Sinclair Lewis' 'Elmer Gantry' / It Really Does Pay To Be Decent'
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A 10 page paper discussing the reaction of American clergy to the publication and promotion of Sinclair Lewis' novel Elmer Gantry. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: Elmergan.wps

Sinclair Lewis' 'Main Street'
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A 2 page essay on Lewis' 'Main Street' in which the writer discusses the book's unflattering vision of smalltown life in America. Quotes are used to support points made.
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Ayn Rand / Objectivism & Racism
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An 8 page paper that provides an overview of the essential elements of Ayn Rand's Objectivist principles and considers the question of whether they are racist in nature. Bibliography lists 5 sources. Ayn
Filename: Ayn.rand.rtf

Ayn Rand's 'Fountainhead'
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A 6 page analysis of conflict in Ayn Rand's 'The Fountainhead' (20th century lit.). The writer examines how Rand dramatizes the conflict between individuality and conformity through her spectrum of people.(Rand was Born in Russia but is regarded as a U.S. Novelist by most authorities) No Bibliography.
Filename: Founhead.wps

Sherwood Anderson's 'The Egg'
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A 5 page essay on Sherwood Anderson's humorous short story The Egg and how it always got the best of his family from a failed chicken farm to an egg who refused to do tricks.
Filename: Eggc.wps

Sherwood Anderson's 'The Egg' / Larger Mystery
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3 pages in length. There is a larger mystery represented in Sherwood Anderson's The Egg than just what is on the surface. Significantly clear is the cycle of the egg as compared with the cycle of the narrator's meaningless life. The writer discusses how this endless cycle compares to that of the narrator's. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: TheEgg2.wps

Sherwood Anderson's 'The Egg' / Trick Failure
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3 pages in length. In Sherwood Anderson's The Egg, the father's failure to perform the egg trick ties together the very heart of the story, because it represents how everything in their lives proved traumatic, troublesome and ultimately doomed to failure. Significantly clear is how the father relates everything in his life to that of the egg, even to the point of valuing it more than himself. The writer discusses how the significance of failure relates both to the egg trick and the lives of the characters. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: TheEgg.wps

Sherwood Anderson's 'Winesburg, Ohio' / Theme Of Isolation
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A 5 page paper on Sherwood Anderson's classic 1919 book of connected short stories. It discusses Anderson's philosophy of community and interpersonal relationships as developed in the book, and examines the motif of human isolation as it occurs in several of the short stories. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: Anders.wps

Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' / Human Source of the Monster
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A 5 page paper examining the relationship between Mary Shelley's own feelings of parental abandonment and the way the Creature is abandoned by his creator. The paper goes over the main points of Shelley's life up to the writing of Frankenstein, and compares them to events in the book. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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