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Portraying Families in Short Fiction
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A 7 page essay that examines Ernest Hemingway's short story "Indian Camp," Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl," and Richard Wright's Black Boy. The writer summarizes and discusses each narrative, looking for the one that best models the most successful family relationships. No additional sources cited.
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Poseidon and Athene
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A 5 page paper which discusses the characters of Poseidon and Athene from "The Odyssey." The characters are examined in regards to how they compliment one another as it pertains to their supernatural powers, and also examined in their contributions to the story. No additional sources cited.
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Possibilities of Love and Change in "Wide Sargasso Sea"
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This 3 page paper discusses the way in which romantic love can lead to change in the characters in "Wide Sargasso Sea." Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Post Colonial Women Writers
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A 6 page research paper that examines the work of Bessie Head of South African and her collection of short stories, "The Collector of Treasures," and also the short story, "The Youngest Doll" by Puerto Rican writer Rosario Ferre. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Hemmingway's Story of Jake and Brett
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This six-page-paper presents a discussion on the Ernets Hemmingway book Sunshine on the Rise. The charcaters Brett and Jake are used to outline how a perosn with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder might react to life and the curves that it throws us . Bibliography lists five sources.
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Post-Colonialism in Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient" & Salman Rushdie's "Haroun and the Sea of Stories"
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A 5 page paper which examines post-colonialism in Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient" and Salman Rushdie's "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" in terms of the enemy, both real and allegorical; the confusion over who is the enemy in each; and the reasons for this confusion, from a post-colonial perspective. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Post-Colonialism in the Caribbean as Viewed Through Literature
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An 8 page overview of the horrors of European colonization in the Caribbean and how many aspects of this colonization translate over into the post-Colonial experience. Utilizes George William Lamming's "In the Castle of My Skin" and Edwidge Danticat's "The Farming of Bones" to explore issues relating to migration, slavery, suppression, resistance, representation, difference, race, gender, place, and responses to the influential master discourses of imperial Europe such as history, philosophy and linguistics, and the fundamental experiences of speaking and writing by which all these come into being. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Post-War Adjustment: Literary Comparison
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3 pages in length. Re-entering society and home life after returning from war is a challenging proposition for many soldiers who bring with them the horrors they experienced in combat. That people are said to receive only the amount of hardship they can effectively handle speaks to the overflow of emotional suffering thrust at war veterans while on duty and the tremendous weight the human capacity for coping must digest. Five articles/stories expound upon the struggles inherent to post-war adjustment, noting the grand variances that can play a role in how much or even whether a soldier is able to deal with the trauma. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: TLCpostwar.rtf

Postcolonial Analysis Of 'Things Fall Apart'
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4 pages in length. Perhaps these particular peoples were not ready to be free of what were deemed as religious constraints to which they so readily adhered. Perhaps the European's believed that it was not necessary for the village of Umuofia to secure its heritage by way of political, governmental and familial implications. The fact is this: What existed before the uninvited European visitors planted their foreign feet upon Umuofia's ground was never the same once colonization occurred. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: TLCApart.rtf

Postman: Technopoly
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This 5 page paper discusses Neil Postman's provocative book Technopoly and the author's belief that our advances in technology have done a great deal of damage to us in terms of losing our humanity. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: HVPostmn.rtf