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…One of the two books I read over the summer was “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown. This book used council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions to illustrate the destruction of the American Indian tribes between the years…

…“The Pardoner’s Tale” One might assume that the person telling the story has a lot to do with the story they're telling. This is the case in the Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales." In the tale of "The Pardoner's", the voice tells a tale dealing…

…his homily in the vulgar garb of a naughty story." McDaniel goes even further than this stating that the three men are "victims of vanity." There is only one reason for the Miller to tell such a tale and that is to "quite the Knyghtes tale"(3127…

…make this idea evident with the tales that they tell. A distinct relationship can be made between the character of the Pardoner and the tale that he tells. Through the Prologue to the Pardoner's tale, the character of the Pardoner is revealed. Although…

…In the classic novel, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad takes us on a journey into the soul of man. When the character of Marlow travels into the Congo of Africa to find Kurtz, he realizes that he is in a place where the rules of society no longer…

…Americans' arteries are not just clogged--they're swollen. Wildly popular drugs like Lipitor and Zocor cut down on deaths from heart attacks and strokes by lowering blood cholesterol, but they're not enough. Despite them, cardiovascular disease kills…

…tell-tale signs that the world sees as civilized, and many that are viewed as savage. He does not belittle the African's savage culture. On the contrary, he upholds the virtue of the savage culture by condemning the pettiness of the civilized countrymen…

…going on here. The first, and most obvious hypocrisy is before telling this tale, the Pardoner insisted on stopping at an inn for food and beer. He is also a participant in a bet: he who tells the best story wins. However, there is another level…

…WAS ALL ABOUT STORY TELLING THE TALES RANGED FROM MEDIEVAL EPICS TO ROMANCE. I LIKED HOW SOME OF THE STORIES HAD SOME SORT OF MORAL OR MEANING BESIDES JUST SERVING HE POINT OF JUST BEING A STORY. THE CANTERBURY TALES HAD STORIES FROM ALL SORT OF DIFFERENT TYPES…

…Annotated Bibliography: Heart of Darkness & Apocalypse Now Bodek, Richard. "Conrad's Heart of Darkness" The Explicator 59 (2000): 25. In this article Richard Bodek discusses the implications of Kurtz's famous final words to Marlow, "The horror…