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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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    By the 18th century the third estate became aware of their oppression through various sources. These sources include the Influence of philosophers and the Echoes of the American war of independence. Goodwin states‚ the aim of the French philosophers‚ of the eighteenth century‚ was to liberate mankind from the fitter of ignorance and from subservience of outmoded practices. D. Richard further illustrated that philosophers such as‚ Rousseau‚ Voltaire‚ Monesquieu and the encyclopedias

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    Jordan LaRue 02/02/05 HIST-3443 Dr. Dykema Peasant Fires In the book Peasant Fires‚ the author gives an account of the story of Hans Behem‚ a peasant shepherd who claimed to have seen a vision of the Holy Mother Mary. Han’s then gave passionate sermons and speeches about equality for all peasants‚ for which‚ peasants came from all over Europe to witness. Wunderli also uses other sources that relate to Hans to further explain this time period. Wunderli uses various models and examples to explain

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    THE CANTERBURY TALES STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS Prologue 1. In lines 1-18 (which are all one sentence)‚ identify the time and the author’s main point. April; the main point is that according to the poet‚ people long to go on a pilgrimage in the Spring. 2. Why does the urge to go on pilgrimage hit people in the spring? Winter is over; it’s time for renewal. 3. Who is at the inn? Who arrives at the inn? What is the central idea? (Look in ll. 19-28). The narrator is at the inn; twenty-nine pilgrims

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    THE CANTERBURY TALES (The Man of Law’s Tale)  The Man of Law’s Tale (also called The Lawyer’s Tale) is the fifth of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ written around 1387. ------------------------------------------------- Summary The Man of Law‚ also known as The Sergeant at Law‚ tells a Romance tale of a Christian princess named Custance (the modern form would be Constance) who is betrothed to the Syrian Sultan on condition that he convert to Christianity. The Sultan’s mother connives

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    ARJONA‚ Zeus David V. BSED English English and American Literature CATUD‚ Wilfred Glenn T. The Knight’s Tale: an Analysis This tale‚ consisting of four parts‚ tells the story of two knights named Arcite and Palamon who put their lives on the line for the hand of the lady they both love‚ Emelye. This tale displays the importance of chivalry in knighthood. Chivalry was shown in the story through the deeds of the Greek knight Theseus. Theseus displayed virtuosity throughout the story. An

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    The Knights tale was the first and best tale told in The Canterbury Tales and I think it should win because of how much I absolutely love Knights. A skilled and heroic man covered in metal armor who lives to help others in need. That idea of a person with that kind of personality is just really interesting to me. It also makes me want to be more like a knight whenever I think or talk about them. Although Palamon and Arcite‚ the main character in the Knights tale‚ are bad examples of what

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    Geoffrey Chaucer used narrative framework in The Canterbury Tales to bring different story tellers as on with strong individual characteristics and gained a bond with the stories they told. The definition of a frame story is a set of different small stories to form one big story to tell. A frame tale is a story within a story. Framing is mostly used in narrative writings to have more stories to tell. A frame story will have one character that will start the story off in the beginning or the character

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    The Pardoner’s Tale and The Wife of Bath’s Tale‚ both are interesting story by Geoffrey Chaucer. Both tales utilizes irony to showcase problems present within the Medieval era and relate to today‚ such as rape and thievery to the lifelong lessons such as‚ Greed is the root of all evils and content featuring woman’s dominance‚ rights‚ and morality in general. In the Pardoner’s Tale‚ Chaucer writes about a man who preaches to his audience for money. The pardoner speaks of three men that lost their

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    Is the Tell-Tale Heart a Tall Tale? How can we always trust a narrator to be credible in stories we read? Are we to assume that the words we read are always truth? If characters are able to lie to one another‚ the narrator could also have the ability to fib to the reader‚ or at the very least give a sense of false hyperbole to a situation. In the case of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart”‚ is our narrator capable of telling the story of his late night plight with complete objectivity? The

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