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Sandjojo, Cintia Aaliyah, Imam Basuki, and Dina Dyah Kusumayanti. "The Injustice Facing Latino Immigrants in Achieving The American Dream in Cristina Heriquez’s Novel The Book of Unknown." INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL ON LAW, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES 3, no. 2 (November 30, 2022): 187. http://dx.doi.org/10.19184/idj.v3i2.32483.

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United States of America is known as a country that promises its people or immigrants who come to America to become successful by providing ‘American Dream’ as the country’s national ethos. These people are given equal chances to bring out their dreams and aspirations. However, American Dream is not always the dream for everyone as experienced by the characters in Christina Henriques’ novel The Book of Unknown Americans. Issue of injustice shadows immigrants who are in search of this dream. Facing problems of injustice such as racism, different treatment of immigrants, and sexual harassment are inevitable for these Latino people when they first come to the United States. This study is aimed at discussing the failures and injustices that Latino immigrants’ characters of the novel must face when they attempt of achieving the American Dream. The method used in this study is qualitative method. The data of this research are in the forms of language and its discourse. Stuart Hall’s Theory of Representation is used to analyze the research data. The results of this study show that not all-American dreams can be fulfilled easily, in particular for Latino immigrant characters in the novel. What have been faced by these characters are significant experiences to learn for anyone who wants to pursue their dream in United States of America.

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Hanson, Sandra L., and John K. White. "Nation Dreaming: A Consideration of the American Dream in Poland, the U.S., and among Polish Americans." International Journal of Social Science Studies 8, no. 4 (June 11, 2020): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v8i4.4858.

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This paper examines the cooperation and influences between Poland and the U.S on their respective dreams, including the influence of the American Dream on Polish Americans and their potential distinctness from those who remain in Poland. Attitudes involving the American Dream that are examined include beliefs about freedom, liberty, democracy, getting ahead, status/mobility, and inequality. Although scholars have compared these belief systems across countries, there has been no distinct focus on Poland and the U.S., and those who immigrate between these countries. A conceptual framework that combines the American Dream, American exceptionalism, and beliefs about inequality guides the research. Data from the General Social Survey and the World Values Survey are used to answer the research questions. Findings show that Polish Americans agree with other Americans on a majority of items measuring elements of the American Dream. However, Americans and Poles have significantly different opinions on each of the American Dream items. Usually, (but not always) it is Americans who are more supportive of the American Dream. When considering the three groups, Polish Americans, Americans, and Poles, our conclusions suggest a trend where Polish Americans are a hybrid of other Americans and Poles when it comes to their views on the Dream. However, the differences often run in the direction that Polish Americans’ views are more like other Americans and distinct from Poles. Conclusions and implications are provided within the historical context of the long history of cooperation between the U.S. and Poland in fights for freedom and democracy.

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Lee, Sang Bok. "Lee Acculturation Dream Scale for Korean-American College Students." Psychological Reports 96, no. 2 (April 2005): 454–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.96.2.454-456.

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This study examined acculturation as represented in dream narratives of 165 Korean immigrant college students living in the USA. A total of 165 dreams were collected and evaluated using the Lee Acculturation Dream Scale, for which locations of dream contents were coded. 39% of the dreams took place in South Korea, while 38% were in the USA. Also, 16% of the dreams included both locations, whereas 7% had no specific dream location. The dreams contained overlapping dream messages, images, scenes, and interactions in both South Korea and the USA. A two-sample t test on the mean scores of the Lee Acculturation Dream Scale indicated no significant difference between men and women.

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Hou, Zhide. "Using semantic tagging to examine the American Dream and the Chinese Dream." Semiotica 2019, no. 227 (March 5, 2019): 145–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2016-0116.

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AbstractThis paper uses Wmatrix to generate semantic tagging to compare corpora of media representations between the American Dream and the Chinese Dream. The USAS tagger is used to assign the semantic field tags to the America Dream Corpus (ADC) and the Chinese Dream Corpus (CDC). The motivation of this study is to replicate the studies using an automated and inclusive method based on semantic tagging (Potts, A. & P. Baker. 2012. Does semantic tagging identify cultural change in British and American English? International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 17(3). 295–324), and more importantly, to conduct a broad semantic categorization on both national dreams so as to uncover the cultural, social and historical similarities and/or differences. It is found that the cultural difference of the individualistic home and work association of the American Dream versus the collectivistic nation and world attributions of the Chinese Dream. The different historical stage and social-economic contexts are disclosed from the different temporal positions from time category, and the contrastive tags associated with negative representation of the American Dream and positive representation of the Chinese Dream.

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Zhang, Xiaochi. "Talking About “Chinese Dream” and “American Dream” From an Intercultural Communication Perspective." International Journal for Innovation Education and Research 2, no. 5 (May 31, 2014): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol2.iss5.178.

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Dream is usually a beautiful or wonderful thing, and often begins from the pursuit of beautiful or wonderful thing and the desire for happiness from poverty or suffering. The Chinese Dream and the American Dream have their own different cultural connotations especially under the influence of their own cultural values. Therefore, the author tries to compare the Chinese Dream with the American Dream from an intercultural perspective, discusses the cultural connotations of the different two dreams and focuses on the comparative analysis on the different intercultural values of the different two dreams, so as to deeply understand the Chinese Dream and American Dream from its history, culture, and its cultural values.

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Hafshah, Maulita Ridha, and Melania Shinta Harendika. "Prosperity as an American Dream: A Study on Ben Fowlkes’S You’Ll Apologize If You Have To." Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature 16, no. 1 (October 10, 2021): 201–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/lc.v16i1.29518.

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You’ll Apologize If You Have To (2015), a short story by Ben Fowlkes, portrays the struggle of an American in pursuing his dreams. The primary data of this research is the narration and dialogues uttered by the characters: Wallace, Kim, Molly, the Old Lady, and the Green-Jacket Man. Those data are classified based on the American dreams (Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, Livingston, & Sherman, 2014; Cullen, 2003; Mailer, Thompson, & Wolfe, 2009), specifically those related to material wealth. The result of this research reveals that in their daily life, the characters have their perspectives on seeing America as the land of dreams. Generally, they dream of a better life and happiness. However, this short story also portrays American dreams as a paradox because not all Americans have the privilege to achieve those dreams.

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Rowland, Robert C., and John M. Jones. "One Dream: Barack Obama, Race, and the American Dream." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 14, no. 1 (March 1, 2011): 125–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/41940526.

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Abstract This essay examines the way in which Barack Obama, in his "More Perfect Union" address, dealt with the Rev. Wright controversy and confronted issues of race. We argue that Obama, faced with a controversy that jeopardized his candidacy, first explained the anger of both white and black Americans and then linked the problems of race in America to the American Dream, arguing that only by making that dream available to all citizens could those problems be remedied. We then draw implications for both dream narratives and for Obama’s political discourse.

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Anggara, Dimas. "The Death Of Captain America Represents The Failure Of The American Dream." Paradigma, Jurnal Kajian Budaya 4, no. 2 (March 11, 2016): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.17510/paradigma.v4i2.44.

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<p>American Dream is a concept that plays an important role in the American history and its society. The main values of the American Dream are life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. These are represented in Captain America, carrier of the spirit of America to the world. Captain America, the main character in a comic, also preserved the values in the American Dream, so it is proven that there is a relation between Captain America and the American Dream. The problem is that there are changes in the way people see the concept of the American Dream today. It is because many people tend to simplify the values in which the concept off ers. This paper examines the relation between the change of perspective and the way the people in the U.S in applying the American Dream with the death of Captain America as the representation of the American Dream. This paper argues that the Death of Captain America can be a representation of the failure in the concept because Captain America died defending what he believed as the true American Dream that all the people in the U.S should preserve. Thus, many people believe the values which Captain America preserved are no longer suitable in the society today.</p>

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Asim, Saima, and Shahida Riaz. "THE AMERICAN DREAM 'IGNIS FATUUS' OR A SURE BET? A POSTMODERN DOGMATIC INTERPRETATION OF AMERICAN NOVELS." Pakistan Journal of Social Research 04, no. 03 (September 30, 2022): 52–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.52567/pjsr.v4i03.685.

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This paper explores a very contentious and intriguing term that is The American Dream. The terrain or terra firma of opportunity; this is how America is generally esteemed. The dissentients and aficionados of the American Dream stand abreast. For some, the corollary of the pursuance of the American Dream is diddly squat and for the rest it is fructuous. But the Big Bang Theory of the American Dream virtually transcends all geographic boundaries hence it cannot be talked about only concerning America. It is something ecumenical and hence is the dream which can be pursued by every individual living in any part of the world. People are more obsessed with the materialistic interpretation of the dream and consumption which they regard as the main components of happiness (Calder, 1999). This study deals with the unveiling of the true spirit of the American Dream. The researcher explores that the success of an individual rests on how much effort he puts into and the political, individual, and economic independence as asserted by the ideology of the American Dream, is attainable. Keywords: American Dream, Capitalism, Sure Bet, 'Ignis Fatuus', Capitalism, Alternative to Capitalism, Consumerism

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Khairiah, Masruriati. "Louiz Zamperini's American Dreams as Reflected in the Film Unbroken." COMMICAST 1, no. 2 (November 2, 2020): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.12928/commicast.v1i2.2727.

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In this undergraduate thesis describes about American dream and motivation theory. This is aiming at analyzing motivation’s role in human life to fulfill their needs by focusing to the main character. The concept of American dream can be seen in Louis Zamperini as the main character of this film in principle of life. Hence, this undergraduate thesis has two main objectives to describe the Louis Zamperini’s dreams and to analyze Louis Zamperini’s motivation in his survival as the prisoner of Japan as reflected in the film Unbroken.This research is under a descriptive qualitative method. Therefore, library research is used for compiling both primary data and secondary data. The primary data is adopted from the film, meanwhile the secondary data refer to some sources, such as books, journals, articles, and on-line data from internet. Method of American studies as an interdisciplinary approach is also applied along with theories to analyze the problem formulation in this research. After the data are collected, they are analyzed by using the psychological study approach, and focuses on theory Hierarchy Needs of Abraham Maslow. Maslow’s theory explained the description of motivation based on needs. The hierarchy dividing to physiological needs, safety needs, love needs, esteem needs, and needs for self-actualization. Then, the writer uses American dream concept such as the dream of good life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.The results of this research, the researcher found that Louis Zamperini as the main character what he did in life, there is a motivation that supports him to reach his dream like other immigrants who came to America using this concept in general. The American dream and motivation are still adopted in some American films as popular culture. Hence, it proves that American dream still exists with different style like media of film.

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Horowitz, Roger, Barbara Kopple, and Arthur Cohn. "American Dream." American Historical Review 97, no. 4 (October 1992): 1170. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2165513.

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Scott, Graham. "American dream." Nursing Standard 15, no. 20 (January 31, 2001): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/ns.15.20.12.s30.

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Fink, Leon, and Barbara Kopple. "American Dream." Journal of American History 78, no. 3 (December 1991): 1188. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2078980.

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Torres, Eddie. "American Dream." Callaloo 17, no. 1 (1994): 191. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2932099.

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Burrows, Philip. "American dream." Physics World 12, no. 11 (November 1999): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/12/11/17.

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Pisetsky, David S. "American dream." Journal of Medical Humanities 17, no. 3 (September 1996): 203–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02276617.

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Einstein, Michael G. "American Dream?" Arc: The Journal of the School of Religious Studies 32 (May 1, 2004): 27–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.26443/arc.v32i.1014.

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Trąbska, Agnieszka. "The American Dreams and Nightmares of Polish Immigrants." Ostrava Journal of English Philology 13, no. 1 (2021): 19–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.15452/ojoep.2021.13.0002.

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This article focuses on the theme of the American Dream and its dark side in relation to Polish immigration to America. It attempts to explain various reasons behind Polish immigration based on the immigrants’ age and social status, as well as the unpleasant consequences of their decision to leave their homeland. The issues faced by Polish immigrants and Polish Americans can be better understood in the light of a brief outline of the sociopolitical situation in Poland. The aim of this article is to demonstrate the negative effects of immigrants’ belief in the American Dream and to shed light on the intergenerational identity of Polish Americans.

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Yuan, Yao. "The Unrealizable American Dream: On Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown." Ostrava Journal of English Philology 15, no. 1 (July 2023): 43–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.15452/ojoep.2023.15.0003.

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The article analyzes the history of the concept of the “American Dream” in Chinese American literature, and particularly in the work of the Chinese American writer Charles Yu. In his novel Interior Chinatown, he examines the stereotypical perception of Chinese Americans in the eyes of white Americans and highlights the problems that Asian Americans have to deal with, e.g. national identity or discrimination. The novel shows how difficult the process of achieving the American dream is for Asian Americans and how difficult it is for them to find the answer to the question “Who am I,” which is closely connected with the realization of their “American Dream.”

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Davis, Danné E. "Their American Dream." Genealogy 4, no. 2 (April 7, 2020): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy4020045.

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Centuries before W.E.B. DuBois named the colorline—i.e., racism—as the problem of the 20th century, skin color stratification was a persistent phenomenon. In 1983 Black feminist, scholar, and Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker termed “colorism” as “prejudicial or preferential treatment of same-race people based solely on their [skin] color”. Using the tools of genealogy, I conducted a critical family history of my parents, Lem and Mae’s, pursuit of their American Dream. Such exploration digs deep to decipher the nexuses of a family’s evolution. Dr. Maya Angelou routinely shared stories about her past to impart the importance of embracing one’s history. For my parents, the American Dream meant opportunity, which included home ownership. Their American Dream began as African Americans in the United States’ Jim Crow south. Lem was a light-skinned man; Mae a dark-complexion woman. They met, married, and bought a small home in segregated Columbia, South Carolina. Bearing the cloak of oppression, my parents joined millions of southern Blacks in the Great Migration relocating to northern cities—my parents landed in Boston, Massachusetts. Throughout their journey, Lem and Mae reached back to their ancestors, and drew from within themselves to improve their circumstances.

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Nasrawati, Nasrawati. "THE HEROISM TO GET DREAMS IN JOHN GRISHAM’S A PAINTED HOUSE." MAGISTRA: Jurnal Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan 2, no. 1 (July 1, 2014): 147–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.35724/magistra.v2i1.328.

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This graduating paper analyzes the American dream in 19th century by the two main characters in the novel. They are Luke Chandler and Mrs. Jesse Chandler. The two of these characters represent the condition and situation of the Americans especially the American farmers at the time trough their characterizations. In this research, the writer focuses on researching these two main characters by using Mimetic theory, including historical approach. The objectives of this research are, first, to know what kind of dream that the characters want to get and the second is what they do to get their dreams, how they do, and why they must to do something to get their dreams. This research displays that these two characters have some attitudes and actions which show the heroism. Therefore, these two characters can be called heroic in terms of the struggle to get their dreams for the better life.

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Lee, S. B. "The Sang Bok Lee traumatic dream scales for Korean college students." European Psychiatry 26, S2 (March 2011): 1074. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0924-9338(11)72779-1.

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AimTo develop and validate traumatic dream scales by further utilizing The Sang Bok Lee Neurocognitive Dream Orientation Scales (Lee, Sang Bok: 2010, European Psychiatry) assessing the narrative dream contents.Methods2450 dream were collected form 870 Korean college students, Yongin, South Korea: 445 males (M age = 20.48 years, SD = 1.35) and 425 females (M age = 20.12, SD = 1.24). The collected dreams were analyzed by The Sang Bok Lee Traumatic Dream Scales that were designed to differentiate ordinary dreams from traumatic and PTST-related dreams.The traumatic dreams were hypothesized as having frequently recurrent, unexpected, emotionally dreadful, and not actively coped by the dreamers.Results759 dreams (31%) of 2450 collected dreams were found as traumatic or very/extreme anxious according to The Lee Anxiety Dream Scale (Mean = 4.56). Strong positive correlation was found between 759 traumatic dreams and independent variables of traumatic dream content (unfamiliar: r = .86, p = .0001; accidental: r = .81, p = .0001; dreadful: r = .93, p = .0001, and not coped by the dreamer: r = 0.86, p = .0001).ConclusionThe contents of The Sang Bok Lee Traumatic Dream Scales were developed and validated; the results were associated with the previous publications - “Lee Acculturation Dream Scale for Korean-American College Students” (Lee, Sang Bok, 2005: Psychological Reports, 96, 454–456), The Sang Bok Lee Neurocognitive Dream Orientation Scales for Screening Traumatic and PTSD Related Dreams, and The Lee Anxiety Dream Scales.

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Lee, S. B. "The correlation between acculturation stress and acculturation dreaming process." European Psychiatry 26, S2 (March 2011): 548. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0924-9338(11)72255-6.

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AimThe purpose of this study was to test the correlation between acculturative stress scale and acculturation dream scale and to verify previous research outcomes.Methods165 Korean American undergraduate and graduate students (M age = 23.3, SD = 4.1) participated in this study. They submitted the most recent dreams and assessed acculturative stress scale. Total 165 dreams were coded by “Lee Acculturation Dream Scale” (Lee, Sang Bok, 2005: Psychological Reports, 96, 454–456). The hypothesis was that the group members having higher acculturative stressscale would have lower acculturation dream scale than the group members with lower acculturative stress scale.ResultsThe first generation Korean American students group (n = 80, M age = 23.4, SD = 4.2) had higher acculturative stress level and lower acculturative dream scale when compared with the second generation Korean American college student group (n = 85, M age = 23.6, SD = 4.3). The t-test on the two group comparison was significant on acculturative stress level (p < 0.001) and “Lee Acculturation Dream Scale” (p < 0.001). It was proven that day time acculturative stress situation had an effect on the night-time dreaming neurocognitive activities, i.e., unconscious acculturation process (Lee, Sang Bok, 2006: “Acculturation Scale for Korean American College Students,” Psychological Reports; Lee, Sang Bok, 2006: “Asian Values Scale - Comparisons of Korean and Korean-American High School Students,” Psychological Reports).ConclusionThe multiple domains of acculturative processes need to be explicated in terms of “multicultural hermeneutics” (Lee, Sang Bok, 2003: “Working with Korean-American Families - Multicultural Hermeneutics,” The American Journal of Family Therapy, 31, 159–178) and of real life experience mapping.

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Frank-Vitale, Amelia. "“Such a Thing as the American Dream:” On Immigration, Affect, and the Election of Donald Trump." Public Anthropologist 2, no. 2 (October 5, 2020): 158–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/25891715-bja10004.

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Abstract In this article, I trace the structures of feeling underlying the 2106 election of Donald Trump as played out through the fear felt by immigrant communities and the fervor felt by anti-immigrant Trump supporters. The discourses of both groups rest on competing claims of the American Dream. Weaving together ethnographic data from fieldwork conducted among migrants and immigrants in Mexico, Honduras, and the United States with expressions of anti-immigrant sentiment as evidenced through online interactions, I explore the intersections and outline the divergences in the ways in which the American Dream is invoked, contested, twisted, and rejected. I use the idea of the American Dream as a fulcrum for the hopes, dreams, and feelings of immigrants and nativists alike. As we face the next election, I ask: whose American Dream as a structure of feeling is the emergent structure, and whose is fading out?

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Thompson, David. "Dream Catchers: Weaving Connections between Geometry and Algebra." Mathematics Teacher 112, no. 2 (October 2018): 88–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mathteacher.112.2.0088.

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For 500 years, dream catchers have been cultural symbols of intrigue worldwide. The most common folkloric design is a 12-point dream catcher. According to Native American legend, the first dream catcher was woven by a “spider woman” to catch the bad dreams of a chief's sick child. Once the bad dreams were caught, the chief's child was healed (Oberholtzer 2012). The basic design has been used for 500 years and is similar to the weaving of a spider's web.

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Ладика, Ольга. "THE CONCEPT AMERICAN DREAM: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS." Молодий вчений, no. 7 (107) (July 31, 2022): 66–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.32839/2304-5809/2022-7-107-14.

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The concept AMERICAN DREAM is a mental unit, a compound set of ideas marked by national and cultural specificity. The meaning of this concept for each individual changes depending on the interpretations of the ethical and moral values of the representative of the linguaculture, the context it is used in and historical period when it is mentioned. The concept AMERICAN DREAM can have both positive and negative aspects of understanding at the same time. Complex coloring and features of the subtext may vary completely in different contexts. AMERICAN DREAM is considered to be as something unattainable. This concept is interpreted the example of an ideal life in which all luxuries are present, such as a house, family, children and pets. The concept AMERICAN DREAM is quite popular at all times. So it is often used in all cultures. Features of exact interpretation of ideal type of life differ according to the overview of the culture. If we speak about Ukrainian young respondents, they imagine AMERICAN DREAM as the way of cool life. But here we can also trace the variability of moral values and achievements of each person that will definitely influence on the thoughts about idealism. Taking into account the fact of the presence of various opportunities to built your dreams in the way you want, it is possible to notice certain common aspects in different questions in terms of discussion the meaning of importance of AMERICAN DREAM. This can be reflected and tracked with the help of definitions taken from various explanatory dictionaries, as well as in the minds of citizens themselves, that can be analyzed in the form of an anonymous questionnaire of respondents. The need to research the concept AMERICAN DREAM is that this phenomenon satisfies the most important human needs and is desired by many people of different nationalities.

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Hou, Zhide. "The American Dream Revisited: A Corpus-Driven Study." International Journal of English Linguistics 7, no. 3 (March 2, 2017): 182. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v7n3p182.

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As a dominant ideology throughout America, the American Dream rests on the idea that with hard work and personal determination anyone, regardless of background, has equal opportunity to achieve his or her aspirations. Given the importance of the American Dream to American national identity, and the enormity of it in shaping dominant ideologies, this study explores this deeply-held belief and particular mind-set in media discourses related to the American Dream. Modeled on the approach of corpus-driven discourse analysis, and combining the framework of a sociocultual linguistic approach to identity and interaction, the article reports on a corpus-driven sociocultural discourse study which aims to discover, through the analysis of frequent lexical and semantic patterns, discursive characteristics of media discourses related to the American dream, and whether there are any changes of the American dream to American national identity and ideologies which might be developed in time and space.

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Youngberg, Quentin. "Mommy's American Dream in Edward Albee's The American Dream." Explicator 67, no. 2 (January 2009): 108–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.3200/expl.67.2.108-110.

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Hou, Zhide. "The American Dream meets the Chinese Dream: a corpus-driven phraseological analysis of news texts." Text & Talk 38, no. 3 (April 25, 2018): 317–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/text-2018-0006.

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Abstract This study is a corpus-driven examination of frequent lexical words and keywords in the news texts related to the American Dream and the Chinese Dream. Based on Sinclair’s (Sinclair, John McHardy. 2004. Trust the Text. Routledge: London) five categories of co-selection as framework, it discusses the patterns of co-selection across the corpora of news texts, with a particular focus on the cumulative effects of the co-construction of situated meanings and establishment of ideological positions associated with the two dreams. The corpus linguistic tool Wordsmith is used to generate frequent words and keywords for detailed concordance analysis along both syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations in order to indicate collocation, colligation, semantic preference, and semantic prosody. The findings demonstrate the individualistic home, work and education associations of the American Dream versus the collectivistic attributions of the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation. The study not only confirms different cultural practices, but also reveals different social-historical conditions, and political influences associated with media representations of the American Dream and the Chinese Dream.

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Wolfinger, James. "“The American Dream—For All Americans”." Journal of Urban History 38, no. 3 (May 2012): 430–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144212445452.

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Pandžić Skoko, Martina. "Uspon i pad američkog sna kao ključnog aduta meke moći Sjedinjenih Američkih Država." Communication Management Review 8, no. 1 (June 28, 2023): 6–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.22522/cmr20220183.

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In the creation of the soft power of countries, which plays an increasingly significant role in international positioning, their way of life plays an important role, where values, traditions, worldviews, culture and other components of national identity are reflected. In this context, the paper analyzes the role and sustainability of the “American dream” as a key asset of the soft power of the United States of America. The paper is based on the assumption that, for decades, the USA has been the best global example of the successful commercialization of one’s own identity and lifestyle, thanks to which the American dream has become a magnet for millions of immigrants and their descendants, as well as an attractive roadmap for success for people around the world. Through their way of life, Americans successfully sold their products to the rest of the world and spread their cultural, economic and political influence. Thus, America itself has become a super-brand, which, thanks to its popularity, provides added value to its production and service brands, cultural products, and even politics. However, at the beginning of the 21st century, the standing image of America in the world began to weaken, communication with the world experienced a kind of crisis, the American model of government was questioned, more and more criticism was recorded regarding the realistic possibilities of realizing the American dream, and its collapse was also influenced by deviation from democratic principles and a kind of crisis of governance during the term in office of President Donald Trump, as well as deep divisions in American society. The author concludes that, by losing the attractiveness of the American dream, an important part of the soft power of the USA, and thus American influence in the world, is also irreversibly lost, while at the same time the European dream is being created, which helps to strengthen the brand of European, mostly Scandinavian, countries.

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Manggong, Lestari, and Anton Kurmelev. "MARILYN CHIN’S REVENGE OF THE MOONCAKE VIXEN AS TEXTUAL SYSTEMIC DESIRING MACHINE." Metahumaniora 13, no. 1 (April 20, 2023): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.24198/metahumaniora.v13i1.46089.

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Marilyn Chin’s one and only novel, Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen (2009), presents highly fragmented narratives that revolve around the lives of three female Chinese Americans of two different generations in the process of reaching their immigrant American dreams. Such narrative characteristics prompt an analysis conducted in this article which parallels the series of maneuvers of the trio with Deleuze & Guattari’s systemic procedure of coup et flux (cut and flow). The aim is to show that the idea of assimilating American dream with the immigrant’s is a complex matter as it involves series of actions that compromise the two. The trio’s mode of action, the presence of textual divine intervention in the narrative fragments, and epigraphs from classical to popular texts encourage an analysis using narrative studies, focusing mainly on plot structure. In the context of negotiating Chinese American culture, this article argues that within the frame of tale of revenge, the process of reaching the immigrant American dream undergoes a series of endless systemic procedure of coup et flux. The negotiation process presented via uncertainty and series of transits in the novel thus causes endlessness that leads to an idea that the dream, the happiness, would never actually reach its definite ending point; it is merely a series of transits.

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Kalu Obasi, Kalu,. "The American Dream: Its Echoes and Possibilities in Literary Discourse." English Linguistics Research 7, no. 1 (January 11, 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/elr.v7n1p1.

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The American Dream stems from the inaugural speech of President Franklin Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms”(1941). The Four Freedoms envisaged an American society where the freedom of worship, freedom of speech, freedom of movement and the rights to life are enshrined, guaranteed, and accommodated. America has been clouded with numerous yearnings from all angles – politics, academic, economic, among other social upheavals for the enthronement of the Four Freedoms. Literary scholars have diminutively expressed the horrors of African Americans in various forms and shades, and have hopefully waited for the day it will be implemented. This paper attempts to relay the horrors, echoes, and possibilities of the American Dream as expressed by literary scholars, and the mass media. It also attempts to unveil the measures the African Americans have tried to live within the face of the horrors that have attained their existence among the White Americans. The possibilities of their struggles to live above subjugations, oppressions, the Jim Crow Laws, and racial discrimination that have rocked the American society for decades are also within the wavelength of this work.

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Paligutan, P. James. "American Dream Deferred." Pacific Historical Review 90, no. 2 (2021): 233–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2021.90.2.233.

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This article examines a unique migratory movement of Filipinos to America: Filipino nationals recruited by the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard between 1952 and 1970. Such recruits were seen as a solution to a mounting labor problem stemming from the Navy’s traditional use of minorities to fulfill duties as servants for naval officers. With African Americans' demands for equal opportunity reaching a crescendo during the Civil Rights era, the U.S. Navy looked to its former colony to replenish its supply of dark-skinned servants. Despite expectations of docility, however, such Filipino sailors were able to forge a culture of resistance manifested through non-confrontational acts of defiance, protest through official channels, and labor stoppage. Such actions ultimately resulted in the reversal of naval policy that relegated Filipinos to servile labor.

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Arif, Zeba. "The American dream." Nursing Standard 19, no. 6 (October 20, 2004): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/ns.19.6.26.s45.

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Hansen, R. J. "An American Dream." Public Voices 6, no. 2-3 (January 11, 2017): 123. http://dx.doi.org/10.22140/pv.269.

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Malfunctioning of new technology causes mass confusion at the ballot box on the Election Day: people vote for fictional characters, actors who play them, and dead presidents; hard-core Republicans find themselves voting for Democratic candidates and proud liberals give their votes to representatives of the GOP.

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Xianzhong, Chen. "My American Dream." Chinese Studies in History 37, no. 1 (October 2003): 92–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/csh0009-4633370192.

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Rebecca Lehmann. "AMERICAN DREAM (9)." Antioch Review 71, no. 2 (2013): 272. http://dx.doi.org/10.7723/antiochreview.71.2.0272.

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Rebecca Lehmann. "AMERICAN DREAM (10)." Antioch Review 71, no. 2 (2013): 273. http://dx.doi.org/10.7723/antiochreview.71.2.0273.

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Simmons, Althea T. L., and James P. Comer. "Maggie's American Dream." Journal of Negro Education 59, no. 2 (1990): 220. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2295648.

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Camanho, Gilberto Luis. "The American dream." Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia (English Edition) 50, no. 4 (July 2015): 361–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rboe.2015.07.001.

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Ings, Simon. "An American dream." New Scientist 243, no. 3238 (July 2019): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0262-4079(19)31280-1.

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Raissi, Driss. "My American Dream." Journal of the American College of Radiology 15, no. 8 (August 2018): 1062–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jacr.2018.03.033.

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Knight, Michelle G., Rachel Roegman, and Lisa Edstrom. "My American Dream." Education and Urban Society 48, no. 9 (July 27, 2016): 827–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013124515589596.

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This article presents findings of a qualitative, interpretive case study of the experiences of 1.5- and 2nd-generation West African immigrants who self-identify as pursuing the American Dream, defined by them as academic attainment and career success. Employing structuration theory, the authors examine the interplay between structures and agency in participants’ educational and professional decision making. Participants’ perspectives on the American Dream are filled with references to dominant narratives of hard work, economic success, and the power of formal education. At the same time, findings illuminate a conceptual shift in understanding the nature of hard work and personal freedom experienced in pursuit of the American Dream as participants recognized that as African immigrants, they had to work harder to achieve the Dream while highlighting the role and influence of family expectations and schooling structures. Their expanded notions of the Dream include understandings of individual agency, social supports and constraints, and cultural forces.

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Macilwaine, Helen. "The american dream." Nursing Management 5, no. 4 (July 1998): 16–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/nm.5.4.16.s11.

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Fossum, John Erik. "Europe’s ‘American Dream’." European Journal of Social Theory 12, no. 4 (November 2009): 483–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368431009345067.

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Brady, Andrea. "Park American Dream." Baffler 16 (June 2003): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/bflr.2003.16.60.

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O'Hara, Daniel T. "American Dream States." American Book Review 33, no. 1 (2011): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/abr.2011.0162.

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Cowper, Andy. "The American dream." British Journal of Healthcare Management 10, no. 6 (June 2004): 164. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjhc.2004.10.6.18710.

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Marquis, John Clifton. "The American Dream." Listening 33, no. 2 (1998): 124–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/listening199833212.

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