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This produced a wealth of information about the different groups known to be at risk of poverty, including pre-school children, school age children, lone parents, people in and out of paid work, people with physical and mental health problems, homeless people and older individuals.
Priority number one is The Elimination of Poverty because it is recognised that Poverty is the biggest cause of suffering world wide. To many people poverty is something that exists in Africa and other far away places but this is not the case. Poverty also exists here in Canterbury.
Jul 3, 2024 · The Canterbury Tales is significant in literature for its pioneering use of the English vernacular, which helped elevate English to a literary language. Its diverse range of characters and...
CANTERBURY TALES Literary authors, especially those with other occupations, must come to grips with the question of why they should write at all, when the world urges them to devote their time and energy to other pursuits. They must reach, at the very least, a provisional conclusion regarding
Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170, had been brutally murdered in his cathedral over a disagreement with Henry II (1133–89), and, after Becket was canonized (in 1173), Canterbury became one of the most important sites for pilgrimage in the Christian West.
Many of the privileged in England viewed many of the poor as responsible for their own fate and held the opinion that nothing could cure them of their ill qualities. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is a work that is very much a product of its time.
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Jul 14, 2014 · Paul Olson argues that Chaucer's narratives emerge from his deep concern about the crises of late fourteenth-century England and his vision of the renewal of that troubled society through the ideal of parlement, the various orders of society speaking together, and through a perfective religious discipline.