Emma Levine employs structure‚ sentence length‚ vocabulary‚ and other literary features to portray a sense of passing time in this excerpt from “A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat‚” where the author experiences a donkey race with Karachi locals. Levine utilizes sentence length to create a sense of passing time. She describes the impending conclusion to the race with a long‚ descriptive sentence followed by “the race is over‚” a four word sentence. The employment of a long sentence followed by a
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Although convinced that she herself will never marry‚ Emma Woodhouse‚ a precocious twenty-year-old resident of the village of Highbury‚ imagines herself to be naturally gifted in conjuring love matches. After self-declared success at matchmaking between her governess and Mr. Weston‚ a village widower‚ Emma takes it upon herself to find an eligible match for her new friend‚ Harriet Smith. Though Harriet’s parentage is unknown‚ Emma is convinced that Harriet deserves to be a gentleman’s wife and sets
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deciphering morality and lifestyles of earlier centuries. Philosophers and writers hypothesized on the definition of this genre and how it differentiates from earlier works. Jane Austen wrote several books that have been studied for their content of realism. Emma depicts domestic realism that is expressed mainly through the heroin of the novel. Ian Watt‚ author of an acknowledged theory written on the novel‚ The Rise of the Novel wrote: "it (the novel) surely attempts to portray all the varieties of human
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of butterflies in our stomachs‚ but the most we have to lose is a good grade. For Emma Goldman‚ the stakes were considerably higher. She had the daunting task of speaking to secure her own freedom when she was placed on trial for obstructing the draft in 1917. The country was awash in patriotism‚ and she was prosecuted as an enemy of the state. When preparing her speech‚ she realized that a seated jury would be a microcosm of the country’s national spirit. Jurors may have had children or
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necessity for westward expansion? 7. Did “Boss” Tweed corrupt post-Civil War New York? 8. Did the Progressives fail? 9. Was Manifest Destiny necessary for U.S. survival? 10. Should Emma Goldman be held responsible for the assassination of President McKinley? 11. Was General George Armstrong Custer a hero? 12. Were the Molly Maguires nothing but a terrorist organization? 13. Based upon the history
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“Along the way and in 1987‚ these 2 house staffers will be taken before a grand jury for possible murder charges and while the grand jury will not charge them with murder‚ it will charge them with 38 counts of gross negligence &/or gross incompetence. Under New York law‚ the investigative body for these charges was the Hearing Committee of the State Board for Professional Medical Conduct and between April 1987 and January 1989‚ this committee will have conducted 30 hearings at which 33 witnesses
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Emma Watson The want to become an actress is what helped Emma Watson become the person she is today. Becoming an actress has opened so many doors to her. It has helped her become not only famous but a role model to people everywhere. She has taken her role from Harry Potter and used it to inspire other young girls across the world. She herself has become a worldwide phenomenon. Her opportunities do not stop at acting. Emma Watson has had and has many opportunities open to her. According
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seen through character changes and social theme changes. The novel “Emma” is formed around Emma Wodehouse’s constricted social group and her journey of transformation from being an impulsive matchmaker who does not oblige to her social role‚ to an insightful lady with the correct social role and etiquette according to the novels context. “Clueless” is a modernized interpretation of “Emma”. The film
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represented in Austen’s "Emma"? Clueless sustains interest in the patriarchal values and social stratum of Emma by manipulating the mediums for relaying information to the audience and allow them to resonate with the messages portrayed by Austen. The teenpic Clueless (1995) directed by Amy Hecklering employs the materialistic world of LA to make a multi-layered social commentary about the patriarchal values and social strata elucidated in Jane Austen’s 19th Century novel‚ Emma. Hecklering draws parallels
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inherent in the texts. Amy Heckerling’s‚ 20th century American film‚ Clueless is a transformation of Jane Austen’s conservative Regency England‚ Emma. The use of different techniques and medium allow Emma’s themes of personal growth‚ social structure and the role of women in society to be conveyed in a more appropriate form in Clueless. The main characters‚ Emma and Cher are representational products of their society and parallels can be drawn in the opening scenes‚ particularly in relation to self-knowledge
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