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Dreams/Ambition/Worry/Regret: The following quotes illustrate the topic's ambiguity. Use
these to establish the scope of your topic--to begin to specify the subtopics
that verbalize various differing opinions on the same issue--to begin to develop
a guide to your reading.
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,
Anderson, Sherwood. "The Egg." Short Story Masterpieces. Ed. Robert Warren and Albert Erskine. New York, Pages 15-30. Baldwin, James. Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays. Chekhov, Anton. Selected Short Stories. Dillard, Annie. Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters. New York: Harper and Row, 1982. DuBois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. New York, NY: Dodd Mead Company, Inc., 1961. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. _ _ _ "Winter Dreams." Short Story Masterpieces. Ed. Robert Warren and Albert Erskine. New York, NY: Dell Publishing, 1980. Pages 180-205. Fraser, Antonia. The Warrior Queens. New York: Random House, Inc., 1988. Hamlin, Garland. A Son of a Middle Border. New York, NY: The MacMillan Company, 1968. Hemingway, Ernest. "Soldier's Home." Short Story Masterpieces. Ed. Robert Warren and Albert Erskine. New York, NY: Dell Publishing, 1980. Pages 207-217. Kennedy, Edward. "Now is the Time." Twentieth Century Speeches. Ed. Brian McArthur. New York, NY: Penguin Book Company, 1992. Pages 459-464. Kennedy, John F. "The Torch has Been Passed to a New Generation of Americans." Twentieth Century Speeches. Ed. Brian McArthur. New York, NY: Penguin Book Company, 1992. Pages 300-304. Lewis, David. W. E. B. DuBois: Biography of a Race. New York: Henry, Holt, and Co., 1993. Mason, Bobbi Ann. "Shilou." The Best American Short Stories 1981. Ed. Hortense Calisher. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. Pages 171-184. Matthiessen, Peter. Blue Meridian. New York: Random House, Inc., 1970. _ _ _ The Snow Leopard. New York: The Viking Press, 1978. _ _ _ The Eastern Slope. New York: The Viking Press, 1959 McPhearson, James M. Marching Towards Freedom. Orwell, George. 1984. Plato. "The Republic." Writing About the World. Vol. 1. Ed.Susan McCleod. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1991. Pages 260-268. Puller, Lewis B. Fortunate Son. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. Reagan, Ronald. "A Time for Choosing." Twentieth Century Speeches. Ed. Brian McArthur. New York, NY: Penguin Book Company, 1992.Pages 352-356. Thomas, Dylan. Selected Essays. Thomas, Lewis. "The Unforgetable Fire." Late Night Thoughts.Ed. Thomas Lear. Canada: The Viking Press, 1983. Thoreau, Henry David. Walden and Civil Disobedience. New York: New American Library, 1980. Thucydides. "The Funeral Oration of Pericles." The Book of Virtues. Ed. William J. Bennett. Neew York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1993. Pages 243-248. Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery. Walker, Alice. "Nobody Was Suppose to Survive." Living By the Word. Ed. Vaughn Andrews. New York: Hartcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. Pages 153-163. _ _ _ "Trying to See My Sister." Living By the Word. Ed. Vaughn Andrews. New York Hartcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. Pages 18-28. _ _ _ "The Universe Responds." Living By the Word. Ed. Vaughn Andrews. New York: Hartcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. Pages 185-185. Wills, Garry. Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994. Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own.
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