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    achievements‚ or noble qualities. Everybody’s perception of a hero is different‚ when asked‚ some might suggest a superhero that wears capes and solves crimes. Others might think of a soldier who fights for their country. In the book Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease‚ fourteen year-old Cumberland man Peter Brownrigg‚ is the protagonist. His perseverance‚ allegiance‚ and compassionate personality traits exemplify his heroism. Peter’s perseverance throughout the book led him to defeat Sir Phillip Morton

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    Fall 2013 Paper Number 1: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales-The Wife of Bath The Wife of Bath is a character that Chaucer presents as an attractive female in its prologue. She is a headstrong and very self-confident woman of her time who thinks highly of herself. Chaucer’s descriptions of her facial and bodily features are sexually suggestive. In the Prologue‚ Chaucer’s narrative involves her physical appearance describing her clothes‚ legs‚ feet‚ hips‚ and her gap-tooth

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    In Geoffrey Chaucer’s‚ The Canterbury Tales‚ he writes about how the characters act and what impacts their marriage has on them. Chaucer discusses the good‚ sad‚ and bad times of marriage that many may go through with their partner. While reading the General Prologue and The Wife of Bath’s Tale‚ I realized that Chaucer believed marriage should be about love over wealth and power. Chaucer believed that if the husband and wife wanted and happy and healthy relationship that they should never cheat

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    Often‚ figures may seem ahead of their times‚ yet further analysis reveals that the appearance of being revolutionary is a charade. “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer tells the story of a group of characters who go on a pilgrimage during the Middle Ages. Pilgrimages lead to either a shrine or a holy place‚ and in this story‚ the pilgrimage leads to Canterbury. In the tale‚ one of the characters on the pilgrimage‚ the Wife of Bath‚ has sparked a debate among people about whether Chaucer addresses

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    CP English 12 Assignments (Page numbers refer to The Language of Literature textbook unless otherwise noted.) UNIT 1 EPIC HEROES AND ORDINARY PEOPLE: THE ANGLO-SAXON AND MEDIEVAL PERIODS Week 1 Anglo-Saxon Beginnings: Beowulf During the Anglo-Saxon period from 449-1066‚ epic poetry was the dominant genre. These early years were ones of turmoil and change‚ and storytellers responded by celebrating heroic warriors who prevailed in battle. Tests of courage not only made for exciting stories

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    Wealth Wealth‚ money‚ gold‚ property‚ possession‚ prosperity‚ treasure‚ luxuriance… You probably heard these words millions of times in your life time‚ but have you considered what they actually mean? What is their meaning to you? What is the value they hold in the world? How are they seen in our everyday life? There are thousands of questions that can be asked about this one aspect of life. The question I want to discuss in this paper differs from all the typical ones. My question is: “How did

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    The Canterbury Tales‚ a collection of tales by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ was written in Middle English at the end of the 14th century (Encyclopaedia Britannica‚ 2011). It is considered to be the best work of literature in English in the Middle Ages (Johnston‚ 1998). Chaucer uses literary devices as no one had ever done. In addition‚ he chose to use English instead of Latin. This masterpiece is structured in a similar way as Bocaccio’s Decameron. The tales are organized within a frame narrative (Encyclopaedia

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    In the article “Artificial Stupidity” linguist Geoffrey Pullum states his opinions on artificial intelligence and how his every day interactions with simple technology affect his opinions on this. He starts his article by reciting a log of the redundancies of specific user-interfaces that he encounters throughout a five day period. Most of these interactions are with simple appliances such as a projector giving a notification that it will go to standby mode in “one minutes” or a self-checkout machine

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    God Transcended Though Death and the Old Man For my investigation and more in-depth analysis of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales‚ I decided to follow one of my comments in class down the proverbial rabbit hole and see what I could come up with. At the time my thoughts were diluted and abrupt‚ unable to effectively construct a substantial argument or criticism of why I thought my idea‚ the Old Man as a symbol of death‚ had any validity to it. After completing the course‚ many more aspects about the

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    WHEN PIGS FLY!!! Throughout the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ participants of the pilgrimage tell stories to entertain one another. These stories‚ while amusing‚ tend to have an underlying message‚ one being the Franklin’s Tale. The Franklin’s Tale is the most moral tale that has been read. It is not told to make the other pilgrims laugh‚ rather to explain an extremely important lesson. Throughout life‚ people say many things that are meant to be taken with a grain of

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