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Shirley Jackson/"Trial by Combat"
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A 5 page research paper about Jackson's short story "Trial by Combat." The writer argues that this story dramatizes the issue of identity and the ease that identity can be stripped away as the course of modern life tends to place people in anonymous contexts, where there is little to distinguish one person from another. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Shirley Jackson/The Lottery
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A 5 page essay that examines Jackson's short story, The Lottery. In this story, Jackson addresses the nature of evil. Jackson demonstrates that evil doesn't necessarily announce itself. Evil, inhumanity, and injustice can be so commonplace in human society that they disappear into the framework of our daily lives. In other words, evil can be obvious, but it can also be something that has been carried on for generations and, therefore, is continued simply because "that's the way it's always been done." In Jackson's short story, the reader encounters just such an "evil" in the village "lottery." No additional sources cited.
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Shirley Jackson/The Lottery
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A 5 page essay that examines Jackson's short story "The Lottery." The writer argues that this story's basic theme is that institutions and traditions should not be respected simply because they have existed for a long time. "The Lottery" forces the reader to reconsider and reexamine preconceived notions of what is considered to be "good" or "bad" when the principal criteria for judgement is tradition. No additional sources cited.
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Shirley Jackson: The Lottery and After You, My Dear Alphonse
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A 3 page paper which compares and contrasts Shirley Jackson’s stories “The Lottery” and “After You, My Dear Alphonse.” No additional sources cited.
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Short Answers to Help Understand the Book Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
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This 4 page paper answers 13 short question to help the student understand different aspects of the book Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. The questions are 1. what is allegory of the cave. 2. What is meant by cyclic and linear progress historical progress. 3 In what ways is infant linked to economic development. 4. What was Karl Marx's notion of history. 5. Identify three different cultural attitudes toward animals. 6. What is discuss TSE (transmissible spongiform encephalopathy) and what is a prion, 7. Identify two philosophical or cultural attitudes about land. 8 Discuss two meanings of the word fabricate referring to the film Wag the Dog 9. What is a vegan, and what are other types of vegetarianism 10. What did Malthus claim about population growth. 10 What were the optimistic Premises of Robert Owen. 12. What are transgenic foods and why are they controversial and 13. What are different modes of agriculture. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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Short Stories By Women
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The short stories of Nadine Gordimer, Grace Pale, Susan Minot and Alice Munro can all be loosely classified as 'feminist' because they are stories told by women, about women and for women. This 5 page paper explores four stories, focusing on theme and similarities. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Short Stories in Pickering's Anthology
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This 5 page paper provides information about five stories from James H. Pickering's anthology. Works are The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy, Horse Camp by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings By Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Amy Tan's Young Girl's Wish. No additional sources cited.
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Short Stories offer Perspective on Life
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A 4 page analysis of several short stories—"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Gilman; "A Respectable Woman" by Chopin; "Chickamauga" by Bierce; "Open Boat" by Crane; and "The Revolt of Mother" by Freeman. In each of these stories, the protagonists face catastrophic conditions. The writer argues that these stories illustrate how people can some control over their fate by deciding how they will react to these occurrences. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Short Story Analysis of D.H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner” and Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
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A 6 page paper which examines how each story explores the theme of spiritual emptiness. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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Short Story Analysis: Three Literary Works
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This 5 page paper answers questions about three short stories: “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather; “The Child by Tiger” by Thomas Wolfe; and “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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