...The 400 years between when “The Misfortunes of Arthur” was written, and the movie Excalibur was directed; the character Mordred of the Arthurian Legends went through many different unique re-tellings. These re-telling were a result of business and a unique selling points that each writer or director used in order for their work to be a success. The selling points that the writer or director chooses are affected by their audience, in which the they try to bring something new and entice the people of their time period. This provides strong reasoning for how and why the development of Mordred in the Arthurian Legends took place. Many distinct themes in “The Misfortunes of Arthur” and Excalibur show the audience to be an influence to how the...
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...King Arthur was also known as a Roman Catholic. Along with both being of the same religion, Arthur and Anne both had mentors that they trusted dearly and that were well known. Arthur’s widely known tutor was Merlyn the wizard and Bertrand Delanoe was the friend and mentor to Anne Hidalgo. King Arthur’s achievements were many, including, winning almost every battle that he participated in. He won the battle against his mortal enemies Mordrid and Morgana Le Fey. As long as Arthur had the scabbard for Excalibur he could never be hurt. His biggest achievement was his transition from a nobody to the best king that France ever had. Anne Hidalgo has many achievements as well. Her biggest in her own opinion is being a mom to three children. Along with being a mom she wrote a book, “Mon combat por Paris” (My fight for Paris), being on the cabinet of Martine Aubrey, Nichole Perry, and Marylise...
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...Merlin I am Your Father As I was riding horseback chasing the young King Arthur because his training had began. Every time I got within roping distance I would give a big swing of my stick and ropes would fly out to grab Arthur. I know this training doesn’t seem ethical but its how all good kings should be trained. I know that Arthur will be the next king because I have the power to look far into the future and Arthur will be the greatest of all the kings to ever live. I was beginning to come up on Arthur’s back when he stops and shouts, “Holy Grail” as it hits him in the head a knocks him out. Minutes later he wakes up and I tell him what has happened. I told him, “Well obviously there was a grail that was Holy from the last supper and I reckon that I hit you up the head because you must be the chosen one least that’s what I have seen in my visions.” So as we were heading back to Camelot to show what Arthur has been given from the heavens above. When we were about 3 miles from the kingdom my evil father that died when I was younger rose from the dead. He was the man who taught me all my magical powers but wanted me to use them for bad but I chose differently. Arthur began to panic because he had no clue who this dark man is but I had to refrain him from panicking. My father began to mock me and Arthur. So I told Arthur to step back, my father and I are going to have an epic wizard battle. I let my father begin first; he turned his evil body into a small rat and came...
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...Steward Vanessa Steward English III Honors Period 2 Couillard Developing Derfel Derfel Cadarn is the protagonist as well as the narrator of the Warlord Chronicles written by Bernard Cornwell. Igraine, the Queen of Powys, asks an old Derfel to write the story about his past, the story of Arthur. Derfel begins the novel, first Winter King when he was just an orphan child taken by Merlin, a Druid, and in the second novel, Enemy of God, and the last novel Excalibur ends with Derfel well into his adulthood. Derfel develops from a timid child, to a developing man, and then a heroic one. Beginning with Winter King, Derfel Cadarn is only just a child. As odd as it may seem, Derfel’s lovers throughout the two novels are a tremendous developing factor. Derfel portrays himself as a foolish boy, for an example, “I can blush now when I think of a young boy’s desperate lunges at a woman’s affection,” on page 51, he had confessed his “love” to Nimue at this moment and reflects back on it in embarrassment. Although Derfel had not gotten together with Nimue then, he did acquire a youthful relationship with a young woman named Lunete. His relationship with Lunete did not last very long at all but during this time Derfel had just went with whatever Lunete had wanted. He says, “Lunete, like my new beard, was a sign of manhood and I wore both clumsily,” on page 114, basically saying Lunete was his first step into manhood but he was still not quite there. As the story progresses, Derfel...
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...When the Knights of Camelot camped away from the castle, friends tended to set up their bedrolls close to one another, and since Percival and Gwaine were best mates, they slept near each other. Well, Gwaine often snored like a boar dying from catarrh, which kept waking Percival, so restful sleep was often challenging. During one such mission in the heart of summer, Gwaine’s snoring was enough to rattle tress, and Percival tossed a pebble at him. “Oi!” Gwaine sat upright in his bedroll. “I was sleeping!” “You were snoring loud enough to wake the dead. Any other man would have smothered you.” His face a ghostly white in the pale moonlight, Gwaine scowled. “I’m thirsty, and it’s your fault I’m awake. Come with me to the creek.” “Yes, Master.” Side by side, Percival and Gwaine strolled to the creek, which was a good few dozen strides away from their camp, far enough away that the other knights could not hear them. Gwaine bent, cupped his hands, and took a few long, grateful swallows of water from the bubbling creek. “Much better. But do you know what would be even finer? A night of Leon’s chambermaid in my bed! Have you ever gazed at that round, ripe arse? I’d like to…” Gwaine engaged in a long soliloquy about all the acts in which he would engage with the beautiful young chambermaid. It was not that Percival minded the detailed description, it was that he had a difficult—if not impossible—time relating to Gwaine’s enthusiasm. And, out of nowhere, Percival decided it was...
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...Negotiation Plan – Excalibur Engine Parts As the VP of Sales for Excalibur I am required to negotiate with Knight Engines Inc to come to an agreement for a rush order of 8000 pistons within two weeks. It is in my personal interests to deliver a substantial profit to Excalibur for the benefit of shareholders. However, negotiating a deal with Knight may be the only chance for Excalibur to avoid a major loss in this quarter. Consequently, I aim to secure a profitable contract but am willing to trade current profit for future gain. For this negotiation I have three types of goals in place. My substantive goals are to negotiate a contract that will bring in $5.8m (target point 3) and to also secure future contracts with Knight. With little demand for the pistons it is essential that Excalibur remains on good terms with Knight and so I have a relationship goal to maintain a long term business relationship between the two companies. In addition my intangible goal is to achieve an outcome that will be viewed favourably by my superiors. Whilst it is in my interests to secure a profit it cannot be at the expense of a business relationship. Therefore substantive and relationship outcomes are important and assuming that substantive outcomes are also important to Knight, either a trusting or principled collaboration strategy should be adopted (Savage, Blair & Sorenson 1989). As it is difficult to determine whether Knight has the same relationship goal and as I am concerned about...
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...The Legend of King Arthur is timeless. It is the story of a great king who accomplished much and continues to be an inspiration. There have been many works of literature written about him, as well as movies and plays. The origins of the legend are not completely known, but some of the earlier recorded works include Pearl-Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur. By analyzing ancient British paganism and Christianity, one can see how they each influenced the creation of the legend of King Arthur to make it the well known story many know and love today. It begins with pagans, the ancient Britons- the Aryans. Pagans are considered the people who had their own local religions as opposed to Christianity. Paganism includes Celtic lore as well as Greek and Roman antiquity. It plays a large role in many British literature works, especially the legends of King Arthur. Looking at the pagan religions, one can see the correlations between those customs and how they influenced British Literature. “We can still discern in the religions of the Aryan-speaking nations similar ideas and expressions pointing to an original source of mythological conceptions.”(Squire) The pagans had many myths and legends from which many characters of the King Arthur legend can be related. In fact, the Celts have stories relating to Arthur before Christianity, including tales such as The Lady of the Fountain, Geraint, and Peredur.(Scudder) To begin, one must start at...
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...The Sword in the Stone of the Arthurian Legend King Arthur and the knights of the round table belong to a long line of books and stories of the Arthurian legend. Merlin, Lancelot, The lady of the lake, King Arthur, and Excaliber are all very important in the Arthurian legend. In this essay we will talk about King Arthur, the knights of the round table, and Merlin in the famous story, The sword in the stone. The Sword in the stone is a book about an adopted child named wart. He is of royal blood and does not know this. One day when Wart is in the forest, he finds a magician named Merlin. Merlin comes home with Wart and agrees with Sir Ector, Wart’s guardian, to become Wart’s tutor. Merlin goes about educating Wart by Transforming him into different animals. Through each transformation Wart experiences different forms of power, each being a part of how he should rule as king. The first transformation takes Wart and Merlin into the castle’s moat as a fish. They then meet the largest fish in the moat, which is an alligator who is the ruler. The alligator takes what he wants because of his size. In a speech about power, he tells Wart that “Might is right,” and might of the body is greater than might of the mind. Because of the way the alligator rules, his subjects obey him out of fear for their lives. Wart experiences this firsthand when the gator tells him to leave. He has grown bored of Wart, and if Wart does not leave he will eat him. The king uses his siz...
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...Choose two works that you saw as addressing the same theme, but through different forms. First, discuss the form. What form was each in? Did that form give you any particular difficulties when you read through that work? Next, explain how the form of the work influenced the way the theme came across in each. What sort of an effect did the way the work was shaped have on the theme itself? After reading so many stories in this class there were two pieces of literature that themes were quite similar but written in different forms. These two stories are King Arthur Witten by Sir Thomas Malory and Othello by William Shakespeare. I personally had some difficult reading these two stories however; I was able to understand them after going back and reviewing key points that explained the main idea. The story of King Arthur is based on romance and chivalry and it was difficult to read because it was written in old English as supposed to early Anglo-Saxon literature. This storie had a lot to do with the story of Othello because the plots are similar in some way. In King’s Arthur, The King discovers that his best Knight Lancelot is in love with his Queen Guenevere. That fact was clearly seen in the story when the Queen favors Lancelot above the other Kinights. “Queen Guenever had him in great favour above all other knights, and in return he was loyal to her above all other ladies and damsels all his life, and for love of her he did many deeds of arms, and saved her from the fire through...
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...It was after four in the morning and Gwaine hadn’t texted Percival back. Gwaine must have fallen asleep, and Percival didn’t blame him, as he was so exhausted his eyes burned and his brain ached. He thought back to his high school years where he’d avoided dating, because while he realized he was gay back then, he wasn’t ready to face that fact. Plus, it wasn’t so difficult to pretend to be straight back in those days – he immersed himself in playing football, wrestling, and track-and-field. He was busy with sports and school, so it wasn’t that strange to be dateless. But when he broke a vertebra in his neck during his senior year after he’d been facemasked and tackled during a football game, his days of contact sports were over. And the pain had been horrendous and unyielding. That’s what had drawn Percival to study physical therapy, his own experience healing from his neck injury. He loved those hours of hard work at the PT center and made great friends there. But after his life as a jock ended and he faced college with no romantic experience, he had to make a decision – live as a straight guy or as a gay man. Too terrified to come out to his family as gay, he dated girls and had sex with two of them. Much to his relief, he’d been dumped both times after he slept with them, probably because the girls realized he wasn’t into it. He wished he’d had the guts to tell them the truth; they were beautiful girls and it wasn’t their fault. But all that heartache seemed to evaporate...
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...Excalibur (An Analysis of Chivalry in the Movie Excalibur) This past week in room 303 we have watched the movie Excalibur. This movie is about King Arthur and his life. This movie also involves chivalry and what it means to be a knight. Chivalry is the code of conduct and moral views of knights during the medieval ages. In the movie, there are a few good examples of chivalry. Chivalry is shown with Arthur’s brother, Lancelot, and the father and son in the woods during the movie Excalibur. The first example of chivalry that is shown in the movie is when Arthur’s brother gives up everything knowing what it could bring.. In the beginning of the movie, Arthur pulls the sword from the stone, not knowing how important it was. Not only that, but he had no idea of the responsibilities that would come from being worthy of the sword. He was led to pull out the sword because he had lost his brother’s sword, and was in search for another one. When he pulls out the sword, he hands it to his brother so he has a sword to fight with. His brother, knowing how important the sword is and what it could bring to him, tells everyone it was Arthur who pulled it out. This shows honor because he could have easily said it was him and been able to become king. This shows how noble his brother really is. It shows that he was not overcome...
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...EXCALIBUR ENGINE PARTS – NEGOTIATION PLAN 1. What is your BATNA (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement)? Sell the pistons to Hanks Super Monster Tractor for $300 / piston 2. Why it is the “best” alternative? * No other viable alternative available if we decided to go without major losses. * Better than not selling at all considering the poor demand for specialized pistons in the market 3. How acceptable your BATNA is to you? This is a very poor BATNA to sell the pistons at a significant loss 4. What are the implications of this acceptability for the way you approach this negotiation? * I’ll try to cut the deal with Knight Engines even if requires to offer some concessions. * If there are no profits for this quarter then the trust of the shareholders will be at stake. 5. Does it seem (initially) that one party is more dependent on getting a deal than the other party is? If so, what are the implications of this potential imbalance? Initially, it does look like we are more dependent on getting a deal with Knight Engines as our BATNA is very poor and we need a good outcome to avoid losses this quarter. But having said that it looks like the other party is also dependent on us because they need to fulfill an order with the government. Also, purchasing 8000 good quality pistons 2 weeks would be a difficult task for them. 6. Decide what the relevant issues are that you want to negotiate. Issues: a. Sales price b. Number of pistons c....
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...A Day of Nothing and a Day of Activity From what I can recall, I did nothing of particular interest on February 8, so I shall elect to skip talking about it. To make up for the lack, I shall write an excruciatingly long entry for today. As is typical of an exchange student at Kansai Gaidai, I awoke only to begin my journey over to my Japanese class. In class, we played 'Who's Pen Is This?' in order to practice our previously learned grammar lesson. Next, we planned a pretend trip in order to practice another grammar lesson. Finally, we learned a new grammar point before departing. My next activity was to wait 40 minutes so that I could meat Saki and Chiaki again for lunch. This time, I brought my laptop along so that I could share photographs from back home. While waiting, I was joined by Wayne, a Chinese student who I had previously met, and Keisuke. At first, Keisuke swore that Wayne was a Japanese person, but after some effort to convince him otherwise, he believed that he was not. Come 11:30, I took my leave from the boys to join the girls in the cafeteria. Since it was rainy and drab awful outside today, Saki and Chiaki were waiting inside the cafeteria instead of the outside area where they usually wait. After getting food, we ate and talked some. Once finishing, we made our way to the CIE lounge so I could plug in my laptop and begin the show. A wise move plugging it in, I might add, as the presentation lasted about four hours. I began by showing pictures of my house...
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...EXERCISE 5 KNIGHT ENGINES / EXCALIBUR ENGINE PARTS Objectives 1. To practice distributive bargaining skills. 2. To help students identify situations where integrative opportunities exist in what first appears to be a purely distributive situation. 3. To explore the effects of variations in bargaining mix on the process and outcome of negotiations. 4. To explore the effects of different information and assumptions on negotiation process and outcome. Changes from 4th Edition No changes other than updating recommended reading assignments given below to match new editions of readings book and text. Operational Needs Group Size: The class is divided into match ups of two (one-on-one negotiation). If there is an odd number of students, some students could work as a pair or observers could be assigned. Time Required: 60-90 minutes Special Materials: Copy and distribute roles from this manual. Special Physical Requirements: None. Recommended Reading Assignments to Accompany This Exercise: Readings: 1.4 (Sebenius), 1.7 (Craver), 1.8 (Dawson), 2.8 (Reitz, Wall and Love), 2.9 (Shell), 6.5 (Leritz) Text: Chapters 1, 2, 9 What to Expect This exercise allows a broad range of distributive tactics to be practiced. There is a large enough settlement range that many different negotiation outcomes can be reached. One critical difference in information between the two roles is that the pistons that Knight Engines want to...
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...modern historian. there is no historical evidence, that King Arthur ever exist…But, as people say '' no smoke without fire'' CAMELOT was declared as the chief residence of the High-King Arthur and embroidered the elaborate portrayal that we recognise today. The Tradition: The Name "Excalibur" was first used for King Arthur's sword by the French Romancers. It was not the famous "Sword in the Stone" (which broke in battle), but a second sword acquired by the King through the intercession of his druidic advisor, Merddyn (Merlin). Worried that Arthur would fall in battle, Merlin took the King to a magical lake where a mysterious hand thrust itself up from the water, holding aloft a magnificent sword. It was the Lady of the Lake offering Arthur a magic unbreakable blade, fashioned by an Avalonian elf smith, along with a scabbard which would protect him as long as he wore it.Towards the end of his reign, during the troubled times of Medrod's rebellion, Excalibur was stolen by Arthur's wicked half-sister, Morgan le Fay. Though it was recovered, the scabbard was lost forever. Thus Arthur was mortally wounded at the Battle of Camlann. The King then instructed Bedwyr (or Girflet) to return Excalibur to the lake from whence it came. However, when questioned about the circumstances of its return, Bedwyr claimed to...
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