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Ernest Hemingway

True love

by: Ehsan Rahimpoor

Once upon a time there was a strange creature living in a planet far from the Earth. There was no one dwelling there but this creature. Actually they were two, but had stuck to each other in a peculiar way. The shape of their body was like an egg and each of them had a very big eye which had almost covered half of their bodies. They were stuck to each other from the back side so they could never see each other or even themselves, like two eyes which are being glued together from their back. Their planet was really beautiful and they enjoyed looking at different sceneries of their planet, and they never had an image of ugly thing in their minds. The only problem was that there were neither mirrors nor water so that they could see themselves.  Although they couldn’t see each other, they loved one another. One day Cat told Cap “we love everything around us because they’re beautiful. How about ourselves? Are we beautiful or not?” there was no answer to this question since they had never seen each other, or even themselves. However in their dreams they would imagine two beautiful creatures which were connected to each other by the power of love.

Seven Top Idiots of 2008

Number One Idiot of 2008

I am a medical student currently doing a rotation in toxicology at the poison control center. Today, this woman called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants. I quickly reassured her that the ants are not harmful and there would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital. She calmed down and at the end of the conversation happened to mention that she gave her daughter some ant poison to eat in order to kill the ants.
I told her that she better bring her daughter in to the emergency room right away.

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Number Two Idiot of 2008

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

Author/Context

Geoffrey Chaucer lived during a tumultuous period in England's history. During his early youth, the Bubonic Plague terrorized Europe, killing a large portion of the population, and forever leaving a lasting impression on those surviving the catastrophe. Throughout Chaucer's life, the Church was also in an upheaval. It was caught in a position of deception and uncertainty, perhaps because of the Plague and perhaps because of economics. Nonetheless, the fraud occurring within the holy walls influenced Chaucer's work. During his lifetime, the Hundred Years War between England and France also took place, which again placed a violent element in Chaucer's work.

It is this period of political and social turmoil in England that allowed Chaucer to produce a large body of influential work. Known as a poet and often as a friend of the nobility, Chaucer was ultimately part of the bourgeois of England. Very little is actually known about his life, despite his rearing by a middle-class family. His father was in the wine and leather trade, perhaps giving the family their surname - Chaucer - for it means a maker of footwear. He was a page in a royal household during his youth, continued his relationship with royalty throughout his life, married the daughter of a knight, Philippa, and traveled to France and Spain. His life was that of "an active, responsible civil servant and cosmopolitan courtier" (Halverson x).