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A Race Study: Three Crises Affecting the Black Community According to Cornel West, Patricia Williams and Derrick Bell
(1995)It is difficult to approach the subject of race in a responsible, academic manner. The difficulty in dealing with racial matters magnifies when the researcher is a member of the majority, distanced from the group being ... -
Raspberries Under Wet Leaves
(2007)The author retells the stories 0f 90-year-old White Lake resident Margaret Hunt as a way to explore the dynamics of folkore, literature, and story. -
Ray Bradbury: Mars and the Midwest
(1969)Mr. Bradbury's intention in the Mars stories 1s not to write imaginative science fiction stories (science fiction' being strictly defined in this paper according to Webster: imaginative stories centered about some projected, ... -
A Re-Examination of Truman Capote's "Other Voices, Other Rooms"
(1967)An abundance of disparity exists among critics of Truman Capote's novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms; a review of their comments demonstrates that their differing emphases give very different meanings to the novel. ... -
Reaching Beyond Resilience A Collection of Essays in Response to The Sober Enterprise
(2021-06-01)Though this is ultimately a creative writing project, I wanted my SIP to encompass all three of my areas of study here at K: English, Psychology, and Art. Through my time here, I’ve found that these disciplines are not ... -
Reading Censorship in American Culture: Creating Self-Understanding in Adolescence Through Critical Reading
(2010)An research paper exploring censorship of literature in the context of American society, especially with themes of individualism and development in adolescence. -
Reading the Ordinary: A Personal and Cultural Exploration
(2000)Underlying this project is a recognition of the importance of "subjective criticism," as David Bleich calls it in his book of the same name. Bleich argues for subjective criticism not simply as a new understanding for ... -
Reading Thesis in Shakespeare and Shakespearean Criticism
(1971)This thesis, done in conjunction with Dr. Waring's English 104 class, was a private study of Othello, Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, King Lear, Antony and Clleopatry, Coriolanus, The Winter's Tale and The ... -
Readings in Romanticism and Architecture
(1979)Let me simply state by way of introducing my essay to the reader that in spite of the somewhat disparate personal and practical goals of this research, I hope that I have succeeded in producing a work that is informative ... -
Ready to Let It Go
(1996)The works included here in my Senior Individualized Project are the offspring of many hours of careful reflection, extensive yearning, catastrophic emotional outpour, thorough soul-searching, a deluge of tears, ... -
The Realities of Immigrants : An Education Through Zines and Immigration as an issue of Feminism
(2022-11-01)I created a zine to help educate individuals on different aspects of immigration to allow them to grasp the realities of immigrants and, hopefully through education, lead to changes within the immigration system and, or, ... -
Reality in the Dramatic Works of T. S. Eliot
(1967)According to the author, the themes which Eliot posits in his dramatic literature originate in his later poetry, especially the Four Quartets. Eliot proposes a universe in which exists two basic divisions of reality -- the ... -
The Reality of Perception in William Faulkner's "Absolom, Absolom!"
(1979)One of William Faulkner1s major concerns in Absalom, Absalom!, as the form of narration suggests, is the examination of the reality of perception. Although the actual plot of the novel revolves around the life of Thomas ... -
"A Reasoned Crisis of the Soul": The Spiritual Ordeal and the Artistic Achievement of Wilfred Owen
(1969)In essence the present study w11l maintain that Owen's poetry is relevant, and therefore worthy of serious critical attention, in four principal respects. The most a1emantary of these 1s disoernable without a close ... -
Recent Trends and Developments in New French Feminisms : Toward a First World and Third World Dialogue
(1991)The author reviews French feminist literature with particular focus on issues in the French language countries of Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria in the context of tensions between the Western and Islamic countries created ... -
Reclaiming Their Names : Conversations with My Ansisters
(1992)In her essay "Looking for Zora," Alice Walker details her search for the grave and some of the life history of anthropologist and writer Zora Neale Hurston. Walker portrays her search as the pursuit of an ancestor – both ... -
Reconstructing Identity and Classroom Interactions : An Analysis of Pedagogical Theory in the English Classroom
(2008)The author analyzes her experiences in a 9th grade English classroom studying Nikki Giovanni's verse novel Bronx Masquerade, reflecting on the practice of encouraging students to greater independence and self-reflection ...