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Playing Air Guitar
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This 3 page paper examines critic Dave Hickey's book of essays entitled Air Guitar. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: HVGuitar.rtf

Plays of Comedy which Overcome Obstacles of Death and Dark Themes
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This is a 5 page paper discussing two plays which manage to overcome the obstacle of death. David Ives’ “All in the Timing” and Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off” are two plays which manage to overcome death and dark themes by skilful timing and framing of dark elements within lighter and farcical works. In both plays death is so close yet comical elements keep the characters at an unreal distance from it thereby not making it a powerful obstacle to overcome. In “All in the Timing” which contains six one act plays, Ives frames the last 36 hours of Trotsky’s death by the one act play proceeding it “The Universal Language” and the one act play which follows it “Philadelphia” which both included elements of the ridiculous while the Trotsky play itself manages to overcome its dark content by Trotsky’s fear of ice picks all the while having a mountaineer’s axe wedged in his head. “Noises Off” on the other hand is a three act play which shows the onstage production of a farcical and bad play called “Nothing On” in acts one and three while the dark and conniving backstage life of the actors and actresses are shown in act two. Surrounded by the unreal and comical acts of one and three does an adequate job of lightening the content of act two, but act two itself contains a large amount of slap stick and physical comedy which lightens the elements of death and successfully continues in its comic frame. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: TJdeath1.rtf

Pleasantville and The Giver
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A 4 page paper which compares and contrasts the film Pleasantville and the novel The Giver b y Lois Lowry. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAplell.rtf

Plight of Labor/Bell's Furnace
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A 4 page book review/research paper that examines this novel in order to discern the plight of labor unions in the steel industry from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth. First published in 1941, Thomas Bell's Out of This Furnace is novel that tells the story of three generations of a Slovak immigrant family. The writer argues that this novel can be read as more than fiction, as it can be seen as an accurate representation of immigrant acculturation to America, as well as an historical account of how labor developed during the decades covered by the novel. No other sources cited.
Filename: khbelfur.rtf

Plot and Conflict Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”
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A 5 page paper which examines the novel’s protagonists and antagonists and how their characteristics put them in conflict; a description of this conflict and how it develops the action; considers how this conflict stems from contrasting ideas or values; examines the major characters’ dilemmas and how they are dealt with; whether or not they achieve their major goals; the many obstacles in their path to achieving these goals; whether the characters are happy/unhappy, satisfied/dissatisfied, changed or the same, enlightened or ignorant, and how the resolution of these major conflicts produced these results. No additional sources are used.
Filename: TGgr8gat.rtf

Plunkett's History in "Omeros"
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This 3 page paper discusses the historical discoveries Plunkett makes in the poem "Omeros," and how they relate to a sense of homecoming. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: HVPlnOme.rtf

Plutarch and Seneca
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This 8-page paper compares the two works, Seneca's 'On Noise' and Plutarch's 'A Consolation to his Wife.' Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: HVSeneca.rtf

Poe and Freud
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A 5 page paper which examines what Freud’s analysis would be of Edgar Allen Poe’s stories “The Black Cat” and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” as they relate to Poe’s attitudes and beliefs towards women. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: RApoefrd.rtf

Poe and Irving
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A 3 page paper which examines the romantic and the supernatural in Edgar Allen Poe’s “Tell Tale Heart” and Washington Irving’s “Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Bibliography lists 1 additional source.
Filename: RApoirv.rtf

Poe and O'Connor: Gothic to the Max.
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(5 pp) What is in the human condition that prompts us to enjoy being scared? Ghost stories at Halloween; escaped criminal stories around the campfire; or creatures rising from the dead, all serve that part of us that tingles with frightening tales. Gothic stories, are, that grou of literary works, which do exactly that. Edgar Allan Poe and Flannery O'Connor are wonderful examples of this genre. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: BBgothic.doc