LITR 4333: American Immigrant Literature

Sample Student final exams 2006

Index to Sample Essays on "Dominant Culture"

(Where students did not provide a title, a phrase or opening sentence from their essays serves for a title here.)

copy of final exam & research report assignment

Joel Carter, "From the Promised Land to the Land of Name Brands: The Immigrant Narrative and the Creation of the Dominant Culture"

Bethany Fenner, "one dominant culture to which they must assimilate"

Carmen Ashby,  "how national migration differs from the traditional immigrant story"

Amy Breazeale, "Although none of these narratives were meant to be foundations for each other they still are tightly associated to one another."

Dan Garcia, "Why is the dominant culture of the United States that of white European protestants . . . "

Shlena Freeman, excerpt from in-class essay on dominant culture”

Sarah Hardwick, excerpt from email essay

Joanna Harlan, excerpt from introduction regarding dominant culture

Peggy Johnson, "the basis of our current day model of dominant culture success"

Matasha Lewing, "American Dream"

Sara Moreau, "Traditional vs. National Migration"

Julie O'Gea, "why is there a dominant culture, and who enjoys that privilege?"

Jo Lynn Sallee, "how the dominant culture came to be and what the criteria are to belong to it"

Mary Tinsley, "forerunners of what would one day become the dominant culture"