"This is a critical point for the Penn State Nittany Lions.
"You"re absolutely right Al, third and long with only one minute left in the game. The Lions need a field goal to tie it up; a touch down would win the game sending them in to the finals.".
"This puts an immense amount of pressure on Zach Mills, who up until now, frankly, has not been playing very well.".
"Here they come out of the huddle.".
"Just listen to the crowd here at Beaver Stadium. They"re going wild. Every one is on their feet.".
"The ball is snapped".
"Mills, looking strong in the pocket, taking his time to find an open receiver, he rolls to the outside, dumps the ball to Tony Johnson, Tony Johnson blows by his defender, rolls to break another tackle and dives for the end zone, HE"S IN!! THE NITTANY LIONS HAVE DONE IT!!!".
Here's a situation everyone at Penn State is familiar with, the excitement of a Penn Sate football game. But you have to wonder, at what cost are the whole student body as well as thousands of alumni and fans entertained? A growing debate is whether sports in college play a positive role in the university, or whether they should be banned due to their negative aspects. This paper will discuss both the pros and cons of intercollegiate sports to better illustrate the two sides of the argument. .
Sports play a huge role in societies through out the world. They are a source for entertainment, as well as good exercise and fun for the participants. It is nearly impossible to go through a whole day without talking or over hearing a conversation about some kind of sporting event. The world of sports consumes the lives of many whether they are a professional athlete, sports writer, the average middle age man who loves Monday night football, or even college students involved with the athletic department at their respective university. Many college students play a sport but is it really worth it? Are sports taking away from academics? Some would argue that college sports should be banned.
Fairy Tale Love What is love? ... I was taught by fairy tale's that love was a completely different world. ... In my head, the marriage was doomed from the start. ... The originators of these fairy tales made it up. ... I did not see it for what it was because it did not fit into the mold formed in my head of how love was supposed to go, so it must not be real. ...
The anti-antifeminist Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales Written during the fourteenth century, The Canterbury Tales, by portraying the Christian pilgrimage, represents the medieval lives of noble and lower class. ... "The Knight's Tale," "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale," "The Miller's Prologue and Tale," and "The Clerk's Prologue and Tale," for example, grant a close sight to the marriage and male-female sexual relationship of the medieval time. ... As "The Knight's Tale" proceeds, we see the Theseus and his troops in high spirits ride back after his victor...
In the "General Prologue- of Canterbury Tales Chaucer describes the pilgrims who take a religious journey to the shrine of Thomas Becket. ... Chaucer's harsh criticism of the corruptness of the church institution and his anticlerical views are found in almost every portrait of a religious figure in the tales, signifying that immorality among the clergy was quite prevalent. ... She is described as confident and in control as she sits atop her horse on page 23, lines 471-475: On an ambling horse she sat easily, well wimpled; and on her head was a hat as broad as a buckler or a ...
A Tale of Two Cities- A Historical fiction A Tale of Two Cities is a novel categorized as historical fiction. ... A Tale of Two Cities is parallel to history in many different respects. ... "Now, breaking the unnatural silence the whole city, the executioner showed the people the head of the king, and now, in it seemed almost in the same breath, the head of his fair wife which had had eight weary months of imprisoned widowhood and misery to turn it gray"(Dickens 302). ... Carlyle casually referred to Lafarge, the head of the Jacobin Society, in his book: The French Revolutio...
Obvious examples of this include the wives in both the Miller and Reeve's tales. ... This abandonment of ideals extents to sex in that the monk is also marked by a balding head, a medieval symbol of lust and promiscuity. ... To continue with this derailment of the significance of sex through infidelity, we must also examine the inclusion of fabliau tales in The Canterbury Tales. ... At the tale's conclusion, Alisoun, who has broken the vows of monogamy, is left unpunished. ... In addition, the fabliau tales are widely accepted as Chaucer's best tales both in style and plot, The ...
" Then in 1843, he wrote, "The Tell-Tale Heart.... Furthermore, in "The Tell Tale Heart," the narrator thinks it might have been the old man's freaky eye that brought up the idea to kill him. ... In "The Tell Tale Heart," the narrator opens the lantern just enough to let "a tiny bit of light," shine on the old man's eye. ... The narrator sticks his head through the door and is about to shines the light to see if the old man's eye is open. ... To illustrate, in "The Tell Tale Heart," on the eighth night, he marks it as the time to...
I bet it was Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales". ... The father presents her head to the judge and was going to be hanged for murder, but instead the judge and the bad man are imprisoned. ... The prioress continues the tales with a tale of a young martyr who was killed by Jews for singing a song of the virgin Mary. ... The host now requests a tale form the Manciple who tells a tale of a white crow who sings and talks. ... Finally it's the Parson's turn to tell a tale, h...
Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny," (Shakespeare Prologue Lines 1-3) These are the opening words of William Shakespeare's ageless tale Romeo and Juliet. ... Romeo and Juliet is the ultimate tale of love that is too great to bear. ... This particular film is a musical presentation of the extraordinary tale. ... This relentlessly paced MTV-style film is an updating of the tale. ... He eventually withdraws his head from the bowl. ...
Gothic Tale Comparison Period 1 Two of Edgar Allan Poe's best short stories are "The Black Cat" and "The Pit and the Pendulum." ... The murderer is telling us his story from prison before his death and the prisoner tells his tale after escaping death at the hands of the monks. ... In "The Pit and the Pendulum" however, the narrator's tale isn't as believable because he's telling it after he narrowly escaped a horrible end, which means that in retrospect he knows what is going to happen and could exaggerate some of his feelings. ... Instead of simply writing tha...
Since all the tales end with some sort of moral or lesson, many people take The Canterbury Tales for simple children's fables. ... Chaucer continues to depict his lessons in the Pardoner's Tale. ... Frantically the boys head up the road to "kill this traitor Death" but instead, found a pile of gold. ... Like the Manciple's tale and most other tales, Chaucer's morals within his stories shine so brightly that it makes it hard not to see. ... Finally, Chaucer, much like the previous tale, portrays the actions/thoughts of the Pardoner, the teller of the tale, at the end of hi...