...Tales of Woe, Concord Bookshop Kathleen E. Haertel HCS587 September 23, 2013 Virginia Weatherston Tales of Woe, Concord Bookshop With today’s ever advancing technology, a company needs to have a competitive edge to make a profit, thus making change inevitable. The Concord bookshop was a small New England bookstore that were feeling the financial strains in today’s aggressive market, because of this the owners felt the need to restructure the company for it to remain a viable and profitable company .A new organizational model is necessary for a business to gain profit and survive in the market, Spector (2010) unfortunately there were some areas that were not handled correctly or effectively in the restructuring of the company that led to its failure. The first phase that failed was for the owners to come in and announce that changes were going to happen without notifying the employees of their areas of concern, this was the financial aspect of the company, the managers did state that “things are not so bad.” The owners response was very matter of fact that they wanted to move in another direction. One thing that may have helped in this phase would have been for the owners to have had meetings with the employees and discuss areas that the owners felt needed to be addressed; these long- term employees were blind-sided regarding as to what was to come. The second area of...
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...Canterbury Tale Canterbury Tales are one of the most famous collections of the stories in Middle English written by English writer Geoffrey Chaucer who made big impact in Middle English literature. One of characters in this stories that impressed many people who read this stories is the Knight. From all characters in Canterbury Tales knight is the noblest of all of them. In “General Prologue: The Knight through the Man of Law” the author asserts that “the Knight is the noblest of the pilgrims, embodying military prowess, loyalty, honor, generosity, and good manners“(Classiclit.about). The Knight conducts himself in a polite and mild fashion, never saying an unkind word about anyone. Knight is motivated by pride and glory, he is brave and noble and he is not afraid of a challenge. In the the cantrebury tale: the knight's tale the author asserts that “ Chivalry is a big deal in "The Knight's Tale." Chivalry was a system of rituals, duties, and behaviors a knight was supposed to follow if he wished to behave with honor (Shmoop). In the tale the knight is presented as the chacarcter who brings glory and he is real example of how perfect knight sholud be. However the knight is described in terms of his commendable feats and his moderate dress and countenance, he possess moral values such as in first place honour, curtesie and fredom. The knight is described as the noble warrior who is always ready and prepared to serve to his lord, and with this serving to lord he traveled a...
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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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...A Bronx Tale It’s the sixties. Racism is running hot through the streets of New York. One neighborhood in particular, where one group of boys makes the choice that will change their lives and everyone’s around them forever. These boys are young, full of talent and smart. These boys choose to take all of what they had and throw it away. What happens to these boys next is something that you would not want to wish on anybody. Here these young talented boys cram into a car and ride to the African-American neighborhood. The boys toss burning bottle of alcohol through a glass window into a store. With burning bottles shattering left and right there is one that doesn’t break. This one bottle was tossed back into these boys car and there is where their bodies burned to a crisp. These boys took all the talent they had and threw it away; they wasted it what could have been. “The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.” A Bronx Tale is set in the city of the Bronx, New York during the sixties. The film follows a young Italian boy named Calogero growing up next to a mobster hangout. After witnessing a killing done by the gang, Calogero becomes a part of the crew. The head mobster named Sonny took Calogero under his wing and taught him to work for his money giving him little task to do around the bar. Sonny saw what Calogero had and knew he would do great things as he grew older. Sonny saw the talent in Calogero and gave him everything he needed to improve it, to make him a great person...
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...Fairy tales, whether written or visual are used as a medium to teach children morals, life lessons and social etiquette. From interpretations, a fairy tale can be defined as a story that has fictitious and folklore characters which displays the message for every action there is a reaction whether it be positive or negative. These fictitious characters influence children and help them to understand the messages so that children can be socially accepted (Hohr). The origins of fairy tales can not be narrowed to a specific time line but they were once old wives tales which were passed on from generation to generation which writers have modified to become or claimed as their own. Although fairy tales are useful to teach children morals fairy tales are inappropriate for children because of the psychological effects, presentation of the content and morals. This has given reasons for the modifications of fairy tales although these modifications are believed to be better both traditional and modern fairy tales are in somewhat way unsuitable for children. The early versions of fairy tales are not filled with the sanctified, altruistic images seen today but are filled with gory and sadistic images. In an attempt to understand these reasons for modifications of fairy tales we must understand the journey which the traditional writers took. Thomas O'Neil senior writer at the National Geographic and Maria Tartar the chair for program in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University both go...
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...The 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 are...
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...Fairy Tales Fairy tales are stories either created or strongly influenced by oral traditions. Their plots feature conflicts between good and evil, with magic and luck determining the usually happy endings. Universal human emotions such as love, hate, courage, kindness, and cruelty appear in bold, broad strokes on the canvas of fairy tales. Fairy tale and modern fantasy stories project other worlds; but they also pay attention to moral values of character and virtue. By portraying wonderful and frightening worlds in which ugly beasts are transformed into princes and evil persons are turned to stones, fairy tales remind us of moral truths whose ultimate claims to normativity we would not think of questioning. Fairy tales capture the meaning of morality through vivid depictions of struggles between good and evil where characters must make difficult choices between right and wrong. One of George MacDonald’s works, The Light Princess, portrays a story of unconditional love and sacrifice. MacDonald entertains us with the tale of a bewitched princess who loses her gravity. Weightless and thoughtless, she floats above palace life, unable to love or grieve. While swimming in the palace lake, she discovers that the spell no longer has a hold on her. There a noble prince discovers her and has fallen in love with the princess, but the princess only cares about jumping into the lake with the prince. When the king’s evil sister learns that the princess is happy in the water...
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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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...Pourquoi tale: stories from around the world that explain how something came to be Ex: The Lizard's tail, Why the Frog Croaks in Wet Whether, The Gossiping Clams Folktale: traditional fictional stories around the world. Ex: Hansel and Gretel, Godmother Death, Aslaug the Deep Minded, Anansi and the Sky God's stories Legend: stories about people, events, or places that may be based in fact, but are usually fictional Ex: George Washington and the Cherry Tree, King Arthur, St. Brigid's Cloak. Myth: stories about gods, heroes, and creation Ex: The Hungry Goddess, Who is the Greatest Warrior? The Story of Arachne. Hero tale: Myths or folktales that tell of the remarkable deeds of a hero Ex: Perseus and Medusa, The Devil's three Gold Hair....
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...He uses the same topic in all of his sermons, “Radix malorum est cupiditas (‘Avarice is the root of Evil’)” (Bloom 91). He chooses this particular subject matter to focus on because he realizes that many people, including himself, are guilty of this. Laura Lambdin supports this by stating, “Thus the Pardoner’s interest is focused not on the spiritual qualities modern men might most deplore, but on carnal sins. . .” (Lambdin 317). The Pardoner makes others feel guilty, subsequently increasing his profits. Additionally, the Pardoner is extremely inebriated when he is giving the Prologue to his tale, so nothing is held back. This is an example of how sneaky and manipulative the Pardoner really his and how only when he is not in a full state of consciousness will he be honest (Bloom 91). Also, his acknowledgement of his corruptness is further proof that he is aware of how malicious he truly is. Yet, the Pardoner knows that the Church is just as dishonest, so he fits perfectly with his profession (Hallissy 216). After drunkenly confessing to his corrupt practices, he continues on and begins to tell his...
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...The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel written by Margaret Atwood in 1985. It is set in the republic of Gilead which has a highly structured hierarchy and a strict set of rules. The story is narrated by a young handmaid named Offred. Atwood says, “that the novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination.” Which is exactly what the novel serves as when it makes us criticise and reflect on the cracks in our society such as the totalitarian regimes that still reign today, gender inequality and the brutality of people higher up in society. In Gilead there is an obvious totalitarian regime and through the narrative of Offred, Atwood gives us a clear idea of her opinion on that. Offred was once a happily married woman with a daughter but she has now been caught up in the new Gilead totalitarian regime which has taken all that away from her and turned her into a handmaid whose only purpose is to bear children for her commander. The society is so strict that Offred has basically been reduced to a childlike state, she can’t pick what she wears, eats or says, she isn’t allowed basic necessities like moisturiser and she can’t even go to the bathroom unsupervised. The Gilead regime has taken away all of her personal freedom. Societies like these make us reflect on those in our own world such as the situation in North Korea. North Korea is run by a totalitarian regime, it is so strict on the people and they are in a similar situation...
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...Canterbury Tales Webquest & Bookquest 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. Save answers into your Home Directory. Print a copy for your notebooks. - 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? 2. What were the years of his birth and death? 3. Where was he from? 4. What was his “masterpiece”? http://www.bartleby.com/65/ch/Chaucer.html 2. What is a pilgrimage? (You should already know this from our vocab. quiz.) 3. Define prologue. http://www.webster.com (or other dictionary site) 4. Where is Canterbury? What famous event happened there? What are the goals of the many people who travel there on pilgrimages? http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Canterbury,-England http://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/history/history.aspx 5. When were The Canterbury Tales written? In what language were they written? • What are they about? • What is a frame tale? ...
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...Through the Prioress and her tale Chaucer shows no love of the Jewish people. First calling them hateful to Christ and sustained by Usury he later tells us that they’ve been corrupted by Satan, whose evil and manipulative ways led Eve to stray from the path and commit the Original Sin. “Oure firste foo, the serpent Sathanas, / That haht in Jewes herte his waspes nest,” (Prioress’s Tale, 558-559). Following that up by telling us that to do so Satan had placed a wasp’s nests of his own evil in the heart of the Jews. The same evil he had placed in Judas’ heart to get him to betray Jesus to the Romans. The rest of this stanza is used by Chaucer to let the Prioress describe how Satan rallies the Jews of this ghetto in Asia to commit violence upon the small child. In line 560 The Devil appears to the Jews and speaks to them “Up swal and seid, ‘O Hebraik pepele, allas!” (Prioress’s Tale 560). By using Hebraik to describe the Jewish people Chaucer is implying that they have “crossed over from one mindset or place to another” (Hebrew People, About Us II)....
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...Introduction The Canterbury Tales Introduction Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne, And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open eye(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages); Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes; And specially from every shires ende Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende, The hooly blisful martir for to seke That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seeke. Bifil that in that seson, on a day, In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay When in April the sweet showers fall That pierce March's drought to the root and all And bathed every vein in liquor that has power To generate therein and sire the flower; When Zephyr also has with his sweet breath, Filled again, in every holt and heath, The tender shoots and leaves, and the young sun His half-course in the sign of the Ram has run, And many little birds make melody That sleep through all the night with open eye (So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage) Then folk do long to go on pilgrimage, And palmers to go seeking out strange strands, To distant shrines well known in distant lands. And specially from every shire's end...
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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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