He stresses that it is up to the reader to either take "any thynge that liketh hem" as such things proceed from God, or "any thyng that displese hem," as such things are created by the writer's own ignorance (Ibid). Sayce identifies numerous examples of analogous rhetorical endings in Latin, French and German writings, in which the convention of apologizing or distancing the writer from the possible negative effects of the writing may be traced, along with some sentiments crediting God for any positive results (Sayce, 1971)
Similarly, the Romance of the Rose is about "a young man who attends a garden party," and Piers Plowman about "a peasant who guides a group of people looking for a nobleman." (Schwartz
" (Chaucer, Parson's Tale, X, 1080) Tupper argues that through this device, the Parson's Tale "provides the organizing principle to the preceding tales, which are exemplary of the sins and their remedies." (Tupper, 1914) If this is true, then clearly the Retraction is Chaucer's capitulation to his own character's prescription for salvation
Young expands upon the religious beliefs of the time, the literal belief in the peril of the soul from impious acts, the depth of which is difficult for the modern Christian to comprehend. (Young, 2000) Speed quotes the view of hell at Chaucer's time as described by the monk of Evesham's Vision, 1197: "Some [sinners] were roasted before fire; others were fried in pans; red hot nails were driven into some to their bones; others were tourtured with a horrid stench in baths of pitch and sulphur mixed with molten lead
" The damage had been done, and "he could not revoke the act nor remedy its evil consequences." (Wurtele, 1980) Chaucer himself does put similar words in the mouth of the Manciple, who laments, "Thyng that is seyd, and forth it gooth, / Though hym repente, or be hym nevere so looth" (Chaucer, Manciple's Tale IX, lines 354-355)
Explicit was all that people wanted the stories to be. Playboy sold a lot of things, but it also sold soft young bodies, and it recommended that if its readers bought its things, and lived by its convention, those bodies might be stroked and embraced Playboy pressed, issue after issue, decade after decade, ways of thinking about longing that were neither meaningfully sensible nor feasible (Bissell, 2010)
In awareness raising groups and at protest rallies, in position papers and feminist newsletters, women tried to hypothesize the implication of Playboy Magazine in a sexist culture and discussed the implications of Playboy's support for feminist objectives. Playboy's idolization of a sexually liberated, customer slanting, hardworking bachelor individualist presented priceless commentary on a culture in evolution and placed the magazine at the center of deliberations about sex and liberty, politics and pleasure in a postwar America (Fraterrigo, 2009)
Unavoidably, increased competition, an altering macro environment, and a move in shopper tastes will force a brand that has not planned far enough into the future into decline. In the 1980's, Playboy became one of those brands that was forced into turn down with no plan in place to lengthen its lifecycle (Gunelius, 2009)
Last year the corporation decreased Playboy magazine's rate foundation, the newsstand and subscription sales assured to advertisers, to one and half million from 2.6 million (Pulley, 2010)
The magazine's open approach not only released conventional moral strictures on one of the most influential of human urges but also endorsed its commercialization. Hefner undoubtedly stood as the most familiar merchandise of and means for, the contemporary sexual revolution (Watts, 2008)
.for so many ages dumb' brim with 'a demand for something' -- they scarcely know what -- for something that is perhaps incompatible with the facts of human existence" (Gordon 92), makes it wholly impossible for Rachel to survive: Rachel Vinrace cannot take a novelistic place in English society: she cannot survive
g., if she is menstruating that means she has not fulfilled her obligation to produce babies) (Atwood, 73)
This fault, when added to the existing fears due to the known existence of the Hosgri Fault (three miles offshore from the nuclear plant) has given local citizens something more to worry about. So exactly how many earthquake faults does it take to shut down a nuclear power plant," asked David Weisman, the outreach coordinator with watchdog organization Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility (Daniel, 2008)
e., "could this really happen?" - the novel's narrator, Offred explains how things got into the terrible shape they are in but scholarly critic Eric Domville (Domville, 2006) boils it down into simple terms
Legal documents that date back to the 15th Century BC support biblical records of that practice, Domville continues. In another scholarly article in the University of Toronto Quarterly (Neuman, 2006), the writer explains that Atwood, and outspoken feminist from Canada, insisted after publishing the book that she, Atwood, "invented nothing" in her descriptions of the fascist state of Gilead
.to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying" (Risen, et al
These are women who did not consent to allow a man to have sex with them, and likely many of those rapes were conducted with the threat of being injured, or killed, if they didn't cooperate in some way. As to sexual slavery in the world, according to ABC News (Thomas, et al
In addition, Constance learns that Desdemona is a much stronger character than shown in "Othello," and so, Iago's device also allows for dramatic character development in the play. Thematically, the buckets Iago carry signify his fall from grace, he puts it "from officer, to sweeper of his sewers" (MacDonald II, ii
Everyday Use by Alice Walker The three mainly important characters in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" are a black mother and two daughters, each representing a different aspect of the manifestation of the current form of their hopes and dreams. Mama is the mother, Dee the beautiful but empty-hearted daughter and Maggie the representative of the past (Powell)
The government and its requirements destroys the happy innocence of the young brothers by destroying Henry's soul. Henry now understands that no red convertible can mitigate the evil and oppression of which people are capable, while Lyman's innocence is a permanent reminder of what he had lost (Walker)