In Flanders once there was a company Of youngsters haunting vice and ribaldry‚ Riot and gambling‚ stews and public-houses Where each with harp‚ guitar‚ or lute carouses‚ Dancing and dicing day and night‚ and bold To eat and drink far more than they can hold‚ Doing thereby the devil sacrifice Within that devil’s temple of cursed vice‚ Abominable in superfluity‚ With oaths so damnable in blasphemy That it’s a grisly thing to hear them swear. Our dear Lord’s body they will rend
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A Tale of Two Cities - Cliff Notes Table of contents: 1) Chapter summaries (pp.2-32) 2) Characters (pp. 32-40) 3) Setting (pp. 40-41) 4) Dickens’ Style (use of detail‚ repetition‚ parallelism‚ theatrical elements‚ imagery‚ form and style) (pp. 41-43) CHAPTER SUMMARIES BOOK THE FIRST: A TALE OF TWO CITIES: CHAPTER 1 Here is Dickens’ voice‚ introducing the story he’s about to tell. No action or characters are presented
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The Shackles of Marriage and the Canterbury Tales In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales‚ he depicts Medieval society from the viewpoint of multiple characters. At times‚ the characters seem to conflict in their perceptions of certain themes‚ such as gender roles. For instance‚ in The Knight’s Tale‚ the central female figure‚ Emelye‚ vehemently opposes the idea of marriage at first. Yet in The Wife of Bath’s Tale‚ the central female figure‚ a fairy‚ actively pursues marriage with an unwilling
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A young woman wants to marry the King‚ but is told that first she must spin straw into gold or die. A funny trickster by the name of Rumpelstiltskin agrees to do it‚ only if she promises her first born child. He does‚ and she marries the King. When she gives birth to a child‚ Rumpelstiltskin comes back and demands the child for payment. Since he loves to play games‚ he says that the Queen may keep the child‚ if she can guess his name in three days. He comes back three times to ask her what his name
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book called The Story of Doctor Doolittle. The author of this book is Hugh Lofting. The main characters of the story are: Dr. Doolittle Chee-Chee the monkey Polynesia the parrot Crocodile Monkeys from the monkey kingdom Pushmi-pullyu Doctor Doolittle lived in Puddleby‚ England. First he was a human doctor‚ but then he changed into an animal doctor. This was because his parrot‚ Polynesia‚ gave Doctor Doolittle a book about animal languages. From this book the Doctor learns all sorts of animal
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10. The gravimetric determination of nickel in alloys Gravimetric analyses belong to the most precise‚ because contemporary analytical balances make possible determination of the mass of a sample with great accuracy. In these analyses one should obtain high purity compound of the analyzed element or a compound directly obtained from the analyzed substance). This reaction has to be exactly stoichiometric. It is also important that the weighed compound was non-hydroscopic and stable in air‚ it also
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Throughout the entire text of The Handmaid’s Tale‚ the ruling totalitarian government does what is in its power to attempt to isolate women from society. Not only do are the women isolated from society in terms of sexual contact (or any contact‚ for that matter)‚ with men‚ but they are also individualized within the gender itself and separated from each other. Evidence of this isolation is available throughout the novel in different levels. The first level‚ perhaps the harshest‚ is the division of
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January The Merchant’s Tale He is a wealthy‚ elderly knight and marries May. Poor old january longs for a young wife to fulfill God’s wish that man and woman marry‚ and to produce an heir to inherit his estates. After covering with his friends‚ January decides to marry a young girl named May. January is very contempt with their marriage even after his old age warrants him to become blind. He doesn’t let May out of his reach and they continue to live (as he thought) a faithful life. One day
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Chaucer’s‚ The Canterbury Tales; specifically the Knight’s Tale. The Knight’s Tale fits someone with his career because the genre is a chivalric romance. The story includes beliefs looked for in a knight including
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Tale of Two Cities In the Christian faith‚ the picture of making the ultimate sacrifice‚ that sacrifice that is done for the better of society‚ is an image that is constantly linked with Christ’s ultimate sacrifice to save society. This kind of sacrifice is usually done for the greater good and out of a love that is so great‚ that it doesn’t mind to give up what is treasured most within us‚ our life. In the novel A Tale of Two Cities‚ Charles Dickens portrays this concept of sacrifice to represent
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