Thanks to all of you for helping me out. Because of scheduling conflicts, professors being in Europe, and because my final paper does need some more work, I'll actually be getting one last extension and, thus, doing the comps in February or March, depending. Your questions will still be of great use to me, as I shall be using them for practice. Don't be discouraged if you haven't heard from me about your question(s)--I haven't read any of them, yet. I'm planning to use them like scholarly windsprints: I read the question, and then I have an hour to write a response. I'll post what I write for any who are interested as I do them.
Thanks again to all my helpers.
Thanks again to all my helpers.