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    Fashion Animal Abuse

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    Animal Abuse in the Fashion Industry Lindsay Coleman and Karishma Naik Professor Gabiger ENG 1021 November 10 2012 Introduction Over forty million animals are being killed every year for the use of fashion. Contrary to the claims of the industry‚ these animals are living in poor unhealthy environments and then being killed in devastating ways such as poisoning‚ electrocution or breaking of the necks (Thomas). They are killed in cruel inhumane ways to get their skin‚ fur

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    Emma Short Essay

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    well and he implies that for Harriet‚ Mr Martin is more than she could hope for. His ill impression of Harriet is juxtaposed with his regard for Mr Martin‚ and Austen effectively portrays the critical character of the aristocracy. She employs Mr Knightley as a representation of society’s values expectations when he calls on Harriet of her obscure birth in the rhetorical question‚ “What are Harriet Smith’s claims‚ either of birth‚ nature or education‚ to any connexion higher than Robert Martin? She

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    Critical Essay "Atonement"

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    entitled‚ The Trials of Arabella. The play is intended to be performed by her and her young cousins that evening for the enjoyment of her family and honoured guests. Events that day take an unexpected twist when Briony witnesses her sister‚ Cecilia (Keira Knightley) savagely remove her clothes and dive into the garden fountain in front of family friend‚ Robbie (James McAvoy). Cursed with an over-active imagination‚ Briony misinterprets what she has witnessed (a minor quarrel between Cecilia and Robbie)

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    Novel and Emma

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    The Imperfect Heroin in Prose Fiction There is one particular feature that sets the novel apart from any other literary genre. Literature has the ability to transport you into a world that is a product of individual imagination yet the realism expressed in the novel serves as a tool or road that leads to the emerging of conceived images. It is a time travel that has the ability to restore any period of growth in society and humanity in general. Many times we refer to the novel when deciphering

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    The universality of themes pervading both Emma and Clueless in correlation with the humanistic‚ obviously flawed protagonists in both texts‚ captivates and immerses responders. This engagement leads to an involvement and enjoyment in the composer’s craft‚ which enables the responders’ to obtain sophisticated insight into the text’s concerns on both subjective and objective levels. Critiques agree that the transformation enables an audience to “enjoy cultural capital and aesthetic knowledge” while

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    Knightly Mr. Knightley proposes to Emma‚ Emma says‚ “I seem to have been doomed to blindness‚” Knightley believes she speaks of her blindness to Frank’s love of Jane‚ but she actually refers to her blindness about her own

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    Amy Heckerling transforms the many values and issues conveyed in Jane Austen’s Emma‚ set in the 18th century in Highbury to her teen pic film Clueless set in the 20th century‚ in a high school society. Both texts involve a protagonist‚ being Emma in Emma and Cher in Clueless who meddle with the relationships of others as their interest‚ while being “placed in the midst of those who loved her‚ and who had better sense than herself”. The protagonists are morally transformed towards the end of the film

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    Comparative Essay of “Emma” and “Clueless” “Emma” and “Clueless” explore similar values but the method is very different. How has the later text of “Clueless” drawn on the value system of the earlier text in order to express its ideas? How has each composer produced a text that is reflective of different contexts? Jane Austen’s "Emma" and Amy Heckerling’s "Clueless" are presented in two very different forms. "Emma" is a fictional novel based on the context of 19th Century England. "Clueless" is

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    How has Heckerling’s transformation of Emma revealed the changes in context and values? Heckerling’s transformation of Emma reveals the changes in context and values through sharing its ideas but altering some features. By keeping the ideas the same‚ Heckerling is able to display the contextual differences. Emma‚ a novel written by Jane Austen‚ follows the life of a wealthy woman living in Regency England‚ 1816. Clueless‚ a film created by Amy Heckerling‚ similarly follows the life of a wealthy woman

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    Speech on Self-Reflection

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    Speech on Self-Reflection Often when one embarks on a journey‚ one does not only encounter the hardships and experiences the physical side of the journey offers. People experience journeys in varied different ways. A journey is an act of travelling from one place to another. The texts I have chosen to express the complex and varied ways one experience journeys are the poems ‘Journey of the Magi’ and ‘Of Eurydice’‚ the novel Emma by Jane Austen and a visual text. T.S Eliot’s ‘Journey of the Magi’

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