Dear brethren, god forgive you your trespass, and keep you from the sin of avarice; my holy pardon here can save you all, and will, so long as you make offerings of gold and silver coin, spoons, brooches, rings— bow down your heads before this holy bull! –the canterbury tales, geoffrey chaucer what vice is chaucer satirizing in this passage? jealousy anger greed pride

According to stephen hawking in the "origin of the universe" lecture, "why are we here" and "where did we come from" are questions that

Read the excerpt from elie wiesel’s all rivers run to the sea. why were those trains allowed to roll unhindered into poland? why were the tracks leading to birkenau never bombed? i have put these questions to american presidents and generals and to high-ranking soviet officers. since moscow and washington knew what the killers were doing in the death camps, why was nothing done at least to slow down their “production”? that not a single allied military aircraft ever tried to destroy the rail lines converging on auschwitz remains an outrageous enigma to me. birkenau was “processing” ten thousand jews a day. stopping a single convoy for a single night—or even for just a few hours—would have prolonged so many lives. based on the paragraph, the author would most likely agree that it is best to avoid confrontation at all costs. people need to be proactive when they witness an injustice. countries should remain neutral to keep alliances strong. moscow and washington are to be blamed for the holocaust.

In marian anderson sings the author begins the story by putting the reader right in the middle of the action what is the yearn for this type of organization