They proved to be mere fops, and cowards to boot, and the Cid's vassals did all they could to hide the youths' flaws from the Cid. ... It is illegal to wear weapons or armor in a trial before the king. ... True, the Cid did commend all the lands he conquered to Alfonso. ... The king crosses the river and raises him to his feet. ... Almost all did so, whereupon the Cid presented Alfonso with a gift, a large number of finely saddled horses that were paraded in front of Alfonso. ...

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In the case of King Oedipus, Oedipus married his mother without knowing before hand. ... Her father sent her overseas to marry a King and the king tamed her and groomed her into an ideal queen. The king is praised for putting this woman in her proper role. ... Almost like a piece of property that King Hrothgar owns. ... We may have made society better for some, but when will it happen for all?...

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Also, does she have any part in the poisoning of King Hamlet, her late Husband? ... Right off the bat, Gertrude does not seem to know anything of it and is always trying to explain to her son that it will be ok without the king "Do not forever with thy vailed lids/seek for thy noble father in the dust/thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die/Passing through nature's eternity/" (act I, sc II, l. 72). ... She does not sound in any way as if she had plotted out the killing of King Hamlet. ... (Act 6, sc 2, l. 313) She is on Hamlet's side all along. ... She had no cl...

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A Man For All Seasons In the play, 'A man for all Seasons', Rich shows us the thought that 'all men have their price'. ... This shows us that at the end of the day we all, other than a few, will only be looking out for our own self-interest. ... It shows that all people have a price even if it is on a small scale. ... He is willing to lie on oath and therefore commit perjury, compromise his principles and betray More all for a position that has power. ... Wolsey agrees with More on the issue of the King remarrying and even refers to Anne Boylen as 'muck'. ...

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Henry was now be prepared for the new future ahead of him, to be the next king of England. Upon his father Henry the VII's death on April 22, 1509, Henry became Henry the VIII king of England. ... (Parmiter, 82) In truth, king Henry had fallen in love (lust) with Anne Boleyn and had promised to marry her. ... I think that he used the whole religion thing only to make himself feel better about all the guilt he was feeling from having people killed and all his divorces. ... King Henry, for all his contradictions and failures, helped destroy the greatest institution in medieval Europe -...

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More often than not, men are the center of attention in most all plays in the 17th through 19th centuries; even today our society is male-centric. ... In Oedipus the King, Othello, Tartuffe, The Father and even the absence of women in Waiting for Godot all have an impact in the story and on the audience. ... The play Tartuffe is quite opposite of Othello and Oedipus the King. ... Laura is smart and cunning, a deep contrast from all of the previous female characters mentioned earlier. ... There are no women at all in the play, which has a significant impact on how the play is received by its...

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He has one willing to kill her husband and the other willing to give him all of her land and a title. ... Just as the corporate Edgar had no set goal from the outset to be Chief Executive Officer, the King Lear Edgar had not originally intended A Look at Shakespeare's Edmund to be King of England. ... He sees what kind of king he has been. This statement of Lear's represents what all of the nobility had in common with every-day reality, which is very little. ... Though occupying a small niche in the play, Edmund is the most complex character of all. ...

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While there are many cultural and ethnic differences between every race, we are all human and should explore and embrace the diversity of all cultures when it comes to religion, family views, peers, and community. ... Moreover, at the end of the day, she didn't care whether or not his family objected to their relationship because at the time, all she was worried about was raising a child with the man she loved and wanted to spend the rest of her life with, and he didn't care either what his family thought. ... African American actress, Regina King on Facebook writes why she feels ...

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They were poets, and wealthy men who owned all the best land. ... All of these classes are shown very distinctly in the Odyssey. ... To be family of the great king of Ithaca, Odysseus, meant much more than just knowing him. ... Telemachus not even being able to remember his father before he went off to war, still had this enormous sense of pride that he was the king's son. Once urged by Athena, Telemachus went as far as to leave his mother, and sail across the sea to Pylos to talk to king Nestor about his father. ...

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Peoples finances were all pulled tight. ... Alexander became President of the National Assembly, other than the King there was no one more powerful or more important in all the land. ... All people were supposed to be equal. ... All of the above was done to avoid suspicion. ... The people of France were secretly suspicious of the young king's death. ...

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Hera is wife to Zeus, the king of the gods, making her the queen of the gods. ... John Pinsent, author of "Greek Mythology" wrote, "At some stage Io was tethered to an olive tree in the grove of the Mycenaeans and guarded by the All-seeing Argus, who himself wore a bull's hide and had eyes all over his body, and two faces. ... A gadfly chased Io all the way to Egypt where she gave birth to her son Epaphus who eventually became king of Egypt. ... CONCLUSION Hera would be perfect to represent "Ultimate Devotion" as it is everything she stands for and all that she is. ...

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These men would risk being caught by jealous, angry husbands just to spend a night of pleasure in the arms of their beloved all done in the name of the all-encompassing love. ... The idea of "honour[ing] and lov[ing] all women- was held high by the chivalrous men of the court. ... King Equitan, in the famous lai, by Marie de France, of the same name, falls in love with his seneschal's wife, "The King loved the seneschal's wife for a long time, had no desire for any other women; he didn't want to marry, and never allowed the subject to be raised,"" (Adulterous Love: The Stor...

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Wife of Bath Tale and Tale of Florent: Sincere Superiority or Corrupt Dominance During the Medieval age under the rule of King Arthur, tales of women's empowerment began to contradict the traditional role of women's inferiority to men. ... The Wife of Bath is a woman, with strong opinions and views, in the time of King Arthur during the medieval period, when women were not supposed to have such views. ... This is evident through the knights words, "Take all my goods but leave me my body- (Chaucer 193). A knight is supposed to chivalric at all times, but the Wife of Bath kn...

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Transcribed in 1436, two years before Kempe's death, the autobiography takes place in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England. ... The author, a well-off middle class townswoman, lives in a medieval English town of King's Lynn. ... What unifies all the disparate elements of Margery's personality and experiences is her overwhelming urge to refer everything to the spiritual plane-to see God's will and love as important in every aspect of her life. ...

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The power of authority, the power to transform perceptions and the power of infatuation and romantic desire all contribute to the theme of love. ... Authority, magic, and complete emotion all were driving forces in contributing to the role of power. ... During this rest, Lysander had been approached by Oberon, the King of the Fairies. ... This sudden, irrational passage of love was all caused by the irresponsibility of the fairies and their special powers. ... Helena is in deep love with Demetrius, the king who Egeus wants to exchange vows with Hermia. ...

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Unless you were the king of England, the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries offered few ways out of an unhappy marriage. ... Her only fault-and that is faults enough- Is that she is intolerable curst And shrewd and forward, so beyond all measure That were my state far worser than it is, I would not wed her for a mine of gold. ... (I, i, 201-202, 208-210) Petruchio mocks the fact that they think a woman can be more difficult than all the hardships he has faced. ... - (I, ii, 128) The men suiting Bianca, and all others in society, have established Kate as someone who n...

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Privacy is something that all teenagers need to a certain extent. ... She told me that when her parents divorced, "it all went downhill from there." ... Hamlet's father tells him that his brother, Claudius (the new king of Denmark), assassinated him. ... After learning that his mother remarried with "most wicked speed"(p.31: 161), Hamlet curses the law against "self-slaughter"(p.29: 136) and "all the uses of this world" (p.29: 138) seem to have no meaning. ... To make things worse, Hamlet has "sworn't" (p.63: 119) his revenge on King Claudius and thus decides to "act strange or odd" ...

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They could not vote, own property, or choose a husband, and had to be represented by men in all legal proceedings. ... For instance, Medea speaks out against women's status in society, proclaiming that they have no choice of whom to marry, and that a man can rid themselves of a woman to get another whenever he wants, but a woman always has to "keep [her] eyes on one alone." (231-247) Though it is improbable that women went around openly saying things of this nature, it is likely that this attitude was shared by most or all Greek women. ... She does in fact poison the pri...

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Being in love, taking care of, and growing old with someone is all that should be required to have a happy marriage. ... King Solomon, according to the Bible, had 700 wives and 300 concubines (Editorial Staff). Men have had multiple wives in cultures all over the world, including Africa, China and America in the 19th century. ... We are all equal, no matter what sex, color or interests we have. ... Legalizing same-sex marriage in all US states will improve gays' living and country's economy; what are we still waiting for? ...

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There are many themes of Middle English literature that are very prevalent in the many narratives surrounding King Arthur and the court he leads, which contributes heavily to the category we know as Middle English literature, but chief among them are considered to be courtly love and religion. ... The absurd idea that all women are dangerous and reason for the ruin of men branches from the idea that they are the direct and therefore influenced descendants of the first woman to ever be perceived as evil: Eve. ... The wife, being married five times " which already has her viewed upon as s...

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The husband was not necessarily in charge of all the money, the responsibility was shared between the wife and husband. ... All of the land including the morgengifu would become the husband's property and the woman would have no land. ... (Of all the garments considered essential today, these were the most recently adopted, coming into general use only in the late eighteenth century. ... The very rich - kings, king's kin, archbishops - might cherish one or more garments of silk. ... All saints were expected to be virgins. ...

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But there are other people that aren't for gay rights, instead of helping the gay community they also start their own protests against all gay rights. ... The history of gay marriage, goes back all the way to the 1970's. ... The king Cambodia also allowed same sex marriage that same month. ... Also Oregon County banned all same sex marriage. ... And in 2013, it seemed as though all states and countries would start to legalize it. ...

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The name "Ganymede" of Greek myth was a beautiful boy who was kidnapped by Jupiter, the king of the gods, in order to make him his lover. ... Thus all three question quest of love in a unique and memorable ways. ...

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Some people like tall men or slender women, some like girls with big breasts or big bottoms, some look for a persons financial assets or what color some ones hair or eyes are and with gay and lesbian couple, all of those things still apply but they just happen to be of the same sex. ... Therefore making all of their marriages null and void and telling the gay community that their time and hard earned money isn't worth it because of what some deem as "un normal" or "not natural". ... Now imagine that one of you has passed on unexpectedly not leaving a will or any formal documents leavin...

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For example, Ramesses (King of Egypt 1184-1153 BCE) boasted in one inscription, "I enabled the women of Egypt to go her own way, her journeys being extended where she wanted without any person assaulting her on the road... "(2) Unfortunately the women of ancient Egypt, like all women, were the victims of crime and rape. ... A woman had claims of up to 1/3 of all the community property in her marriage. ... A husband could do several things to allow his wife to receive a larger part of the share or to allow her to dispose of all the property. ... A woman could administer all her property...

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