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…"The Wife of the Bath's Tale" is the most affecting piece of literature studied this semester. The ranges of emotions displayed by the story's characters are a function of Chaucer's personal feelings. The reason the literature has been so affecting…

…had to feel it. I think that the things that I was feeling was such a blob of mixed emotions that I really did not know how to feel so I will just say that I was excited. At the airport I met my best friend and two other friends of mine from school. We…

…The classic and much-loved romantic melodrama Casablanca(1942), always found on top-ten lists of films, is a masterful tale of two men vying for the same woman's love in a love triangle. The story of political and romantic espionage is set against…

…Of Life and Death. The early science fiction, or, rather fantasy, was much based on myth and retrospective, while science fiction discards the fairy-tale city and metaphysical heaven for a computer ship. It usually shares its credits with the special effects…

…makes Paul yearn for the same beauty in his own life. He achieves the ultimate fairy tale during his week in New York City. That was his one true home. During his time there, Paul’s soul was set free to be happy and to seek his symbol of light. Willa…

…Born 1930 in New York City, Frank McCourt spent most of his childhood in the slums of Limerick, Ireland until he returned to the United States at the age of 19. Having had no steady job for years McCourt finally became teacher and worked at New York…

…but like I said History is just a tale. Marcus Brutus had a wife and her name was Portia. She was the daughter of Cato, Brutus’s uncle, but unfortunately she died also. Some of us ask if Brutus had any children and he did he had two who were put to death…

…determined less by action than emotion. Used angular sets and heavy shadows to develop a macabre and horrific atmosphere for its tale of murder and madness. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari intentionally uses sets that look artificial. The deliberate distortions…

…There is much symbolism in George Orwell’s political satire Animal Farm. There is a great deal more to this fairy tale than just what can be gleaned from a surface reading. The interactions between the characters reflect the attitudes of the people…

…expressed their philosophies in poetry-often in imitations and loose interpretations of Byron's oriental tales-but frequently chose also to express their ideals in their manner of living. Nihilism requires at least a working definition; while a more detailed…