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1. Being First Lady: American Dream or Nightmare?
2. British Identities: Fact or Fiction? The depiction of hooliganism in the movie
Green Street Hooligans.
3. Modern British short stories: Ian McEwan`s stories of intitiation
4. The Twilight Saga- A Contemporary "Book of Mormon"?
5. American Gothic: E.A. Poe`s works in short fiction.
6. The heritage of the Old South: a look into changing attitudes towards African
Americans
7. Bret Harte’s local color story ”The Luck of Roaring Camp“: a stylistic analysis
8. Mark Twain’s local color story ”The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras
County“: a stylistic analysis
9. Debating death penalty in the U. S. – recent trends
10. Economic growth and climate change: recent debates in the U. S.
11. Gender and class expectations in the Regency England of Jane Austen’s Pride
and Prejudice
12. Equality of opportunity and access to higher education in the U. S.: the
promises of the American Dream reconsidered
13. Billy Holiday’s interpretation of ”Strange Fruit“: the lynching of black men in the
South – a taboo?
14. The A-Team – an American Dream team? A critical approach to the popularity of
a 1980s TV series
15. The Queen’s Christmas speeches: a study into the nature of a formulaic text
16. Approaching the promise of the American Dream: a comparison of the policy
positions of 2008 presidential candidates
17. Upward social mobility in Ragged Dick: a critical approach to Horatio Alger’s
recipe for success
18. U. S. High School/Senior High School education: opening the door to the
American dream? A case study
19. Collective fears in the U. S. before and after 9/11: Ed Zwick’s action thriller The
Siege, Osama bin Laden and beyond
20. A comparative analysis of the Australian and German school systems:
impulses for educational innovation from Down Under?
21. Racial tensions and the U. S. legal system as reflected in Joel Schumacher’s
feature film A Time to Kill
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22. Abraham Lincoln and the revolutionary Emancipation Proclamation of New
Year’s Day 1863: the completion of the work of the earlier Revolution?
23. From rags to riches: Citizen Kane
24. The retirement community of Sun City, Arizona: a critical approach to an
American success story
25. Overweight and obesity: a critical approach to the role of American fast-food
culture
26. American cult trademarks
27. Living the American Dream: the rise und (provisional) fall of Whitney Houston
28. Urban life: the example of Las Vegas – a model city of the American Dream?
29. The Troubles in Northern Ireland and their reflection in The Cranberries’
Zombies
30. The Governator: Schwarzenegger on the ladder to ultimate success?
31. The American Dream and the Native Americans – Myth and Realtity?
32. Amendment VIII – Is the death penalty compatible with this part of the United
States Bill of Rights?
33. Rip van Winkel – a mirror of Washington Irving’s age?
34. How European settlement is reflected in the Australian Aborigines’ lives
35. Sesame Street and “Die Sesamstrasse” – Is “Die Sesamstrasse” a copy of
Sesame Street and can they be compared?
36. Is the American Dream fullfilled? – How “Gilmore Girls” is related to the American
Dream
37. Hong Kong as a British colony
38. “The Simpsons” – Homer as a typical American
39. Marilyn Monroe – an unfullfilled American Dream
40. The reflection of James Truslow Adams "American Dream" in Walt Disney's
movie "High School Musical"
41. A comparison of the inaugural speeches of George W. Bush and Barack H.
Obama with regard to the American Dream of James T. Adams
42. The conflict between the civil rights movement and the KKK in the movie
"Mississippi Burning"
43. The Star-Spangled Banner- a national anthem, its meaning for the Americans
and its connection to the American Dream
44. The dark side of AmeriKKKa - The case of J. Seale
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45. Forrest Gump - an ironical incarnation of the American Dream?
46. The Reimanns and their American Dream. A German family emigrates
47. Justice in the land of the free?
The execution of an innocent person as portrayed in Stephen King's film "The Green
Mile"
48. Two American carreers - Bruce Springsteen vs. Kurt Cobain
49. The right to own weapons and its consequences at American schools
50. Mark Zuckerberg - an American self-made man or a deplorable madman?
51. A typical lady of the South – what it means to be a Southern belle.
52. Gone with the wind – a typical portrayal of the South?
53. Michael Jackson: American Dream or Nightmare? A press review.
54. New India. Myth or Reality? The effects of the economic boom on the traditional
Indian society
55. The Queen and Modern Britain: Does Britain still need a monarchy today?