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Conventionality and Freedom in Lessing's 'To Room Nineteen'
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A 5 page paper looking at this compelling story by Doris Lessing. The paper discusses the protagonist's difficulty in separating her emotional needs from her culture's expectations of women's roles. No additional sources.
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Culture in Lessing's 'The Summer After the Dark'
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A 12 page paper on Doris Lessing's 1973 novel, using it as a point of departure to discuss women's cultural roles in contemporary Western society. Insights from Turner's British Cultural Studies, An Introduction; Adam and Allan's Theorizing Culture: An Interdisciplinary Critique After Postmodernism; and John Storey's What is Cultural Studies: A Reader as well as five other critical sources are used to help explain the protagonist's complex behavior. Bibliography lists nine sources.
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Doris Lessing's 'To Room Nineteen' / Use of Setting & Color
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Doris Lessing's story 'To Room Nineteen' is a story about the repression of the human spirit and seeming unending emptiness and personal alienation that come as a result of social, cultural and even ethnic divisions. Susan Rawling, Lessing's main character, vacillates between sanity and insanity, and her struggle to escape the accompanying alienation comes through a view of her surroundings. This 2 page considers this argument by considering the action in Lessing's work. No additional sources cited.
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Feminist Literary Criticism: Feminist Critical Theory
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6 pages in length. To say that women have had to fight for their existence within the literary world would be a gross understatement. Indeed, the road to self-expression through the written word has been paved with patriarchal intolerance and characteristic skepticism. That women have been forced to prove their worthiness within the stringent boundaries of a male-dominated existence speaks volumes about the inherent fortitude that comprises the female spirit. The writer discusses feminist critical theory as it relates to women writers, focusing upon a story by Doris Lessing. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: TLCFemLt.doc

Louise Erdrich's 'Tracks' / Analyzed
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This 5 page paper reviews Louise Erdrich's Tracks, a 1988 novel about Chippewa Indians living in North Dakota. The book analyzes the major characters of Pauline, Nanapush, Margaret and Fleur and how their struggles reflect the overall struggle of the Native Americans to hold onto what is left of their land and their dignity. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: Tracks.doc

Harper Lee's 'To Kill A Mockingbird' / Justice ?
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In this 2 page paper, the writer argues that To Kill a Mockingbird contains criticism of the prejudice and moral laziness that allowed Southern society to have a double standard of justice. In this oppressed society, Calpurina feels compelled to converse in her friends' dialect so they will not feel she is trying to act superior to them. No additional sources cited.
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Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' / The Maturing of Scout
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A 10 page paper analyzing the character of Scout in this sensitive coming-of-age story. The paper argues that although at times Scout's perceptions may be a little too advanced for her age, they nonetheless show she will have the ability to develop into a courageous and mature young woman. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening': Escapism And Freedom
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4 pages in length. The writer discusses how integral a role escapism and freedom play in Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening.' Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Three Lives Of Writers Who Were Young, Gifted & Black
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An 8 page research paper which analyzes the biographies of three famous African-American authors-Gordon Parks, Anne Moody, and Lorraine Hansberry. The writer demonstrates how each author used their background as inspiration for art and activism that served to combat racism and increase understanding. The writer also shows how differences in their situations served to make each vision of racism unique and relevant. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: 3lives.rtf

Lorraine Hansberry's 'A Raisin In The Sun' / Film-Play Comparison
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A 5 page essay describing some of the differences between the play and the film version of Lorraine Hansberry's play, and the reasons behind them. The writer focuses on costuming in regards to time frames and on the different treatment of men and women in the two versions of the story. No sources cited.
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