Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (MacKaye) introduces readers to a diverse group of travelers making the annual pilgrimage to Canterbury, seeking blessings from St Thomas á Becket. ... Additionally, the Summoner is guilty of a multitude of sins against the church, including drunkenness and bribery. In spite of his own transgressions, the Summoner still holds himself in a higher regard than those he summons. ... His opinions are solidified throughout the tales by many examples of these traits. ...

• Word Count: 873
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Periclean Building Program "There was one measure above all which at once gave the greatest pleasure to the Athenians, adorned their city and created amazement among the rest of mankind, and which is today the sole testimony that the tales of the ancient power and glory of Greece are no mere fables." ... Pericles summoned a conference of all Greek states to consider the questions of rebuilding the Greek temples destroyed by the Persians. ...

• Word Count: 1463
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Epic of Gilgamesh, the great tale of a Mesopotamian hero-king written in the Akkadian language during the first millennium BC, is full of dream accounts, many replete with divine omens of danger or victory; in one a nightmare creature leads the hero Enkidu to the "Land of Dust" where the souls of the dead live in perpetual darkness (Fontana). ... The Babylonians revered the Jews as dream interpreters, and in the sixth century BC they summoned the Israelite prophet Daniel to interpret one of King Nebuchadnezzar's dreams, whereupon he correctly predicted the king's imminent seve...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is not always a physical strength – although many heroes seem to summon such strength when events necessitate it – but it is frequently endurance, courageous persistence, and strength of mind, that when allied even with whatever limited physical strength exists, can appear almost superhuman. ... It is a hero's tale of "long golden beaches high capes great brown mountains [and] white peaks of islands rising from the sea" (27). ...

• Word Count: 1942
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is mentioned in Irish History that St. Patrick banished all the snakes from Ireland. This seems an impressive feat and we seem to be able to confirm it as fact as Ireland is indeed a country without snakes. However, the more realistic, and more mundane reason why there are no snakes in Ireland is because the country is an island surrounded by the sea. It was separated from the land mass of Europe around 6700 BC before snakes and other varieties of plant life were common in the country. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

1. Introduction 1.1 Background In the course of the most recent years it has gotten to be basic that some huge leading firms are extending their products in a lot of nations and becoming tremendous both in size and financially. Something intriguing can be found is the point at which these sorts of firms need to achieve another market far from the local market, the marketing managers need to settle on the decision either to take a similar strategy as the one implement in their local market or to change it to fit in with the host nation. At the point when picking the universal marketing strategy...

• Word Count: 4923
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate