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Power and wealth are what people want. The idea of being powerful and having wealth makes people feel strong and important, but is this true? Humans enjoy feeling good and sometimes even do dangerous things to get what they want. Geoffrey Chaucer uses deception in The Pardoner's Tale by having the old man with gold, the death of three men, and the corrupt pardoner show that greed symbolises death. Three rioters were looking for a man named death. They began their journey for a town about a mile…

A reoccurring theme in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a hunger for power, authority and respect. We are introduced to characters in The Crucible who will do anything for the sense of authority or power, one of them being Reverend Parris. Reverend Parris is one of, if not the most, power-hungry characters in The Crucible because prior to the plot of the play, the audience learns he was greedy in his church, during the play the audience witnessed many moves made out of his need for authority, and…

In Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" he uses various comedic devices to create comedy; most noticeably melodrama and farce. These devices are used excessively in order to repeatedly address serious matters in a light-hearted manner; Wilde does this to create humour as opposed to offending his audience. Wilde deliberately wrote the play in this manner as he was fully conscious that his audience consisted of upper class Victorians. Throughout the play, Oscar Wilde articulately…

Franklin's purpose for writing the way to wealth was to emphasize that working hard will pay off in the long run Franklin wrote this document to delegate why he decided to write the poor Richard's almanac. He used the alias of an old man who analyzed and explained the logic of gaining and keeping wealth to those around him. The first main point Franklin addressed was that those that stay lackadaisical will never make it far in life. Franklin believed that those that put in the effort would be…

St. Anslem, was a priest during the 11th century he was the first person known to have formed the Ontological argument as we know it; which can be found in the second chapter of his work, The Proslogion. The Ontological argument is not an argument designed to convert the atheist, but to reassure those who have faith or some belief in God, it was meant for the believer seeking understanding, in other words some logic behind their belief. Since only the “fool” knows but does not believe (Psalms…

Throughout Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, the clergy have a major role. Throughout, they are depicted as shallow, one-dimensional, conceited due to the time in which the novel was written. Pride and Prejudice was written in the early nineteenth century, at which was a flourishing time period for religion. Austen’s father was a rector and her two brothers were clergymen. She was greatly involved with the clergymen and their traditions, and was religious herself. Although, Austen did not…

Nice, France is a beautiful city located on the southern coast of France near the Italian border. It is located very near the principality of Monaco, It would take approximately 8 hours and 30 minutes to drive, 1 and a half hours to take a plane, and 4 hours to take a train from Paris to the coastal city of Nice. Its coordinates are 43.7 degrees North and 7.3 degrees East. Nice is known for having a very nice climate with mild winters around 41 degrees fahrenheit and summers averaging around…

Much like Psalm 1, most of these proverbs deal in comparisons and contradictions and the most blaring example is the seemingly endless list of differences between the paths of the wise and the wicked. Not only is good and wickedness contrasted in these proverbs, but also wisdom and foolishness (though the terms can be synonymous with good and wickedness). What is interesting is how wickedness and wisdom are portrayed in different ways. On one hand, there is heavy use of feminine imagery where…

Beshoy Hanna The existence of God Essay 3 The existence of God has come into question since the beginning of time. Throughout history, philosophers have searched for an answer to creation. How did the earth appear? Who is responsible? Why did they create humans, where do we come from and how did we get here? Regardless of the many theories, most thinkers manage to agree on one thing; there is some superior being responsible for Creation. I will explore the philosophies presented by St. Thomas…

A Knight's Tale seems some what accurate with history and the movie seems to make life as a commoner less terrible than it actually was. In the movie the commoners wore dirty clothing like the men seemed to wear dirty tunics and the women wore dirty clothing that seemed to look like a dress. They ate what seemed to be mutton, bread and some other foods. The jobs that commoners had in the movie were blacksmiths, merchants and Will's father looked like he was a weaver. Women seemed to be allowed…