9/11

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Novel: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Epic poem: Bikeman by Thomas F. Flynn
Comics: The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon
Comics: In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman
Nonfiction: Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts
Documentary film: In Memoriam - New York City, 9/11/01 (2002)
Film: United 93 (2006)
Website: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/national/portraits/
Wikipedia: Timeline for the day of the September 11 attacks

Bunnies

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Novel: Watership Down by Richard Adams
Film: Donnie Darko (2001)
Play: Harvey by Mary Chase
Children's novel: Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Picture book: I Am a Bunny by Richard Scarry
Comics: Usagi Yojimbo Book 1: The Ronin by Stan Sakai
Comics: Fox Bunny Funny by Andy Hartzell
Wikipedia: Rabbit

Writing Poetry

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Essay: "The Philosophy of Composition" by Edgar Allan Poe
Essay: "Notes on 'A Note on the Rapture to His True Love'" by Thomas Lynch
Poems: “Purity” and “The Trouble with Poetry” and “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins
Novel: Possession by A.S. Byatt
Children's novella: The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell
Poem: "When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be" by John Keats
Poem: "Poetry" by Marianne Moore
Wikipedia: Poetry slam

I was beautiful once....

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Novel: Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Novel: Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Film: I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
Film: Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Nonfiction: On Ugliness by Umberto Eco
Website: http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_II/Psychologie/Psy_II/beautycheck/english/index.htm
Wikipedia: Physical attractiveness

Chess is Fun for Everyone!

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Film: Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
Novel: The Eight by Katherine Neville
Novel: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
Online Comic: "My Obsession with Chess" by Scott McCloud
Poem: "Versus de scachis"
Original cast recording: Chess
Memoir: My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby Fischer
Wikipedia: Deep Blue (chess computer)

So You Wanna Go to Art School

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Comics: "Art School Confidential" by Daniel Clowes
Movie: Art School Confidential (2006)
Website: http://www.risd.edu/undergraduate.cfm
Painting: L’Atelier du peintre: Allégorie Réelle déterminant une phase de sept années de ma vie artistique (et morale) by Gustave Courbet
Novel: The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
Nonfiction: Art for Dummies by Thomas Hoving and Andrew Wyeth
Poem: "art school" by Rg Gregory
Wikipedia: École des Beaux-Arts

World War II: Holocaust

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Diary: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Film: Schindler's List (1993)
Memoir: Night by Elie Wiesel
Novel: The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Documentary film: Genocide (1982)
Philosophy: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Comics: Maus and Maus II by Art Spiegelman
Short story: "The Shawl" by Cynthia Ozick
Wikipedia: Final Solution

The Subcontinent

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Novel: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Scripture: Mahābhārata, Adi Parva, Book 1, Section 1
Film: Monsoon Wedding (2001)
Album: Three Ragas by Ravi Shankar
Novel: The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
Short story: "The Cow of the Barricades" by Raja Rao
Wikipedia: History of Indian Institutes of Technology

Conspiracy

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Novel: The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon
Short Story: "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges
Film: Arlington Road (1999)
Album: Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails
Nonfiction: The Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories 1 by James McConnachie and Robin Tudge
Song: "Conspiracy Theory" by The Lost Children of Babylon
Wikipedia: Gunpowder Plot

Girls through the Looking Glass

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Novel: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Novel: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
Novel: Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Film: El Laberinto del Fauno (2006)
Opera: Alice in Wonderland by Unsuk Chin
Painting series: Alice in Wonderland by Charles Blackman
Wikipedia: Alice Liddell

World War II: Europe

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Novel: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Novel: The Dirty Dozen by E.M. Nathanson
Film: Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Speech: "Proclamation of 22 June 1941" by Adolf Hitler
Personal essay: "A Piece of Cake" by Roald Dahl
DVD: Walt Disney Treasures - On the Front Lines
Wikipedia: End of World War II in Europe

World War II: Pacific

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Memoir: With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge
Film: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1971)
Nonfiction: Hiroshima by John Hersey
Manga: Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa
Nonfiction: The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
Children's nonfiction: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
Wikipedia: Bataan Death March

Matchmakers

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Novel: Emma by Jane Austen
Film: Clueless (1995)
Television: Jeeves and Wooster, "Jeeves the Matchmaker"
Play: The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder
Film: Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Article: "The New Arranged Marriage" by Melanie Thernstrom
Website: http://www.matchmakinginstitute.com
Wikipedia: Arranged marriage

Infinite Universe

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Radio: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Nonfiction: The Illustrated Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Television: Star Trek Voyager, "Caretaker"
Music: The Planets Op. 32 by Gustav Holst
Novel: Contact by Carl Sagan
Website: http://www.nasa.gov/
Wikipedia: History of the Big Bang theory

Let's Kill Everyone with Germs!

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Nonfiction: Hot Zone by Richard Preston
Nonfiction: Biohazard by Ken Alibek and Stephen Handelman
Film: Outbreak (1995)
Novel: The Stand by Stephen King
Short Story: "I Put My Blue Genes On" by Orson Scott Card
Website: http://emergency.cdc.gov/bioterrorism/
Wikipedia: Biological warfare

Gangtime

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Novel: Portrait of a Young Man Drowning by Charles Perry
Nonfiction: Memos from Purgatory by Harlan Ellison
Album: Rhyme Pays by Ice T
Album: All Eyez on Me Tupac Shakur
Nonfiction: Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
Film: Scarface (1932)
Film: Scarface (1983)
Wikipedia: Gangs in the United States

Juvenile Delinquency

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Film: Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Novel: Monster by Walter Dean Meyers
Novel: Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Novel: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Film: Bad Boys (1983)
Wikipedia: Waif

Iranian Women

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Comic: Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
Memoir: Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
Memoir: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Album : Laleh by Laleh Pourkarim
Film: Nargess (1992)
Wikipedia: Pantea Rahmani

Women in the Armed Forces

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Novel: Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
Film: Private Benjamin (1980)
Novel: Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
Nonfiction: Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier by Alfred Young
Nonfiction: Women at War: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Conflicts by James E. Wise and Scott Baron
Wikipedia: Athena

Mostly Children, Mostly Balloons, Mostly Red

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Children's novel: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
Film: Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge (2007)
Short Film: Billy's Balloon (1998)
Short Film: Le Ballon rouge (1956)
Song: "99 Luftballons" by Nena
Short story: "The Balloon" by Emma Delaney
Short story: "The Balloon" by Donald Barthelme
Short story: "Pop Art" by Joe Hill
Wikipedia: Cluster ballooning