For hundreds of years, students of English and Literature have studied this text and worked within its language. In this study, the author will compare the language that he used as a Middle English speaker and writer to the language and words with which a modern reader would speak. ... There are many instances in Chaucer's text that can be derived by a modern day reader. ... It does not include the etymology and history of the change of the words, but it does include the definition, based on Chaucer's Middle English Glossary. ... The change from the Middle English style of English to...

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To have a group of literature that is "commonly accepted" is a dangerous statement. ... The canon, a word defined by A Glossary of Literary Terms as "in relation to literature, this term is half seriously applied to those works generally accepted as the great ones... ... Maggie's older sister Dee is a character that rebels like many older children of our modern day. ... It is almost demeaning to all the great literature out there that is not "in the canon."... Or, will the Canon have grown, encountered new literature and broadened it views? ...

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Adolf Hitler Hitler is sometimes seen as the first modern dictator because of his use of various media to broadcast his ideas. ... When their influence began in the early 15th century, much of the glorious period of the Renaissance in Florence lay already in the past; however, the magnificence and liberality of many of the members of the house, who were passionate patrons of the arts, literature, and learning, led to Florence's becoming the richest repository of European culture. ... Louis XIV of France Louis put France into a prominent and dominant state by strengthening the power of th...

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