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Saracen Knight
1,428 wordsThe Song of Roland is the oldest known epic in France, dating from around the Twelfth Century AD. Telling the story of Charlemagne at Roncesvalles in 778, the events of The Song of Roland have been shifted into a modern (12th Century) setting, bringing a long history of concerns about Muslim invasion that gripped France in Charles Martel's and Charlemagne's time. The historical part of the battle is changed to make it more understandable, even more tragic, for the Twelfth Century audience. The t...
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Next Scene Erec And Enide
1,958 wordsThe Problematic Aspects of the Knightly Code of Honor in Erec and Enide The medieval institution of knighthood lived and died by a code of chivalry that included courage, honor, loyalty, and consideration for others. The influences of Christianity and courtly love expanded the code of chivalry to include religious piety as well as refined social grace and manners. But despite the respectable nature of all it stood for, this knightly code of honor was depicted as having many problematic aspects i...
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Keystone Knights Of The Ku Klux Klan
1,654 wordsThe world of American radicalism has changed greatly over the past century. Organizations ranging from the Ku Klux Klan, founded in 1866 to more recently organized groups like the Militia Movement, only about ten years old show the transitions in American radicalism, and the different states it has endured. It is believed that the first incarnate of the racist right, as a political position started during the French Revolution with the myth of a Jewish conspiracy. Over many years this spread int...
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Story The Wife Of Bath's Tale
2,735 wordsThe star football player was about to be forced off the team because of poor academic grades. In desperation, the coach approached the Dean of the college and swore on his honor that he would give the lad a final exam in one of his subjects, and if the boy didn't pass he would take him from the team immediately. The night before the big game the coach met with the boy to test him. "What", asked the coach, "is the name of the first recorded piece of British Literature?" Coach", replied the boy, "...
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Relationship Between A Knight And His Lady
761 words"Chivalry is a set of professional ethics and expectations, guiding the behavior of the warrior classes of medieval Europe". To understand chivalry, one must look even earlier in time to observe the history of combat. Though some cavalries rode horses as early as A.D. 376, they utilized the animals only as a source of transportation and the combats were fought on foot. This went on until the invention of the stirrup came from Asia which allowed the warrior to remain on his horse and be able to h...
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Knights Of The Holy Grail
1,503 wordsSuppose one day, you walk out of your manager's office, box in hand, head held low, walking towards your cubicle. Thinking just minutes before you entered the manager's office you were somebody, you had a purpose to society, and a job that needed to be filled. You based your identity on your role in society. But now, jobless, your self-esteem is at rock bottom, you have nothing to do, your identity had been shattered. Maybe you base your life around your identity which keeps you sane, you plea w...
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Frank And Stella
897 wordsVile bodies Don't You Want Me India Knight 272 pp, Penguin In this follow-up to her hugely successful My Life On a Plate, India Knight explores new shallows. Her heroine, 38-year-old Stella, shares her Primrose Hill house with her 18-month-old daughter, Honey, and her handsome but red-haired lodger, Frank. Stella does "the odd translating job", but is more fully occupied with sleeping off her hangovers, applying make-up, taking it off again, and - mostly - worrying about where the next shag is c...
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Knight Britomart
2,035 wordsThe Faerie Queen In The Faerie Queene, Spenser creates an allegory: The characters of his far-off, fanciful "Faerie Land" are meant to have a symbolic meaning in the real world. In Books I and, the poet follows the journeys of two knights, Redcrosse and Britomart, and in doing so he examines the two virtues he considers most important to Christian life -- Holiness and Chastity. Redcrosse, the knight of Holiness, is much like the Apostle Peter: In his eagerness to serve his Lord, he gets himself ...
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Time Machine
1,106 wordsI got a chance of a lifetime the other day. It all started when one of my friends who is an inventor, invited me over to see her new invention. Much to my surprise it turned out to be a time machine. I know you are thinking, "no way it could work". Well I was thinking the same thing and here is where it started to get really good, she said it worked and that I could go anywhere in time I wanted. Yes, she was going to let me travel back in time where ever and to whatever time I wanted to go to. T...
