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- 71: My Trip on the Ganges River
- ... that they will go to paradise. I should point out that the river is only sacred to Hindus. It was interesting to find out that each year, thousands of Hindu pilgrims visit such holy cities as Benares and Allahabad along the banks of the Ganges. They go there just to bathe in the river and to take home some of its ...
- 72: Heart of Darkness; by Joseph Conrad
- ... and science and progress...chief of the Inner Station." Another disillusion of the "grails" was the simpleness of the Townson Inquiry which allowed Marlow to "...forget the jungle and the pilgrims in a delicious sensation of having come upon something unmistakable real....[because] of the notes pencilled in the margin, and plainly regerring to the text....they were in a cipher ...
- 73: Canterbury Tales
- ... the community were less noble and often displeasing. The Canterbury Tales, written by Chaucer, is about a pilgrimage to Canterbury. Along with the narrator (Chaucer), there are 29 other Canterbury pilgrims. Not surprisingly, only three of them are women: the Prioress, the associate of the Prioress, and the Wife of Bath. Each traveler is to tell two tales to make the ...
- 74: Canterbury Tales - The Evil Rooted In Women
- ... the Jew as the villain of her tale. However, there is no historical evidence of ritual murder of Christian children by Jews, but that would not have mattered to the pilgrims.(fordham, 3) Anti-Semitism, directed at a people thought to have both rejected and murdered Christ, was distressingly deep-seated. (icg, 2) This bigotry unfortunately was rampant at the time ...
- 75: Heart Of Darkness 11
- ... p 99) As Marlow's journey takes him deeper into the Congo, however, Marlow latches on to Kurtz as a source of enlightenment and understanding, as someone beyond the hollow pilgrims, and managers, and Papier-Mache Mephistopheles that he had thus far encountered. So strong did Marlow belief in Kurtz's revelatory powers become, that when he thought that he would ...
- 76: Prophet Muhammad
- ... was filled with three hundred and sixty idols. The original, pristine message of Prophet Ibrahim (peace be upon him) was lost, and it was mixed with superstitions and traditions of pilgrims and visitors from distant places, who were used to idol worship and myths. The Arab pagans believed that the idols were their “gods.” The same idols they created, were now ...
- 77: Heart Of Darkness 4
- ... the old tribal ways. "Thrown upon their own inner spiritual resources they may be utterly damned by their greed, their sloth, and their hypocrisy into moral insignificance, as were the pilgrims, or they may be so corrupt by their absolute power over the Africans that some Marlow will need to lay their memory among the 'dead Cats of Civilization.'" (Conrad 105 ...
- 78: Discuss How Art Can Be Used To Promote, Reflect Or Challenge
- ... the church and attracted more Christians. The artwork was a decorative and educational feature of the church. The artwork made the church more appealing and beautiful so therefore attracted more pilgrims and also depicted a biblical story that conveyed the morals of temptation and as a result educated and brought to life the Christian story for the illiterate followers. This artwork ...
- 79: Geoffery Chaucer
- ... u sof the Divine Loev; the giure of life as a pilgrimage towards the Divine Love is as old as the Church herself. (Grose 128) When we look at the pilgrims more closely, the motives we can see love at work. And it seems that through all the stories love is there, showing that at the time Chaucer had one thing ...
- 80: An Analysis of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales": The Wife of Bath's Tale
- ... personal views which lead me to judge her by current standards, it can be said that despite her personal flaws, Alison's tale is the most original of all the pilgrims' accounts (Howard 141). Within the context of the Middle Ages, it was surely a journey beyond the realms of normalcy, possibly planting the seeds of feminism in the minds of ...
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