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    438 Chapter 23 Comparison and Contrast: Showing Similarities and Differences Chapter 23 Comparison and Contrast Showing Similarities and Differences Writing Writing Comparison and Contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . 439 Finding Patterns in Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445 Practicing Patterns of Comparison and Contrast . . . 445 Readings for Critical Thinking‚ Discussion‚ and Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447 Suggested Topics and Prompts for

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    When asked to compare Geoffrey Chaucer’s "Wife of Bath" character with either Madonna‚ Oprah‚ or Hilary Clinton‚ it’s obvious that Madonna stands out as almost a duplicate of her. Everything about the two could be lined up side by side‚ and we wouldn’t be able to guess which is which. Although the rights‚ power‚ and even image of women has changed over the years‚ we will always have the bold ones that stand out in any era. What do the Wife of Bath and Madonna have in common? In short‚ both

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    Compare-Contrast This paper is on compare-contrast of two advertisements dealing with two beauty products. One will be targeted towards men‚ while the other will be targeted towards women. The two beauty products advertisements that will be compared and contrast are the Axe Body Spray advertisement (18-19) and the Victoria’s Secret fragrance mist advertisement (Bath and Body Works). Both advertisements use different marketing promotions technique to try to get the attention and win over their

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    Compare and Contrast Essay There are many similarities and differences between the characters Joby from “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” and Patsy from “The Finish of Patsy Barnes”. In this essay‚ I will briefly explain what happened in these two interesting tales and then compare both stories. The first story I’m comparing is “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” and it is about a young drummer boy named Joby (around 14 years old) who is camping with soldiers in a field near to Shiloh. He is afraid of marching

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    Seamus Heaney employs a great number of poetic devices in order to explore the theme of women in his poem “The Wife’s Tale”. The free-verse piece features in Heaney’s 1969 collection “A Door into the Dark”‚ is non-rhyming‚ and is divided into four stanzas of seven‚ twelve‚ seven and nine lines respectively. The varying length of verse adds a quirky‚ idiosyncratic feel and helps to create different levels of focus on the contents of each section. Dealing with Heaney’s perspective on the role of a

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    These days‚ both men and women have equal power‚ but in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales‚ one noble knight was forced to learn about submission to a woman the arduous way in The Wife of Bath’s Tale of the frame story. In The Wife of Bath’s Tale‚ a noble knight is deprived of the power he had‚ therefore he is enforced to answer in a year what a woman most desires unless he wishes to die as punishment for his deplorable crimes of rape of a noble woman; As he goes around the village for answers‚ numerous

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    struggle‚ and despair‚ during which time literature was beginning to experience a renaissance. Emerging from this renaissance were works such as The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ and The Decameron by Boccaccio. These collections of stories shared common themes and devices‚ which exemplified the mindset of the time period. “The Wife of Bath’s Tale‚” from Chaucer‚ and “Federigo’s Falcon‚” from Boccaccio‚ both deal with themes of love and sacrifice‚ and allegorically state that love leads to the surrendering

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    die. One of the seven virtues of chivalry is generosity. What is the significance of generosity? Without generosity how would people act? The Canterbury Tales displays life without generosity through the church. The author displays his dislike and the dishonesty of the church through the characters he makes. The Wife of Bath’s tale is about a knight who wrongs women‚ he later shows his chivalry and generosity towards the end when he learns his lesson. "At last he said with all the care in

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    Canterbury Tale and Wife of Bath’s Tale‚ Geoffrey Chaucer utilizes indirect and direct methods of characterization to reveal many of the pilgrims who were associated in both poems to further explain his social commentary. When Chaucer uses direct characterization in his poems he clearly tells the reader what were some of the personality that a character has‚ but when using indirect characterization he allows us as the reader to form our own opinions of the character. Such as The Wife of Bath’s Tale‚ which

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    works. This can be seen when one compares two works from two different time periods. With the various representations of love shown through Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The

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