Gender in “Don Quixote”
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A 4 page paper which examines how gender is constructed in the classic “Don Quixote.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: RAquix.rtf

Gongora and De la Cruz/A Comparison
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An 8 page research paper that addresses Luis de Gongora's Polyphemus and Galatea and Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz's The Divine Narcissus, which are both products of Spain's Golden Age of literature in the seventeenth century. They both draw on Greek myth in order to express in order to express themselves artistically within the religious and social concepts of their era. This examination of these works looks, first of all, at the content of each work in a brief summation, but then also addresses similarities and differences between these great Spanish authors' writing styles and thematic messages. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: khgoncuz.rtf

Gregorio Lopez Y Fuentes' "El Indio"
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3 pages in length. Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes' 1937 novel El Indio strives to represent many things at once: political mistreatment, ethnic intolerance and cultural ignorance. While on the surface the story appears as yet another narration with regard to Western European overtaking of Indian land, it is significantly much more than that. Indeed, there exists plenty of references – both obvious and subliminal – that effectively address what truly did occur between the colonists and the indigenous population; however, the writer discusses that through the author's insight, the reader gains a considerable amount of knowledge about what occurred during this clash of culture. No additional sources cited.
Filename: TLCindio.wps

Heker's "The Stolen Party"
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A five page paper looking at Liliana Heker's story about classism in Argentina viewed from the perspective of a child. The paper concludes that the social parameters that we normally expect to be confined to the adult world unfortunately apply to the world of schoolchildren as well. Bibliography lists two sources.
Filename: KBheker.wps

Heroism in Cervantes' "Don Quixote"
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A five page paper looking at the way Miguel de Cervantes portrays his protagonist as a hero in this sixteenth-century tale. Cervantes shows that in a cynical society, people who cling to values such as honor and nobility are seen as fools, when they are in fact heroes. Bibliography lists seven sources.
Filename: KBquix2.wps

Homecoming in "Omeros"
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This 3 page paper discusses the idea of homecoming in Omeros, and whether the characters in the poem can find a place for themselves in a culture that has been overtaken by imperialism. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: HVHomOme.rtf

House of the Spirits/Perspectives on Poverty
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A 5 page research paper/essay that looks at Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits. The writer profiles four characters from the novel in regards to how they view the poverty of the Chili. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: khhosp.rtf

How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents: symbolic interaction
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A paper which looks at Alvarez's novel in terms of symbolic interaction, with specific reference to the culture clash that the sisters experience, and the problems they have reconciling their patriarchal Catholic upbringing with New York culture of the 1960s. Bibliography lists 2 sources
Filename: JLgarc.rtf

How Violence is Used to Express the Theme of Isolation and Solitude in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude”
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This is a 5 page paper discussing how the motif of violence is used to express the theme of solitude in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude”. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” written in 1967, he uses various themes throughout to help highlight the theme of isolation and solitude experienced by the community of Macondo in the book. One motif used is that of violence which reoccurs throughout the history of the community. The violent cycles within the work increase in their destructive nature but after each occurrence, the community suppresses the memories of the violence. This suppression of memories further isolates the community from reality and the outside world and they eventually create a society based on their own fantasies. Although violence is not meant to be a central focus of the book Marquez is very explicit in the details of the violence which does occur partly to awaken the reader to events which actually have occurred in the history of Columbia and which have been rewritten and suppressed in their own account but also to show to what extent the suppression of such violence can add to the solitude of a community and its characters. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: TJMarqu1.rtf

Human Calamity: The Long View
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This 7 page paper discusses the way in which the authors of "Slaughterhouse-Five" (Vonnegut) and "100 Years of Solitude" (Márquez) have used understatement to tell of human misery. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: HVLngVue.rtf

Humor in Caribbean Poetry
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This 6 page paper focuses on humor and irony in Caribbean poetry, with attention to seven separate pomes, each by different authors. The use of nature as an element is also discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: SA120pom.doc

Identity Explored in Three Texts
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This 6 page paper discusses the question of identity formation using three texts: "No Name Woman" by Kingston; "Aria" by Rodriguez and "Yes Ma'am" by McCloskey. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: HVIdenty.rtf

Identity Through Characters in Derek Walcott’s “Omeros”
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A 9 page paper which examines the characters of Achille, Hector, Helen, Ma Kilman, and Plunkett as symbolic figures who represent Walcott’s search for identity in his novel/epic poem “Omeros.” No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAomers.rtf

Iguana Dreams / Images of the Latino Family
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A 7 page paper that provides an overview of the different elements of family represented in the Latino short stories compiled in Iguana Dreams. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Iguanadr.wps

Imagery in Aguilar’s Luminous Cities
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An 8 page paper which examines how intertextuality, as magical realism, works as a way of presenting contemporary society in Eduardo Garcia Aguilar’s novel Luminous Cities. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: RAlum.rtf

Intertextuality in "Bodas de Sangre" by Federico Garcia Lorca
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A 5 page paper which discusses different elements of intertextuality in Federico Garcia Lorca's story "Bodas de Sangre." Bibliography lists 9 additional sources.
Filename: RAsangre.wps

Is America or Mexico a Better Example of a “Melting Pot”?
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This 12 page paper uses the novel “Who Would Have Thought It?” by Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton as a springboard to consider the question of whether the term “melting pot” applies more accurately to the U.S. or Mexico. The paper argues that the term as generally understood doesn’t apply in this context, and that the book shows the bigotry, racism and arrogance of the United States clearly, while Mexican society is shown as warm and caring. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: HVMeltPt.rtf