Context The Canterbury Tales is the most famous and critically acclaimed work of Geoffrey Chaucer‚ a late-fourteenth-century English poet. Little is known about Chaucer’s personal life‚ and even less about his education‚ but a number of existing records document his professional life. Chaucer was born in London in the early 1340s‚ the only son in his family. Chaucer’s father‚ originally a property-owning wine merchant‚ became tremendously wealthy when he inherited the property of relatives who had
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One summer night‚ July 20‚ 2012‚ a gathering of joyful people pile into a Century 16 movie theater in Aurora‚ Colorado‚ waiting in anticipation to watch the midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises. Half-an-hour into to the movie‚ an intense gun-fighting scene comes onto the screen‚ and a man dressed in tactical clothing walks in front. Smoke starts to rise and spread through the theater. The audience members soon have burning eyes and itching throats. For the slightest moment for some
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In the tale “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”‚ an unusual story is presented. This story is how Sir Gawain accepted the challenge of a stranger and resulting in partaking in a quest that would ultimately prove his character as a knight. However‚ this quest was so custom tailored for Sir Gawain’s personal pitfalls and strength that it was‚ in fact‚ only intended for him. While the Green Knight’s game was offered all of the knights in King Arthur’s court‚ Sir Gawain was the only one whom was fitting
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a poem that was written in medieval times by an anonymous poet known as “the pearl poet”. This is an epic poem that tells a story of a hero going on a quest for his king. It focuses on the code of chivalry and courtly love displayed by the knight. The ideals of chivalry come from the concept of christian morality‚and courtly love a highly stylized code of conduct between lover. This poem exhibits these medieval virtues and many other themes using symbolism‚ parallelism
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Throughout The Handmaid’s Tale‚ and Little Women‚ Margaret Atwood and Gillian Armstrong respectively present the struggle women face to establish identities within patriarchal societies. Both authors explore this cause by setting their texts in a society where men are empowered and women potentially disempowered. Where Atwood creates a destructive patriarchy through a futuristic dystopia that strips women of individuality‚ Armstrong contrastingly explores the idea that women can create an identity
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Business controlled assessment To investigate the marketing strategies adopted by a number of locally owned businesses and those of a large limited company. Im going to be investigating the various different marketing strategies used by two local businesses and a large limited company. To do this I will be using secondary research which is information that has already been found‚ and I will be using primary research‚ which is information that I have found myself. Background research Berkshire
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The poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th century Middle English alliterative romance. It explores the notion of temptation through the quest of a hero. It presents this quest as a game between the green knight and Sir Gawain and involves numerous sets of laws and codes of chivalry that need to be adhered to. The question of whether Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a poem that is a social critique of medieval society or a challenge to personal morality and virtue causes much debate
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During the Medieval age‚ Western Europe started following a loosely organized system called the Feudal System. Feudalism was a system of politics in which powerful lords granted the use of land and promised protection to the people who lived on the land in exchange for the vassal’s loyalty and military service. The lords and Vassals were tied with a pledge known as the feudal contract. Vassals made peasants or "serfs" work in the manor and pay a certain amount of payment in the exchange of the peasant
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Jiggy Patel COMM3321: Critical Reading & Writing Section 103 Janet Bertsch “Why so serious?” Is the catch phrase that Joker uses from the movie The Dark Knight. (Nolan‚ 2008) The scene that is being analyzed is when the Joker crashes Harvey Dent fundraiser party and is looking for Harvey Dent. Prior to the scene‚ Harvey Dent is the District Attorney of Gotham City and was responsible for locking up half the mob in a single day. The Joker main goal was to wreak chaos in Gotham City and wanted
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How did the governments in ancient times maintain order in society? Over 1000 years ago two societies on opposite sides of the globe adopted a system called Feudalism to maintain order. In both places warriors defended the land of wealthy landowners. In Europe the warriors were called Knights‚ and in Japan they were known as Samurais. Does this make Knights and Samurais the same? After reading the DBQ is clear that Samurai and Knights have more differences than similarities. For example‚ some major
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