What I did all last year

Hey. Here's one of my papers from school ... several more will no doubt follow in the next couple months. This one is about Heian Japan, kinda sorta, so I thought I'd start with it. This is how it was when I turned it in, I haven't taken my prof's comments into consideration even though I agree with several of them. All contents copyright me, in eternity, blah blah blah, don't plagiarize it's bad for you. Comments welcome, as always.
Oh, and I cut out the footnotes because all the quotes are from the one book... but if you want citations I could give them to you. The publishing info for the book in question is in the bibliography at the end. Boy, I'm stalling, aren't I?
( The Kagero Nikki: A Protest Against Insignificance )

addendum

Uh, I wrote this to answer a specific question for a specific (very excellent) professor... So it's more of a "completed assignment" than a paper per se. You know.