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"A Midwife?s Tale", 2001.
This paper is a review of "A Midwife?s Tale" by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
1,965 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 43.95
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This paper is an analysis of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's book, "A Midwife's Tale," a story about life in rural New England in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The paper is an analysis of the characters, method and style used by the author in presenting this piece of historical fiction. The story is written in diary format, the main character, Martha Ballard is a midwife and her diary entries reflect the real life concerns that faced women during this period in history. The female characters are shown to be strong, independent and courageous, not weak and submissive. It shows how women, despite many of the limitations placed upon them by the time period, made positive contributions to medicine and everyday life. This gives us important insight into life during this period of American history. Each chapter of the book includes diary entries, followed by editorial comments by Professor Ulrich which help to guide the reader and enhance their understanding of the material. Samples of these diaries are presented throughout the paper.
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"Practical details of daily life and the hardships of getting to her deliveries as related in the diary are charming and make Martha Ballard come to life. She is real, vital, adventurous and down to earth. She rides her horse in all weather to make her deliveries, has treacherous crossings of the Kennebec River and other bodies of water: Crosst the river in their Boat. A great sea A going. We got safe over then sett out for Mr Hewins. I Crost a stream on the way of fleeting Loggs & got safe over. Wonder full is the Goodness of providence (5).
Martha?s faith in Providence is an important part of the heritage of our forefathers and foremothers that is too often forgotten in modern times. Both her physical side and her spiritual side come alive in the diary entries. We feel her lively caring involved spirit: Mrs Sewall was ill till 3 hour pm when shee was through divine asistance made the Living Mother of a Living Son, her 3d Child (94-95)."
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"A Midwife's Tale", 2001.
This paper is a literary analysis of Laurel Ulrich's novel, "A Midwife's Tale".
2,030 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 44.95
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This paper presents a detailed examination of the story ?A Midwife?s Tale? by Laurel Ulrich. The author of this paper explores the book, the film and a web site about the story to compare and contrast the three. Using information from each source we are given the opportunity to evaluate the importance each site places on certain events and beliefs.
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"Throughout history, we have used archived and discovered journals to help us piece together what happened before us. Many slavery accounts came from former slaves, while many accounts of politics came from the journals of politicians. Rarely, however, do we get a look at the pure way of life for the average poor American. "A Midwife?s Tale", is a recreation of the actual diary pages of Martha Ballard. Ballard lived in the 18th century and recorded many of the every day ways of life that she witnessed. Years later we are fascinated to learn what her life and the lives around her were like. "Even with her diaries in our possession to lean on each interpretation of them is tempered by the mind of the person who does the interpreting. There is a book a film and a web site all dedicated to the diaries of Martha Ballard. Each one is similar in its purpose and tales but each one also has some differences as the author of each venue interprets the importance of the recorded events."
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Thatcher Ulrich's "A Midwife's Tale", 1994.
Review of this work based on the diary of Martha Ballard, 18th Cent.-19th Cent. female midwife/healer.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, £ 32.95
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" This study will examine Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's A Midwife's Tale, The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812. Specifically, the study will consider the ways in which medicine, social convention and economics are inextricable parts of the diary, and the effect that such areas of concern have on the reader's understanding of Ballard's society and women's position in it. The study will argue that, indeed, medicine, social convention, and economics as described in the book reveal much about the control over society which men held in Ballard's era and about the interior position of women in that society.
This does not mean, however, as in the example of medicine, that women were entirely excluded, or had no power whatsoever. The book shows that while "Male physicians are easily identified in town records and, even in Martha's diary, by the title.."
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Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales., 1991.
This paper examines Geoffrey Chaucer's narrative techniques and philosophy of marriage in "The Wife of Bath's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, £ 27.95
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This paper is concerned with an examination of Geoffrey Chaucer's narrative techniques in "The Wife of Bath's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales. The Wife of Bath certainly has the qualifications to be an expert on marriage because she has been married five times. Basically, she is the Fool of the company in the traditional manner in which everyday truth is turned upside down. If practice makes perfect, then the Wife of Bath has had considerable training on the subject of matrimony. However, it could be that she needed to commit matrimony until she got it right. And so, the "Prologue" commences: "Experience, though noon auctoritee/Were in this world, is right ynough for me/To speke of wo that is in marriage:/For lordinges, sith I twelf yeer was of age--/Thanked be God that is eterne on live--/Housbondes at chirche dore I have had five/(If I so ofte mighte han wedded ... "
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Fairy Tales and "A Tale of Two Cities", 2008.
A discussion on how Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" contains elements of fairy tales.
1,725 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 38.95
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This paper examines how "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens and classical fairy tales are very related through the function of oppression, achieving a voice, and the use of stock characters. It looks at how certain ideas and characters, such as Madame Defarge and Lucie in "A Tale of Two Cities", are comparable to ideas and characters like evil stepmothers and princesses in fairy tales. Through the similarities, Dickens' novel is a parallel of fairy tales.
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"Fairy tales contain a manner of oppression as well. Most princesses discussed in fairy tales undergo rejection from a higher authority, similar to the ostracizing of peasants by the nobility. The story of Cinderella addresses the issues of oppression and injustice ("Cinderella" 1). Cinderella faces rejection from her stepmother when coerced to act as a servant in the house by constantly cleaning, attending to the stepsisters' needs, and dressing in rags. The stepmother refuses to allow Cinderella to attend the Prince Charming's ball as well. Her stepsisters', however, are treated properly as a daughter should be with love from the mother. "
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A Comparison of a Buddhist Tale and a British Tale, 2001.
This paper compares a western tale, Oscar Wilde's "The Happy Prince" and a very ancient non-western tale, "The Biography of the Buddha".
2,865 words (approx. 11.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 59.95
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This is an in-depth juxtaposition and analysis of Oscar Wilde's "The Happy Prince" and a Buddhist tale "The Biography of the Buddha". It details the plots and main characters of both tales and tries to compare them, and find similarities between them. The comparison is done by examining the narrative construction of both stories. It compares both main characters: the prince and Buddha and manages to find many similarities between their characters and behaviorisms. It details Buddhism outlook on life as well as the happy Princes' outlook, both optimistic.
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""The Happy Prince? tells the story of a prince, whom, while he was alive, was always happy and lived in a great, walled palace. When he died he was fashioned into a statue of gold and placed where all could see him in the middle of the town square. The story of the Buddha, or Naropa, or Siddartha Gautama, as he is sometimes known, tells the tale of young Brahmin (one step down from the priests in the Indian caste system) who was highly sheltered from the world. One day, he was taken out of the walled confines of his home. There, he witnessed three sights: old age, sickness, and death. Then he sees a holy man and is struck by the obvious ?sincerity? of the man?s bearing. These sights spurred him to renounce the world and enter into a life of contemplation. The results of these years of contemplation was Buddhism, an epiphany he struck upon when a young girl presented him with a bowl of rice after many years of fasting. (Saunders 23; Mitchell 39-40)"
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"Canterbury Tales: The Miller's Tale", 2003.
Looks at the portrayal of gender in the "Canterbury Tales General Prologue", Miller's Portrait, and the "Miller's Tale" by Chaucer.
1,750 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 39.95
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This paper discusses how the Miller's lack of virtue, as seen in his portrait and unsavory scatological tale, forms an aggregate text that works to disgust the reader.
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Michael Pertschuk states on the topic of gender roles and beauty that, ?the stereotypical male has been depicted as fixated on female bodies while being largely oblivious of his own" (54). This is true of the Miller?s character portrait in the Canterbury Tales. The Miller is described to be a despicable, burly man, who is involved in activities deeply rooted in masculinity. In his tale, the characters that emerge unscathed or victor of the mating competition fit what we could assume to be within his gender role paradigm.
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"The Midwife's Apprentice", 2002.
A book review of Karen Cushman's "The Midwife's Apprentice".
700 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 16.95
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In this book review of "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman, the author of the paper summarizes the plot of this novel set in Middle Ages England, about a young girl who befriends a cat and goes on to become a midwife's apprentice. The author of the paper discusses the major concepts of the novel and offers an evaluation of how these concepts are met. Finally the author offers personal comments on the book.
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"One of the ways the girl begins to see her own worth is when someone mistakes her for a girl named Alyce who "sounded like someone who could read." If she looks like a girl who can read, then maybe she too can be a girl of value. Deciding that her name is Alyce, she is still taking her meaning from outside herself, but it is a step in learning that she is more than nothing."
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The Knight's and Miller's Tales in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", 2000.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 2 sources, £ 39.95
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This paper is fairly theoretical but it uses common close reading techniques on both the primary and secondary texts of "The Canterbury Tales" to exam issues of sexuality and class in the Knight's Tale and the Miller's Tale. The Canterbury tales text used was not translated so the quotations are still in Chaucerian English.
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" In, The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, Michel Foucault writes of the seventeenth century as ?the beginning of an age of repression emblematic of what we call the bourgeois societies (17).? Thus placing Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales decidedly before this ?age of repression,? in a time when ?sexual practices had little need of secrecy; words were said without undue reticence, and things were done without too much concealment,? when, ? one had a tolerant familiarity with the illicit (Foucault 3).? With this historical demarcation in mind I would like to consider the erotic triangles dealt with in the first two stories of The Canterbury Tales and how they relate to expressions of a class-conscious male sexuality. To do this I will be drawing heavily on the introduction and first chapter of Eve Sedgwick?s seminal text, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, for a theoretical and critical base.Specifically I will be looking at the climactic moments of these first two tales (the Knight?s and the Miller?s) to analyze how the problematic erotic triangles are worked out between the two men involved, and comparing the way class difference makes itself apparent."
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?The Miller?s Tale? and ?The Wife of Bath?s Tale?, 2003.
A look at two views on the fallibility of the standard of medieval prudence in Chaucer?s "Canterbury Tales".
957 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 23.95
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This essay compares and contrasts the nonconformity of both the Wife of Bath and the Miller in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales".
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"Chaucer?s Canterbury Tales is, at its very core, a work of social commentary on fourteenth century English society. Every walk of life is represented here, from the inherited nobility of the knight, to the intellectual achievements of the clerk, and the monetarily gained social status of the Merchant. Each of these classes had to answer, however, to the same oppressive governing body: The Church."
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Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", 2005.
This paper compares "The Pardoner's Tale" and "The Parson's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales".
2,600 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 54.95
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This paper explains that "The Pardoner's Tale" and "The Parson's Tale", from Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", both make sin the focus of their tales but in vastly different ways. The author points out that the Pardoner appears to revel in the baser qualities of both himself and others, enjoying the discomfort he causes his audience, in no small measure due to the qualities of sterility and death without the hope of life that he represents. The paper relates that "The Parson", which contrasts with "The Pardoner" in the personality of the character, the story content and the structure, is a much simpler a man than the Pardoner, in that there are no contradictions in his personality; furthermore there are no contradictions between the Parson's actions and his words because he believes in the Christian principles in his sermon to the point of Puritanism.
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The Pardoner: Decadence
The Pardoner's Tale
The Parson
The Parson's Sermon
Conclusion
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"The Parson thus abandons all attempts at narrative, and puritanically focuses only on purely Christian principles. His is then the only tale that lacks any narrative element. The Parson thus expects his morality to be sufficient food for thought offered to his audience. Of course, the contrasts of this tale with that of the Pardoner are more than the points of comparison. The length and content are the most obvious differences. The Parson tells a lengthy moral tale in the form of a sermon, while the Pardoner brings across his moral by means of an entertaining story. The Parson's moral is concretely told by means of his sermon. In comparison, the Parson, like the Pardoner, offers forgiveness of sins. The Parson's forgiveness however is driven by the penitent him- or herself, and not by the clergyman."
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Geoffrey Chaucer's "Tales of Marriage", 2004.
This paper discusses three of Chaucer's tales, "The Wife of Bath," "The Merchant's Tale," and "The Franklin's Tale," to determine Chaucer's views on marriage, arguing that "The Franklin's Tale" suggests Chaucer's idea of an ideal marriage.
4,925 words (approx. 19.7 pages), 8 sources, APA, £ 86.95
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This paper relates that the Wife of Bath introduces herself as the authority on marriage and marital life, commenting on the social and legal position of women in marriage and daily life and, rather than rejecting scriptural authority, she appeals to logic, rejecting too strict interpretations of scriptural rules and commandments. The author points out that, during the Middle Ages, it was widely believed that the highest type of chivalric love was incompatible with marriage, but The Franklin boldly challenges this view by pointing out that love can be consistent with marriage; indeed, without love, marriage is doomed for failure. The paper relates that the main virtue of 'The Franklin's Tale" is the noble spirit, which is seen throughout it, and the idea that love, patience, and forgiveness are the true essence of love and marriage.
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Introduction
The Wife
The Merchant
The Franklin
Discussion and Conclusion
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"The Wife of Bath is one of the strongest characters in "The Canterbury Tales". Headstrong, loud and opinionated, she represents a major struggle against the degradation of women and the taboos against female sexuality. She presents many strong arguments against rigid religious rules for chastity and monogamy, using Biblical examples, such as the tale of King Solomon, to show that the Bible does not actually condemn sexuality, even outside of marriage."
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Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales", 2006.
Compares and contrast the "Priest's Tale" and the "Manciple's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's work, "The Canterbury Tales."
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 1 source, £ 61.95
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This paper explores the "Priest's Tale" and the "Manciple's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's classic work, "The Canterbury Tales." Through comparing and contrasting the two distinctive beast fables that are presented in these stories, this paper demonstrates that the beast fable can be used to demonstrate extremely distinctive views of human nature and the capacity for human actions and behaviors.
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"The use of the beast fable has traditionally been to illustrate some aspect of humanity in a manner that is both accessible to the audience and helps communicate the concept that humanity can act in an animalistic fashion. Through using the beast fable as a teaching tool, the audience can identify that the actions of human beings are at times animalistic, and thus basic human nature needs to be seen not as beyond the capacity of engaging in foolish or otherwise base actions."
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Not so Long Ago, 2001.
This paper is a comparison of the "Midwife's Tale" and the true story of a midwife.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 32.95
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This paper presents a detailed life story of the author?s grandmother and her experience bearing children. The writer of this paper presents a look at the facilities and the methods that were used with the grandmother and compares and contrasts them to the methods described in the "Midwife?s Tale". It details the experiences of a midwife in real life and in the book the "Midwife's Tale".
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"The woman who was chosen for this interview is named Mildred Potase. She is the biological grandmother to the author of the paper and she agreed to be interviewed for this project. Medical science has advanced so quickly in the last century that the way women used to give birth, compared to the way they do so in more recent years is vastly different. However, the prenatal care was not always different, as many women preferred the care of a midwife over the care of a licensed medical doctor. This is a fad that seems to come in and out of popularity, and when the grandmother of the writer was expecting her child it was all the rage to use shiny hospitals in many areas of the nation."
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