Andersen’s “Snow Queen” and “Steadfast Tin Soldier”
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A seven page paper looking at the psychological symbolism of these two stories by Hans Christian Andersen. It discusses the reasons why the stories’ endings are psychologically unsatisfying. Bibliography lists two sources.
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Andric's Bridge On The Drina
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The Yugoslavian writer, Ivo Andric wrote The Bridge On The Drina in 1945. It was later translated from Serbo-Croatian into English and was the basis for his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. This 5 page paper explores the historical and political references within the text. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Anita Desai/Fire on the Mountain
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An 11 page research paper that examines the work of Indian novelist Anita Desai. Using her novel Fire on the Mountain as representative of Desai's fiction, the writer argues that when Desai's work is examined in light of the historical development of Indian nationalism, it becomes readily apparent that the emotional dilemma of her protagonist is a direct result of the gendered nature of Indian nationalism that was formulated during the colonial period. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Anita Desai/In Custody
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A 4 page essay that examines Anita Desai's novel In Custody. The writer argues that the author addresses the construction of Indian nationality and how this perception is influenced by the past while affecting the present. In so doing, Desai addresses literary and academic illusions. Desai's protagonist, Deven, is a professor of Hindi, who idealizes the Indian past. He projects his idealized version of what India once was onto the person of a renowned poet, whom he does not live up to his expectations. Desai shows how Desai's projections and the failure of these projections provide a scathing critique of patriarchal Indian society. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khdesai.rtf

Anton Chekhov's 'The Cherry Orchard': Productions
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8 pages in length. Myriad productions have been created that revolved around Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard; however, time after time each rendering failed to present the play in the comedic style that Chekhov had originally intended. Curiously, even the playwright's own wife did not detect the comedic air to her husband's tale, noting only that she expressed her delight at the play and the tears it evoked. Amazed at how she and all other members of the company could not experience the intended farce, Chekhov finally relinquished his struggle to maintain The Cherry Orchard as a comedy. As such, Stanislavsky's production – the first of its kind – presented a melancholy version. The writer compares Stanislavsky's production with those of Andrei Serban, Peter Brook and Lucian Pintilie. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Anzia Yezierska's "Bread Givers"
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5 pages in length. Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers attacks several social norms of both her traditional Polish homeland and the American life her protagonist has come to know. Clearly autobiographical, Bread Givers boldly questions why certain social and religious traditions continue throughout the centuries without the slightest consideration for an individual's interests or desires. Sara's traditional Jewish upbringing exposed her to a life dominated by patriarchal control; when she arrived in New York to seek out the American Dream, she found that once again her gender would stand in the way of such desires. No additional sources cited.
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Ariel Dorfman; The Conveyance of Messages and Emotion Through Writing
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This five page paper looks at a piece of autobiographical writing by Ariel Dorfman about his love for Angelica and his time in Chile. Analysing this piece of writing, which was supplied by the student, we can see how style can dictate feelings and determine the passage of time in literary terms.
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August Strindberg and “The Stronger”
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This 5 page report discusses who is the stronger character in Strindberg’s play “The Stronger.” “The Stronger” is a three-character one-act in which the central character never appears, and one of the two female rivals for his love says nothing. The entire action of the play takes place over only a 15-minute period. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Bharati Mukherjee’s “Jasmine” -- Twenty Years after the Novel Ended
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This 5 page report is written as a letter from Jyoti/Jasmine/Jane to her now-adult daughter. Her daughter has asked her why she left Bud (the daughter’s biological father) and what the various aspects of her mother’s heritage, experience, and attitudes led her to make the decisions she made. Bibliography lists one source.
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Borowski on Human Nature
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This 7 page paper discusses the work of Holocaust survivor Tadeusz Borowski and what it tells us about his opinions of human nature, and man's future. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Breaking the Pressure of Silence in Ba’s So Long a Letter
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Time, place, expectation, disappointment, surrender, rebellion, desired commitment and buried anger all surface in women of every culture, but when Mariama Ba applies them to her African marriage culture in So Long a Letter, she goes a phase deeper into female existence. It is that silent partner, always a step behind, always there, always observing, not quite doing and not quite asserting itself into the whole. From this part of herself, Ba breaks the final barrier to silence. Bibliography lists 1 source. jvBALong.rtf
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Censorship in Children's Literature
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This 10 page paper provides an overview of the literature on censorship in children's literature. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Chaim Potok's "My Name Is Asher Lev": The Struggle To Be True To Oneself
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5 pages in length. The primary theme throughout the literary artistry of author Chaim Potok revolves around Jewish pride, familial relationships and accepting one's heritage. A strained cultural home life complicated by Lev's need to exhibit his pain through art in "My Name is Asher Lev" effectively illustrates how Potok is quite successful at telling tales of cultural struggle and the inherent commitment that accompanies it. In portraying the characterization of these various bonds and relationships, the author's quintessential components are to draw together the very basic qualities that exist within the confines of Jewish and Christian cultures. No additional sources cited.
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Characterization in 2 Sci.Fi. Stories
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A 3 page essay that discusses 2 short stories. George Martin, a science fiction writer, expressed in an interview (Locus, December 2005, 69) that he felt that too often science fiction and fantasy fiction paints characters as being black-and-white and, furthermore, that to humanize them with shades of gray requires multiple viewpoints on a conflict. Two fantasy stories that illustrate Martin's point and offer complex characterization are Poul Anderson's "A Tale of Hauk" and Judith Tarr's "Death and the Lady." In both of these short stories, the characters take on depth and nuance because the authors skillfully show that their main characters have self-doubt and faults, as well as heroic virtues. No additional sources cited.
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Chikamatsu/His Plays & Cultural Ideals
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A 3 page essay that analyzes the sexual and religious ideas in the Japanese seventeenth century plays of Chikamatsu. Then, the writer compares these ideals to Hindu, Jewish, Roman Catholic and American perspectives. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart': Heroism
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5 pages in length. One can reasonably assert that there existed a sequence of social change as a means by which to describe the impact of the intrusive European culture upon the indigenous culture of Umuofia. Having viewed Umuofia's culture as tending to be relatively stationary as well as harboring unstable equilibrium, one can explain the validity of such a statement by describing various events of social heroism that occur in the novel which can effectively justify its truth. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” and a Revaluation of Values
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This 7 page report discusses Chinua Achebe’s 1958 novel about a village in pre-colonial Nigeria. The concept of things falling apart in “Things Fall Apart” comes from the many ways in which the life of the main character, Okonkwo, changes in ways he is powerless to understand. “Things” are simply not the way Okonkwo believes they should be and they certainly are not the way they were in the “good ol’ days.” Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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