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- 3041: The Pardoners Tale
- The Pardoner s Greed The pardoner, in Geoffrey Chaucer s The Pardoner s Tale, is a devious character. He is a man with a great knowledge of the Catholic Church and a great love of God. However, despite the fact that he is someone whom is looked at with respect at the time, the pardoner is nothing more than an imposter who makes his living by fooling people ... sign of sympathy or remorse towards his acts upon those whom he cheats. This is one of the many greedy tricks that the pardoner performs to fool and steal from the people. Besides being a great storyteller and speaker, the pardoner is also a wonderful actor, complete with convincing props to deceive the congregation with. He preaches and tells the people about the power of his relics, which in fact ...
- 3042: The Red Badge Of Courage
- ... this tragic conflict the War Between the States, the War of the Rebellion, the War of the Secession, or the War for southern Independence. But regardless of what it is called, the war was a great turning point in American history. What is so interesting about Crane's Red Badge of Courage? I found out that war turns boys into mature men, the real dialect and slang used during the war ... their own slang and dialect that is similar. I know how the soldiers talked and acted because from the author's technique of writing. This is the first paragraph of the book. It is a great introduction of the novel to show how the author writes descriptively and how he can create a mental picture in the mind: The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an ... and poor living circumstances. Now, it might seem that a soldier's life is dreadful and all, but they do have their good times. Like when they receive their letters from home or after a great victory when they celebrate. The life in the camps is not the worst part of being a soldier. Obviously the horrifying and violent battles are the worst part of being a soldier. As a ...
- 3043: The Hound Of Baskerville
- ... the late eighteen hundreds early ninteen hundreds. The beginning of the story is based in London, England, while the rest is based in Devonshire, and Coombe Tracy England. The setting in this story had a great effect on the characters, and their actions. One feature is when they were in Devonshire a fair amount of the setting was when the characters were on the moor(which is a marshy, light soiled ... path you must take in order to get through it. 3.Sherlock holmes and Dr. Watson were the main characters in The Hound of the Baskervilles. Sherlock Holmes is a brilliant english detective. He pays great attention to the slightest detail. He is a tall, slightly athletic man who smokes a pipe. He will do anything to solve a case. He can change cases and focus intently from one to another quickly showing his great ability to brain storm about subjects. Dr. Watson is an inch or two shorter than sherlock, and a little bit less in shape than him, he as well smokes tobacco but in a ciggarette ...
- 3044: Oedipus The Irony
- ... he will go easy on the man who will turn himself in for the murder of Laius. But, ironically the punishment that he gives himself is far worse than anyone else would have received. This great play is filled with many cynical parts throughout. But the irony is what makes this play such genius. When Laius got his Oracle of Apollo from Delphi (that his son would kill him and marry ... terrorizing the people of the city. As his reward, Oedipus went on to become King of Thebes and marry Jocasta widow of Laius. Thus fulfilling the second part of the Oracle of Apollo. Then a great plague swept the city. Oedipus learned from Creon (Jocasta brother, Oedipus uncle) that the only way that the plague would end if Laius murder was found, "Creon: Banish the man, or pay back blood with ... me"(Oedipus the King, 254-256). Then he calls for Lord Tiresias, who is a prophet of Apollo. Tiresias does not want to tell the Oedipus the truth, because he knows that it will cause great disturbance in the kingdom. But Oedipus insists that Tiresias tell what he knows. "Tiresias: I say you are the murderer you hunt"(Oedipus the King, 413). Ironically in calling out for the murderer of ...
- 3045: The Oddysey
- ... he will give him a safe passage home to Ithaca. Odysseus is not surprisingly grateful and hopes that Alcinous and his people and island are blessed by the gods. The king then gave Odysseus a great black ship with a crew and more treasure then he could have ever gotten from Troy. The men sail Odysseus and his treasure home to Ithaca. When they arrive at Ithaca, they place Odysseus on ... ship is just outside the reach of their harbor on the journey home Poseidon sends the ship crashing into the rocks. Alcinous then speaks of a prophecy that his father told him of-that the great god Poseidon would punish them, crash one of their ships, and raise a mountain blocking their harbor. Back on the island of Ithaca Odysseus awoke. He awoke to meet Athena disguised as a shepherd boy ... More imagery present was when Odysseus departed from Alcinous' island and he looked at the ship which would carry him home. It showed that Odysseus had a yearning for the sea and was amazed by great ships. Ithaca was also presented as beautiful imagery. By doing this, Homer shows how much Odysseus loved his homeland and how beautiful it really was. The imagery of Athena's eyes was also repeated ...
- 3046: The Odyssey 2
- ... rallied against him and he must flee with many casualties. After- wards Odysseus and his crew land on the island of the Cyclops. They are attacked and some are eaten by Polyphemus. After intoxicating the great Cyclops, Odysseus and his men blind the monster with a heated spear. The men could have made an escape without incident but Odysseus mocked Polyphemus and shouted out his real name, when before Odysseus had ... keep them from their home of Ithaca. Odysseus and his crew were in sight of the homeland they had waited so long to see, when a band of rebel crewmen opened the bag creating a great gale that blew them back to Aeolus. When Aeolus saw this he believed that Odysseus was cursed and banished him from the island. This is not the only time Odysseus was betrayed by his men and suffered a great price. When they landed on the island of Hyperion, bad winds prevented them from leaving. Food soon became low; and when Odysseus fell asleep, the crew killed the cows of Hyperion against numerous warnings. ...
- 3047: Descartes
- ... Meditation Two, Descartes hits upon the indubitable principle he has been seeking. He exists, at least when he thinks he exists. The cogito (Descartes' proof of his own existence) has been the source of a great deal of discussion ever since Descartes first formulated it in the 1637 Discourse on Method, and, I believe, a great deal of misinterpretation (quite possibly as a result of Descartes' repeated contradictions of his own position in subsequent writings). Many commentators have fallen prey to the tempting interpretation of the cogito as either syllogism or ... is not a little - is the knowledge of our own existence each time we assert it. But Descartes' project should not be judged by us as a failure - the fact that he addressed topics of great and lasting interest, and provided us with a method we can both understand and utilise fruitfully, speaks for itself. Bibliography 1. Descartes, Ren_ A Discourse on Method, Meditations and Principles of Philosophy trans. John ...
- 3048: Book Review: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars.
- ... character and behavior of social groups we identify as races. Despite its history of oppression and genocide, the scientific defense of racial inequality demonstrates a disturbing persistence. Murphy Ballens study of scientific racism in Great Britain and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s appropriately deals not with its demise but with its retreat. Making extensive use of private correspondence, Ballen relates leading scientists' published research to their personal ... African Americans until the Nazis exposed the evils of biological determinism (p.92) Secondly, despite Ballen's openness to an internalist explanation, ultimately politics held the key. The historical circumstances of the 1930s, principally the depression which made nonsense of any claim that the unemployed owed their jobless status to their head shape or genes, and the unmitigated evil of Nazi science swung the balance in favor of environmental explanations (p ...
- 3049: The Chrysanthemums 2
- ... is whether one should settle for security and comfort, or risk one s dreams in an attempt to live more completely and intensely. The retreat from action at the conclusion suggests that the risks are great, but there is a possibility that Elisa might not be permanently beaten by her pain. In this story Steinbeck focuses more closely on character than on surroundings, though that is not to say that the ... masculine and the feminine. Elisa generally wears bland, baggy clothes that tend to de-gender her. Her husband Henry is more practical, with greater involvement in physical concern; but is confronted by a woman whose depression is partially due to a confusion of sexual identity. Henry withdraws from the masculine role of leadership, leaving Elisa to flounder between aggression and submission. Here Steinbeck offers no solution for the psychological conflicts that ...
- 3050: Women As Leaders
- ... staggering rate. In the corporate sector, the generation of women who entered the corporate world two to three decades ago have blazed the trail now followed by ever-growing numbers of women (Shaiko, 1997). The great strides women are making in the work force can be attributed to numerous factors including the: "passage of equal employment opportunity legislation's, modifications in job requirements, more females on the buying side, elevated educational ... leadership roles in family organizations have increased (Brody, 1994]. Many young women are refusing to accept the rule of "primogeniture" (Nelton, 1999). Primogeniture is defined as a birthright or an inheritance. Although women are making great strides in this arena, there is still the feeling out there that the son should be considered first and the daughter as a second option, only if there is no son or if the son ... if you cannot prove that you are also profit-driven, you will never make it to the successor level. The Battle of the Sexes There are many characteristics that women inherently possess that make them great leaders. Women tend to handle juggling many tasks at the same time better than men do. Because women have traditionally been the primary caregiver in the home as well as taking care of the ...
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