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I'm a college student at the University of Kentucky. I write whenever I can, pretty much everything I can, mostly prose. I try to have a very simple and honest style. I'm also doing a lot of photography and travel writing at the moment, so be on the lookout for new things!
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Fatal Attraction in Bram Stoker's DraculaCharacters in Stoker's Dracula are attracted to vampires even though the vampires represent forces of evil. -
University of Kentucky not in Compliance with Federal Sex Offenders LawsThe University of Kentucky employs several sexual offenders on campus. The policies surrounding these offenders are of significant interest to students and community members alike.
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A New Student's Guide to the University of KentuckyFed up with brochures, statistics, and biased campus tours? Get the information you want and need, straight from a student's mouth. -
Hurricanes Still Strike Far Inland as OhioThe tiny town of Marietta, Ohio, was taken unawares by Hurricane Ivan three years ago. They will not let that happen again. Learn what they're doing, and what you can do, to be prepared.
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How to See the Best of LouisvilleThe best of this amazing river city, and how to see it.
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How to Plan Your European VacationSeeing Europe is the trip of a lifetime, but the planning can be a nightmare. Use these simple steps to plan a stress-free vacation.
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Easter Island: A Warning About Resource ConsumptionThe transformation of Easter Island from a tropical paradise into a wasteland full of cannibals provides a grim warning for our resource-consuming society.
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Shakespeare and the SupernaturalShakespeare often includes supernatural beings in his works. Often, the mortals who interact with these beings have seeminly no control over what happens to them. However, this is not entirely true.
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Thoreau's Walden: A Look at Hidden Tactics for PersuasionThoreau focuses his attention to personal experience in the first few chapters of Walden, his most famous work. This allows him to slip his beliefs in almost undetected by the reader.
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Ambiguity in MelvilleAmbiguity in Melville allows readers to place themselves in the shoes of characters, weigh decisions, and assign blame for wrongdoing.
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Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick: In Which the Bootblack's Are Given a ChanceHoratio Alger's rags to riches stories are in fact quite diferent from the attitudes that are associated with them.
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Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test: Are We There Yet?Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test provides stunning insight into the turbulent 60's.
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Coward's Way Out by Arthur SchopenhauerArthur Schopenhauer proposed that life is full of suffering, and that this suffering is directly caused by the will of the individual. However, a life without suffering is not necessarily a happy life.
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Sin and Pride in HamletThe sins of the characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet are many and varied, and can be examined from various viewpoints.
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Go Further and Steal This Book: Books by Ken Kesey and Abbie HoffmanKen Kesey and Abbie Hoffman approached the revolution that was the sixties in vastly different ways, with different amounts of success. -
Themes of Change in Zamyatin's We: Flowering of Russian RevolutionZamyatin's We, a precursor to works such as Brave New World and 1984, provides a stunningly forward-looking view of the Russian revolution and the eventual fall of Soviet Russia.
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Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography: The Erratum of Our WaysBen Franklin, ostensably writing an Autobiography to give to his oldest son, has presented readers with insight into his life and character. However, a careful reader must pay close attention to the reliablity of Franklin's account.
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The Methods of Thomas Paine and Jonathan Edwards: Searching for a Spiritual ConnectionTwo famous early American writers worked in vastly different ways to bring their intended audience to a greater and more personal understanding of God.
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The Works of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley: The Birth of American FeminismThe first American female poet and the first African-American poet of either gender, Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley insert feminist and equal rights themes into their otherwise orthodox works.
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Social Inequality and Appalachian EconomyA look at the problems and possible solutions with the economy in the Appalachian region of the United States, using the conflict and functional theories of Sociology.
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John Sudgen's Tecumseh: A Life: A Book on a Legendary Native American LeaderFor those interested in American History, this non-fiction account of one of Native America's greatest leaders is a valuable read.
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Visiting the Great American WestMust-sees, insider tips, and route suggestions. -
Plunkitt of Tammany HallA description of the success of George Washington Plunkitt and the Tammany Hall political machine, and the reasons for this success.
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Rene Descartes and the Dutch East India CompanyThe teachings of the great philosopher can be applied to a variety of situations.