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- 2681: The Fabliaux
- ... involve incredible degrees of gullibility in the victims and of ingenuity and sexual appetite in the trickster-heroes and -heroines. (The Riverside Chaucer, p. 7.) The fabliaux was, until Chaucer's time, a genre of French literature, in which it flourished in the thirteenth century. One of the minor problems about Chaucer's fabliaux is why he turned to a genre that had, in effect, been dead for a hundred years ...
- 2682: Exploration of Themes in The Song of Roland
- ... are damaging the walls like "Cordova's taken, the outer walls are pierced, his catapults have cast the towers down sheer"(54). There are also deaths that occur during a war like "At this the French lay on the lustier, hard are their strokes, the fight is very fierce, and for the Christians the losses are severe"(116) and the loss of friends, "Methinks I've not one friend left under ...
- 2683: The Importance of Gender Conflicts Literature to Society Past and Present
- ... society, women were not permitted to own property, were discouraged from seeking higher education and were relegated to home and hearth. Men were hunter and women were gatherers. World War II and the subsequent Industrial Revolution put women into the American workforce, not only in large numbers, but also for the first time in American history, in jobs that were traditionally male dominated positions. The war effort actively recruited the women ...
- 2684: What Time Is It
- ... after the “General Time Convention”, the Railroad Standard Timewent into effect. This exhibit has preserved the electrical clocks, as wellas their spring and weight driven predecessors. The exhibit also indirectlyaddresses the concepts of the industrial revolution. While the exhibit wasinformative, it was not lacking in its downfalls. Organization and researchare two areas in need of refinement. Otherwise, the site is trulyinformative. Upon ascending to the highest floor of the Annex building ...
- 2685: The Entomology Of A Word
- ... the supplement to the OED, "computer" is now defined as a calculating machine; an automatic electronic device for performing mathematical or logical operation. The word "computer" stems from the verb "compute" which came from the French comput-r and the Latin computa-re. It was formed by adding com - together and putare - to clear up, settle, reckon. Together, "compute" means to estimate or determine by arithmetical or mathematical reckoning; to calculate ...
- 2686: The American Dream
- ... does not work in our society, why do so many people believe in this Dream? The reason, from my own observations, can be justified by the existence of capitalism. From the beginnings of the industrial revolution in the United States and the idea that this country was the “land of opportunity,” immigrants from every corner of the world came here in hopes of brighter futures and opportunities. The rapidly growing population ...
- 2687: English Is A Crazy Language...
- ... Crazy Language... Let's face it -- English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are ...
- 2688: History of English Language
- ... the English underclass cooked for the Norman upper class, the words for most domestic animals are English like ox, cow, calf, sheep, swine, and deer. Also the words for the meats derived from them are French like beef, veal, mutton, pork, bacon, and venison. It wasn't till the 14th Century that English became dominant in Britain again. By the end of the 14th Century, the dialect of London became the ...
- 2689: Ezra Pound, Imagism, and the Influence of the Orient
- ... p.219). Pound insisted that the poem must present to the reader an active image, not a mere description of events or setting. Pound’s model for his directness was the prose of nineteenth century French authors such as Flaubert and DeMaupassant (Hakatuni p.48-49). The second tenet of Imagism is to “use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation” of the image in question. Pound elaborates ...
- 2690: Prized Possessions
- ... has its origins in the orient, the headlights give the impression that is was born in Bavaria. A trio of precious rocks is the birthmark of my possession. My possessions birth name comes from the French word for diamond. The tinted windows prevent envious onlookers from glancing in at the exquisite interior that could only be compared to the Palace at Versailles. Supple brown leather encompasses the cabin and provides the ...
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