships and communities. American Dreams relates stories beyond cars about finding your place in a new country after immigration and finding joy in Appalachian Maryland.
Sierra, Simon. "99¢ Dreams." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2021. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/978.
Full textMcMurtry, Deirdre C. "Discerning Dreams in New France: Jesuit Responses to Native American Dreams in the Early Seventeenth Century." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1236636966.
Full textStokes, Mindy. "Women, Domestic Abuse, And Dreams: Analyzing Dreams To Uncover Hidden Traumas And Unacknowledged Strengths." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000425.
Full textStone, Christopher D. "Fields of dreams the image of the sixties in American cinema /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3378382.
Full textTitle from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 7, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-10, Section: A, page: 4018. Adviser: Bodnar E. John.
Barnes, Barbara A. "Global extremes : spectacles of wilderness adventure, endless frontiers, and American dreams /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
Full textLach, Pamella R. Filene Peter G. "Dancing dreams performing American identities in postwar Hollywood musicals, 1944-1958 /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1133.
Full textTitle from electronic title page (viewed Mar. 27, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History." Discipline: History; Department/School: History.
Thompson, Phyllis Elizabeth Pratt. "Domestic Pleasures: Dreams of Hope and Fulfillment in American Home Life." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11682.
Full textHatley, Aaron Robertson. "Tin Lizzie Dreams: Henry Ford and Antimodern American Culture, 1919-1942." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467285.
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Click, Sally Evelyn. "Melvene Draheim Hardee music maker and dreamer of dreams /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1237838404.
Full textAsuo-Mante, Eric K. "Ghanaian Immigrants in United States: American Dreams, a Shattered Heaven, & Racism." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1529.
Full textThesis advisor: Eve Spangler
In recent years, African immigrants have become a large and growing segment of the American population. Like most migrants in the United States these travelers seek to attain the American Dream; they therefore mostly journey to the U.S. in the hope of bettering their lives as well as their family relations back home in Africa. But despite the continually increasing African demography in America, there is a lack of literature on the experience of African immigrants in the United States. This research is an ethnographic study of a sole group of African immigrants in America: Ghanaian migrants. This paper focuses on learning about the life experiences of these settlers before and after they migrate to the United States. Questions that this research addresses include: Why do these migrants journey to the U.S.? What ideas do these immigrants have about the U.S. before migrating to this nation? After arriving in America do their preconceived ideas change or remain the same? How do the Ghanaian migrants change their life to adapt to the American culture? What are their views about American culture and life in the U.S.?
Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2010
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Sociology
Älfvåg, Hugo. "The Dream : A Psychoanalytic Reading of the Conceptualization of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-31427.
Full textDavis, Traci Danielle. "Field of Dreams: Exploring African American Male Students' Career Aspirations and Their Relationship to School Engagement." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1304299566.
Full textSalas, Susan. "Pipeline dreams| Latina/o community college students pushed out of the transfer path." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3708287.
Full textLatinas/os represent the largest ethnic group in California and are under-represented in higher education. Latina/o student college completion rates are the lowest of any racial or ethnic group, including Whites. This study used a critical race theoretical lens to explore the experiences of 14 Latina/o community college students who were pushed out of the transfer path. Storytelling served as the foundation of this study to understand and give voice to Latina/o students' transfer path experiences. Interview data from all participants were analyzed to extract codes and develop themes within the stories. Demographic surveys were evaluated to identify student characteristics.
Findings revealed that Latina/o students were pushed out of the transfer path at four critical points: Students were pushed out as they found themselves on academic or progress probation, resulting in conditional financial aid suspensions. Some students became discouraged as they figured out the amount of courses necessary to become transfer ready. Other students attempted to transition to transferable coursework, but they were unable to pass developmental math courses. Students also reported being pushed out as they learned about the immense amount of transfer requirements, program options, and costs, which created transfer information paralysis.
Latina/o students reported feeling emotional relief after being pushed out of the transfer pathway. Earning an associate's degree or certificate was an achievable goal and students felt a sense of academic accomplishment. Students also believed that an associate's degree was a "stepping stone" on their journey through the educational pipeline.
Students noted race, class, and gender stereotyped experiences that adversely affected their transfer path experiences. Negative perceptions about their race impacted their academic performance. Erratic and limited resources-including suspension from financial aid-proved harmful to their ability to remain on the transfer path. Gender role expectations obstructed Latina women and propelled Latino men on the transfer pathway.
The findings suggest that Latina/o students were disadvantaged by community college policies and procedures. Yet, they remained committed to their educational goals. Further investigation of Latina/o student community college experiences is necessary to develop policies, procedures, and practices that will serve to strengthen their educational pathways.
Starnes, Martinique. "Dreams Deferred| A Critical Narrative Analysis of African American Males in Pursuit of Higher Education." Thesis, Loyola Marymount University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3722558.
Full textMany studies have been conducted on the achievement gap between Caucasian and minority students (Bankston & Caldas, 1998; Brown & Donnor, 2011; Howard, 2008; O’Conner, Lewis, & Mueller, 2007; Osborne, 1999), as this gap has been a persistent problem for decades. However, despite more students of color gaining access to institutions of higher education, there is still a severe gap in college graduation rates (National Center for Education Statistics [NCES], 2011), with African American males being the least likely group to be found on college campuses (Dunn, 2012), and thus, possessing the lowest college graduation rate. St. Peter Claver Academy (pseudonym) is a Catholic, male high school located in an inner city, low-income community in the western United States. The demographic composition of the school is 65% Latino and 35% African American. Despite the fact that 100% of seniors are accepted into a college or university, the graduates of St. Peter Claver Academy have very poor college graduation rates. This qualitative study investigated the narratives of seven African-American graduates of the school in order to understand their college experiences, looking closely at attrition, retention, resilience, and persistence. Through the lens of critical bicultural theory, the voices of these former students are central to this study in an effort to seek common threads about their experiences, which can provide educators useful insight on how to improve the college graduation rate for this underrepresented student population group.
Hohe, Meredith K. "American Dreams and Red Nightmares: Popular Media and the Framing of a Cold War Enemy, 1949-1962." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1283266257.
Full textHerlinger, Emma. "American Dreams: DACA Dreamers, Trump as a Political and Social Event, and the Performative Practice of Storytelling in the Age of Secondary Orality." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1078.
Full textNgo, Chinh. "A Fire Stronger than God: Myth-making and the Novella Form in Denis Johnson's Train Dreams." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1982.
Full textLamping, Sally Anne. "Dusty Windows and Urban American Dreams: Five African Journeys toward Literacy through Participatory Research and Program Development." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc//view?acc_num=ucin1144463880.
Full textAdvisor: Dr. James W. Koschoreck. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed July 15, 2009). Includes abstract. Keywords: African Immigrants; Adult Education; English as a Second Language; Literacy. Includes bibliographical references.
Lyness, Andrew S. "Dreams of Mobility in the American West: Transients, Anti-Homeless Campaigns, & Shelter Services in Boulder, Colorado." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1417675567.
Full textGagnon, Donald P. "Pipe Dreams and Primitivism: Eugene O'Neill and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000122.
Full textBarnet, Michael D. "Dreams Deferred| A Qualitative Study of Latino Youth Who Left High School Prior to Obtaining a Diploma." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3557487.
Full textEach fall, approximately one million children enter the ninth grade with little prospect of completing high school. Of the 1.1 million students projected to leave school without a diploma for the 2012 school year, a staggering 27 percent (approximately 310,000) will be of Latino descent (Alliance for Excellent Education, 2012). The purpose of this study—"Dreams Deferred: A Qualitative Study of Latino Youth Who Left High School Prior to Obtaining a Diploma"—was to examine the perceptions and beliefs of Latino youth as they attempted to make meaning of the factors that led to their leaving school before graduation. Utilizing phenomenological research methods, the researcher conducted in-depth interviews with ten individuals who had the shared experience of leaving high school prematurely. The phenomenological in-depth interview research design was chosen because the occurrence of Latino students leaving school without a diploma cannot be examined without consideration of how the experience was defined and felt by the students. In addition, multiple factors must be considered including the subjective impact of the students' social, cultural and educational histories on their school experience. The individuals were participants in a community-based GED program and were selected through purposeful sampling based on pre-identified selection criteria. The study focused on the participants' perceptions of their school experience and the events and influences that precipitated their premature departure from school. Data were collected through the in-depth interviews and detailed field notes of observations made during the interviews and program activities. Data analysis consisted of coding responses and clustering relevant statements into themes and patterns, which were then synthesized into descriptions of the participants' school experience and the factors associated with their leaving school prior to graduation. Data from the study revealed that the participants began to feel disengaged in middle school, and they perceived that their interaction with school personnel had a significant impact on their school experience. In addition, the participants cited multiple factors outside of school that diverted their focus from learning and ultimately contributed to their leaving school without a diploma. Recommendations for practice and additional research are included following a discussion of data.
Buechsel, Mark Peter Fulton Joe B. ""Sacramental Resistance" to pastoral dreams : the Midwestern land in the works of Sherwood Anderson and his contemporaries /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/4892.
Full textBasfar, Rana Khalid. "The Nights’ Dreams: Shahrazad and Her Stories in Modern Human Rights Textual and Visual Narratives (1994-2014)." OpenSIUC, 2020. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1781.
Full textRodríguez, Gregory S. "Palaces of pain - arenas of Mexican-American dreams : boxing and the formation of ethnic Mexican identities in twentieth-century Los Angeles /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9945686.
Full textKenney, Patricia Drozd. "LaVilla, Florida, 1866-1887 :reconstruction dreams and the formation of a black community." UNF Digital Commons, 1990. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/699.
Full textKeith, Zackary. "The Dreams of Metanoia: The Advent Foreigner: A Creative Thesis Based on a True Narrative of the Forgotten American War of Racist Imperialism." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/630.
Full textAbelin, Bruna Arozi. "A SIMPLICIDADE MORDENTE DE UM PROTAGONISTA-ESCRITOR OUTSIDER: ESTUDO DE ASK THE DUST E DREAMS FROM BUNKER HILL DE JOHN FANTE." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2015. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/9934.
Full textIn Ask the Dust (1939) and Dreams from Bunker Hill (1983), John Fante (1909-1983) represents the obliterated side of American life during the Great Depression by making use of an apparently simple narrative style. Besides focusing on the importance of the marginal side of the United States in the 1930s, Fante presents young Arturo Bandini as the protagonist who survives in Los Angeles during the economic crisis and aims at becoming a great writer that contends for space in the cultural market of the metropolis of entertainment. Through obscene vocabulary and scenes, Fante represents the most negative aspects experienced by those who live in a metropolis, such as isolation, solitude, vice, and madness. Therefore, Fante s fiction has thematic and formal aspects that allow us to establish relations with the New Realism, a movement of the Arts in the first half of the twentieth century, which also crudely explored the negative aspects of life in the United States. Thus, this study discusses the potential meaningfulness of thematic and aesthetic aspects of Ask the Dust and Dreams from Bunker Hill, two novels that present the relation established by the writer, who is an outsider, with the city, the people, and the craft of writing in modern times.
Em Ask the Dust (1939) e Dreams from Bunker Hill (1983), John Fante (1909-1983) representa o lado esquecido da vida estadunidense durante o período da Grande Depressão por meio de uma estética aparentemente simples. Além de dar enfoque e devida importância ao lado marginal dos Estados Unidos da década de 1930, Fante apresenta como protagonista o jovem Arturo Bandini que, durante a crise econômica, sobrevive em Los Angeles com a ambição de ser um grande escritor que disputa espaço em meio ao mercado cultural da metrópole do entretenimento. Por meio de vocabulário e cenas marcadas por obscenidade, Fante cria representações dos aspectos mais negativos que a vida na metrópole pode proporcionar aos sujeitos, tais como isolamento, solidão, vícios e loucura. Assim, sua obra apresenta aspectos temáticos e formais que permitem aproximá-la do Novo Realismo, movimento das artes plásticas da primeira metade do século XX que também explorou de forma crua os aspectos negativos da vida nos Estados Unidos. Desse modo, discutem-se neste estudo significados potenciais dos aspectos temático-estéticos de Ask the Dust e Dreams from Bunker Hill, romances que abordam a relação do escritor outsider com a cidade, as pessoas e o ofício da escrita nos tempos modernos.
Borrero, Brittni M. "Faded Glory: Captain America and the Wilted American Dream." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1334586489.
Full textKapela, Steven J. "The Boy with the Aluminum Hat." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1398358520.
Full textTucker, Gregory L. "Symphony: one American dream." Thesis, Boston University, 1987. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/8131.
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Osborne, Whitney. "Rethinking the American Dream." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554374234857258.
Full textSingh, Arvind. "A Dream Lost in Dream: A Love-Hate Relationship of an Alien with America." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84277/.
Full textFeiertag, Ingo. "Zur Rolle des männlichen Helden in bezug auf den American dream dargest. anhand von amerikan. Textbeispielen d. 20. Jahrhunderts /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2004. http://www.bsz-bw.de/cgi-bin/xvms.cgi?SWB10934881.
Full textZeniodi, Zoe. "Frank Ticheli: An American Dream." Scholarly Repository, 2010. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/396.
Full textBehrmann, Günter C. "Globale Modernisierung : ein "American Dream"?" Universität Potsdam, 2004. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/texte_eingeschraenkt_welttrends/2010/4717/.
Full textLawrence, Ian. "Soccer and the American Dream." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2324.
Full textMiller, Troy Michael. "Reassessing the "American dream house"." Virtual Press, 1998. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1129634.
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Iacovetto, Samantha Tucker. "The American Dream Starts Here." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492183660466273.
Full textLamberti, Justin V. Winn J. Emmett. "Fagidaboudit the American dream and Italian-American gangster movies /." Auburn, Ala., 2005. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2005%20Summer/master's/LAMBERTI_JUSTIN_26.pdf.
Full textLong, Kim Martin. "The American Eve: Gender, Tragedy, and the American Dream." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277633/.
Full textMcBurnie, Ian. "The periphery and the American dream." Thesis, Open University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284359.
Full textBilic, Viktorija. "Sears homes building the American dream." Trier Wiss. Verl. Trier, 2008. http://www.american-heartland.com.
Full textBarker, Kyle (Kyle Lawrence). "Store House : unpacking the American dream." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87138.
Full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (page 234).
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 storage capacity as an indicator of consumption, its notable that the average citizen has 830% more storage space today than they did in the fifties. Paradoxically, in the last decade other forms of ownership have lost favor. The appetite for conventional ownership has been, in part, supplanted by a disinterest in maintenance and responsibility. Subscription services have begun to replace the conventional retail transaction. At first people rented the intangible and ephemeral but in the last few years they have begun renting things that would have seemed technologically impossible, or at a minimum improbable, ten years ago. This new mode of collective ownership represents a societal shift that architecture is lagging behind. This thesis aspires to use the spatial generosity of storage and the burgeoning sharing economy to re-imagine a suburb that promotes the sharing of rarely used objects & spaces amongst neighbors to foster community and reduce consumption.
by Kyle Barker
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Sands, Zachary Adam. "Film Comedy and the American Dream." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1483612711940071.
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