...Summoner’s Tale Summoner’s Reaction Previously you have witnessed a presentation on the Friar’s Tale and solely based on that presentation we can already predict how the Summoner’s reaction and his tale will lay out. Basically the Summoner’s tale is going to try to “one-up” the Friar’s tale and try to degrade the Friar as much as possible. With this the audience can obtain an idea of how the Friar will be described in terms of his characteristics, his personalities, and his physical figure. This foreshadows the main aspect of the Summoner’s tale and reveals the type of relationship that exists between the characters within the tale and the actual pilgrims themselves. Setting The setting of the tale is in Yorkshire, Northern England more specifically in a marshy region known as Holderness. The tale takes place mainly in the streets of Holderness, Thomas’ house, and the manor-house. The company is approaching to Sittingbourne, England, which marks the end of the Summoner’s tale. Here is a brief plot synopsis of the Summoner’s Prologue and the Summoner’s Tale narrated by Nihal Motive: Humiliation/Karma Much like Simkin from the Reeve’s tale, by the end of the tale, Friar John is utterly humiliated by both Thomas and the lord of the manor along with his squire. Basically, the Summoner describes Friar John with one word: “limiter” meaning a begging friar. He states that the friar “goes about Holderness in Yorkshire, preaching [and begging]” from his “regular sermon exhorting...
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...The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale Summary Apparently deeply affected by the Physician's sad and gruesome tale of Virginia, the Host praises the Physician by using as many medical terms as he can muster. However, he rejects the Physician's moral to the tale and substitutes one of his own: Thus the gifts of fortune and nature are not always good ("The gifts of Fortune and Nature have been the cause of the death of many a person"). Thinking that the pilgrims need a merry tale to follow, the Host turns to the Pardoner. The more genteel members of the company, fearing that the Pardoner will tell a vulgar story, ask the Pardoner for a tale with a moral. The Pardoner then explains to the pilgrims the methods he uses in preaching. His text is always "Radix malorum est cupidatis" ("Love of money is the root of all evil"). Always employing an array of documents and objects, he constantly announces that he can do nothing for the really bad sinners and invites the good people forward to buy his relics and, thus, absolve themselves from sins. Then he stands in the pulpit and preaches very rapidly about the sin of avarice so as to intimidate the members into donating money. He repeats that his theme is always "Money is the root of all evil" because, with this text, he can denounce the very vice that he practices: greed. And even though he is guilty of the same sins he preaches against, he can still make other people repent. The Pardoner admits that he likes money, rich food, and fine living...
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...Mane, Thecel, Pares! (”Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God (Mt. 4.7) * Simoun - * Basilio - The eldest of Sisa's two sons, now an aspiring doctor whose medical education was being financed by Capitan Tiago. He is now at the point of graduation during the events in the novel. * Isagani - Poet and Basilio's best friend; portrayed as emotional and reactive; Paulita Gómez' boyfriend before being dumped for fellow student Juanito Peláez * Kabesang Tales - Telesforo Juan de Dios, a former cabeza de barangay (barangay head) of Sagpang, a barangay in San Diego's neighboring town Tiani, who resurfaced as the feared Luzón bandit Matanglawin (Tagalog for "Hawkeye"); * Don Custodio - Custodio de Salazar y Sánchez de Monteredondo, a famous "journalist" who was asked by the students about his decision for the Academia de Castellano. In reality, he is quite an ordinary fellow who married a rich woman in order to be a member of Manila's high society. * Paulita Gomez - The girlfriend of Isagani and the niece of Doña Victorina, the old Indio who passes herself off as a Peninsular, who is the wife of the quack doctor Tiburcio de Espadaña. In the end, she and Juanito Peláez are wed, and she dumps Isagani, believing that she will have no future if she marries him. * Macaraig - One of Isagani's classmates at the University of Santo Tomas. He is a rich student and serves as the leader of the students yearning to build the Academia de Castellano. * Father Florentino...
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...or eight bags of gold and then they draw like a straw and they make the shortest go get food a wine ,but then they kill him and finally they separate the gold and finally the other two drink the wine and they end up all dying in the end. The readers learn that greed can lead to violence and ultimately lead to death. The reader learns about the way gold can lead to bad things. All of the guys betray each other and die in The Pardoner. In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales , Betrayal is shown through The Pardoner and The Summoner . The theme for it is I judge he was a gelding or a mare means not everyone is equal (Chaucer 161).The Squire is the motif because he is very different because of his social standing compare to his dad the knight. The literary elements for The Pardoner is iambic pentameter because in a few sentences it shows a stressed syllable followed by one that is not stressed . Another theme for The Pardoner's is The Pardoner in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is dishonest. The Pardoner often preaches about how money is the root of all evil. Money is the root of all evil...
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...Running Head: Case Study Analysis Paper 2: A Tale of Two Coaches Case Study Analysis Paper 2: A Tale of Two Coaches Harry A. Gkornean Grand Canyon University: LRD 600-0500: Leadership Styles and Development Dr. Terri Trent September 2, 2015 “Coach K: A Matter of the Heart” & "Coach Knight: A Will to Win” Overview This paper provides a leadership styles and skills analysis of two cases that separately discussed the professional careers of two leaders involved in similar kinds of activities. It presents two coaches – Coach K and Coach Knight - as achievers but distinguishes them in terms of the methodology used. This paper recognizes similar leadership attributes of these two leaders and distinguishes one from another in terms of their leadership style. It identifies Coach K more as a leader than Coach Knight whose attributes were more managerial. Leadership Skills Coach K was an efficient and successful leader who demonstrated excellent leadership skills as he led the Duke Basketball Team to becoming one of the most successful college basketball teams in America’s history (DeLacey, Perlow & Snook, 2005). His success can be attributed to the following leadership skills: competencies, individual attributes, and leadership outcomes, technical, human and conceptual skills. Similarly, Coach Knight was a very successful basketball coach at Indiana University and Texas Tech. According to DeLacey, Perlow & Snook (2005), he earned for himself one of the most enviable...
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...A Tale of Two Stories Mary was working at ABC Company. Her position was an accounting staff. ABC Company is a manufacturing company, which is a subsidiary of a state-owned group located in Asia. Story 1 In ABC, each vice-president, is equipped with a car. According to the company’s policy, the car only can be used for commuting and dealing with the company’s business. Policy states that the car cannot be used for personal things. Every Vice President has a limitation of $300 for gas reimbursement monthly. Mary found that almost every manager hit the quota of $300 reimbursement and many of the gas receipts had the interval between filling gas only 1 hour. These Vice Presidents always use company’s cars to deal with their private things or lend to other colleagues with good relationship to do some personal affairs. Mary believed that if she reports this matter to President, the President probably would inspect the situation thoroughly. She worried about she would get trouble if she did，since the Vice President hasn’t exceeded the reimbursement amount. She decided to keep silent due to the below reasons. Culture factor First, in most Asian countries, people are conservative and inclined to keep neutral. They think harmony is very important within an organization. If Mary revealed these things, she thinks it would cause large distribution. Since the people involved were senior level, she could not forecast what would happen. Second, a strong sense...
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...Aesop’s Fables Fable: (1) a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters. (2) a story about supernatural or extraordinary persons or incidents. (Dictionary.com) As a future teacher, I chose to research Aesop because I appreciate the life lessons his stories teach. Aesop’s fables have become some of the greatest traditions of Greek culture. They were first told nearly two thousand years ago by Aesop (620 BC), a slave, unable to speak as a child. When he finally spoke, he was a gifted speaker. (Good Reads) He was freed by his Greek master who enjoyed the humor and charm of his stories. Aesop traveled to the Lydian city of Sardis, where he became a favorite of King Croesus (600-546 BC). (New World Encyclopedia) Aesop impressed the statesmen in Greece when the king asked his wisest advisors to consider who the happiest man was. After several responses, Aesop finally answered, “Croesus was as much happier than other men as the fullness of the sea was superior to the rivers in his kingdom.” Aesop found favor with the king as a storyteller. He was sent on a mission to the temple of Apollo at Delphi to deliver gold. He referred to the Delphians as parasites when they squabbled over the gold (Giloth), and they labeled him sacrilegious. They set him up to appear to have stolen from Apollo, and he was accused of theft and sacrilege and pushed over a cliff to his death. (enotes) Greek culture at this time was self-absorbed...
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...The fire-man saves the children, the doctor heals the patient, the police-officer grabs the crook, a hero is different things to different people. There are heroes that look the part and others who are at the right place at the right time. Ralph Waldo Emerson defined a hero as, “…No braver than any ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.” In a somewhat less formal setting, Bonnie Tyler described her hero stating, “He’s got to be strong and he’s got to be fast and he’s got to be larger than life.” In Beowulf, Canterbury Tales, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the main-characters are brave but there are other requirements needed to make a hero. To give a complete definition: A hero is a type of honorable leader who will sacrifice...
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...Kumar Professor Padma Baliga English Literature Upto 1900 13 September 2010 The Canterbury Tales and the Panchatantra: Two Frame Narratives contrasted The East has a wonderful tradition in teaching morals through interesting tales; India has given the world the earliest such tales in the form of the Panchatantra, the Hitopadesa and even the Puranas. The Canterbury Tales and the Panchatantra are both frame narratives- often known as ‘story within a story.’ Yet the target audience of both these works is different. And this arises from the nature of these works. Whilst The Canterbury Tales was written by Chaucer originally for a courtly, upper class audience, the Panchatantra was written to teach the high morals and sensibilities of Vedic literature to three disinterested princes in the simplest language, using animals as symbols and characters. Indeed, the Panchatantra and its derivative work, the Hitopadesa are often dismissed as stories for children. Though these fables are indeed vastly instructive, they also teach a way of thriving in the material world and a way of life itself; the Panchatantra is referred to as a niti-shastra. This paper attempts to contrast the Canterbury Tales with the Panchatantra and illustrate the manner in which the latter is a niti-shastra without being merely populated by abstruse, pithy phrases. We know that in The Canterbury Tales, a group of about 30 pilgrims gather at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, across the Thames from London...
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...history as a result of the development of human thought. In literature, the idea of heroism appears on a large scale. It has been dealt with by different writers in different periods. As far as terminology is concerned, the terms of heroism and sacrifice are interchangeable. The hero must be a sacrificer and the one who sacrifices himself must be a hero, for this reason these two terms (hero and sacrificer) cannot be separated. Thus, both of them go hand in hand in so many works of literature. Heroism and sacrifice are not confined to human beings only. Some writers present their heroes as gods as in mythology, and some of them present animals as in fables. 809 0202 / مجلة ديالى العدد الرابع و االربعون The idea of having an animal as a sacrificial hero is shown in many of Oscar Wilde’s short stories. He developed this theme as a reaction towards his age which lacked, in his view, moral as well as human values. For this reason, he chooses a bird to be his tragic hero. He epitomizes this idea in such short stories like “The Nightingale and the Rose” and “The Happy Prince”. The heroes in these two short stories are birds: a swallow in “The Happy prince” and a nightingale in “The Nightingale and the Rose”. These creatures are usually known of their delicacy and frailty. But in these stories they function as sacrificial heroes for the sake of others and tolerate horrible conditions of death just to please people. “The Nightingale and the Rose” is one of Wilde’s best...
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...I think it is common knowledge to say that when you enter the lifestyle of an artist, there are one of two areas of which you will exist in: the bright side and the dark side. In the bright side is where artist feel the joy of their craft, blissed in the creative flow they are experiencing. And on the dark side is where reality crashes upon you, leaving only fear and bleakness. One example of the idea of these concepts, arguably, is the timeline of music created by the Beatle. Their songs during the early parts of their career were solely about pleasure, speaking about the beauty of women and love, and while some songs from the latter part of their career still used words of joy, the undertone and theme of the sounds were depressing and hopeless...
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...Canterbury Tales AUTHOR · Geoffrey Chaucer TYPE OF WORK · Poetry (two tales are in prose: the Tale of Melibee and the Parson’s Tale) GENRES · Narrative collection of poems; character portraits; parody; estates satire; romance; fabliau LANGUAGE · Middle English TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN · Around 1386–1395, England DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION · Sometime in the early fifteenth century PUBLISHER · Originally circulated in hand-copied manuscripts NARRATOR · The primary narrator is an anonymous, naïve member of the pilgrimage, who is not described. The other pilgrims narrate most of the tales. POINT OF VIEW · In the General Prologue, the narrator speaks in the first person, describing each of the pilgrims as they appeared to him. Though narrated by different pilgrims, each of the tales is told from an omniscient third-person point of view, providing the reader with the thoughts as well as actions of the characters. TONE · The Canterbury Tales incorporates an impressive range of attitudes toward life and literature. The tales are by turns satirical, elevated, pious, earthy, bawdy, and comical. The reader should not accept the naïve narrator’s point of view as Chaucer’s. TENSE · Past SETTING (TIME) · The late fourteenth century, after 1381 SETTING (PLACE) · The Tabard Inn; the road to Canterbury PROTAGONISTS · Each individual tale has protagonists, but Chaucer’s plan is to make none of his storytellers superior to others; it is an equal company. In the Knight’s Tale, the protagonists...
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...medieval "romances" or the heroic romance in prose. The term ‘roman or romance’ linked fictions back to the histories that had appeared in the Romance language of 11th and 12th-century southern France. The typical Arthurian romance became a fashion in the late 12th century. The unexpected and peculiar adventures surprised the audience in romances like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1380).The romance had become a stable generic term by the beginning of the 13th century, as in the Roman de la Rose (c. 1230), famous today in English through Geoffrey Chaucer's late 14th-century translation. Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (1380–87) is a late example of this European fashion. Prose narrators wrote narrative patterns as employed in fairy tales and with complex plot structures, the work of Boccaccio and Chaucer share this model of construction with modern jokes, In the 14th and 15th centuries when prose legends became fashionable among the female urban elite, prose became the medium of the urban commercial book market in the 15th century. But the world of these romances had not much affinity with the actual world. In...
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...Fanaticism -wildly excessive or irrational devotion, dedication, or enthusiasm -an extreme and uncritical zeal or enthusiasm, as in religion or politics. — fanatic, n., adj. —fanatical, adj. the character, spirit, or conduct of a person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm orzeal, as in religion or politics Zeal is often used in a religious sense, meaning devotion to God or another religious cause, like being a missionary. Zeal doesn't have to be religious, though: a feeling of gusto and enthusiasm for anything can be called zeal. People have zeal for sports teams, bands, causes, and (often, but not always) their jobs. If you have passion for something, you have zeal, which is kind of a mix of eagerness and energy and devotion. -a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause) Filibuster or loco -filibusterismo’ means the idea of the breaking away of the colony from the mother country, and 'filibusteros’ are accordingly those who aspire for the realization of this idea. For our purposes, however, it will be more practical to ask: Who is considered a 'filibustero’ in the Philippines?” And let Rizal answer: * Those who do not raise their hats to Spaniards. * Those who only greet a friar instead of kissing his hand or his habit. * Those who offer resistance to being addressed with the familiar “tu” by the best Spaniard. * Those who subscribe to a periodical from Spain or another European country. * Those who, at elections, give...
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...The Brain Behind The Big, Bad Burger And Other Tales Of Business Intelligence Business intelligence systems have, for the most part, been dreary failures. But not in the restaurant industry. There, the payoffs have been significant. So what have you been doing wrong? And what are they doing right? Restaurant chains such as Hardee's, Wendy's, Ruby Tuesday, T.G.I. Friday's and others are heavy users of business intelligence software. They use BI to make strategic decisions, such as what new products to add to their menus, which dishes to remove and which underperforming stores to close. They also use BI for tactical matters like renegotiating contracts with food suppliers and identifying opportunities to improve inefficient processes. For example, in June 2003, Wendy's decided to accept credit cards in its restaurants based on information it got from its BI systems, which include IBM DB2 OLAP software, IBM and Compaq servers, databases from Hyperion and Oracle, Cognos Powerplay tools, and software from Crystal Decisions and Arcplan. Because of that decision, Wendy's restaurants have boosted sales; customers who use a credit card spend an average of 35% more per order than those who use cash, according to Wendy's executive vice president and CIO John Deane. It's been called "the fast food equivalent of a snuff film" by one health and nutrition advocacy group. Jay Leno made cracks about it on The Tonight Show. Even The New York Times devoted an editorial to its excesses...
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