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Papers On Literature
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Postrel & O’Brien/Aesthetics & The True War Story
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An 8 page research paper/essay that discusses Virginia Postrel’s writing on style, design and aesthetics and than applies her ideas to the writing of Tim O’Brien in “How to Tell a True War Story.” The writer argues that O’Brien uses aesthetics to convey meaning about the nature of war experience. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: khposob.rtf
Power & Female Relationships/2 Novels
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A 5 page essay that contrasts and compares the structure and themes of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club (1989) and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine (1984), which have very similar structures as a novels. Each text offers a series of short stories that collectively relate a coherent saga of generations and relationships. Tan relates the stories of four families and Erdrich focuses on three interconnected families. In both works, the authors portray the tension that arises from conflicting cultural expectations, that is, from being "other" within the context of mainstream culture in terms that primarily dramatizes this as tension between two generations of women. Primarily the writer talks about Tan's short story "Two Kinds" and Erdrich's "Saint Marie." Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: khtanerd.rtf
Power and Exploitation in Four Literary Works:
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An 8 page comparison of Joseph
Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Alan Duff's Once Were Warriors, Russell
Banks' Continental Drift, and Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal in
terms of their treatment of the themes of exploitation and power. The
paper asserts that it is not only those who are suffering the
exploitation who suffer; the exploiters suffer morally as their actions
diminish them. Similarly, the exploited morally triumph as they learn to
deal with adversity and forge a renewed sense of power out of the
shambles of their lives. Bibliography lists five sources.
Filename: KBpower.wps
Power and Fear in "Medea" and "Lysistrata"
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An eight page comparison of these two Greek plays from the fifth century BC, by Euripedes and Aristophanes respectively. The paper maintains that although Aristophanes' play takes the form of a bawdy comedy and Euripedes is a melodramatic tragedy, both playwrights clearly fear the potential power of women. Bibliography lists five sources.
Filename: KBlysis2.wps
Power of Language in Langston Hughes’ Poems ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ and ‘Mother to Son’
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In five pages this paper explores how the poet employs such literary devices as metaphors in these poems to illustrate the power of language to readers. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
Filename: TGlangston.rtf
Power of Unwritten Law: Oedipus Rex
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A 5 page paper which examines the theme of
the power of unwritten law in Sophocles' play "Oedipus Rex." No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAoedrex.rtf
Power Struggles in The Awakening
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This 3 page paper provides a look at this Chopin story and views the protagonist Edna. Her lack of power, as well as her power in some places, is the focus of this essay. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: SA614Awa.rtf
Powerful Women in Rudolf Anaya’s “Bless Me Ultima” and Louise Erdrich’s “Tracks”
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A 5 page discussion of the influence wielded by Erdrich’s Fleur and Anaya’s Ultima on the rest of their culture. The question is addressed as to whether these women’s power sustains the culture or contributes to its demise. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: PPltTrks.rtf
Powerlessness in "Hills Like White Elephants" and "The Lottery"
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A 3 page paper which examines the characters' sense of powerlessness in Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" and Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery." No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAhlllot.rtf
Practical Applications of Great Literature
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This 8 page paper answers two questions posed by a student. Within the answers, six pieces of literature are used: Sappho's The Moon, The Holy Bible, Shakespeare's As You Like It, Homer's Odyssey, Mahabharata and Gilgamesh. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: SA519lit.rtf
Pratchett's Carpe Jugulum
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This 5 page paper explores the comic
tradition of parody and satire as well as the intertextuality of the
novel, Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
Filename: KTcaplum.wps
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