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- 5361: Chaucerian Moral and Social Commentary in the Canterbury Tales
- ... the medieval people official life meant fear, humiliation, submission to the whims of those in power, the carnival spirit, in reaction, cultivated the misshapen and incongruous, combining images of birth and life with images of death, disfigurement or dismemberment. (Howard, 1)” By nature the Canterbury tales are embedded in a theoretically religious venture. In the Prologue to the Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer depicts two side of the 14th century Catholic Church in ... told: the Knight is continually anxious about organizing, controlling, structuring, and discipling his own narrative. (Patterson, 7)” “All the tales pursue fault lines of human life, the thin line between nature and grace, life and death, Heaven and Hell. (Brother Anthony, 7)” The aspect of judgment in the Canterbury Tales is complex. Through out the tales and the prologue Chaucer refrains from directly condemning the crudeness and immorality of the Pilgrims ...
- 5362: Analysis Of An Essay On Aborti
- ... the needle (281)” trying to get away from it. He observed that the needle inside the woman’s stomach was moving and believed that to be the fetus fighting against what it instinctively knew as death. These observations, in my eyes, make him a philosopher. He not only thinks about the woman having the abortion but also the fetus that is being aborted. He links the physical act with emotions and ... will not be able to have children at all in the future or she will have complications becoming pregnant because of her weak uterus not being able to hold the baby. This may cause the death of the child as well as her life while having the baby. Maybe it was the way my family raised me when I was a child that causes this to be such a sensitive subject ...
- 5363: The Call of the Wild: Effect of the Environment
- ... order to maintain discipline, the dogs were whipped and beaten until they accomplished many unthinkable tasks. After losing thirty pounds due to starvation, Buck was still expected to fulfill his absurd load of work. Near death, Buck was beaten several times while under the power of Hal and Charlie. With the exception of John and Judge Miller, Buck was not loved by any of his masters. He was to them a ... became harder and harder. The wild side of Buck emerged slowly and was found when he learned to steal when his needs were not satisfied, he learned to hunt and enjoy being free. With the death of John, all of Buck’s ties to humans were broken and Buck was finally able to answer the call of the wild. Buck learned to adapt to his surroundings, his reactions showed that he ...
- 5364: Cry, The Beloved Country: Differences Of The Ruled And The Rulers
- ... did not always get along with his, maverick, son for the reason that his son believed that all blacks were innocent since the white race had caused blacks to resort to violence. After Arthur's death, Mr. Jarvis became more adamant in his views of blacks. He believed that a white person should treat a black person well, except that blacks and whites should stay isolated from each other. The thought of how a black man could murder somebody who was on their side was abstruse to Jarvis. The third portion of the book shows that the death of ones loved one can make a person do anything, even come to a reconciliation with a completely different race which white people had previously abased. Both fathers have suffered a tremendous lost of their ...
- 5365: The Tobacco Industry: Liable F
- The Tobacco Industry: Liable for it's Consumers? Should the tobacco industry be held liable for illness and death caused by smoking? Currently, the Federal government is looking into this in numerous court cases, scientific studies, and a never-ending battle between national health, and the big tobacco giants. But to make an educated ... would not even bother with the laws and court proceedings or history of the topic. This seems to be the one the masses follow. So should the tobacco industry be held liable for illness and death caused by smoking? Morally, yes. Legally, that's a tough one. But I'll stick to the good ol' politicians, who'll pass any law or bill, no matter how outrageous, to fill their pockets ...
- 5366: The Count of Monte Cristo
- ... d’Orleans who later became the King. This book was probably written in part to expose the injustices done by all during the French Revolution, especially since his family was put into poverty upon the death of his father who was a solder and not a favorite of Napoleon. The main themes in The Count of Monte Cristo are not veiled in any sense. It’s a forthright book; the author ... Count only after he decides that they have suffered sufficiently. This tale of true happiness is a parallel to the Count’s life. He suffered through wrongful imprisonment, losing his girlfriend, and his father’s death. Then, when he got out of jail, his girlfriend was married to one of his enemies. But, the Count learned to love again. He fell in love with Haydee, his ex-slave. His love for ...
- 5367: As I Lie Dying
- ... Faulkner's shortest, and one of his most famous — or infamous — chapters: "My mother is a fish."). Dr. Peabody arrives at the Bundrens' house just in time to watch Addie die. Just after Addie's death a violent storm breaks, and Darl's and Jewel's lumber-laden wagon loses a wheel in a ditch. Meanwhile, young Vardaman drills holes into the coffin lid (so his mother can breathe), and inadvertently ... a morally upright and law-abiding pharmacist rebuffs her. To doctor Cash's broken leg, Anse buys some cement and uses it to place a cast on Cash's leg. Nine days after Addie's death, the Bundrens finally arrive in Jefferson. Anse borrows some shovels from a "duck-shaped" woman to dig her grave, and finally, his promise to her has been fulfilled. Cash is sent to the doctor, and ...
- 5368: A Rhetoric Of Outcasts In The
- ... received by audiences in St. Louis. By 1945 he had completed and opened on Broadway The Glass Menagerie, which won that year's New York Critics Circle, Donaldson, and Sidney Howard Memorial awards. Before his death in 1983, Williams accumulated four New York Drama Critics Awards; three Donaldson Awards; a Tony Award for his 1951 screenplay, The Rose Tattoo; a New York Film Critics Award for the 1953 film screenplay, A ... plays were revived successfully there: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1974), Summer and Smoke (September, 1975), Sweet Bird of Youth (October, 1975), and The Glass Menagerie (December, 1975). On the day of Williams's death, the New York evening papers issued an impressive list of famous actors who have performed in his plays; these include Jessica Tandy, Marlon Brando, Geraldine Page, Paul Newman, Maureen Stapleton, Eli Wallach, Tallulah Bankhead, Burl ...
- 5369: A Review Of Courage Under Fire
- Courage Under Fire In 1991, millions of people tuned in to CNN to observe a real life and death drama played out in the cities and deserts of Iraq. For the United States, the war was more or less a display of power and a preservation of economic interest. Nobody was to ever hear ... himself unavoidably drawn into Walden s crew s conflicting stories. Each crew member seems to give a different interpretation regarding the events that took place during the rescue mission that lead to the captain s death. Serling begins to suspect a cover up and decides that he must delve deeper into this investigation. Throughout the movie, we learn of Walden s heroism from numerous flashbacks of the same incident. Crewmembers including ...
- 5370: A Days Time
- ... In the beginning, a flower and youth are filled with vitality, but in a short amount of time the flower will wilt and die, and the youth will be an adult on a passage to death. The second symbol used by Herrick and Frost is the day: youth is dawn, adulthood is midday, and death is the setting of the sun. From the day man is born, he is dying. In the second stanza, Herrick illustrates the shortness of a day; the higher in the sky the sun gets, the ...
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