... The cathedral was a special place. It was a shrine where the archbishop Thomas A. Becket was murdered in 1170. This was the pilgrimage the twenty nine characters would make. They would start at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, which is near London. The characters in this story tell the stories themselves. This style of writing is called framework. There are twenty-four different stories told by the characters who interact with each other throughout the entire tale. The stories are mostly old familiar ones revamped and retold with the Chaucer style. Most of the stories relate some kind of moral lesson or value. ...

... saw famine, unemployment, and disease at far greater levels than today. A woman’s job was in the home raising the children, very much dependent on the male to bring home the money. In Eveline’s situation, there is no male to help out. Eveline maintains a job at the “Stores� giving all of her hard-earned seven shillings to her father. Jobs were not abundant for women, and considerably smaller when divided amongst four people. Financial aid, public assistance, and shelters for families in need were not available. For Eveline it is very difficult to keep the structure of her family together especially while ...

... When we receive an order, we intuitively react and follow the command. At first, we do not think, nor contemplate the effects that come as a result of our actions. In 1984, we get a sense of a greater authority in Big Brother. Although we never come to know if Big Brother actually exists, the power and authority that this idol holds over the people is unimaginable. The people of Oceania are divided into two classes, the members of the Party and the proletariat. The Party members are like machines that do the jobs of the government. In this world, never has anyone thought any different of his or her place in soc ...

... of Lido Anthony Iacocca, and his use of his powerful language skills in becoming an astonishing leader, and Judy Columbus, with her superior knowledge of the language of entrepreneurship. "Recently, a Fortune 500 survey of top executives revealed that the quality considered most important for promotion to a position of leadership was not technical excellence, not financial knowledge, not marketing ability, but communication skill." (Caroselli 1990, 39) l feel that this quality must be possessed by all leaders in all categories, in order for his or her corporation to function in a successful manner. If you ...

... is also hypocritical with Christianity. Slave owners would make slaves believe that God loves all people, which is contrary to the belief that slaves are inferior. The southern view of gentlemen is also hypocritical. These "gentlemen" are supposed to be noble, yet they own slaves and kill each other. They take part in feuds, even when they cannot remember the cause. They kill each other in duels for no reason, but say that it was in the name of honor. All of this hypocrisy makes Huck want to rebel against this society. Hypocrisy is still present in society today. There are many reported cases of clergy havi ...

... in a way Jordan pushes the story along giving us a better plot. As being Nick Carraway’s girlfriend during the summer of 1922, Jordan helps the reader to learn more about Nick because he lets his true self out to her. Although Nick still liked Jordan regardless, he describes her as “incurably dishonest� (Fitzgerald 63), because of Nick’s remembrance that she cheated at her first big golf tournament. This creates Jordan to be a foil of Nick, because he tells himself, “I am one of the very few honest people that I have ever known� (Fitzgerald 64). Jordan connects Nick to Gatsby by bringing him to one o ...

... and disorder of the trials many people could express hatred and violence toward anyone and anything under a sheet of "righteousness". People could accuse anyone or anything of being sinful and "against gods will" just by stating that they had truth to the matter. This led to complete chaos and miscommunication among families and townsmen. Now that society was down everyone could break the rules and get feelings out that had originally been kept inside them due to the fact that if they had expressed them earlier they would have been punished by society. With the trials keeping all of the city officials busy, People t ...

... even the great god Poseidon can't stop him. Odysseus then gets back on his ship on starts to sail on Poseidon's waters back to Ithaca. Pride is good to have, but in Odysseus’s case, it’s a little too much. On the other hand, he does things that make him a great hero. When Circeturned his crew into animals, he climbed straight up a mountain, risking his life just to save his crew. He will do anything to get back to Ithaca and see his wife and son, no matter how crazy it is. He even goes into the underworld to speak to a prophet about how to get back to Ithaca. Being brave and courageous is all about be ...

... following of a grail� (156). With extreme dedication, he stops at nothing to win her love back, after years of separation. Everything he has done, up to this point, has been directed toward winning Daisy's favor and having her back in his life. The greatest example of this dedication is the mansion he has constructed, “a colossal affair by any standard...with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden� (9). Once a “ penniless young man without a past� (156), he transforms himself into a self-made millionaire and ...

... as it was under the original rulers. I will compare the animals from top of the social class to the bottom. At the top were the pigs. Each pig represented someone different in the revolution. Old Major is compared to Lenin. He was an ideologist who dreamed up a wonderful government where all the animals were equal and the humans, or the czars, were pushed out. Unfortunately his dream would never materialize. Then we are left with his predecessors. The first is Snowball. Snowball believed one hundred percent in Old Majors ideals. He wanted all the things Old Major wanted, such as the welfare of the animals. I ...