The greatest French epic and a landmark of medieval literature‚ The Song of Roland‚ is the earliest existing example of the song of deeds. It created an enormously popular genre in Europe in the middle ages and after. In its celebration of heroic deeds and feudal chivalric ideals‚ The Song of Roland reveals much about the culture of which it is a product‚ is invaluable to historians in its depiction of the evolution of ethics and Christianity‚ and is prized for its literary merit and beauty. Written
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Jon Ryan Professor Orona-Cordova Chicano Studies 115 17 September 2012 Expository Essay #1 Throughout the course of his novel Barrio Boy‚ Ernesto Galarza does a superb job of capturing the many intricacies and emotions that were associated with his culture during the time period in which he lived. Galarza’s story encompasses his own personal experiences as well the condition of his surrounding environments and neighbors. Galarza also goes in depth about the terrain and location of
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"A Little GIRL Lost" from Songs of Experience is one of Blake’s most important poems. Though judging the aesthetic value of a poem is nearly impossible‚ I would contend that "A Little Girl Lost" is "better" than "The Little Girl Lost" found in Songs of Innocence. Perhaps because "A Little Girl Lost" was composed as an afterthought to its original counterpart‚ having been first written in "Innocence‚" it acts as a conclusion to the original
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Because Blake addresses the theme of generation most directly and fully in his illuminated books‚ it is important to consider here the principles guiding the interpretation of his art. Blake’s illustrations for The Divine Comedy are particularly revealing of Blake’s view of his own art‚ revealing how for him art and text were at all times part of a continuous whole. Several of Blake’s less finished illustrations for Dante’s epic have text written within and around them never intended for inclusion
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English Essay –”My Mother and her Sister” Losing a sister or a parent is very difficult to come to terms with‚ and death itself may even put your own life in perspective. It can make people wonder if what they have done with their lives is what they wanted to do. Did they live their lives fully‚ did they go the places they wanted to go‚ see the things they wanted to see? In the text “My mother and her sister” by Jane Rogers‚ the narrator has just lost her mother‚ and although her aunt Lucy
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One day a man named Bill was stranded on an island. It all started when he was taking a cruise to get his mind off work. “Boy is I tired‚” said bill. One night Bill was watching the game with his friends and mistakenly got drunk. Bill fell out not knowing that he was at the edge of the boat‚ Madison’s Grand Transportation‚ and fell over. Bill knocked his self out on the safety boat that was located on the left hand side of‚ Madison’s Grand Transportation‚ and broke the rope that the safety boat
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Once upon a time there lived a group of friends. They were in middle school. Some were related others not really. They names are Caela‚ Tanay‚ Daniel‚ Nazja‚ and Celesse. Celesse and Tanay were like the best of friends and still are. Caela and Tanay are best friends. Daniel and Nazja aren’t really good friends but they don’t argue like they hate each other. Now they are all in middle school and the see each other from time to time. At other times Nazja doesn’t see them because she’s in the sixth
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The book starts off with the main character Jamie Macnair‚ he was a teenager from Toronto. Jamie’s uncle Angus Macnair eventually talks him into coming to his cottage at Macnair Lake near The Pas. It didn’t take long for Jamie to make friends. His best friend was Awasin‚ a boy form a Cree tribe. One day the Chipeweyans came form north to ask the Cree’s for ammunition. In exchange the boys were invited to the great deer hunt in the north "barren lands". As they made there way north they noticed that
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Lost Sparrow is a film created by Chris Billing where he looks into a family tragedy that cost the life of his two adopted brothers. In investigating this he unearths more that he could have ever bargained for‚ with results he struggles to live with to this day when he learned that his father sexually molested his adopted sister Lana. Throughout the film he drags the family’s skeletons out of the closet and documents the aftermath of doing so. As the film began‚ most of what I experienced was confusion
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write an essay about a song of significance to me‚ I thought to myself‚ “This is going to be an easy grade”. But because of my love for music of all kinds‚ I found that the choice of which song to write about was even harder than I imagined. After a few days of contemplation and battling with what I felt would be most appropriate for my English professor to read‚ I decided to write about a song called “Making Memories of Us” by Keith Urban. I fell in love with this song for its beautiful‚ smooth
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