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    The Bronx Tale

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    Prof. Wilkes SOC 31 5/9/11 The Bronx Tale The Bronx Tale is a movie based in the 1960’s. There were a lot of differential discrepancies between races. In this period of time‚ it was taboo for a white Italian to have any kind of relationships with a person of color. One of the main characters named Calogero was surrounded by friends who discriminated against blacks. However‚ Calogero was raised in this kind of environment‚ he seem to be optimistic about black people. In this Italian

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    Everyman‚ The Pardoner’s Tale‚ and Death The morality play Everyman and Chaucer’s The Pardoner’s Tale are examples of many works that used death as a subject. Each work‚ however‚ approached it in different ways. Everyman personified death and uses the character to educate the readers on the reasons why death comes to everyone. The Pardoner’s Tale used it as a symbol and a theme to support the Pardoner’s sermons about the sin of greed. Nevertheless‚ both works are clear in stressing the fact that

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    Tales of Angola

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    David H.‚ and Canter Brown. "Tale of Angola: Free Blacks‚ Red Stick Creeks‚ and International Intrigue in Spanish Southwest Florida‚ 1812-1821." Go Sound the Trumpet!: Selections in Florida’s African American History. Tampa‚ FL: University of Tampa for the Florida A & M University Dept. of History‚ Political Science/Public Administration‚ Geography‚ and African American Studies‚ 2005. 5-18. Print. In David H. Jackson and Canter Brown’s book‚ Go Sound the Trumpet: Tale of Angola‚ these men talk

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    A Bronx Tale

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    Eric Card Professor Garcia Criminal Justice Ethics February 28‚ 2011 The Bronx Tale Ethically speaking‚ the movie “The Bronx Tale” is a great example of one’s moral development. In the movie we watch the lead character‚ Colagero grow up in the Bronx and gradually form moral judgment with help from his father and instructor‚ Sonny. Though Sonny is a local mafia boss‚ he plays a key role in Colagero’s mental and moral development. Colagero’s story illustrates Kohlberg’s theory of moral

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    Marlow's Tale

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    Marlow’s Tale The famous novel‚ Heart of Darkness was written by Joseph Conrad in 1899 in England. The protagonist‚ Marlow‚ is an intelligent‚ brave‚ complex individual. The unknown narrator‚ along with the three other passengers onboard the boat‚ are listening to Marlow’s story being told from the first person perspective. The novel takes place in many locations and changes as the tale progresses. The Thames River and the Congo are just some of the locations where Marlow’s tale takes his listeners

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    A Winters tale

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    Introduction to Shakespeare Final Paper Assignment Defiance in The Winters Tale From Shakespeare’s work The Winters Tale‚ the audience is given a vivid representation of gender politics. Like most of Shakespeare’s plays‚ the character development of the women is particularly profound‚ specifically Hermione and Paulina. These characters are arguably the most discerning characters Shakespeare has every created‚ and when they are faced with such tremendous adversity; they exemplify a virtuous

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    Fairy Tale

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    Analytical Essay Snow White and the seven dwarfs is a fairy tale about a king and a queen who longed to have a child of their own and had tried for years but with no success. The queen makes a wish that she’d love to a have a child who is as white as snow‚ as red as blood and as black as the wood of the window frame she was sitting next to. With unexpected turn of events‚ she bares a daughter that had the same features as she wished for and she named her little Snow White. The queen dies soon

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    A Midwife's Tale

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    Ulrich realized her only option was to dig deeply into the ones she had‚ to discover the unspoken realities of women’s lives written between the lines of Ballard’s diary. The result of Ulrich’s efforts was the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "A Midwife’s Tale‚" now a movie of the same name‚ made in collaboration with Ulrich by producer/writer Laurie Kahn-Leavitt and director Richard Rogers. The film recounts the day-to-day events described in Ballard’s diary and expanded upon by Ulrich‚ based on some careful

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    The Pardoner's Tale

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    Marta Calise Per.6 Brit. Lit. 1-14/12 The Pardoner’s Tale: Review and Assess 1. Were you surprised by the fate of the rioters? Why or why not? I was not surprised by the fate of rioters because this is an anecdote from which we should learn a lesson‚ and I knew from the beginning that the Pardoner is preaching against greed and the horrible things that come from it. 2. A) When the story opens‚ what are the rioters doing‚ and what captures their attention? When the story opens‚ the

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    The Handmaid’s Tale Response Paper The motif of time is very apparent in this section. Time‚ something are never thought much of before her new life‚ is now an object she thinks about frequently. “There’s time to spare. This is one of the things I wasn’t prepared for – the amount of unfilled time‚” (Atwood 69). “In the afternoons we lay o our beds for an hour in the gymnasium…they were giving us a chance to get used to blank time‚” (70). “The clock ticks with its pendulum‚ keeping time my feet

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