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Review of "Chaucerian Wordplay: The Nun's Priest and His Womman Divyne"
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A 4 page paper discussing several choices of word definition and Chaucer's most likely meaning in line 4456 of the "Nun's Priest's Tale." The author of the article reviewed here provides sound argument for his own choice of word meaning for the passage, but acknowledges that others could arrive at other conclusions. The author believes that Chaucer left the ultimate meaning to the audience. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: KSchaucRev.rtf

Review of An Article on a Text on “The Yellow Wallpaper”
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A 3 page analysis of a book review. Neila C. Seshachari’s review of a scholarly book of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s famous short story “The Yellow Wall-paper” edited by Julie Bates Dock offers a concise, lucid summation of this text. Seshachari begins by explaining why this book is significant, which is, in part, due to the fact that is offers the first authoritative text of Gilman’s famous work to be published since the short story’s original publication in 1892, but the reviewer also argues that this text is significant because of its essays and scholarship, which offers a thorough examination of the story’s publication, history and its place within feminist literature. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khrevdoc.rtf

Review of Reed: "One South"
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This 3 page paper reviews Jonathan Reed's book "One South: An Ethnic Approach to Regional Culture," about Southern identity. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: HV1South.rtf

Review: “The Sun Also Rises”
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This 3 page paper discusses Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: HVHemSun.rtf

Reviewing Thoreau
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This five-page-paper presents a detailed review of Henry David Thoreau's essays, Walden and Life Without Principles. Bibliography lists two sources.
Filename: CWhdthor.wps

Revisionist History: Kenneth Stampp's The Error of Reconstruction (1967)
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Can you remember some phrase about education, which goes something like, "the more you learn, the more you discover how much you do not know." Such is the case in "revisionist history." Basically "revisionism" works from the premise of new information, or the use of additional information. Kenneth Stampp is a historic revisionist concerning the Civil War and the Reconstruction Period. In this 6 page discussion, we will examine the "new" data that he brings to light in his 1967 (and still being published) text, The Error of Reconstruction.
Filename: BBrevCW.doc

Revoking the Rights of an Individual
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5 pages. Many texts culminate in a trial, verdict, and punishment in which an individual gets sacrificed for the alleged good of a system; in Herman Melville's Billy Budd, the system 'saved' is the British Navy. In The Caine Mutiny, the punishment gets thwarted, but the lawyer's speech prevents any celebration of this fact. This paper uses these two stories to develop an argument about when and if the apparent needs of a system or community seem to warrant the revoking of an individual's rights. Uses supporting evidence from the texts as well. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: JGAcvere.wps

Revolution Works
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A 5 page paper which compares "Darkness at Noon" by Arthur Koestler, and "Danton's Death" by Georg Buechner. Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
Filename: RAdantons.wps

Rhetoric, the Women’s Movement, War and Virginia Woolf
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An 8 page discussion of the manner in which rhetoric has been used to define and redefine our identities. While just a couple of generations ago we were content to stand by and watch our men go off to war, for example, today we more and more often find ourselves fighting alongside them. This is an issue which has been explored by a variety of writers. Virginia Woolf, for example, utilized rhetoric to actually define and direct the manner in which women see themselves today both in regard to domestic issues and war. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: PPrhtBrk.rtf

RHETORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF UPTON SINCLAIR’S, THE JUNGLE
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This 6 page paper discusses the overt political rhetoric of Upton Sinclair's work, The Jungle. A brief synopsis is given, with accompanying analysis of the themes and messages. Quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: MBjungle.rtf