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Here are three things that I connected Hamlet to my real life: #1: "This was not a natural death, this was murder." When the ghost comes to Hamlet with a tip that the one "wearing the crown" was the murderer of his father, I got a better look at Hamlet's true self. I'm not saying I was approached by a ghost and had a full conversation with it and even took it's advice, but I have had dreams before where specific words were said which, after waking up, changed my whole stance/attitude/decision. Side Note: The fact that Hamlet was fully aware he was conversing with an apparition leaves me with only one question. How can you be shocked to see your uncle and mother in a relationship-disgusting, don't get me started- but not lose it when a literal ghost is standing (floating ?) RIGHT in front of you? Oh, right! The ghost was "proper and legit", nothing to be questioned here! Many scholars tend to think THIS is the moment he makes his decisio...

Hamlet made the decision to kill his uncle when the ghost told him that his father was killed him. I also find it really strange as to why Lord Polonius is sending Reynaldo to spy on Laeretes. The fact that he also wants him to spread rumors about him really raises some questions. I wonder what information Lord Polonius is looking for.

1. c. He met 29 pilgrims 2. b. Pilgrimage to Canterbury 3. d. Shrine of Thomas A Becket 4. a. Knight 5. b. Squire 6. c. Yoeman 7. a. Nun 8. d. Nun and 3 priests 9. b. Monk 10. c. Friar 11. c. Merchant 12. a. Clerk 13. d. Sergeant at Law 14. b. Franklin 15. ??? 16. b. Cook 17. d. Shipman 18. ??? 19. c. Wife of Bath 20. c. parson 21. ??? 22. ??? 23. b. Manciple 24. d. Reeve 25. a. Summoner 26. c. Pardoner 27. b. Host 28. ??? 29. ??? 30. c. Grain 31. ??? 32. ??? 33. c. Ironic 34. ??? 35. d. Youth for Age 36. b. Oak tree 37. b. Gold 38. ??? 39. c. Food/drinks 40. ??? 41. c. poison 42. ???

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1. I would like to meet the nun just to see her big forehead because Chaucer said it was almost 9 inches long. 2a. The nun is charitable, entertaining and sympathetic.

Before she decided to get ready, Janessa drew a big breath and asked her boyfriend one last time, "Are you sure you want to go? Because there is no turning back!" "Yes, of course I do, do you want to go? Is that why your asking so much? Just say you don't want to go and we won't." "I'm fine-we're fine, I'm just going to get ready now. I'm going to hang up okay?" She paused as she thought about how disappointed her friends would be if they found out how she truly felt. "Okay, bye ugly. Talk to you later!" She hung up and started to feel nervous. She felt a hot rush from the top of her head to her chin. She was nervous and worried about her friends. For a while now, she had known something was wrong with her friends, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it. So, she did what she always did when she didn't know how to respond-she tried to forget about it. She put her phone down on her desk and starting applying eye...

I know that Geoffrey Chaucer is an English poet. He was able to write authentically.

It’s so easy to forget how small our time on Earth really is. We hear the elderly reminisce on “the good’ole’times” but never truly recognize the sadness that is life. So, you can imagine how disappointed a person feels when they are reminded of their own mortality during their first encounter with death. About 2 weeks ago, someone very close to me died a horrible death. I can’t imagine the antagonizing pain she was in, despite the on-scene medic’s observation that “she was unusually calm” during her last moments. I don’t necessarily want to focus on her actual death, I find that the last couple of months of her life are more relative in the long run. Try to understand that death does not wait for anyone. This woman was a troubled soul. She had a dead-end job and she didn’t particularly make the best of decisions when it came to her family-these were the only two things she had in her life. That didn’t stop her from complete unhappiness though, I recall a few times when I saw her smile...

How much has the environment changed since the Industrial Revolution?

The Author: Geoffrey Chaucer, born between 1340 & 1345, would go on diplomatic missions which exposed him to many other authors' works, including Dante, Boccaccio & Froissart. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic-figures/chaucer-geoffrey.shtml Historical Context: During Chaucer's life, it was basically easier to die. The Black Death was taking lives through out all of his life. In fact, the Black Death was more heard of than Chaucer's choice of language in the Canterbury Tales. Back then, French and Latin were dominate languages, so it was unheard of to publish a piece of work in English-which Geoffrey Chaucer did. In this article, it explains how the rich were profiting off war & began to indulge, escalating class tensions and how you can percieve this through Chaucers' work. https://www.owleyes.org/text/canterbury-tales/analysis/historical context The Work: Most of the tales are framed in first-person point of view. The title originates from the co...

I like to think the tone of a story is how the author wants you to percieve the story. I agree that diction has much to do with tone, but I think the biggest factor that aides tone is the authors real intentions. If you think about how authors write horror books, they think of their intentions with the story. An author might want to spark fear in a reader, so they'll set the tone. This is where diction comes in. Really, the only tool an author can use for books are words. Powerful words can set the tone of a piece very elegantly-if it's the authors' intention to.

My experience with creating satire was easy because it's almost like you're agreeing with something that really wrong, and that very idea catches my attention completely. I like being sarcastic, I like writing with intentions to drop jaws. If i was asked again, I would create another piece of satire.

As functioning humans, living in a chaotic melting pot, we are taught key rules. These key rules are given to us to keep the smooth system that is our society going. Being a functioning member of society, I have to follow these key rules. I pay my taxes, I stop at red lights, and I work 9 to 5 to support my family and their needs. As an adult, I feel that I should spare my little ones the stress that is adulthood. I propose instead of teaching our children how to do their taxes, we teach them the Quadratic formula. Instead of offering our children driving lessons in a safe and in an organized fashion, we should give them 5 pound books that hold 200 year old stories for them to remember and be tested on, word for word. So that when our children have finished their schooling, and are ready to be functioning members of society, they will have no knowledge of how much their credit score is going to affect them, but at least they will know what a parabola looks like on a graph.

There are two different ways on how I learn. The first way is used much more in school. The first way I "learn" is just by simply listening, taking notes, and consistently asking questions. The other way I learn is by research. Reading articles, studying notes, having conversations where I repeat all my knowledge about the topic. When I utilize these "methods" of learning, I don't have any problems learning/remembering new information. Now, I don't necessarily have a routine for organizing my school stuff, I just go home and do any homework I was assigned to do. I don't manage my time either, I just go to sleep at a reasonable hour and wake up early enough for school. I suppose my lack for routine and time organization comes from not having a busy schedule.

I think that Montaigne presents his interests very clearly and that's what it's about. Something stuck out to me that made me think; "One learns dancing by dancing; one learns to play the  lute by playing the lute. " I realized, one doesn't just start dancing to learn, they have to have a passion or interest in dancing as well. One doesn't just play a lute to learn how to play, they need to be interested in everything 'lute-related'. So really, it's not the system that helps you learn, it's really if you want to learn at all.

The Socratic Method fully allows myself and others to speak their mind in an unconventional state. Basically, it's like having a conversation with 30 other people. I've only ever been involved in 2 Socratic Seminars, but the first one was in junior high, so i didn't spend 15 minutes analyzing my lifes goals. I would participate in another seminar if asked again.

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