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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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    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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    the viking tales

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    The viking tales‚ Jennie Hall The book has two parts‚ the first part is about king Olaf and his son Harald. The second part is about discorverers like discovering Greenland and Wineland (nowadays) America. Men of the country norway were great warriors and discoverers they have discovered Iceland en many more lands‚ but the old sages are the most populair . There are many stories of the old vikings who have live in Norway‚ old tales were told over and over until everbody knew them and loved them

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    The Handmaid's Tale

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    Darren Jacob Mrs. Jones English 1B October 31‚ 2013 The Complex Commander Offred says to herself‚ “What do you mean? The Commander‚ it must be. See me? What does he mean by see? Hasn’t he had enough of me?”(99). In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale‚ The Commander is a man who expresses several sides of his character and personality. Throughout the book the Commander shows character traits of someone who is emotional and sympathetic. In their society‚ the Republic of Gilead‚ the Commander is one

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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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    A very common theme in medieval English literature was that of Romance. One example of this is found in The Canterbury Tales‚ a collection of short stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the early 15th century. More specifically‚ the short story‚ “The Knight’s Tale.” Love is the driving force of the story‚ and makes its appearance in three main ways. Love between husbands and wives‚ and example being Theseus and Hypolita. There is love between brothers‚ as demonstrated by Arcite and Palamon. We also

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    satire in pardoner's tale

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    Satire in the Pardoner’s Tale The Canterbury Tales is one of the greatest analogy of stories in English language‚ for its satirical language that had great impact in British society. One of the tales‚ the pardoner’s tale‚ which comes after the Physician’s Tale and before the Shipman’s Tale‚ is one of the best piece of literature demonstrating the use of satire. The pardoner’s tale satirizes the hypocritical pardoners who do the deeds that they themselves condemn‚ stupidity of drunkenness‚ and the

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    The Handmaids Tale

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    Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale takes place in a post Cold War society plagued by infertility. Atwood presents the reader with “The Republic of Gilead”‚ the Christian theocracy that overthrew the United States government. Narrated by a woman renamed Offred‚ the reader gets an idea of a future in which women are no longer women‚ but are solely needed for reproduction. Atwood uses a system of vocabulary established under the Republic of Gilead in order to manipulate and dehumanize women and

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    The central social hierarchy within the novel is the gender hierarchy‚ placing men in a position of extreme power. This is evident in every aspect of the book‚ as the entire Gilead society is male dominated. The Commander is at the top of the hierarchy and is involved with designing and establishing the current society taking control of a nation of women‚ and exploiting their power by controlling what is taught‚ what they can teach themselves and the words that they can use. Soon all of the women

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    you. This is demonstrated through the resisting character of Lester Burnham. Alma De Groen’s Australian play reflects the dystopian genre to suggest the impossibility of achieving equality for all genders. The twentieth century novel The Handmaid’s Tale written by Margaret Attwood confronts the features of a totalitarian society‚ as she is concerned with the objectifications placed upon women‚ and was written in conjunction with the 1980s

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