Nabokov's Lolita
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Americans are in love with the idea of youth. It is a culture that idealizes and idolizes the components of youth, The American ideal of beauty is centered around youth and innocence. When Vladimir Nabokov wrote Lolita he did not set out to write a controversial book about pedophilia, but a book that had it's roots in the firmament of American reality and was about love. Lolita is principally a love story. It is a story about an older man in love with the forbidden, with youth and with the American culture that idealizes that youth. This 5 page paper explores different aspects of the cultural considerations inherent in the love story: Lolita. No additional sources are listed.
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Pedophilia & the Role of Women in 'Lolita'
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A 10 page paper looking at critical responses toward the integration of the issues of pedophilia and women's social roles in Nabokov's famous novel. The paper asserts that in the nineteen-fifties when the book was written, women were not expected to have an 'equal role' in a sexual relationship, which often caused men to treat them as if they really had been children. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
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Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Mists Of Avalon' / Character Of Morgaine
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A 5 page paper on Marion Zimmer Bradley's protagonist in The Mists of Avalon. The paper looks at how the standards of paganism differ from the standards of Christianity, and the character of Morgaine is caught in the middle. No sources.
Filename: Mista.wps

Michael Crichton / Contemporary Author
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An 11 page overview of the author's life with discussion of his various works including Jurassic Park, the Lost World, Terminal Man, Rising Sun, etc; and how they each depict what can happen when science & medicine act in an unethical fashion. Bibliography lists approximately 7 sources.
Filename: Crichton.wps

Michael Crichton's 'The Lost World'
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A 5 page analytical review of this contemporary author's sequel to 'Jurassic Park'-- which illustrates a genetic experiment gone bad which warns mankind about our own emerging self-destructive powers. 3 additional sources are cited and listed in a bibliography.
Filename: Dinobook.wps

Racism and Self-Oppression In Two Works Of Literature
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An 8 page paper analyzing whether a racist caste system can rest on force alone, given the fact that the people oppressed by it should in theory be numerous enough to resist and overthrow it. It argues that part of the dynamics of oppression is both economic and psychological, and this is what is the most difficult to fight. The paper makes extensive use of Richard Wright's Black Boy and Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi. Bibliography lists one source.
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Racism as Seen by Moody and Douglass
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A six page paper comparing the experiences with racism of both these black writers, one writing in the mid-nineteenth century and one in the mid-twentieth. The paper asserts that racism destroys the spirit, and it is takes tremendous determination and drive to break out of that cycle. No additional sources.
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Michael Ondaatje/Implications on Immigration in 'Skin of a Lion'
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A 6 page research paper on how Ondaatje's novel, In the Skin of a Lion, reflects the situation of immigrants and the political power structure in Canada earlier in the century. The writer argues that those at the top of society's power hierarchy during that period, from both a political and financial standpoint, were cavalier in their disregard for the welfare of this workforce, often requiring ultimate effort under unsafe conditions for limited pay, and that Ondaatje's novel reveals the life of the immigrant as it spotlights the complicated mixture of elements that characterized the conflict between majority and minority culture that are inherent to a population that is multi-ethnic in its composition. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: 90ondatj.rtf

Ondaatje's Immigrants / Part Of A Mural
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A 5 page look at the novel In The Skin of a Lion by Canadian author/poet Michael Ondaatje. The paper demonstrates how the immigrant characters are represented by the 'alien' quality of another outsider, the protagonist Patrick Lewis. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Ondaat.wps

Rationalism vs. Romanticism in Moliere and Rousseau
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An 8 page paper contrasting these two literary movements through an examination of Moliere�s �Tartuffe� and Rousseau�s �Confessions.� The paper argues that while Moliere is trying to put forth a socio-political position, appealing only to our intellect, Rousseau wants to elicit sympathy through evoking our emotions. No additional sources.
Filename: KBmolier.wps

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