Term paper ideas?

spidersbane · 02-14-2002, 11:26 AM

Hey, I have to do my senior term paper and I am having problems coming up with some original ideas to write about. Does anyone have a topic that hasn't been used a hundred times? I would do Tolkien, but he's been used alot.

Ozymandias · 02-14-2002, 12:55 PM

The last two semesters I've written on "The Development of the Classical Guitar in the 19th Century" and "...in the 20th Century" respectively.

A few years ago I wrote a rather successful paper entitled I Wanna Be Like Luke...or Han: “Star Wars” and American Male Fantasy, in which I discussed how Luke Skywalker and Han Solo embody the dreams of men in America.

Nariel Starfire · 02-14-2002, 03:29 PM

Last semester for English I wrote a very successful paper entitled Didn't I see that on Star Trek?: How Science Fiction Has Affected Today's Technological Breakthroughs

bropous · 02-14-2002, 03:37 PM

Well, I once did a paper on the heroine [Hester Prynne??] in The Scarlet Letter being engaged in lesbian satanic rituals at night out in the woods. I took quotes and electively "ellipseized" them to prove my point. Got an "F", but had more fun writing that paper than any I ever wrote in school!

02-14-2002, 11:26 AM	#1
spidersbane Hobbit Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Shire Posts: 42	Term paper ideas? Hey, I have to do my senior term paper and I am having problems coming up with some original ideas to write about. Does anyone have a topic that hasn't been used a hundred times? I would do Tolkien, but he's been used alot. __________________ For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest. — Feanor, from the Quenta Silmarillion. "Never give a sword to a man who can't dance" (Celtic Proverb) "Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't."

02-14-2002, 12:55 PM	#2
Ozymandias Hobbit Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 20	The last two semesters I've written on "The Development of the Classical Guitar in the 19th Century" and "...in the 20th Century" respectively. A few years ago I wrote a rather successful paper entitled I Wanna Be Like Luke...or Han: “Star Wars” and American Male Fantasy, in which I discussed how Luke Skywalker and Han Solo embody the dreams of men in America. Last edited by Ozymandias : 02-14-2002 at 12:57 PM.

02-14-2002, 03:29 PM	#3
Nariel Starfire Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: La La Land Posts: 309	Last semester for English I wrote a very successful paper entitled Didn't I see that on Star Trek?: How Science Fiction Has Affected Today's Technological Breakthroughs __________________ It is the failed skydiver who leaves an impression upon the earth. "But what about the R.O.U.Ses?" Yours Truly, The Tisroc -You forgot to say "May he live forever" -That's because I don't want him to live forever! - The Horse and his Boy--C.S. Lewis

02-14-2002, 03:37 PM	#4
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	Well, I once did a paper on the heroine [Hester Prynne??] in The Scarlet Letter being engaged in lesbian satanic rituals at night out in the woods. I took quotes and electively "ellipseized" them to prove my point. Got an "F", but had more fun writing that paper than any I ever wrote in school! __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

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