Thomas Pynchon's 'The Crying of Lot 49' / Modernist Or Postmodernist?
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A 9 page paper on Thomas Pynchon's well-known work. The writer notes that while the novel has characteristics of both modernism and postmodernism, its postmodern tendencies predominate in its strongly apocalyptic worldview. Bibliography lists 6 sources including book.
Filename: Pynchon.wps

Refuge -- A Story of Adaptation to Disaster
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A 5 page analysis paper of Terry Williams' story of natural and personal disaster. The writer details her account of the flooding of a wildlife refuge, and compares it to the losses suffered from her mother's death. Bibliography lists the primary source.
Filename: Refuge.wps

Truman Capote's 'In Cold Blood'
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A 4 page paper that discusses the literary significance of Truman Capote's non-fictional novel and demonstrates that his utilization of the novel format does not detract from the factual or historical accuracy of the Clutter murder case in Holcomb, Kansas.
Filename: Coldbloo.wps

Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia' / Interpersonal Conflict & Doom
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A 6 page paper on Tom Stoppard's brilliant but cerebral 1995 play, which takes place in two different centuries, using the same set. It contrasts the relationships between Septimus and Thomasina, two characters in the twentieth-century part of the play, with Hannah and Bernard in the twentieth century part, and shows how they develop against a poignant sense of a paradise doomed. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Arcadia.wps

Tom Stoppard's 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'
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A 6 page essay exploring how the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead reflects specific aspects of life: 1. humans as social animals and 2. how the individual finds his or her place in society. The confusions and feelings of what am I doing here and why am I doing it are emphasized.
Filename: Rosencra.wps

Tom Stoppard's 'The Real Inspector Hound'
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A 5 page paper looking at Tom Stoppard's play in terms of whether it has any significance beyond pure escapism. The paper suggests that in this play Stoppard explores the degree to which we as human beings blur the boundaries between illusion and reality, between who we are and who we think we are. Bibliography lists one source.
Filename: KBstoppa.wps

Thomas Paine's 'Age of Reason'
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A 5 page argumentative essay that posits that Thomas Paine supports his argument for Reason over faith in the supernatural in regards The Bible is effective—especially in light of Enlightenment ideals. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: Agereasn.doc

Toni Morrison/The Bluest Eye
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A 3.5 page analysis of Toni Morrison's novel, The Bluest Eye. In this novel, a little black girl, Pecola Breedlove, longs to have blue eyes because everyone she has ever met, and everything in her environment, either consciously or unconsciously, has consistently upheld an ideal of beauty in front of her, and that ideal is white‹white skin, long blond hair and blue eyes‹the cultural epitome of beauty, which is culturally equated with being good. Morrison dramatically reveals what happens to a person's sense of self-worth when their individuality and personal appearance are totally negated by the society in which they live. No additional sources cited.
Filename: 90blue.rtf

Alvin Toffler's 'Future Shock'
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A 5 page paper analyzing 'Future Shock,' by Alvin Toffler. His book, though written in 1970, concerns many of the issues that are quite important today in terms of the changes civilization is experiencing, and has experienced. In addition to discussing Toffler's book, the subject of rural, and other, education is discussed in terms of its applicability. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Futshock.wps