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The Selected Hypocrisy Tales The beauty of history comes to us as lesson to be learned, corrected, and used as guidance for the future. Times surely have changed but human behavior hasn 't seemed to follow accordingly as we can depict from some of the characters in Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Hypocrisy can be noticed in a lot of the characters but the most two most evident being the Monk and the Pardoner. We will look to break down what it is about these characters that Chaucer was…

wants me cause they be sayin’ I be a hand full and they puts me in a place for young’uns who ain’t gots no parents. I be fifteen, when I runs away from that there place. I gots me a few nickels, dimes and quarters and be buyin’ me a ticket on a Greyhound Bus headin’ nowhere. I be meetin’ Orville James on that there bus and be fallin’ in love. As god be my witness we gots off that there bus in Wrongberight and Clemmy Sue’s daddy, preacher Jarvis be marryin’ us that night. I tell you Orville James…

Gambling is the entertainment activity that a majority of Australians enjoy. It is a placement of a wager on the uncertain future outcome of the event. In fact Australians love gambling so much that more than 80% of adults gamble, setting new world record of gambling ratio per capita (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6313083.stm). It is visible that Australia loves gambling when the entire country stops their activities to attend Melbourne Cup. Gambling offers and abundant range of wagers…

the Horses of Gwyddon". Furious Cerridwen chased after Gwion who now had the power to shape-shift begins shift into different creatures to try to escape Cerridwen's wrath. Gwion first turned into a hare and hopped off, so Cerridwen shifted into a greyhound and turned him, so he fled to the river and turned into a fish, so then Cerridwen changed into an otter and went under water after him, so…

Dante’s Inferno is considered one of the best works of humanity. In Inferno, Dante literally puts all kind of men into hell for their sins; from great kings to slaves, from every type of ethnicity, race, country and anything else a man identifies by. Based on Christian doctrines of his time, Dante has taken revenge over all kind of figures that he knew by. Furthermore, Inferno is filled with allegories and represents a deep literature. In this essay, we will discuss about the uses and…

These measures may seem minor to the layman, however, these operations are often part of high-stakes schemes. One example is former professional cyclist Lance Armstrong. In October 1996, Armstrong had been diagnosed with testicular cancer. Well-advanced, the tumors had spread to his abdomen, lungs, lymph nodes, and brain. His odds of survival were a mere 40 percent. Against the odds, Armstrong became cancer-free in February 1997. Armstrong and his team (U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team) then…

opportunity of Banquo, returning to feast later at night (in the dark), to plan to kill Banquo. So, Macbeth (which mentioned above) hires two men to kill Banquo for him. Macbeth tells the two men: “Ay, in the catalogue you go for men, as hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clept all by the name of dogs. The valued file distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, the…

As I sit here I’m aggravated of the accusations by people who remain ignorant of what essentially goes on in areas they don’t frequently visit. Therefore, this writing is inspired by two things, the first is the media and secondly a favorite song of mine by Tye Tribbett andGreater Anointed entitled “Good in the Hood”. For decades, there have been misconceptions of people who represent African, Asian, European, and Spanish descent that produce the “Lower Income” group or those that reside in…

Have you seen a movie based off a high school? High school is definitely not as the movie make it seem. There is one thing the movie and the reality of high school have in common though and that is having cliques. It can be hard for students to find a group that they belong to. High schools have extracurricular activities to try to solve this problem. The high school encourages the student to take part in this peculiar activity due to the benefits and it looks good on the college application.…

Throughout the duration of the summer, as you most likely know, the eleventh-grade AP language and composition class was assigned to read the book Zeitoun written by Dave Eggers. It eloquently elaborated upon the heroics Zeitoun, the protagonist, had done during his time in Hurricane Katrina. As it had been described in the book, it was his civil duty to tend and rescue people and animals in need. There wasn't a time in the story where his actions were surrounded with glory and nobility.While…