...The opening lines of the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, with Chaucer’s classically poetic and amorous language, describe the evocation of spring, echoing in the minds of his audience, as if the renewed warmth, sweet sounds and refreshing smells could be perceived by human senses. “When April with his showers sweet The drought of March has pierced unto the root And bathed each vein with such power To generate fresh strength and sire the flower; When Zephyr also has, with his sweet breath, Quickened again, in every wood and heath, The tender shoots and buds, and the young sun Into the Ram one half his course has run, And many little birds make melody That sleep through all the night with open eye (So Nature urges them on to ramp and rage)” The first 11 lines have all the essential elements of the conventional first stanza of a love lyric, indicating the vitality of springtime: April’s sweet showers, budding flowers, burgeoning leaves, the warm Zephyr, the melodious chirps of birds stimulated by the beauty of Nature. The whole imagery triggers narrator’s poetic sensibilities as well as the readers. It is about a sense of relief after the harshness of a long winter and a keen anticipation of all the lovable things that would follow. Besides, Chaucer employs vivid verbs, together with rhythmic phrases like “holt and heath”, “shoots and buds”, “ramp and rage”, which convey a strong sense of masculine energy to further intensify the renewed reproductive...
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...In school, Medieval Times is taught as an era with big castles and fortresses, kingdoms, and a feudal system with rigid three estates. By the late medieval times, these rigid estates began to have a breakdown. Between 1348 and 1350 the Black Death struck England and killed about thirty to forty percent of England’s population. This means that about half of the working class people died, therefore, the remaining ones were in great demand. By the fourteenth century England was more urbanized; in two centuries the population in London arose from 18,000 people to 45,000 people. This means that merchants and craftsmen had more possible clients in a more reduced space. Also, common people like the yeoman were able to get small pieces of land to farm. As a result to urbanization and factors like the Black Death; merchants, craftsmen, and peasants were benefited. Little by little, the division among the estates began to become blurry. It was inevitable to notice the rising of the middle class; first, second, and third estate people were well aware as were the writers and thinkers of the time such as William Langland and Geoffrey Chaucer who reflect these changes on their writings and even show how they support these changes. In early medieval times, the idea that the world was to be run under a system that separated people according to their roles on society led to the feudal system. Important people in the church supported this idea therefore there no one would question it. In the...
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...throughout this semester. Issues have ranged from social injustices, colonialism, and women’s rights. Some included personal tragedies concerning women of Aboriginal descent living in British Columbia. It has been quite emotional at times to actually read about the struggles that have taken place right here in British Columbia regarding immigrants and Aboriginal people. We even got to meet the author of Mercenary English, Mercedes Eng, in person to make the words of her story really come to life. However, not all of the books we have studied convey negative outlooks of certain problems being faced. There have been positive social changes, personal victories and many moments that make the reader believe things can be made right if an effort is put into it. This research essay will focus on the positive view portrayed in three books studied this semester which include: Mercenary English, Active Geographies-Women and Struggles on the Left Coast and the Unnatural and Accidental Women. The positive themes discussed will display triumphs on a personal level, meaningful change on a social stage and a look at how social activism deeply connects people together. Firstly, Mercenary English has a very unique way of showing social injustice, believed to be carried out in the eyes of its author Mercedes Eng. She writes about personal problems she faced, the negative issues surrounding aboriginal people in Canada and historical injustice against minorities. Her writing is powerful, emotional...
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...Canterbury Tales Webquest Today you are going to research background information about Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales. Anything not completed in class should be finished for HW. - Use the links to answer the questions listed below. - Please PARAPHRASE your answers rather than copying and pasting information. You may type your answers directly into the document and print when finished. 1. Geoffrey Chaucer 1. What kind of writer was he? He is a realistic writer. 2. What were the years of his birth and death? Born 1340/44, died 1400. 3. Where was he from? London, England 4. What was his “masterpiece”? The Canterbury Tales http://www.bartleby.com/65/ch/Chaucer.html 2. What is a pilgrimage? (You should already know this from our vocab. quiz.) A pilgrimage is a journey or search of moral or spiritual significance. Typically, it is a journey to a shrine or other location of importance to a person's beliefs and faith, although sometimes it can be a metaphorical journey in to someone's own beliefs. 3. Define prologue. The preface or introduction to a literary work. http://www.webster.com (or other dictionary site) 4. Where is Canterbury? Canterbury is located in Kent county, south-east of London. It is home to the Caterbury cathedral, the burial site of King Henry IV. What famous...
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...The Knight's Tale The Knight’s Tale (I) The Knight begins his tale with the story of Theseus, a prince, who married Hippolyta, the queen of Scythia, and brought her and her sister, Emelye, back to Athens with him after conquering her kingdom of Amazons. When Theseus returned home victorious, he became aware of a company of women clad in black who knelt at the side of the highway, shrieking. The oldest of the women asked Theseus for pity. She told him that she was once the wife of King Cappaneus who was destroyed at Thebes, and that all of the other women lost their husbands. Creon, the lord of the town, had simply tossed the dead bodies of the soldiers in a single pile and refused to burn or bury them. Theseus swore vengeance upon Creon, and immediately ordered his armies toward Thebes. Theseus vanquished Creon, and when the soldiers were disposing of the bodies they found two young knights, Arcite and Palamon, two royal cousins, not quite dead. Theseus ordered that they be imprisoned in Athens for life. They passed their time imprisoned in a tower in Athens until they saw Emelye in a nearby garden. Both fell immediately in love with her. Palamon compared her to Venus, and prayed escape from the prison; similarly, Arcite claimed that he would rather be dead than not have Emelye. The two fight over her, each calling the other a traitor. This happened on a day in which Pirithous, a prince and childhood friend of Theseus, had come to Athens. Pirithous had known Arcite at Thebes...
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...My pilgrim of choice is Madam Eglentine, a prioress described in the general prologue of the Canterbury Tales. I selected this specific character because Chaucer seems to applaud her seemingly genteel and honorable exterior while also foreshadowing the “scandalous” type of background of the nun. I chose to modernize Madam Eglentine in part because I found her character to be timeless; while Chaucer sets the character of the nun to be on a pilgrimage in the early 14th century, many of her characteristics, namely her multiple personas, enable her to be relatable even in the 21st century. I highlighted Madam Eglentine’s facial features and stately manner because I felt like those external features embodied the values of the person she exemplified. Because she is stately, “her mouth very small, and therewith soft and red” (152), Eglentine seems the ideal person to “weep, if only she saw a mouse caught in a trap, if it were dead or bleeding” (144). Since I highlighted her facial features and external characteristics in the image, which I believe would lead many to guess to her inner sensitivity, I only briefly discussed her “caring” nature in the couplets. Because the nun is now modernized, I also found it meanwhile to write the words “Love conquers all” (162) on her blouse instead of on her brooch. This creates a more contemporary look while strongly emphasizing the prioress’s odd fashion statement. The rest of the nun’s look is classic, because even though Eglentine is modernized...
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...Learning Team B Week 4 - A Knight's Tale HUM150 October 29, 2013 Learning Team B Week 4 - A Knight's Tale Complete the following matrix by filling out each category. Provide a brief description of each component and how that component was used in the film you selected. For example, if you selected the film The Shining, under setting, in the first column, you would describe one important film setting, and in the second column, you would explain how that film’s setting was used to impact the audience (how was it presented, what information was provided, what mood was established, etc.). 1. Name the film you watched. A Knight’s Tale 2. What genre do you believe it falls under? Romance and action In a short-answer format with a minimum of 50 words, answer the following question: 1. Did the film fit the mold associated with that genre? Why or why not? All members of the team agreed that this movie definitely falls under romance because it’s a very traditional love story and is predictable as you know that they will end up together in the end. They are also from opposite side of the “tracks”; she is royalty and he is a peasant trying to become more. Most of the team members decided that the movie should also fall under action because the joust competition throughout the movie provided a dose of action as it was fast-paced, and exciting. There is enough strategy and good against evil drama to justify calling this movie a romantic-action film. ...
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...Christian movie, War Room received 27.9 million dollars and the Oscar nominee Fifty Shades of Grey earned 571 million dollars. Both movies earned a decent amount of money but Fifty Shades of Grey is more recognized and more popular in today’s society. War Room is a moral Christian movie based on a family’s struggle to find peace and trust God, while Fifty Shades of Grey is a film based on a successful business man’s relationship with a young college graduate. On one end of the spectrum sits a completely moral story and on the other is a tale based mainly on pleasure. Both have pleasure and morality but one outweighs the other. The question remains, can a good story have both pleasure and morality and still captivate the audience? Chaucer’s A Knight’s Tale, contains a balance of both pleasure and morality and castill captivate the audience. In The Knights Tale, Chaucer tells a good story because that has a healthy balance of pleasure and morality. Specifically the situation of his characters that captivate the reader. Near the beginning of the tale two cousins were locked in a tower for the rest of their lives. Daily tormented not by weapons of any kind but by a young girl. They both fell in love with the beautiful princess Emily whome they could never have. Palamon saw Emily first but soon after Arcite fell in love. They both claimed to love her the most, which lead to fighting. “For with earthly love I loved her before you did…You did not know even now whether she were a goddess...
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...The Nature of Poetry: Genres and Subgenres Introduction, Out of Chaos Order and Pattern formed by Rhyme: Order and Pattern formed by Rhythm: Major Types • Epic • Narrative • Lyrical The student should also recall that many of these terms can be found in Prof. Rearick's literary glossary at this link. Introduction, Out of Chaos Poetry is as old as the human heart. Long before there were libraries, before people were writing down lines, before there were even cities, commerce or any manifestation of what we think of as culture, there was poetry. More than one critic has noted that literary works are, in some way, an attempt by writers to take the unacceptable chaos of human life and bring order into it. An overt reference to this is Wilde's famous observation given through the voice of Miss Prism, describing her own three volume novel: "The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means." (The Importance of Being Earnest, Act II, Emphasis Mine). To Wilde fiction tried to take the chaotic quality of the unfairness of life and turn it right. Perhaps Poetry is pleasant to human ears because it attempts to the most random of things, human speech, and tries to bring it into some sort of order and pattern. Order and Pattern formed by Rhyme: Most students think that poetry is made when words are brought together which have the same kind of sound at the end of them, but this is only one type of the many kinds of rhyme. Old English poetry, for example...
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...They operate under a fictional guise who is omniscient, knowledgeable and invincible to the point of immorality, to have the ability to manipulate the members into following their ideology, much like many radical groups today manipulate the reading of their religious texts to lead blind followers into terrorism using the “word of God”. “Ra's Al Ghul: Gotham's time has come. Like Constantinople or Rome before it the city has become a breeding ground for suffering and injustice. It is beyond saving and must be allowed to die. This is the most important function of the League of Shadows. It is one we've performed for centuries. Gotham... must be...
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...Throughout history women have been involved in clandestine and terrorist activities. Although, a significant amount of discourse revolves around male participation and leadership within terrorist organizations the literature presented exposes how valuable women have been in progressing various causes. Through recruitment and of their own volition women have entered into a male dominated arena to assert their capability to effectively navigate operating within an organization that promotes terror. The literature to follow presents historiographical patterns as to how women become involved in such regimes and how they survive the life of their involvement as a female combatant. Oppression has been a motivating factor for women to become involved with terrorist organizations. Upon investigating female terrorists in the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party, Knight (1979) found that many of the women who flocked to groups such as the previously mentioned one felt that their opportunities were jilted by an androcentric system. Knight (1979) postulated that the women driven towards committing terrorist acts endorsing violence were “highly motivated, self-assertive young women who may have turned to terror out of a sense of isolation and frustration nurtured in a society that offered them so little opportunity” (p. 145). Oppression being a highly motivating factor to propel women into committing heinous acts was also echoed in Hellmann-Rajanayagam’s (2008) depiction of women members...
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...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 are Palamon and Arcite; in the Miller’s Tale, Nicholas and Alisoun; in the Wife of Bath’s Tale, the errant knight and the loathsome hag; in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, the rooster Chanticleer. MAJOR CONFLICT · The struggles between characters, manifested in the links between tales, mostly involve clashes between social classes, differing tastes, and competing professions....
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...Music Journal Table of Contents 1-4 1. Two Trains Running................................................................………...5 2. Almost Lost My Mind.............................................................................5 3. Do You Love Me....................................................................................6 4. One Fine Day ..............................................................................................6 5. Fingertips (Part 2)..........................................................................................7 6.Mona Lisa……………………...........................................................................7 7. Shop Around......................................................................................................8 8. Please Mr. Postman...........................................................................................8 9. Save the Last Dance for Me...............................................................................9 10. Hello Stranger.....................................................................................................9 11. I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Hunny Bunch)..............................................9,10 12. Stop! in the Name of Love..................................................................10 13. Love Don’t Love Nobody..................................................................................10,11 14. You Can't...
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...Chapter 1 At 10:30 a.m., sharp, James Eckert pulled up in front of Stoddard Hall on the Riveroak College campus, where Grottwold Weinar Hansen had his lab. Angie Farrell was not, however, ready and waiting at the curb. Of course. It was a warm, bright September morning. Jim sat in the car and tried to keep his temper un- der control. It would not be Angie's fault. That idiot of a Grottwold undoubtedly had dreamed up some- thing to keep her working overtime in spite of-or perhaps because of-the fact he knew she and Jim were supposed to go home-hunting this morning. It was hard not to lose his temper with someone like Grottwold, who was not only one of the world's non- prizes but who had been very patently trying to take Angie away from Jim and get her for himself. One of the two big doors on the front of the Stoddard Hall opened and a figure came out. But it was not Angie. It was a stocky young man with bushy reddish hair and mustache, carrying an overstaffed briefcase. Seeing Jim in the car, he came down the steps over to the car and leaned on the edge of the opened win- dow on the curb side of the front seat. "Waiting for Angie?" he asked. "That's right, Danny," said Jim. "She was supposed to be out here to meet me, but evidently Grottwold's still hanging on to her." "That's his style." Danny Cerdak was a teaching assistant in the Physics Department. He was the only other Class AA volleyball player on campus. "You're going out to see Cheryl's trailer?" "If Angie ever...
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...книг выложен группой vk.com/create_your_english The Project Gutenberg EBook of Ivanhoe, by Walter Scott This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Ivanhoe A Romance Author: Walter Scott Release Date: June 25, 2008 [EBook #82] Last Updated: November 6, 2012 Language: English *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IVANHOE *** Produced by John P. Roberts, Jr. and David Widger IVANHOE книг выложен группой vk.com/create_your_english A ROMANCE книг выложен группой vk.com/create_your_english By Sir Walter Scott Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart, And often took leave,—but seemed loath to depart! 1 —Prior. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TO IVANHOE. DEDICATORY EPISTLE IVANHOE. CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVII CHAPTER XXVIII CHAPTER XXIX CHAPTER XXX CHAPTER XXXI CHAPTER XXXII. CHAPTER XXXIII CHAPTER XXXIV CHAPTER XXXV CHAPTER XXXVI CHAPTER XXXVII CHAPTER XXXVIII CHAPTER XXXIX CHAPTER XL CHAPTER XLI ...
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