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“One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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A 4 page analysis of According to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.” No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAivan2.rtf

“Order and Truth in Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘Over 2000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance’”
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A paper which looks at Elizabeth Bishop’s poem ‘Over 2000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance’ in terms of the way in which it contrasts order and innate truth, structure and function, and the necessity to search beyond the apparent order of the text to find the transcendent reality which is greater than the outward form.
Filename: JLconcord.wps

“Other” in Shakespeare’s Othello and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
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A 5 page paper which examines the notion of “other” in Shakespeare’s Othello and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAothdk.rtf

“Out of this Furnace” and “Fast Food Nation”: A Common Lesson
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A 4 page overview of the books by Thomas Bell and Eric Schlosser. This paper presents the contention that the same societal problems which confronted the Progressives in the early part of the twentieth century, problems similar to those revealed in “Out of this Furnace”, continue to confront us today. “Fast Food Nation” reveals, in fact, the same societal hierarchy and injustices which were present in society some one-hundred years ago. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: PPfurna2.rtf

“Pamela” and “Shamela”
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A 5 page paper which discusses how the general welfare of a society is placed on the shoulders of the family, and as such an individual becomes dependent on the welfare, or the health, of a family. This perspective is examined through “Pamela” by Samuel Richardson and the satirical takeoff of Richardson’s work, “Shamela” by Henry Fielding. Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
Filename: RAsham.rtf

“Paradise Lost”: Book IV: Lines 32-113
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A 5 page paper which examines John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” Book IV, lines 32-113. The paper examines how this section of the story shapes our understanding of what has come before and what will follow. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAprdse.rtf

“Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy and Historiographical Metafiction: ImaginaryEvidence”
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A paper which looks in detail at the three novels of Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy (Regeneration, The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road) as examples of the techniques and methodologies of historiographical metafiction. Barker investigates the lost voices of those who were traumatised by shell shock in the First World War, and uses a combination of empirical and imaginative resources in order to reconstruct the subjective histories of those who were silenced in this way; she reconstructs these lost accounts of the suffering and horrors of the Great War through the interpolation of fact and fiction, thus providing an insight into the experiences of those whose accounts are not factually documented in the same way as objective historical data.
Filename: JLregen.wps

“Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather
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A 4 page paper which analyzes the character of Paul in Willa Cather’s short story “Paul’s Case.” No additional sources cited.
Filename: RApaulc.rtf

“Pearl Maiden” by H. Rider Haggard
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A 3 page report on “Pearl Maiden” by H. Rider Haggard. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAprlm.rtf

“Perspectives on solitude - Thoreau and Sarton”
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A five page paper which looks at the different perspectives on solitude which are taken by Thoreau in Walden and May Sarton in Journal of a Solitude, with reference to the authors’ attitude to nature, the trivialities of the civilised world, and the creative process. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: JLSol.rtf