Good stuff, Nerdgoddess. Here's one of mine, from a Mass Media Law paper on "indecency"...
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This pious pronouncement, which does not seem to take into account the possibility of Mr. Copps (or anyone else) simply changing the channel, makes him the perfect bureaucrat for today's reationary political climate.
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Dr. Oneal gave me the 'A' on style, whatever that is, rather than for nailing the subject matter....

(Y'know, Brittney, we could print all these out, put 'em in a hat, everybody pick one and recite it as the hat -- and perhaps a bottle of sangria -- goes around the circle... and we'd have performance art....)

I love the implied journeys only alluded to in the closing lines of all those papers.

I also love the idea of wringing a bit more value out of these handed-in, now-forgotten papers now cluttering up my hard drive, so please allow me to add a few from my own collection (can't guarantee these were all A's, though):

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Perhaps what is needed is a new revolution that gives society a new pattern of love, since the model outlined in, and exemplified by, Romeo and Juliet is apparently no more suited for long-term happiness in 20th and 21st century America than it was in 16th century England, or 16th century Verona.

This also makes Heidi's final line, "I thought the point was that we were all in this together," more devastating, because at that moment she is alone.

I won't claim the same for my class projects, but offer them as examples that even quite elliptical homages can still be somehow evocative of the original works.

Here Gabriel is being unconsciously ironic, so he misses the joke--but it is available to us, the readers.

It is to Steele's credit that she uses her capability to craft gripping tales, fueled by plots involving enormous reversals of human fortune, to inform her audience about both famous and obscure historical conditions as well, even if the latter is only a means to reach the former.

I instantly knew I was doing the right thing.

And in Woyzeck, the artificial parts, such as the stand-up bits with the microphone, are compelling and funny in isolation, yet the audience never forgets the play’s larger context of a cruel reality, in the light of which the artifical scenes carry their own, deeply sad, resonance.

The left and right seats in the first row were located, but their seat belts were lost in the recovery effort.

Ultimately, Custer must be studied from a societal perspective rather than an individual one, for it is the values he espoused that the country still is very much grappling with today.

This seems to elicit feelings of peace, and emotional and psychological centeredness, in the patient.