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…object, sits before us. An urn that is painted with footprints of history. A history, we can all relate to. And a story that we can tell as our own. The message is frozen, but we are carried away into “A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme.” (Keates, I…

…The Iliad is undoubtedly one of the world’s greatest stories of all time. It is an excellent mix of action, adventure, and heartbreak as it tells the tale of the bloody ten-year battle of Troy, and shows us that the cost of war is always great…

…out for the East as a journeyman printer. In 1857 he became an apprentice pilot on the Mississippi, and remained on the river, as apprentice and journyman pilot, until the civil war. For about two weeks Clemens served as a second lieutenant in Confederate…

…the evil stepsisters were trying on the gold slipper they deformed themselves very bloodily to get the shoe to fit, Sexton did this for two reasons, first to sort of wake the reader up from its usual reading of this classic tale (break the repetitiveness…

…The General Prologue - Geoffrey Chaucer The most popular part of the Canterbury Tales is the General Prologue, which has long been admired for the lively, individualized portraits it offers. More recent criticism has reacted against this approach…

…time, classical writers argued over the true list, but today there is one most commonly used (Virtual Tours 1). Few drawings or sketches exist of the vanished monuments, so archeologists have relied on ancient tales and literary works to get an idea…

…, including two weeks at Versailles, where the children entertained Louis XV. In 1764 they arrived in London. Here Mozart wrote his first three symphonies, under the influence of Johann Christian Bach, the youngest son of Johann Sebastian, who lived in the city…

…, perhaps we can get a better understanding of his attitudes towards women. The Prioress and Grisilde are two women in the Canterbury tales that show very specific ideas of how a woman should be. In their portrayal, if you read the text closely, Chaucer is trying…

…Some people believe that most murderers have a mental illness which causes them to commit their crime. This belief is strongly disagreed with by the authors Edgar Allan Poe and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Crime and Punishment, "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Black…

…lacking of a key quality. Temporary insanity, a quality that seems to be necessary to be found in a Greek tragic hero for the sake of the plot, is found in both of our leading characters in this tale. The incredibly strong will to defy the law of Creon…