To Sir‚ With Love (1967) Engineer Mark Thackeray arrives to teach a totally undisciplined class at an East End school. Still hoping for a good engineering job‚ he’s hopeful that he won’t be there long. He starts implementing his own brand of classroom discipline: forcing the pupils to treat each other with respect. Inevitably he begins getting involved in the students’ personal lives‚ and must avoid the advances of an amorous student while winning over the class tough. What will he decide when
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In The Book of the City of Ladies‚ there are four main characters that all uniquely develop the utopian model of Christine’s "City of Ladies." The first character‚ and most important‚ is Christine de Pizan as herself who connects the real world that she exists in to that of an imaginative world and its city symbolic of phylogeny and the reality of a women’s virtue. In her fantasy world she is ignorant of women’s virtue and talent and asks the three virtues of the validity of male misogyny. These
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“Art for Heart’s Sake” “Art for Heart’s Sake” is a short story written by Reuben Lucius “Rube” Goldberg‚ an American cartoonist‚ sculptor‚ author‚ engineer‚ and inventor‚ who lived between 1883 and 1970. He is best known as a cartoonist and a founding member of America’s National Cartoonists Society. Collins P. Ellsworth is a wealthy 76-year-old businessman who is being treated for a form of compulsive buying disorder‚ otherwise known as oniomania: His uncontrollable buying habits—he can hardly
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Sir Gawain Sir Gawain took the Green Knight’s challenge as this part of the chivalry code of honor of all knights. He asked to take the challenge himself as King Arthur was being mocked by the Green Knight. Gawain does his moral duty by standing up for his uncle King Arthur and showing him his loyalty by saying that his life would be less missed. Gawain took the challenge to uphold his ideals of how a real knight should act. At that moment‚ Gawain didn’t realize that by accepting the Green Knight’s
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TOEFL iBT RESCORING REQUEST FORM ® Check the appropriate box‚ complete the form‚ and follow the submission instructions below. I request that the following be reviewed through the rescore process for the test date indicated below: Speaking and Writing (US$160) Test Date: Name: Address (include ZIP or postal code): Month Day Speaking (US$80) Year Writing (US$80) Registration Number: Date of Birth: Month Day Year Check this box if your mailing address has changed since the test
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Beowulf and Gawain are both presented as heroic figures in their respective cultures. Beowulf‚ a hero of the Geats‚ comes to the aid of Hrogar‚ who is the king of Danes. Beowulf explores his heroism in two separate phases- youth and age- and through three separate and increasingly difficult conflicts- with Grendel‚ Grendel’s mother‚ and the dragon. His youth heroism as an unfettered warrior and his mature heroism as a reliable king. In his youth‚ he is a great warrior‚ predominantly by his feats
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Much of the poems charm stems from its sense of mystery and elusiveness - of course‚ these aspects also complicate the task or analysis. That said‚ most scholars understood‚ the Lady of Shallot to be about the conflict between art and life. The lady‚ who weaves a magic web and sings her song in a remote tower‚ can be seen to represent the contemplative artist isolated from the Bustle and activity of daily life. The moment she sets her art aside to gaze down on the real world‚ a curse befalls her
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The Tale Of Sir Percival of Gales Prologue. THE father of Sir Percival was that king high Pellinore who fought so terrible a battle with King Arthur as has been told in the Book of King Arthur. For it was after that fight that King Arthur obtained his famous sword Excalibur‚ as was therein told. Now‚ King Pellinore was one of those eleven kings who‚ in the beginning of King Arthur’s reign‚ were in rebellion against King Arthur as hath been told in the book aforesaid‚ and he was one of
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Fools Love In this narrative poem The Lady of Shalott imprudently makes decisions that will later cost her‚ her life. Four gray towers and four gray walls embower the Lady of Shalott‚ who cannot look down on Camelot or a curse is put upon her. In her mirror she gazes at a striking red-cross knight and foolishly believes to have fallen in love. This knight had no idea of her existence and he too was love crazed for another woman. The Lady of Shalott was content dwelling within the castle
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poem or song that tells a popular story in short stanzas. The poem records a disaster from the thirteenth century.. The poem on your course tells the story of a knight‚ Sir Patrick Spens‚ who goes to sea on a mission for the king. Sir Patrick has to fetch the daughter of the king of Norway and sail with her to Scotland. As Sir Patrick Spens has to complete his mission in winter‚ he has a sense of doom about it. The poem tells the story‚ without any comment from the author about the events. The
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