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The Canterbury Tales
Number of words: 605 | Number of pages: 3.... get absolution if they pay him and thus broke the vow of obedience because it is against the Catholic Church. He broke the vow of chastity by having adulterous relationships with other women. By wearing expensive clothes, spending his time with wealthy people rather than helping beggars or sick lepers, he broke the vow of poverty.
The Pardoner is a person who says prayer for dead people so that the sins they had committed in life would be forgiven. The Pardoner of abused his position by selling some papers which he claimed if people bought, their time in purgatory would be shortened after death; he sold them for very high pric .....
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Love Story By Segal: What Is Love
Number of words: 715 | Number of pages: 3.... one another." (J.Leavitt) Segal’s original style of writing allowed readers to laugh as well as cry with the characters as though they were along with them.
Erich Segal begins his novel by informing the readers of the tragic death of a "twenty-five year old girl", who by the second page, readers can identify as Jenny Cavilleri, a "wisecracking Radcliffe music major". Even though well aware of the ill-fated destiny of this beautiful young woman, readers will still cry as the heroine of this book experiences her last days of life, and her unfortunate death. However, even as Jenny knows she has only minutes left to live, .....
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Summary Of El Cid
Number of words: 713 | Number of pages: 3.... him.
Ruy Diaz is an extrodinary leader. He is always fearless before going
into battl; he does not even consider that he might not be victorious.
When El Cid is badly outnumbered his tactics and battle plans always cause
him to come out hte clear victor. An exampe where El Cid shows his
supperior tactics is in page 53, verse 27. El Cid was encamped in front of
Alcocer for fifteen weeks. El Cid realizes that Alcocer was not going to
give up without a fight so he devises a plan. He tricks the people of
Alcocer to come out. El Cid began picking up parts of his camp and leaving
as if he was out of reserves. The people of Alc .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Huck Decides To Reject Civilization
Number of words: 693 | Number of pages: 3.... raft. It seemed that every time they
would go to shore, something negative involving civilization would arise.
The dark side of human nature and suffering would meet up with the two of
them. They always stumbled upon the under-belly of society.
The symbol of human suffering was the Grangerfords family. When
Huck found himself in front of their farm after the ship wreck, his first
impression was a positive one. He thought that the Grangerfords were a
pleasant, normal family. However the dark secrets that existed within the
family could make skin crawl. The paintings and writings made by Emmeline
Grangerford, who died when sh .....
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The Heart Of Darkness
Number of words: 648 | Number of pages: 3.... difficult voyage up the river.
They come across a hut with firewood stacked and a note saying it is for them but to approach cautiously. Natives attack them and the helmsman is killed before Marlow frightens the natives away with the steam whistle. They come to Kurtz's Inner Station, expecting to find him dead, but a Russian trader there assures them everything is all right and reveals that he is the one who left the wood. The Russian claims Kurtz has enlarged his mind and cannot be subjected to the same moral judgments as normal people. Kurtz has established himself as a god with the natives and gone out on brutal raids in the .....
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Dawn, By Elie Wiesel
Number of words: 697 | Number of pages: 3.... emerged on as an important moral voice on Religious Issues and the Human Rights. Since 1988 Wiesel has been a professor at Boston University. Some of Wiesel’s greatest novels has been "Night", "Dawn", "The Accident", "The Town Beyond The Wall", "The Gates Of The Forest", "The Fifth Son", "Legends Of Our Time", "One Generation After", "A Jew Today", "Souls On Fire", 5 Biblical Figures", and "Somewhere A Hero". Eventually Wiesel went on to win an Nobel Peace Prize.
The book Dawn concerns about the experiences of a survivor just after the World War who joins the Jewish Underground efforts to form an independent Israeli s .....
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The World They Made Together
Number of words: 1406 | Number of pages: 6.... kept alive through the handful of elite Virginians. This is best illustrated in the way Thomas Jefferson chose to run his household. He "sought to teach proper use of time to all the whites and blacks in his extended family" (Sobel 58). Jefferson believed "it was only by a methodical distribution of our hours, and a rigorous, inflexible observance of it that any steady progress can be made" (Sobel 59). Furthermore, he adorned his home with a multitude of clocks, including one giant clock, which could be heard "all over the farm" (Sobel 57), seen from the upper galleries and not only marked hours, minutes and seconds, but also .....
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John Updike AandP
Number of words: 1222 | Number of pages: 5.... as they seemingly had spent the day at the beach, and had not lived in his town nor spent much time in it at all.
"The one that caught my eye first was the one in the plaid green two piece. She was a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft-looking can with those two crescents of white just under it"(79). John Updike has Sammy describe these girls in such great detail in order to point out there untouched nature. These girls did not wear any make up, and they barely had any clothes on at all. They had nothing to hide themselves from those who chose to judge them in this local everday grocery store. With this discr .....
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Pride And Prejudice And The Edible Woman: Negative Effects Of The Society's Influence
Number of words: 1532 | Number of pages: 6.... large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine
thing for our girls!” (51). Bingly is immediately acceptable due to his
money and connections, and Mrs. Bennet is already dreaming that one of her
children will marry him. In fact, “the business of her life was to get her
daughters married” (53). One of Elizabeth's close friends, Charlotte
Lucas, feels “happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance” (69).
She feels that marriage is a vehicle to gain wealth and connections, a view
which has obviously been pushed upon her by society. Elizabeth refuses to
accept this view. She feels marriage is for love, n .....
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The Pearl: A Review
Number of words: 1242 | Number of pages: 5.... no money. Kino
decides to go pearl hunting in an attempt to get some money. He dives and,
after removing some shells, catches a glimpse of something shiny out of the
corner of his eye. He removes the oyster that he saw the gleam from, and
returns to the surface. Inside the oyster he finds a huge pearl that becomes
known as, the Pearl of the World. Almost immediately there after, people try to
steal it. The doctor tries to steal it after giving the baby a medicine to make
it seem ill, however Kino wakes up and chases him away. The next morning, he
goes to town to try and sell the pearl but the prices he gets offered, he f .....
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