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Annotated Bibliography

December 3, 2018

Will, Barbara. “‘The Great Gatsby’ and the Obscene Word.” College Literature, vol. 32, no.

4, 2005, pp. 125–144. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25115310.

In the Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a character that rose from being poor to become

wealthy at the end of the novel. The problem with him being wealthy is that he did it

through the use of distributing illegal alcohol, and trading in stolen securities. Gatsby

became wealthy by participating in organized crimes. In the novel Gatsby is followed

by a shadow of death and how he was a figure of failure. Fitzgerald tries to emphasize

the details of whitewashing in America today through Gatsby character.

Death and failure two big words that ironically go together. If you fail in life, then what

are you worth most people would say nothing. If you have no money then you’re on

the streets and if you’re on the streets you catch all kind of diseases and death is surely

to follow.

"Death of a Salesman." Literary Themes for Students: The American Dream, edited by Anne

Marie Hacht, vol. 1, Gale, 2007, pp. 195-208. Literary Themes for Students. Gale Virtual

Reference Library,

http://link.galegroup.com.cerritoscoll.idm.oclc.org/apps/doc/CX2895300027/GVRL?u=cerritos

&sid=GVRL&xid=54189cb8.

Accessed 3 Dec. 2018.

This Article is about the work of Arthur Miller who wrote a successful play in six
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weeks. Arthur Miller is the son of a Jewish Immigrant from Poland. His father worked

as a women’s coat manufacturer and lived in the middle class until the stock market

crashed and the Great Depression forced him to lose his business. Miller worked

various jobs so that he can be able to afford to attend the University of Michigan.

Eventually like every other family they had their problems. The only problem was his

sons choice of a spouse. Miller did not accept the fact that his son has fallen in love for

a farm girl.

The American Dream can be everything or anything anybody wants but people have to

be willing to put in the work in it. Miller had his problems financially and personally

and believed that the only way to get out of that was to commit suicide but instead he

otherwise and help his family in any way he could.

Thomson, James W. “The American Dream’s Death Spiral.” USA Today Magazine, vol. 139,

no. 2786, Nov. 2010, pp. 28–30. EBSCOhost, cerritoscoll.idm.oclc.org/login?

url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=59601615&site=ehost-

live&scope=site.

Thompson discusses the state bin which the U.S economy is in. it compares the

relevance of the American dream has on citizens facing financial difficulties. It

explains the what the American dream means to different social groups. This article

discusses the failures Barack Obama had on the us economy. The author discusses the

changing and waning of the American dream. Stating the people have lost their faith

in the American dream. He talks about what the origin of the phrase was meant for.

That it was meant for greater personal liberties and opportunities. He then shifts to

talk about the declining talk of the American dream. The government trying to rebuild
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itself to be a greater America today but so far has failed. The Government has failed

to keep the U.S. economy in a stable condition causing many citizens to become

bankrupt. Many people have the belief that money is everything and so when one

person losses everything they make drastic and regretful decisions that often their

lives and those around them.

Dickerson, Caitlin. “B. 1930 Cheo: the mainland disappointed him. Puerto rico was his

home.” New York Times Magazine, Dec. 2017, pp. 49–50. EBSCOhost,

cerritoscoll.idm.oclc.org/login? url=

http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=127058612&site=ehost-

live&scope=site.

The article features Puerto Rican Cheo Heredia whose rejection from the U.S.

culminated in the failure of his transfer to a Veterans Affairs facility before

Hurricane Maria struck and his death after. The article discusses his time in the in the

service so that he can be able to support his family. Cheo was an old man who

needed an oxygen tank to breath and with the hurricane coming they had no intention

of leaving their village. The ambulance was on its way but hard to travel. Cheo was

drafted into the army in 1952 and posted in Korea but his eyes were opened when he

realized that there are more soldiers being home in body bags than there are arriving.

People do all types of things to keep themselves and their family safe. In this case

Cheo joined the army so that he can serve both his country and his family, but when

it came for the u.s. to return the favor they were nowhere in sight. Cheo was sick and

needed medical treatment and with hurricane Maria closing in they refuse to transfer

him to V.A. hospital and later died.

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"Cultural Identity." Encyclopedia of Education and Human Development, edited by Stephen

J. Farenga and Daniel Ness, vol. 1, M.E. Sharpe, 2005, pp. 318-321. Gale Virtual Reference

Library,

http://link.galegroup.com.cerritoscoll.idm.oclc.org/apps/doc/CX2652800103/GVRL?u=cerrit

os&sid=GVRL&xid=5a989968. Accessed 9 Dec. 2018.

Various culture identities were viewed as a threat and dangerous. It was a belief that to

be American was to reject all native cultures and leaving behind the main culture that make

someone American. If you failed to be part of the dominate culture the you were seen as a

threat to political, economic, and social threat to the country. To today the view of becoming

American had been practice ion schools and have been for decades. Before there were public

schools there were color schools and only white schools but in today’s era people have come

together but, in the shadow, still believe that to become truly American means having wealth

and be able to sustain yourself.

The American dream is most common in immigrant it’s all they want but there is always

something that gets in their way stopping them from reaching their goals. Whether its their

social class, ethnicity, gender, or race they are always judged harshly. People have lost faith

in the American dream and resulted into other measures to get what they want.