...Film “The Bridget Jones Diary” is about a single women in her early thirties named Bridget Jones who is just trying to get things right in life. She has hit a pivotal moment in her life and wants to quit smoking, lose weight, stop being so accident prone and find a decent guy who will treat her right. She works at a book publishing company in London where she spends most of her time day dreaming about her gorgeous boss Daniel. Bridget already fascinated by her boss comes across a man she once knew as a child named Mark Darcy. Her mom re-introduced them to one another at a new years party. Bridget mom was ruthless and constantly enjoyed trying to set her up with men of her choosing. After this initial encounter, Mark thinks that Bridget is a inappropriate and incoherent and Bridget thinks that he is arrogant and rude. You could say that Bridget has some communication competencies and some incompetencies. The way she conveys messages and body says whatever is on her mind makes her very efficient. Some may possibly see it as incompetent due to the executions and how it may be inappropriate at times. Although Bridget's boss, Daniel was known to be a womanizer, this didn't put any breaks to how often they would flirt and interact at work. Constantly sending little messages to one another and giving each other looks from across the office. At a book release party for her publishing company, Bridget happens to run into Mark and his glamorous “colleague” Natasha. Bridget that night...
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...Bridget Jones’s Diary vs. Pride and Prejudice Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding is about a single woman over 30, who smokes too much, drinks too much, and has a tendency to say whatever comes into her mind. She asks herself: can she find her place in the world, and a man? Her parents recommend a man by the name of Mark Darcy. While he might be wealthy and polite, he just seems too awkward and stiff. A good example of Mark's awkwardness is when he says "I. Um. Are you reading any, ah ... Have you read any good books lately?" Is she going to find the love of her life or is she ever going to live the rest of her life in loneliness and despair? Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen takes place in Georgian England where Mrs. Bennet raises her five daughters Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia, - with the purpose of getting them married to rich husbands that can support the family. They are not from the upper class, and their house in Hertfordshire will be inherited by a distant cousin if Mr. Bennet dies. A wealthy bachelor by the name of Mr. Bingley and his best friend Mr. Darcy arrive in town to spend time near the Bennet’s. The shy and beautiful Jane falls in love with Mr. Bingley whereas Elizabeth finds his friend, Mr. Darcy, a snobbish and cold man. She swears to loathe him forever. Interestingly enough this is instead the beginning of their wonderful love story. Bridget Jones’s Diary was written by Helen Fielding in 1996. This is one hundred and eighty-three years after...
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...Transcript Analysis for Bridget Jones Script (Section B coursework) Bridget Jones is a romantic comedy film first released in 2001, based on the 1996 novel by Helen Fielding. The extract I have chosen to transcribe is the opening scene, when Bridget meets Mr Mark Darcy. The film focuses on how Bridget is unlucky with men, her weight and her job and many other aspects of her life. The movie is supposed to relate to women who feel they have the same life problems as her. The main speaker in this scene is Bridget Jones directly speaking to others and also she provides narration as well. Often speaking in the background of situations. Bridget Jones’s general target audience would be mostly women aged 17 upwards as some teenagers may enjoy Bridget’s story too, however some men may also be interested in watching the movie as it may explain the way women are supposedly meant to think. There are also numericals used, for example an ordinal determiner ‘32nd’ by using numerical it this gives more information to the reader and lets them into the life of Bridget, if they understand more about the topic of the character they will then enjoy the movie more, and understand key things which have happened in the film and what will continue to happen. There are many interrogative sentences used in the text for example ‘now what are you going to put on?’ and ‘how’s it going?’ this reminds the readers that in Bridget’s life everything is questionable as the topic of the movie is a comedy romance...
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...New Year’s Resolutions I WILL NOT Drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week. Smoke. Waste money on: pasta-makers, ice-cream machines or other culinary devices which will never use; books by unreadable literary authors to put impressively on shelves; exotic underwear, since pointless as have no boyfriend. Behave sluttishly around the house, but instead imagine others are watching. Spend more than earn. Allow in-tray rage out of control. Fall for any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobics, people with girlfriends or wives, misogynists, megalomaniacs, chauvinists, emotional fuckwits or freeloaders, perverts. Get annoyed with Mum, Una Alconbury or Perpetua. Get upset over men, but instead be poised and cool ice-queen. Have crushes on men, but instead form relationships based on mature assessment of character. Bitch about anyone behind their backs, but be positive about everyone. Obsess about Daniel Cleaver as pathetic to have a crush on boss in manner of Miss Moneypenny or similar. Sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend. I WILL Stop smoking. Drink no more than fourteen alcohol units a week. Reduce circumference of thighs by 3 inches1 (i.e. 1. inches each), using anti-cellulite diet. Purge flat of all extraneous matter. Give all clothes which have not worn for two years or more to homeless...
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...Pride and Prejudice Elizabeth Bennet At the beginning of the book when Elizabeth and Darcy meet, they do not like each other very much. They actually dislike each other. This dislike continues through a large portion of the book. Darcy feels his social and financial status puts him above Elizabeth and that is most of the problem. Elizabeth feels that Darcy and those like him are automatically snobbish and so she really didn’t give him much of a chance in the beginning but his arrogant manner didn’t help the situation. Class and marriage plays an important part in Darcy’s arrogant ways. At the time this book was written, love was hardly a reason why people got married. More than likely it was two people of the same social standings marrying to join their estates. If a woman of lower social standings married a man like Darcy, she was marrying up. She was moving up in social and financial settings. Elizabeth drew her conclusions early about Darcy. His sister was also arrogant and looked down on the Bennet sisters. I feel that if Elizabeth took more time to get to know Darcy she would have found out he wasn’t the man she thought he was. Elizabeth’s pride was wounded when she overheard Darcy speaking to Mr. Bingley about her. He said she was tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt him. He also said Mr. Bingley was already dancing with the only handsome woman in the whole place. He also later said that he wasn’t drawn to her because of her low connections....
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...Lizzie Borden Case The trial of Lizzie Borden is a very controversial topic and many believe the case verdict should have been ruled otherwise. The murder of Abby and Andrew Borden by multiple ax whacks to the head caused many to believe that Lizzie Borden, the daughter of Andrew Borden, did it. The case ruled ‘Not Guilty” on June 20, 1893. Based on research and evidence, I believe that Lizzie Borden was guilty because of her claimed whereabouts, the ironic poisoning coincidence, and the burning of a dress, which is the opposite of the actual court ruling in 1893. Lizzie Borden and the maid, Bridget Sullivan were the only ones home at the time of the murder of Abby Borden. Bridget was outside washing windows and Lizzie claimed to be downstairs. It’s strange that “she heard no alarming noises”. (Source J) In addition to that, there was no sign of forced entry. If an intruder committed the murders, they would have “had to hide in the house for 90 minutes or departed and then returned without being seen” (Source J) because the 2 murders happened over an hour apart. This would be nearly impossible if Lizzie was downstairs at the time of her stepmother’s murder. At the time of her father’s murder, she claimed to be in the loft of the backyard barn, searching for sinkers for a fishing trip for 15-20 minutes. The police said the loft was very hot and the “also found no footprints”(Source J) which contradicts Lizzie’s statement of where she was at the time of the murder of her father...
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...Case Study: Sound Analysis The use of sound elements within a seven-minute sequence from Joe Wright’s Pride and Prejudice (2005). This case study will focus on the scenes in which Elizabeth and Colonel Fitzwilliam discuss Darcy in church, and the following scene in which Darcy initially confesses his love for Elizabeth, and is rebuked. In these scenes, sound is used to transfer information regarding the genre, tone, characters and setting. Pride and Prejudice is a typical “novel of manners”, period and romantic genre, drawing on classical music elements to set the film style. This sequence begins with Elizabeth Bennet speaking in hushed tones to Colonel Fitzwilliam whilst in church, discussing Mr. Darcy’s actions of separating a couple; briefly, Elizabeth’s pitch becomes higher and her voice louder, suggesting she feels strong emotions towards this information, perhaps outrage. That they are speaking in whispers proposes that they do not wish to be overheard, giving the idea that the subject on which they are speaking is something secretive and inappropriate given their current environment. At the discovery of new information regarding Darcy’s split of her sister from his friend, Elizabeth appears overcome with emotion, and gasps audibly when Darcy catches her eye. In these last few moments of the scene, the non-diegetic soundtrack slowly increases in volume, until it is suddenly at the same intensity as that of the diegetic sound within the film...
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...What this case is about is when Bridget Mergens wanted to get a religious club in her Public High School for everyone. When the Principal said no they couldn’t make the religious club, that is when it lead to the Supreme court. The reason why this case went to the Supreme court was because the school denied the idea of having a club that included any religious studies because apparently it was “illegal” for them to having anything that had to do religion, therefore when the students rights of freedom of religion were broken, Bridget Mergens went to the Congress and the issue was addressed to the Equal Access Right. Then that is when the case actually went to the Supreme court, and that's when the decision was made. When the case was almost...
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...Bridget Pargulski, a breast cancer survivor, diagnosed in 2012 at the age of 46 shared her story along with the struggles she has faced regarding and advocacy. Mrs. Pargulski considered herself to always being on top of her yearly mammograms, without failure. One year, she added an MRI to the mammogram, which revealed she had two tumors, which turned out to be cancer. She quickly scheduled a mastectomy, thinking she was catching the cancer at an early stage, in which she found out the cancer had spread to her lymph nodes. This diagnosis turned into stage 3 cancer, in which Bridget thought it was only stage 1. In recognizing early signs, it was realized that Bridget’s nipples were turning in, which lead to the recognition that she had dense breast tissue....
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...Course Description This course focuses on the issues, challenges, and opportunities presented by U.S. population diversity. Workplace issues related to employee diversity in terms of gender, race or ethnicity, socioeconomic class, and cultural background are emphasized. Policies Faculty and students will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Harvey, C. P., & Allard, M. J. (2009). Understanding and managing diversity (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. Schaefer, R. T. (2011). Racial and ethnic groups (12th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. All electronic materials are available on the student website. |Week One: Workplace Diversity | | |Details |Due ...
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...In 1985, Bridget Mergens, as well as a group of several other students in Omaha, Nebraska requested to form a Christian bible study group in which they intended to hold meetings after school hours, on school grounds. To their surprise, the principal denied their request. He claimed that it was a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. In 1990, Bridget Mergens challenged her school’s decision to deny her request to form a religion based group on school grounds, and with the help of her lawyer, took them to court. There were mixed emotions about the Westside Vs. Mergens case, some siding with Mergens, while others chose the opposing opinion that the religious beliefs that are practiced within the group will directly affect the image of the school itself. Justice Thurgood Marshall writes that “The introduction of religious speech into the public schools reveals the tension between the Free Speech and Establishment Clauses, because the failure of a school to stand apart from religious speech can convey a message that the school endorses, rather than merely tolerates, that speech.”...
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...The story revolves around Elizabeth Bennet, one of five sisters in Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice. The novel has many different plots, one of relationships between Elizabeth’s older sister Jane and Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy, Mr. Wickham and Elizabeth herself. The Netherfield ball is one that the Bingleys host and Elizabeth and her whole family attend. In this chapter, Austen exposes the Bennet’s behaviors, including Elizabeth, presenting the theme of social class and expectations. Elizabeth enters the Bingley’s house hoping to spend the evening with Wickham, but she learns that he isn’t there. Her disappointment affects her own attitude for the evening as she had “a degree of ill humour, which she could not wholly surmount even in speaking to Mr. Bingley, whose blind partiality provoked her” (Austen 89). This behavior isn’t very mannerly as she is probably expected to act gaily even if she is grieved. Even after, “the two first dances…brought a return of distress; they were dances of mortification” (Austen 89). Elizabeth is forced to dance with her cousin, Mr. Collins, who is not a very graceful dancer and “gave her all the shame and misery…a disagreeable partner…can give” (Austen 89). This greatly affects her spirits and manner as she accepts a dance with Mr. Darcy. Her friend, Charlotte, even whispers “not to be a simpleton and allow her fancy for Wickham to make her appear unpleasant in the eyes of a man ten times his consequence” (Austen 89). This shows social...
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...Romanticism Paper Anna Mazur HUM/266 June 11, 2013 Darcy Vernier Romanticism Paper Romanticism is defined as “attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century” (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2013). The emphases of Romanticism were uniqueness, imagination, free expression, sensitivity, communion with nature, and the idea of the creative artist as visionary genius. This paper will show how ideas and emphases of Romanticism are illustrated in different art forms such as literature, dance, and painting. In English literature Jane Austen’s (1775-1817) Pride and Prejudice has become one of the most popular novels. The story is set at the turn of the 19th century and portrays an ironic and compassionate vision of human nature and its tendency for comic absurdity. The novel, written in narrative form, illustrates the conflict between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a countryside gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich aristocrat. The story about Bennet family, living in the small town near London, where Mrs. Bennet preoccupied with finding a proper husbands for her five daughters. Mr. Bennet, on the other side, is humorous and intellectual minor gentlemen consider his wife unwise. The central part of the story involves the relationship between the clever and beautiful Elizabeth Bennet and the proud and...
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...Viviana Albino INGL3312-016 Aug. 21, 2015 Reflection on Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice to me is a romantic novel set in a time where your status or class were all that mattered. Your status depended on who your father was, who you were married to and how much money you made. Education was also an important thing in the upper class but education also had to do with how to behave and entertain people. Marriage was a very important and crucial thing for women, especially for the Bennets because once Mr. Bennet dies, his cousin would inherit all of his fortune leaving his wife and daughters with nothing. So I would think that the Bennet women would have to get married for security, or at least be one of the reasons to get married. But I think finding someone they love and that would provide them security would be the real challenge for these ladies. The Bennet women were very different from each other. Mr. Bennet thinks very little of his wife and daughters except for Jane and Elizabeth. Kitty and Lydia seem more emotional or immature and are taken by the glamour of a soldier in uniform. Elizabeth is intelligent and sometimes superior to most people. Jane is sensitive and smart but not as sharp as Elizabeth and she tries to see the good in everyone. I think the main character Elizabeth is smarter than the Darcy’s because she can out argue them, but I think she likes arguing with Mr. Darcy because they think differently and I think Mr. Darcy feels the same. Mr. Darcy...
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...History changed for African Americans when a youthful, intelligent and brave girl accomplished something the greater part of us underestimate today: going to primary school. However, that basic demonstration by one little young girl had a vital influence in the Civil Rights Movement. Ruby Bridgets was conceived on September 8, 1954 in Tylertown, Mississippi to Abon and Lucille Bridges. After a year, her family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana alongside with two younger brothers and younger sister. Her Family moved to New Orleans like any other parents would for a better life for their family. Her Father found work at a gas station attendant and her mom received employment doing night jobs. At that time, people wanted to keep black people and white people separate because whites didn’t think that blacks were as good as them. For instance, blacks and whites had isolate water fountains, blacks needed to sit in the back of transports and blacks and whites each had their own particular separate schools. All that changed with Ruby, who was one of the primary blacks to go to an all-white school. Her father didn't want her to go to the...
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