bookworm148
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of a sky of a tree called life."
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Post by bookworm148 on Jan 29, 2007 23:15:26 GMT -5
I'm homeschooled, so for research papers I have to come up with my own assignments. I was wondering if anyone had any good project/research paper ideas?
I'm currently taking: Bible, English, Amer. Government, Anthropology and Sociology, American Literature, Chemistry, Algebra II, and Geography.
Any idea would be deeply appreciated!!
Thanks!
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Post by Dominique on Jan 30, 2007 7:19:01 GMT -5
one I did that I went well in and enjoyed was on poetry of the self, here's a bit from the course outline about it: The Poetry of the SelfAll writing is in some sense autobiographical. We write from the centre of ourselves, our experiences, our lives. The term “confessional poetry” was coined to describe the age of Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath but their poetry is far from being simply confessional. There is a lot of tinkering with fact, rearranging and shaping the experiences. It is too easy to bare our hearts, to pour out our emotions and thoughts in writing. The challenge is to find a coherent form for them, to turn experience into art. Sylvia Plath says of her art: I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have, but I must say I cannot sympathize with these cries from the heart that are informed by nothing except a needle or a knife, or whatever it is. I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrifying, like madness, being tortured, this sort of experience, and one should be able to manipulate these experiences with an informed and intelligent mind. essay questionRead Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “Carrion Comfort,” Sylvia Path’s “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus,” and Robert Lowell’s “Waking in the Blue.” Explore how each poet wrestles with the tormented self, and turns it into coherent art, not plain confession. I don't know how well this would fit into American Lit though, Lowell and Plath are Americans, but Hopkins is English. You could either leave him out or think of another American confessional poetry writer to use maybe? Anyways hope that gives you some ideas
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bookworm148
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of a sky of a tree called life."
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Post by bookworm148 on Jan 30, 2007 13:08:28 GMT -5
It does. Thank you so much!!
Most people just told me to do a report on a disease or a biography, and while that would be interesting, it's just not challenging enough. I would be bored. lol
Again, Thank You!!
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Post by gilmoreren on Jan 30, 2007 13:28:39 GMT -5
How about how and why has the Bible influenced Western culture and literature - particularly English Literature
(drawing on Brontes, Milton, Manley Hopkins, Whistle down the Wind, Bernstein's Mass...)
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Jan 30, 2007 15:58:14 GMT -5
A couple of years ago in school I wrote a paper using the allusion in Grapes of Wrath about the work the Joads do once they reach California to the parable of the workers in the vinyard in the Bible. So, if you're taking Bible and Am. Lit. you could very well do something similar
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Post by Dominique on Jan 30, 2007 20:55:52 GMT -5
It does. Thank you so much!! Most people just told me to do a report on a disease or a biography, and while that would be interesting, it's just not challenging enough. I would be bored. lol Again, Thank You!! You're welcome I enjoyed it because you get to look at aspects of their life and compare it to their writing and say well they drew from this experience or this emotion but they morphed it into art by developing it differently to their own life. If that makes sense.
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