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Paul Thomson is an avid reader of English Literature. His areas of expertise include American Literature, Poetry and US History. In his spare time, he loves to participate in online literature forums and promote reading for youth.
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1: Parents just don't understand: Reading Romeo and Juliet and Romeo Juliet quotes as a story of typical teen and parent tension
2: How the PSAT is Different from the AP Exams: Study Skills
3: Manly Men…or not: Comparing Masculine Strength and Weakness in Beowulf and of Mice and Men
4: The Cautionary Tale of Shakespeare's Macbeth
5: Movin' On Up: Reading Education as Social Mobility in Great Gatsby Quotes and Jane Eyre
6: The Scheming Tom Sawyer and Hamlet
7: Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?
8: Party Time: Party Settings in Romeo and Juliet and Great Gatsby quotes
9: Hamlet and Romeo Have Tea with Holden Caulfield: Inside Fan-Fiction
10: Crazy Kids: Rash teenage behavior in Romeo and Juliet, Catcher in the Rye and a selection of Romeo and Juliet quotes
11: What Does the CAHSEE Miss?
12: Seniors: Declare "Undeclared" and focus on your AP Calculus Exam
13: AP Calculus All Year Long: A Look at Year-Round School
14: Girl Power: Sourcing the Feminine Strength in To Kill a Mockingbird quotes and Antigone
15: Ferris Bueller's Day Off vs. AP Calculus and the ACT
16: Big River: Huck and Jim on Broadway
17: Catcher in the Rye without Holden; Huckleberry Finn without Huck?
18: Readers and Writers: What Does Reading Huckleberry Finn do to a Student's Writing?
19: Wherefore Art Thou: Misunderstood Literary Quotes
20: What do titles of To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye and Great Gatsby say about the novels?
21: To Quote or Not To Quote: Misinterpreting Hamlet, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet
22: Simba is the New Hamlet: Similarities Between Hamlet and The Lion King
23: Should You Read To Kill a Mockingbird for AP US History?
24: AP Exams Aren't Just There to Torture You: Why Sitting Through AP Microeconomics is Worthwhile
25: Lifestyles of the Fabulously Rich and Dissatisfied in The Great Gatsby
26: WWII as Told by Heller's Catch-22 and Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
27: Exploring Meaning of Stairway to Heaven, Free Fallin, and Subterranean Homesick Alien
28: An AP English Literature Refresher: Gender in To Kill a Mockingbird and The Catcher in they Rye
29: Lyrical Contradictions in Sweet Home Alabana, Livin' on a Prayer, and Paper Plans
30: Know Your Roosevelts: a Look at the Lives of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Teddy Roosevelt
31: Reviewing Classic Teen Literature: The Westing Game, A Wrinkle in Time, & Something Wicked This Way Comes
32: Want to Save College Tuition? More Students than Ever are Taking AP English and AP US History Exams
33: Deconstructing Moody Poems: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Do Not go Gentle into That Good Night
34: Hamlet, The Catcher in the Rye, and the Age-Old Story of Teen Angst
35: Zen and the Art of the Glass Family in J.D. Salinger's Short Stories
36: What Fitzgerald's Short Stories Teach Us About the Man Behind The Great Gatsby
37: Universal Themes and Family in Faulkners "Barn Burning" and "The Diary of Anne Frank"
38: Lessons About Race and Gender from the Characters in To Kill a Mockingbird
39: Getting to the Bottom of Hamlet's Lovelife with Quotes from Shakespeare's Play
40: 1920s American Identity, as Seen by Fitzgerald and Hemingway
41: The Great Depression and the Great Recession: Thinking Back to Franklin D. Roosevelt.
42: To Kill a Mockingbird's Atticus Finch: Not Just Wise, but Complicated, Too
43: The Dark Side of Living the Good Life, Through Quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
44: Modern-Day Anxieties in T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
45: Brushing Up on Characters and Symbolism in Shakespeare's Hamlet
46: Today's Twilight Characters and the Old-Fashioned Count Dracula
47: What the Female Catcher in the Rye Characters Tell Us About Holden Caulfield
48: Tips for Teachers: You Too Can Capitalize on Student Interest in Twilight and New Moon
49: The Comedy of Hamlet Quotes
50: She's So Heavy The Weight of Death in Emily Dickinson's Poetry

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