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- 1 Theme: Introduction to the Humanities (week 1)
- 2 Theme: Introduction to the Humanities (week 2)
- 3 Theme: Examining the Humanities (week 3)
- 4 Theme: Examining the Humanities (week 4)
- 5 Theme: Impact of the Humanities (week 5)
- 6 Theme: Impact of the Humanities (week 6)
- 7 Theme: Human Culture (week 7)
- 8 Theme: Human Culture (week 8)
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Appendix
- Allegory of the Cave, The
- Araby
- Art of Drowning, The
- Because I could not stop for Death
- Colonel, The
- Dinner-Party, The
- Don Quixote: Ch 1
- Don Quixote: Ch 2
- Don Quixote: Ch 3
- Don Quixote: Ch 4
- Don Quixote: Ch 7
- Don Quixote: Ch 8
- Everything That Rises Must Converge
- Everything That Rises Must Converge: “Let’s talk about something pleasant”
- Everything That Rises Must Converge: The further irony of all this
- Everything That Rises Must Converge: He was tilted out of his fantasy again
- Everything That Rises Must Converge: Julian was thankful that the next stop was theirs
- Frankenstein: Ch 5
- Frankenstein: Ch 9
- Frankenstein: Ch 10
- Frankenstein: Ch 11
- Frankenstein: Ch 12
- Frankenstein: Ch 13
- Frankenstein: Ch 14
- Frankenstein: Ch 15
- Frankenstein: Ch 16
- Frankenstein: Ch 17
- Hamilton: Act I
- Hamilton: Alexander Hamilton
- Hamilton: Act II
- Hamilton: Aaron Burr, Sir
- Hamilton: My Shot
- Jātaka Tales: The Hare’s Self-Sacrifice
- Letter from Birmingham Jail
- Letter from Birmingham Jail: Freedom is never voluntarily given
- Letter from Birmingham Jail: Two honest confessions
- Letter from Birmingham Jail: I had hoped that the white moderate would see this need
- Letter from Birmingham Jail: Perhaps I have once again been too optimistic
- London, 1802
- Meditation at Lagunitas
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Power of Patience, The
- Professions for Women
- Rose for Emily, A: I-II
- Rose for Emily, A: III-V
- Song of Myself: 1-11
- Song of Myself: 12-21
- Song of Myself: 22-32
- Song of Myself: 33-36
- Song of Myself: 37-43
- Song of Myself: 44-52
- Sonny’s Blues
- Sonny’s Blues: I didn’t write Sonny... for a long time
- Sonny’s Blues: I remember I was restless
- Sonny’s Blues: I gave up
- Sonny’s Blues: I found myself wandering aimlessly
- Sonny’s Blues: “All right,” I said, at last
- Stars Over the Dordogne
- Index of Writing Templates
- References
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