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    always thought that all cities liked my hometown‚ DaLat City. However‚ when the first time I came to Ho Chi Minh City‚ I knew I was wrong. Unlike my thought‚ Ho Chi Minh City is very different from DaLat City about weather‚ transport and lifestyle. A remarkable dissimilarity is weather. Ho Chi Minh City’s weather is very hot. Temperature is usually 32-35 degree Celsius. Most houses there have two or three pan‚ which work over day and night. If you come to Ho Chi Minh City the first time‚ you are

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    A Bronx Tale It’s the sixties. Racism is running hot through the streets of New York. One neighborhood in particular‚ where one group of boys makes the choice that will change their lives and everyone’s around them forever. These boys are young‚ full of talent and smart. These boys choose to take all of what they had and throw it away. What happens to these boys next is something that you would not want to wish on anybody. Here these young talented boys cram into a car and ride to the African-American

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    Mia Gennarelli September 28‚ 2010 3rd Block The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer was famous for his Canterbury Tales. I am selecting actors and actresses in which I believe would best fit four of Chaucer’s pilgrims’ personalities. Elizabeth Taylor‚ Gordon Ramsey‚ Carol Christine Hilaria Pounder‚ and Atticus Shaffer will be playing the roles of the Wife of Bath‚ the Cook‚ the Nun‚ and the Oxford Cleric Elizabeth Taylor will be playing the role of the wife of bath. She‚ like the wife of bath

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    Fall 2013 Paper Number 1: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales-The Wife of Bath The Wife of Bath is a character that Chaucer presents as an attractive female in its prologue. She is a headstrong and very self-confident woman of her time who thinks highly of herself. Chaucer’s descriptions of her facial and bodily features are sexually suggestive. In the Prologue‚ Chaucer’s narrative involves her physical appearance describing her clothes‚ legs‚ feet‚ hips‚ and her gap-tooth

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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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    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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    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 Canterbury Tales is a piece written by Geoffrey Chaucer sought out to accomplish various goals. Chaucer wrote his tales during the late 1300’s.  This puts him right at the beginning of the decline of the Middle Ages.  Historically‚ we know that a middle class was just starting to take shape at this time‚ due to the emerging commerce industry. Chaucer was able to see the importance and future success of the middle class‚ and wrote his work with them in mind.  Knowing that the middle class was

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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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    myth. Thesis: The Lost City of Atlantis is not a true myth‚ as it is not‚ in any way‚ depicted in the traditional way that most myths were presented at the time. It can only be found in the philosopher Plato’s works‚ and no other poets or writers at the time have been recorded as telling the story or taking it seriously. Thus‚ Plato had to have invented it around the time‚ rather than simply retold the story‚ as most myths tend to be. Sample thesis: The Lost City of Atlantis is not a true myth

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