An exemplum is a tale that teaches a moral lesson by an example. The Canterbury Tales displays exempla in “The Prologue‚” “The Pardoner’s Tale‚” and “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” by using each character to teach a moral lesson to the audience. “The Prologue” shows the audience that some people are different from their appearances‚ “The Pardoner’s Tale” teaches the audience that greed is the root of all evil‚ and “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” teaches the audience the true nature of women. “The Prologue”
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Accepting Fat In the article “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance‚” author Mary Ray Worley advocates that happiness can be found regardless of weight. Worley claims that it is possible to be happy with one’s body even if it they are overweight. In her article‚ Worley discusses how she attended the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance annual convention. She describes how overweight people at the convention began to feel comfortable with their size. According to Worley‚ the convention
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Before Barack Obama became The President of The United States‚ they had at health care system that could make you sick! Even if you had an insurance‚ you sometimes could not get help when needed. If you went to the wrong hospital‚ If you were to fat‚ to slim‚ to young or to old‚ the insurance would not pay for you treatment! Because in USA you health care is private‚ and you have to pay yourself. They even treated the Al-Qaeda on the Guantanamo base in Cuba‚ better then they treated their hero’s
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My Preference of The Doctor’s Tale The tale that I selected to read was the astronomy practicing Physician. This story of love‚ in hatred and bigotry was extremely interesting to read however‚ on the same note the wording was tremendously derived in Middle English tone which made a few sections difficult to understand and comprehend. The non-bible reading doctor’s tale is interesting from beginning to end‚ he paints a vivid picture of all his characters and there attributes using immense direct
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people’s’ names that are dating. Most ship names are made up for celebrities such as Kimye (Kim Kardashian and Kanye West). But what people do not know is that ship names are actually devised by the ship fairy. The ship fairy is a magical creature that puts the ship names in people’s heads. The ship fairy carries a talisman‚ she is a white girl‚ and her magic runs off of people wanting to create a ship name for a couple. The ship fairy’s talisman is her cell phone. She uses the cell phone to send the
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Susie Orbach’s stance on the rising American issue on obesity within her essay “Fat Is a Feminist Issue” can be similarly related to David Zinczenko’s stance in his essay “Don’t Blame the Eater.” In fact‚ she claims just that when writing‚ “A feminist perspective to the problem of women’s compulsive eating is essential if we are to move on from the ineffective blame-the-victim approach” (Orbach 448). In this quote she blatantly informs the reader that blaming the eater is not the correct approach
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Hunter‚ Aaron ENGWR 100 1030-1150 9/26/2011 “Fat People Have Fat Kids” If you live in America‚ chances are either you or one of your parents or one of your siblings is considered obese. If it is one of your parents then you have a 50% chance of being classified as obese. If it is both of your parents that are overweight then your likelihood of being considered obese increases to 80% (www.aacap.org). What makes those numbers so much higher in America compared to the rest of the world?
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It is also known for a particular guild‚ the strongest magic guild called Fairy Tail. Fairy Tail is known to have the strongest mages who live there. Usually those mages take request and go on jobs to earn money as a living‚ but lately there hasn’t been any good jobs worth to earn an average amount of money. Two specific members of the guild were looking for jobs to at least to get some food‚ and those two are named Fairy Tail Guild sketch for the new version of their guild since it was destroyed
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In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales‚ each character tells their tales based on their experiences or beliefs. Although they may all be different‚ some stories do share similarities. As we see in the knight’s tale he shares a story full of chivalry‚ passion and courage. Since those are his beliefs and what he stood for it makes sense why he choose to tell a story with these qualities. As for the Wife of Bath‚ she too tells a story of a soon to be knight who is arrogant‚ superficial and vein but
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The Knight’s Tale‚ the story of two knights that fight for the love of a woman they do not know‚ and The Miller’s Tales‚ the story of three men trying to win the heart of one woman‚ are two tales that share similar story lines and themes that include courtly love and chivalry. The themes in the two tales at times seem to be very satirical throughout the stories‚ especially The Miller’s Tale; however‚ the presentations of the satirical themes in each story have a different approach from one another
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