Edgar Allen Poe

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Collection: Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Philosophy: Eureka: A Prose Poem by Edgar Allan Poe
Novel: The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
Film: The Raven (1963)
Short film: Vincent (1982)
Wikipedia: Death of Edgar Allan Poe

You are the devil and the devil is bad

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Film: The Devil’s Advocate (1997)
Film segment: Fantasia, "Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria" (1940)
Song: "The Devil Is Bad" by The W's
Painting: "The Garden of Earthly Delights" by Hieronymus Bosch
Television: Space Ghost Coast to Coast, "Sweet For Brak"
Novel: Needful Things by Stephen King
Novel: Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
Album: Hell Awaits by Slayer
Epic poem: Paradise Lost, Books II, III and X by John Milton
Wikipedia: Lucifer

Cinderella

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Film: Cinderella (1950)
Film: Cinderella II (2002)
Film: Ever After (1998)
Fairy tale: "Aschenputtel" by The Brothers Grimm
Nonfiction: Cinderella: A Casebook by Alan Dundes
Novel: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
Album: Cinderella (1965 Television Cast) by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Poem: "Cinderella" by Anne Sexton
Wikipedia: Cinderella

Spelling Bees

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Poem: "The Spelling Bee at Angels" by Bret Harte
Novel: Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Film: Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
Film: A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)
Album: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2005 Original Broadway Cast)
Documentary: Spellbound (2002)
DVD: The Best of the National Spelling Bee
Nonfiction: How to Spell Like a Champ by Barrie Trinkle et al
Article: "The Spelling Bee" by Lola Di Giulio De Maci
Wikipedia: Scripps National Spelling Bee

Reefer Madness

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Nonfiction: Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser
Nonfiction: Dying to Get High by Wendy Chapkis and Richard Webb
Fiction: Budding Prospects: A Pastoral by T.C. Boyle
Comics: A Drug War Carol by Susan W. Wells
Film: Dazed and Confused (1993)
Film: Friday (1995)
Film: Reefer Madness (1936)
Film: Up in Smoke (1978)
Film: Half Baked (1998)
Television: Weeds, "A.K.A. The Plant"
Wikipedia: Cannabis (drug)

Band of Thieves

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Novel: The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Novel: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Film: Ocean's Eleven (1960)
Film: Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Ballad: "Robin Hood and the Monk"
Ballad: "Robin Hood and the Potter"
Ballad: "Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne"
Ballad: "Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly"
Ballad: "Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow"
Wikipedia: Ned Kelly

It's Called, uh, Memory

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Novel: Remembrance of Things Past Volume 1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Song: "Remember the Time" by Michael Jackson
Song: "That Time" by Regina Spektor
Novel: The Giver by Lois Lowry
Film: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Film: Memento (2000)
Article: "The Last Hippie" by Oliver Sacks
Wikipedia: Memory

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of the Web

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Nonfiction: Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good by Sarah Lacy
Novel: Daemon by Leinad Zeraus
Song: "eBay" by "Weird Al" Yankovich
Music video: "Pork and Beans" by Weezer
Article: "Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe" by Joshua Davis
Article: "Geek Brawl" by Carlye Adler
Website: Boing Boing
Website: InternetNews
Website: Slashdot
Wikipedia: History of the Internet

Mëtalheads

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Album: Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Album: Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden
Album: Master of Puppets by Metallica
Album: Rust in Peace by Megadeth
Album: Sad Wings of Destiny by Judas Priest
Film: This Is Spın̈al Tap (1984)
Film: Heavy Metal (1981)
Documentary: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
Autobiography: Iron Man: My Journey through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath by Tony Iommi
Television: Metalocalypse, "Dethwater"
Graphic novel: The Melting Pot by Kevin Eastman, Simon Bisley and Eric Talbot
Novel: Scream Queens of the Dead Sea: Sex! Heavy Metal! Linguistics! by Gilad Elbom
Website: http://metal-archives.com/
Wikipedia: Metalhead

Tech Watch You

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Nonfiction: The Numerati by Stephen Baker
Nonfiction: The Shadow Factory by James Bamford
Short story: "The Hood Maker" by Philip K. Dick
Film: The Truman Show (1998)
DVD: Candid Camera: Greatest Moments
Album: Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails
Wikipedia: Surveillance

Rats!

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Children's novel: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien
Film: Willard (2003)
Nonfiction: The Barbary Plague by Marilyn Chase
Nonfiction: Rat Attacks by Cynthia Laslo
Nonfiction: Rats by Robert Sullivan
Radio: Escape, "Three Skeleton Key"
Short story: "The Rat-Catcher's Son" by Carolyn London
Short story: "Graveyard Shift" by Stephen King
Wikipedia: Rat

Real Magick

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Novel: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Novel: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Television: Bewitched, "Be It Ever So Mortgaged"
Television: Charmed, "Something Wicca This Way Comes"
Short story: "The Sea and Little Fishes" by Terry Pratchett
Film: Willow (1988)
Wikipedia: Magic (fantasy)

Prestidigitation

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Short story: "Eisenheim the Illusionist" by Steven Millhauser
Film: The Prestige (2006)
Manual: Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic by Mark Wilson
Novel: Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician by Daniel Wallace
Comics: Jar of Fools by Jason Lutes
Television: Arrested Development, "Sword of Destiny"
Short film: L'homme à la tête de caoutchouc (1902)
Wikipedia: Street magic

Book of Mormon Stories

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Scripture: The Book of Mormon
Novel: Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites by Chris Heimerdinger
Short story collection: The Loftier Way by Blaine M. Yorgason and Brenton G. Yorgason
Song: "Book of Mormon Stories" by Elizabeth Bates et al
Music: "Variations on 'Nephite Lamentation'" by Lawrence Green
Wikipedia: Golden plates

The Hero’s Journey

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Nonfiction: The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Epic poem: The Odyssey by Homer
Epic poem: Gilgamesh translated by Stephen Mitchell
Documentary: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, "Episode 1: The Hero's Adventure" (1988)
Film: Star Wars (1977)
Wikipedia: Monomyth

Circular Time

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Film: Groundhog Day (1993)
Novel: Replay by Ken Grimwood
Short story: "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French" by Stephen King
Short story: "Abraham's Purgatory" by B. G. Christensen
Nonfiction: The Gifts of the Jews, "The Temple in the Moonlight" by Thomas Cahill
Comics: The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 by T. Ott
Essay: "UGH! I Just Got the Creepiest Feeling That I Have Been Here Before" by Julia Johnson
Television: The X-Files, "Monday"
Film: Run, Lola, Run (1998)
Wikipedia: Déjà vu

What is "Superman"?

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Philosophy: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Prologue, by Friedrich Nietzsche
Radio: This American Life, "How to Win Friends and Influence People", acts three and four
Film: The Iron Giant (1999)
Television-commercial series: "The Adventures of Seinfeld & Superman"
Short story: "The Reign of the Super-Man" by Jerry Siegel
Comics: Superman For All Seasons by Jeph Loeb
Comics: All Star Superman, Vol. 1 by Grant Morrison
Comics: Superman: Sunday Classics 1939-1943 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
Television: Smallville, "Pilot"
Album: Sound of Superman
Nonfiction: The Physics of Superheroes by James Kakalios
Wikipedia: History of Superman

On Superheroes

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Novel: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Comics: Batman: Year One by Frank Miller et al
Essay: "Warren Ellis Is the Future of Superhero Comics" by Brendan Riley
Comics: "The Amazing Life of Onion Jack" by Joel Priddy
Film: The Incredibles (2004)
Film: Spider-Man (2002)
Score: Superman: The Movie by John Williams
Nonfiction: Comic Book Nation by Bradford W. Wright
Wikipedia: Superman

That Time of the Month

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Novel: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Novel: Are you there, God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Short story: "Even the Queen" by Connie Willis
Short story collection: Don’t Cramp My Style by Lisa Rowe
Film: Carrie (1976)
Website: www.mum.org
Wikipedia: Menstruation

Hoop Dreams

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Documentary: Hoop Dreams (1994)
Film: Hoosiers (1986)
Film: Coach Carter (2005)
Novel: Slam! by Walter Dean Myers
Poem: "Ex-Basketball Player" by John Updike
Poem: "Why We Love It" by Elizabeth Noel Green
Nonfiction: Last Dance by John Feinstein and Mike Krzyzewski
Manga: Slam Dunk, Volume 1 by Takehiko Inoue
Wikipedia: Harlem Globetrotters

Faeries

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Play: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Comics: The Sandman: Dream Country, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Neil Gaiman et al
Film: FairyTale: A True Story (1997)
Art book: Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book by Brian Froud and Terry Jones
Children's book: Tink, North of Never Land by Kiki Thorpe
Short story: "Tom Brightwind, or How the Fairy Bridge was Built at Thoresby" by Susanna Clarke
Album: Fairy of the Woods by Gary Stadler
Nonfiction: Strange and Secret Peoples by Carole G. Silver
Television: Torchwood, "Small Worlds" (2006)
Wikipedia: Fairy

Death on the Waters

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Novel: Passage by Connie Willis
Film: Lifeboat (1944)
Film: Titanic (1997)
Short Story: "Safe Passage" by Ramona Ausubel
Poem: "The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Painting: "The Lady of Shalott" by John William Waterhouse
Song: "Kern River" by Merle Haggard
Wikipedia: Water (classical element)

Goth (through the ages)

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Website: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/jordgeti.html#united
Website: http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?c=chartres&page=index
Novel: The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
Novel: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Short story: "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner
Album: The Sky's Gone Out by Bauhaus
Film: The Crow (1994)
Comics: The Sandman: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman et al
Article: "An EgoDriven Interview with Voltaire" by Josh Johnson
Wikipedia: Goth subculture

Jane Eyre, Jane Eyre, Jane Eyre

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Novel: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Novel: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Novel: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Film: Rebecca (1940)
Miniseries: Jane Eyre (2006)
Wikipedia: Charlotte Brontë

Am I Lying to You?

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Picture book: Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book by Shel Silverstein
Short story: "Stump hunting" by Margaret Atwood
Film: The Sting (1973)
Short story: "Taste" by Roald Dahl
Novel: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Television: Batman: The Animated Series, "Christmas with the Joker"
Website: http://www.oddee.com/item_66536.aspx
Article: "Worst Publishing Week Ever" by Daniel Engber
Wikipedia: Lie

On or Near the Rez

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Novel: Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
Film: Smoke Signals (1998)
Novel: The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall
Album: The Collection by Brulé
Album: Rez Affilliated by Litefoot
Novel: The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Article: "An Emissary of the Between-World" by Katie Bacon
Wikipedia: Indian reservation

The Reading Life

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Nonfiction: Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
Short Story: "The Night Bookmobile" by Audrey Niffenegger
Novel: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Essay: "Of Books" by Michel de Montaigne
Autobiography: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, chapters six and seven, by Frederick Douglass
Film: The Princess Bride (1987)
Film: Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
YouTube: "Tina Fey and The Bookaneers"
Wikipedia: Slow reading

After the Apocalypse

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Novel: Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Short story: "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury
Film: The Matrix (1999)
Nonfiction: The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Short story: "By the Waters of Babylon" (also published as "Place of the Gods") by Stephen Vincent Benét
Poem: "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasdale
Wikipedia: Doomsday event

The Good Samaritan

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Scripture: Luke 10:25–37
Film: Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Comics: Astro City: Life in the Big City by Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson
Short story: "Samaritan" by Connie Willis
Poem: "Ode: Samaritan" by Reginald Gibbons
Play: "The Cocktail Party" by T.S. Eliot
Short story: "The Hobo and the Fairy" by Jack London
Play: "Prodigal Son" by Garrison Keillor
Website: http://www.biblical-art.com/biblicalsubject.asp?id_biblicalsubject=781&pagenum=1
Wikipedia: Parable of the Good Samaritan

Chinese Food

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Novel: The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
Novel: Eating Chinese Food Naked by Mei Ng
Nonfiction: The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer 8 Lee
Nonfiction: Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper, Chapter 3, "First Kill Your Fish" by Fuchsia Dunlop
Nonfiction: Chinese Cooking for Dummies, Part I, "What Is Chinese Cooking?" by Martin Yan
Philosophy: Caigentan by Hong Zicheng
Essay: "A Chinese Banquet" by Jules Verne
Wikipedia: Chinese cuisine

Cyberpunk'd!

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Novel: Neuromancer by William Gibson
Novel: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Film: Tron (1982)
Film: Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Article: "Notes Toward a Postcyberpunk Manifesto" by Lawrence Person
Article: "Mother Earth Mother Board" by Neal Stephenson
Song: "Automated" by Frightdoll
Short story: "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury
Wikipedia: Cyberpunk

My Time Machine Is Better than Your Time Machine

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Novel: The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells
Novel: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Film: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
Film: Back to the Future (1985)
Short story: "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
Article: "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" by Isaac Asimov
Nonfiction: Time Traveler by Ronald L. Mallett and Bruce Henderson
Wikipedia: Grandfather paradox

Pointy-Haired Bosses

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Comics: Words You Don't Want to Hear During Your Annual Review by Scott Adams
Novel: Babbit by Sinclair Lewis
Film: Office Space (1999)
Television: The Office (UK version), "Downsize"
Television: The Office (US version), "Pilot"
Novella: Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Song: "Take This Job and Shove It" by Johnny Paycheck
Film: Nine to Five (1980)
Wikipedia: Pointy-Haired Boss

Old Scratch

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Short story: "The Man in the Black Suit" by Stephen King
Short story: "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Short film: Not Without My Handbag (1993)
Film: The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Closet drama: "A Dialogue between Joseph Smith and the Devil" by Parley P. Pratt
Epic poem: The Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto XXXIV by Dante Alighieri
Novel: The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
Wikipedia: Faust

I Am Your Biggest Fan

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Novel: Misery by Stephen King
Film: The Incredibles (2004)
Song: “I’m Your No.1 Fan” by The Beautiful South
Album: The Phantom of the Opera (Original 1986 London Cast)
Comics: The Blue Aspic by Edward Gorey
Film: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Film: The Fan (1996)
Poem: "I See You" by Naomi Welsh
Wikipedia: Football hooliganism

Brontëland: The Heathiest Place on Earth

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Novel: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Novel: Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
Novel: Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Miniseries: Jane Eyre (2006)
Poem: "High waving heather'neath stormy blasts bending" by Emily Brontë
Painting: The Pillar Portrait by Branwell Brontë
Wikipedia: Patrick Brontë

Zora & Friends

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Novel: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Article: "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston" by Alice Walker
Article: "What Does Soulful Mean" by Zadie Smith
Article: "An Instant Classic: Oprah's Private Library" by Janet Sternburg
Article: "Between Laughter and Tears" by Richard Wright
Play: Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes
Website: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/zora-neale-hurston/jump-at-the-sun/93/
Film: Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)
Wikipedia: Zora Neale Hurston

Who Are You?

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Novel: Trap for Cinderella by Sébastien Japrisot
Short story: "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story" by Paul Auster
Song: “The Stranger” Billy Joel
Comics: The Doubtful Guest by Edward Gorey
Tactile novel: Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock
Film: The Truman Show (1998)
Film: Shrek (2001)
Epic poem: The Odyssey, Books XIX to XXIII by Homer
Short story: "Who Am I This Time?" by Kurt Vonnegut
Wikipedia: Personal identity (philosophy)

Beowulf

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Audiobook: Beowulf translated and read by Seamus Heaney
Novella: The Monarch of the Glen by Neil Gaiman
Film: Beowulf (2007)
Novel: Grendel by John Gardner
Comics: Beowulf by Gareth Hinds
Music: The Lament for Beowulf, op. 25 by Howard Hanson
Film: Alien (1979)
Essay: "The Funny Side of 'Beowulf'" by Dave Barry
Wikipedia: Beowulf

Date Rape

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Novel: We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
Novel: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Song: "Date Rape" by Sublime
Website: http://www.loveisrespect.org/
Short story: "Up in Michigan" by Ernest Hemingway
Film: The Tenth Circle (2008)
Poem: "Don't Write a Poem about Rape" by Julie Buffaloe-Yoder
Wikipedia: Teen dating violence

I Am a Rock

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Song: "I Am a Rock" by Simon And Garfunkel
Essay: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation #17 by John Donne
Song: "Nowhere Man" by The Beatles
Comics: The Complete Concrete by Paul Chadwick
Novel: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Film: About a Boy (2002)
Novella: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wikipedia: Solitude

Dirty Angels

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Novel: Skellig by David Almond
Short story: "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel García Márquez
Film: City of Angels (1998)
Short story: "Murder Mysteries" by Neil Gaiman
Epic poem: Paradise Lost, Book VI by John Milton
Song: "Maybe An Angel" by Heather Nova
Wikipedia: Nephilim

Soul-Crushing Poverty

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Novel: Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Poetry collection: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake
Album: English Rebel Songs 1381-1984 by Chumbawamba
Nonfiction: Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Documentary film: Bigger Boxes (2004)
Documenary short film: Recycled Life (2006)
Game: FreeRice
Wikipedia: List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty

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