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Subplot: Christine and Krogstad in Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”
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A 6 page paper which examines the presence and significance of the subplot involving Christine and Krogstad in Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House.” Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
Filename: RAdoll.rtf

Substance Abuse in the Odyssey
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This 5 page paper explores drug and alcohol use in Homer's The Odyssey. Several examples are used including lotus-eating and indulging in what is now known as jimson weed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: SA119drg .doc

Subtleties of Theme and Technique Using the Supernatural in Toni Morrison’s “Beloved and Stephen King’s “The Shining”
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This 6 page report discusses two of the most popular American fiction writers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries are Stephen King and Toni Morrison. King is often condemned as nothing more than a marketing phenomenon or that his writing is just a game of gore and horror but King is a writer that takes chances while dealing with the metaphysical issues of darkness and light, good and evil, security and danger simultaneously. Meanwhile, Morrison presents a world that has been celebrated (rightfully) for its clarity and compassion in regard to the African American experience in the United States in the past two centuries. Their similarity lies in the fact that they both weave the supernatural and perceptions of the supernatural throughout their work. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: BWkingmo.wps

Suburban Sonnet - Reflections on the Road Not Taken
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A 5 page paper that examines the language and meaning of Australian lyric poet Gwen Harwood's Suburban Sonnet. Discussed is the poem's use of imagery and metaphor as well as the dual meanings expressed by these literary devices. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: LCsonnet.doc

Sudden Fiction/Short Short Stories
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A 5 page essay that examines and evaluates Sudden Fiction (1987), an anthology of sixty short stories, exceptionally short short stories, edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas. Generally under 2000 words, the writer critically examines several stories from the volume to make the point that this abbreviated form of fiction can still pack a powerful thematic punch. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: khsudfic.rtf

Suetonius' "The Twelve Caesars"
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3 pages in length. The writer discusses how analyzing the plight of the poor masses, women and other marginalized groups in Roman society within the literary boundaries of Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars requires one to consider the concepts of patriarchy and elitism. No additional sources cited.
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Suffering in Crime and Punishment
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A 3 page essay that briefly discusses the theme of suffering in this novel. Suffering is an omnipresent theme in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, as, with only a few prominent exceptions, everyone in the novel is desperately poor. However, from the first page of the novel, Dostoyevsky makes it clear that primary cause of his protagonist's suffering is not his poverty. Raskolnikov, who is also referred to as "Rodya" or "Rodka," is a former student and living in poverty as the novel opens, but it is not poverty that makes his existence torturous; rather it is his nihilistic, superior attitude toward other people that is the principle cause of his suffering. Dostoyevsky makes this clear by contrasting Raskolnikov's suffering against that of characters who do have functional relationships, such as Sonya, the woman with whom Raskolnikov eventually realizes he loves. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khdossuf.rtf

Suicide and the Poetry of Robert Frost
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A five page paper looking at two of Robert Frost's best known poems -- "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" and "Acquainted With the Night" -- in terms of their reflection of the poet's chronic depression and inclinations toward suicide. The paper concludes that even though his black moods impel him toward death, Frost resigns himself to life. Bibliography lists three sources.
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Suicide/A Right or a Crime?
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A 5 page essay that examines how the topic of suicide is treated in Marsha Norman's 'night Mother and Kazuo Ishiguro's A Family Dinner. The writer disagrees with the perspective argued by these authors. No additional sources cited.
Filename: kh2sui.wps

Sula & Chronicle of a Death Foretold, A Comparison
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A 3 page essay that compares and contrasts Sula by Toni Morrison and Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The writer argues that these texts are vastly different in the stories that they relate; however, they are similar in that each author addresses the nature of good and evil and how this topic is viewed by society. Morrison and Marquez, by presenting these stories, suggest that the social notions of "good" or "bad" are arbitrary and not necessarily related to the true nature of the people or events that earn these labels. In making this point, the most striking similarity is that both texts are built around the topic of death. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khsulch.rtf