Alice Munro/An Ounce of Cure
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A 5 page essay that discusses and analyzes Alice Munro's short story "An Ounce of Cure." In this story, a young woman recalls the most embarrassing event of her adolescence, an incident which dramatizes the truth that choices have a lasting effect, as they inevitably lead to consequences that affect the course of growth and maturity. No additional sources cited.
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Alice Munro/Lives of Girls and Women
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A 6 page research paper that examines Alice Munro's book Lives of Girls and Women. This discussion not only examines this book, but also offers perspective as to how it represents Munro's overall style, where it fits into her overall career, and how it relates, generally, within the context of Canadian literature. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Alice Munro: Biography
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A 5 page paper which presents a biography of Alice Munro. Bibliography list 3 sources.
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Alienation In Atwood And Camus
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Albert Camus and Margaret Atwood inhabit two very different world and write from two very different views, however, in Surfacing by Atwood and The Stranger by Camus they share the same sense of alienation for their protagonist. This 5 page paper asserts that the unnamed narrator in Atwood's second novel and Meursault in The Stranger are both portrayed as individuals who choose to disassociate from the world around them, thus 'causing' their own alienation. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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An Analysis of the Protagonist Hagar from Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel:
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This 6 page paper discusses the novel The Stone Angel and more specifically, the main character Hagar. This paper examins the way in which Hagar "sees" others and how this is a reflection of her own personality. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Analysis of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and Timothy Findley’s “Not Wanted on the Voyage”
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A 5 page paper which examines the issue of parenting, as presented in the two different time periods. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Ancestry in the Work of Three Canadian Poets
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A 5 page paper looking at the work of Miriam Waddington, Irving Layton, and A.M. Klein. The paper observes that these three poets look at their own lives through the lens of their distinctively Jewish-Canadian heritage, and share the belief that their particular identity is reflected in the ancestry of their people. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Anderson-Dargatz/Cure for Death by Lightning
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A 5 page book review of Gail Anderson-Dargatz' The Cure for Death by Lightning. The writer describes the twists and turns of this coming-of-age story set in 1940s Canadian British Columbia. No additional sources cited.
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Anne Shirley In "Anne Of Green Gables" – Distinctively Canadian
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5 pages in length. Anne Shirley, a true icon in Canadian mythology, achieved her status by virtue of author Lucy Maud Montgomery's authentic portrayal of Prince Edward Island for the world to behold. Because of this global peak into an otherwise quiet community, Prince Edward Island has attracted scores of people from all over the world – most prominently from Japan – to experience a small bit of the literary charm found in Montgomery's classic Canadian tale. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Annie Proulx’s “The Shipping News”
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A 3 page paper discussing identity in this work. In the age in which the term “cop out” was commonly heard, the quest to “find” oneself typically qualified as the ultimate “cop-out.” Too often, it involved resigning from life and abandoning convention in favor of drifting. Proulx’s Quoyle certainly could have taken that route. Rather, he had to carry on with life and so make a series of small discoveries that he would recognize only upon later reflection on the events of his life. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Arthur Hailey and his "Hotel"
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This 10 page paper discusses the novel "Hotel" by Arthur Hailey, and the challenges faced by the fictional St. Gregory. It also discusses how those challenges relate to the real world hospitality industry. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Being a Girl/Anne of Green Gables and Snow White
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An 8 page research paper/essay that explores what two stories say to young girls about what it means to be female. These stories are L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables and the Brothers' Grimm version of Snow White. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: khannsno.rtf