A Fictitious Conversation Between Marx and Durkheim
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This 9 page paper provides a fictitious conversation between sociologists Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim that supposedly takes place in 1879. The conversation includes three ordinary citizens who criticize the great theorists. The problem of social welfare in France, in the latter part of the nineteenth century, is the focus of the discussion. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: SA145MaD.rtf

A Frenchman at Vesalius College
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This 6 page paper is an essay of what it might be like for a French student to attend Vesalius College in Brussels, Belgium. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: HVVesali.rtf

A Guide to Driving
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This 5 page paper provides an overview of good, bad and average drivers. Several aspects of driving are discussed, including safety issues, driving while intoxicated and speed limits. No bibliography.
Filename: SA215drv.rtf

A Homeless Man’s Survival and Eventual Success
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In three pages the struggles of one-time homeless man Lars Eighner and his eventual success are chronicled as detailed in his essay, ‘On Dumpster Diving.’ One source is cited in the bibliography.
Filename: TGhomesurv.rtf

A Hummingbird
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A 3 page descriptive essay about a hummingbird. No sources cited.
Filename: RAwseed.rtf

A HYPOTHETICAL DEBATE ON THE STATUS OF MEN AND WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN FRENCH SOCIETY
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This 6 page paper discusses the Three Cartesian Feminst Treatises by Poullain de la Barre in contrast to the character Bertrande de Rols from The Return of Martin Guerre. Ample quotes cited from both texts to support each author/character's stance. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: MBbarre.rtf

A Letter for Wrongful Dismissal
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This 2 page paper is a letter of wrongful dismissal, which questions the reasons for an individuals dismissal and requests that a review occur. This paper demonstrates how such a letter could be written.
Filename: MHLetter.rtf

A Letter From Abraham Lincoln
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This 8 page paper pretends to be an article from the late President Abraham Lincoln, but written in the present time. Assuming that Lincoln has miraculously come back to life in 2001, he writes for the front page of the New York Times primarily about his political ideas. He critiques the current president, as well as former President Reagan. How the Republican Party has fared since Lincoln's time is explored. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: SA137AL.rtf

A Letter on Responsibility: Quoting from Barbara Kingsolver’s “The Poisonwood Bible”
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A 6 page creative essay in letter form which examines what responsibility (if any) do individuals have to reach out to cultures and other individuals that are foreign to them and what responsibility does the United States and its citizens have to the world community, citing passages from “The Poisonwood Bible” to support the argued thesis. No additional sources are used.
Filename: TGpoisonwd.rtf

A Letter to a Senator
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This 3 page paper is a letter to a US senator regarding the reasons for the war in Iraq. This opinion letter suggests that the senator reconsider the reasons for entrance in the war.
Filename: MHIraLe2.rtf

A Letter to Louis XVI
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This 15 page paper, as part of a role-playing exercise, pretends to address King Louis XVI prior to his ascent to the throne. The young prince is provided with advice in a letter on how to be a good king. The paper resembles Machiavelli's The Prince, and in fact the infamous work is cited and quoted several times within the letter. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: SA130XVI.rtf

A Letter to My Descendants
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This 4 page paper writes a letter modeled after and inspired by Francesco Petrarch's Letter to Posterity. Written as a letter to future descendants, this first person creation remarks on Petrarch's letter as well as Machiavelli's ideas. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: SA339let.rtf