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The Maturation of Odysseus
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A two page paper looking at the episodes Odysseus relates in Books 9-12 of Homer’s Odyssey. The paper concludes that Odysseus shows growing maturity during this period, and in fact may have needed this twenty years’ period away from Ithaka to mature into the type of man he was destined to be. No additional sources.
Filename: KBhomer3.wps

Comparing and Contrasting the Status of Women in Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' With Biblical, Hindu and Muslim Women
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An 18 page paper which compares and contrasts the status of women in Margaret Atwood's 1986 novel, 'The Handmaid's Tale' with those of the Christian Bible, Hindu and Muslim women, specifically in terms of identity (or lack of identity) and sexuality. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: TGmahand.wps

Characterization and Ethics in Wells’ “Island of Dr. Moreau”
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A 5 page paper on the way the author’s ethical stance is developed through characterization in H.G. Wells’ novel. The paper asserts that the protagonist Prendick is a human being in a way that Dr. Moreau is not, and the Beast People can not be, because he accepts membership in the fellowship of the human community and recognizes that their fate and their pain is his own. No additional sources.
Filename: KBwells.wps

H. G. Wells' 'The Time Machine'
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A 7 page paper that discusses Wells' theme of intellectual and social complacency through comparison between his guests, the Eloi and the Morlocks. This paper demonstrates that the Utopian society represented by the Eloi actually originated in people like the Time Traveler's doubting friends and evolved into the dying society that he saw in his voyage further into the future because of complacency. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Hgwells.wps

Easier to Move: Confrontations in 'Bartleby' and 'Soldier's Home'
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a 5 page paper comparing Harold Krebs in Hemingway's 'Soldier's Home' with the narrator of 'Bartleby the Scrivener' by Herman Melville. The paper concludes that both these characters have a difficult time risking confrontation, and, despite the fact that one character is a soldier returned from the front and the other a successful lawyer, neither is secure enough to risk a confrontation that could be uncomfortable, painful, or guilt-inducing. Bibliography lists the two primary sources.
Filename: Barthome.wps

Herman Melville's 'Bartleby the Scrivener' / Setting
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A 5 page research paper on Melville's story and the importance of the setting in understanding it. The writer details the setting, the terms used to describe it, and how it related to each stage of Bartleby's withdrawal from life. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Bartleby.wps

Herman Melville's 'Benito Cereno'
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A 5 page analysis of Melville's story, focusing on the denial and rationalization abilities of Captain Delano. The story ultimately is the illustration of the unthinking prejudice of race based on a lack of understanding, and the author makes his points against the backdrop of mental instability and lack of mental wholeness. To the charges of Melville's day that the black race was somehow intellectually inferior so that the white race could continue their rationalization for enslaving a segment of their human brothers, Melville takes the less-than-sane notion and uses the backdrop of lack of awareness to magnify the ultimate futility and irrationality in adhering to such views. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Cereno.wps

Herman Melville's 'Benito Cereno' / Race and Moral
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A short 1 page essay on Melville's 'Benito Cereno,' a tale of suppressed slave rebellion, which the writer feels can easily be regarded as a tale of racism and moral liability. No Bibliography.
Filename: Melville.wps

Herman Melville's 'Billy Budd'
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A 6 page paper on the moral and philosophical questions that are present in this novel. The writer discusses the main characters and Melville's obvious interpretation of them as they relate to good and evil. Bibliography lists eight sources.
Filename: Billybud.wps

Herman Melville's 'Billy Budd' : Henry Salt considered Melville's later works as fantasies rather than a relation of sober facts. This was not the case with 'Billy Budd.' There are elements of the transcendental and he has ce
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honesty, humility and the art of peacemaking. This 5 page paper explores Melville's presentation of the character of Billy Budd in terms of these three qualities. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: BilBud.wps