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    Chivalry Codes

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    or courageously. Some knights dishonored the code‚ putting their pride above the people they were supposed to serve. If there were dishonest knights in the contemporary times‚ chivalry in the modern world is indefinitely dead. Generations of dishonesty of corrupted knights from the contemporary times to modern caused the neglection of chivalric duties to collapse. The nature of these fraudulent knights is to put themselves above others‚ their character influence the young and future knights to be

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    oral history

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    Oral History Have you ever read Oral history in your life? Oral History is the study of historical information recording of interview with people having personal knowledge of past events. For many years‚ authors have written myths‚ fables and parables. The problem lays arguments of whether oral history is reliable. I believe oral history depends positively in our society because oral teaches something about life. Also oral history is meant to explain a bigger picture. But sometimes‚ oral might

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    History and Memory

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    English Speech Goodmorning. Today I will be talking to you about how history and memory are depicted in Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang‚ and James Cameron’s 1997 film Titanic. Both texts depend heavily on fictionalised historical figures to tell their stories through memory. And both leave us with suspicions about their historical accuracy. In this speech I will be exploring these two texts through five main points * The difference in believability between a novel and a film

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    History and Memory

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    To what extent has textual form shaped your understanding of history and memory? In your response‚ make detailed reference to your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text. The textual form of the poetry of Denise Levertov and the recount Pure Torture by Tom Moe has shaped the reader’s understanding of history and memory to a great extent. While history is represented generally as objective‚ impersonal‚ factual and static‚ memory is represented as subjective‚ personal‚ fragmented and

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    A sense of History

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    A Sense of History: Some Components by Gerald W. Schlabach All students who graduate from a liberal arts college should take with them an indelible awareness of the following: 1. Some things happened before other things. Studying history is much more than the memorization of dates. But if we get things out of chronological order‚ we’ll inevitably get a lot of other things wrong too. Imagine that we are in a new city trying to find "408 N. 5th St.‚" but vandals have taken down the signs

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    Role of Media

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    The importance and the impact of the media‚ written or electronic cannot be marginalized in the world of today. In the modern world of quick communication and quick information‚ media plays a very crucial role. The original role of the media was and still is to give to the public all relevant information about occurrences in the country and the world. Now the written media includes a host of publications‚ dailies‚ fortnightly‚ weeklies‚ monthly all giving information about events with supplement

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    modernization in the modern age. Lives were changed and behavior patterns were permanently altered for the sake of technological advancement. Wage earning replaced self-sufficiency as

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    Although past traditions have installed norms and standards regarding who may be considered as true ‘family‚’ Ellen Goodman effectively employs a variety of rhetorical strategies including figurative language‚ perspective‚ and Aristotelian appeals to highlight that in choosing to disregard these pre-established conditions and/or labels‚ individuals have the ability to progress with society in a manner that will encourage them to ultimately embrace the many intricacies of an extended family. To begin

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    Icarus Poetry Analysis

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    sky after he escaped from the dreaded Minotaur‚ Fields deftly maneuvers his poem to hint at such a fault. Transporting Icarus into the modern age‚ Fields uses irony‚ symbols‚ and style to transmit the fact that people are always greedy and insatiable. The setting of “Icarus” by Fields transmits the ultimate irony in this poem – the fact that such a mundane modern world is mixed with the glorious splendor and adventure of the past. A past that Icarus cannot forget and desires. Fields makes the poem

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    What It Means to Live

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    What It Means To Live Can the presence or absence of love determine whether a person is truly living or is not living at all? James Joyce’s “The Dead” is a work of the Modern era. In keeping with the time‚ this short story focuses on self-reflection and isolation. Throughout the story‚ the main character Gabriel is desperately searching for where his position is in the world. Gretta‚ his wife‚ also seems to live as merely a shadow of her former her. Although the story is predominately centered

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