...Money, Marriage and Women Today is a day where anyone can become anything… with proper accommodations, that is. In the Eighteenth Century the first thing that a young lady had to do was believed to marry a man who could allow her to obtain luxurious wealth and a high ranking social status. Marriage was viewed as a career to women of this era. What if a woman happened to be born in the fame and fortune… would she even feel the need to search for a husband or financial support? Compared to other novels written by the English author Jane Austen, the book Emma seems to depict a very progressive and very inspirational idea that relates to women here today in the Twenty First Century. The best thing to do first in order to understand the concept of this idea would be getting to know the spectacular mind behind the scenes, Jane Austen. Born in Stevenson Hampshire, England on December 16th, 1775. This day made Jane Austen the seventh of eight children to her father Reverend George Austen and mother Cassandra Leigh Austen. Of the eight children Jane and her older sister Cassandra were the only girls, who were extremely close, as the entire family was very close-knit. Jane Austen looked up and idolized her older sister Cassandra Austen. An elder brother was said to have epilepsy and did not live with the family. The third son was adopted by a wealthy family and was not living with them either. All of the remaining Austen children who were Jane’s siblings growing up were primarily taught...
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...Gaines is kneeling/ crawling. On page 218, Reverend Ambrose describes how Tante Lou had to crawl for Grant this whole time just to get him through college. “She been lying everyday of her life, and your aunt in there. That’s how you got through that university- . . . I’ve seen her hands bleed from picking cotton. I’ve seen the blisters from the hoe and the cane knife. At that church, crying on her knees. You’ve never looked at the scabs on her knees boy? Course you never. ‘Cause she never wanted you to see it.” This quote shows how much Tante Lou had to kneel and crawl to get support Grant. She had to endure labor and backbreaking work to support him. In fact, her blisters and scabs represent her having to crawl, she had to be selfless and endure the pain of picking cotton just so Grant can stand. Evidently, it represents her love for Grant, as she had to put herself and her needs aside. Even though Tante Lou didn’t want to pick cotton, she had no choice, that was the only way she knew how to make Grant stand. The only choice she had was to crawl and kneel even if it was painful. She crawled and kneels for Grant so in the future, he wouldn’t have to crawl for his education. This shows the deeper meaning of having to sacrifice yourself for the people you love...
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...10/24/11 Period 5 Jefferson’s death is sad for everyone but it is the one lesson that will teach the biggest lesson. Death is a touchy subject for everyone, it’s the saddest part of life but the most common. The one thing miss Emma wants is for Jefferson to die a man she doesn’t want him to feel like a hog or a coward because Shakespeare once said Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once(William Shakespeare). She just wants the best for him no matter what everyone knows Jefferson’s a man but not the white person or himself as soon as they see it two people can die happy. Grant can see the diamond in the rough. Grant will see the value of a life he just doesn’t see it yet. Grant only things of himself “I want run away” and that’s all he thinks about (gains pg 190). As the day gets closer everyone can see that Jefferson is losing the will to do things and the drive to keep moving forward but no way really cares what he wants. As the band Cinderella once said “you don’t know what you got till it’s gone” and everyone will see that once Jefferson is dead. The death penalty may be cruel to some but to others it will show them the meaning of life and how life is truly valuable. As everyone gets older they see how much their life really means to them and everyone around them. As someone slips into the darkness they see how much everything truly means to them. Grant doesn’t know how Jefferson feels and he won’t until his life is on the line...
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...The Novel as Dutch Painting, Emma and the Milkmaid. Within her article, Ruth Bernard Yeazell explores the various ways in which the Novel is similar to that of Dutch painting and shares numerous characteristics and evokes the same enjoyment within the viewer/reader. Firstly we ask ourselves what Yeazell means by ‘Dutch Painting’, which turns out to refer, as a blanket term, 17th century Genre painting. What is concerned in 17th century Dutch Genre painting, is that it concerns itself with the depiction of the every-day domestic scenes, considered to be ‘low-genre’ rather than ‘high genre’, (‘high-genre’ can be thought of as painting depicting classical scenes from antiquity for example). The principal of genre paintings, which became associated with Dutch Paintings, is the depiction of ‘scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes’. Yeazell makes use of quotes from Walter Scott during the 19th Century where he too uses the analogy of the Novel being akin to Dutch Painting. When speaking of Daniel Defoe, 'whose fictions were more equivocally praised for the resemblance' (p.4) of reality than the actual plot line itself, we can begin to see what Yeazell is referring to. She opens the article by quoting Walter Scott and his reaction to Austen’s Emma (1816) and stated that the novel has "something of the merits of the Flemish school of painting. The subjects are not often elegant and certainly never...
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...she had witnessed Lizzie Borden burning a blue dress in a kitchen fire allegedly.” this evidence was enough to convince the grand Jurors to at least indict Lizzie for both of the murders of her parents. Also Lizzie lied to the police many time about where she was. In the document named Lizzie Borden’s Inquest Testimony pg 3. The interviewer ask Lizzie “You remember, Miss Borden, that you told me several times that you were downstairs and not up stairs when your father came home?” and on the same page she said “I was coming down when she let him in.” Then she proceeds to tell him. “I don’t know what I have said.” this evidence helps support that she was not telling the truth about where she was....
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...character and another, it also develops the character of both parties. The main protagonist Grant is the first to refuse such a meal from his aunt as shown on pg. 24, “I’ll eat in town, I told her. Tante Lou held the door while she stood there looking at me. Nothing could have hurt her more when I said I was not going to eat her food.” This refusal clearly shows Grant’s apathy towards Miss Emma’s situation and general disgust towards his Cajun roots probably out of arrogance originating from his education. Jefferson’s repeated refusals to eat whatever his godmother makes for him on pgs. 73 and onward is perhaps a sign of guilt or racial shame towards his family and uneducated black community brought upon by centuries of discrimination. His godmother’s repeated attempts to bring him that food despite his refusal to eat it symbolizes her unyielding love for him. According to Foster, “One generally invites one’s friends to dinner, unless one is trying to get on the good side of enemies or employers.” This quote rings true repeatedly throughout A Lesson Before Dying as Grant and Jefferson refuse meals from Miss Emma again and again. The acceptance of a meal of course then symbolizes bonds, trust, and a sense of community. Only when Jefferson begins to open up to Grant does he begin to eat small bits of the food he and his godmother bring. This leads into the symbolism of the meal’s food itself. Sometimes the symbolism is clear, as with mentioning the town slaughterhouse slaughters hogs and...
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...Anna Xiaoyin Luo Mr. Dishart ENG3UZ - 11 13 July 2016 The Way of Narration Makes Difference Authors can choose to narrate their stories from a variety of points of view including third person. Emma Lee Warrior’s “Compatriots” is one text that uses third person point of view and this tends to be easier for the reader to understand the relationship between characters. Lee Maracle’s “Sojourner’s Truth” is another text that uses the third person narrative to commentate the events in the story. Readers are able to more easily receive the details about the relationship between characters from the narrator. The following paper gives consideration to some examples from Warrior’s “Compatriots” and Maracle’s “Sojourner’s Truth” of the third person point of view is utilised in differing ways. In “Sojourner’s Truth”, Maracle chooses to use first person and third person point of view to create a frame narration. The author starts the story with the first person point of view, and as the story going along, she brings up the idea of using third person to identify the relations between characters. The first sentence of the story states the way of narration being used by the author, it says “From inside my box, an ugly thought occurs to me” (Maracle 297). This proves that the story is being told from the perspective “I” with words like “me” and “my”. On the other hand, the use of first person point of view allows the story to have a more personal, subjective, and even intimate...
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...protests outside of the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City to end the idea of women being seen as just “objects of beauty,” and to teach women to respect themselves as people instead. The third wave of feminism began around mid-1990. This wave was based off post-modern thinking, and the women involved were expressing themselves proudly as women by showing their cleavage and wearing lipstick and heals. The following statement summarizes the third wave of feminism, “it’s possible to have a push-up bra and a brain at the same time.” The fourth wave of feminism is still in the making and is being dominated by unwanted over sexualization of women’s bodies and the need for equality between sexes. Even though women’s rights were gained in the Nineteenth Amendment, women still experience lower paychecks, unfair treatment by men, lower standards in education, no political standing, and they are losing their right to their own body in the means of abortion and birth control. A current women’s rights activist and famous actress, Emma Watson, said, "I think it is right I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decisions that will affect my life. I think it is right that socially, I am afforded the same respect as men," and, "It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals." Emma Watson is a beloved star...
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...A Lesson Before Dying “I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.” This quote was used in the film A Lesson Before Dying, by Grant Wiggins. An African American male, named Jefferson was convicted of a shooting while being at the wrong place at the wrong time. During court, he was called a hog and was punished with the electric chair. The word “hog” really got to his head to the point where he no longer cared and wanted die the way everyone knew him, as a hog. Jefferson’s former teacher, Grant Wiggins tries to prove to him that he is a man not hog. Words are used to humiliate and redeem the characters in this film. The major word that was used to humiliate and redeem characters in this film, was being called a “hog.” Jefferson was called a hog during court and was later letting it get to his head. He started snorting and eating food off the ground, noting “that’s how hog’s eat.” When Jefferson was called a hog, not only...
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...When Jefferson wrote “Good by mr wigin tell them im strong tell them im a man” (Gaines 234), this was the point when Jefferson finally believed that he was a man again and got his manhood back. This quote also proves my thesis by showing how much it took for Jefferson to get to that point. It took several visits and an abundance of encouragement and advice just to get Jefferson to be comfortable and confident in his body again. All of the harsh discrimination and racism that black people had to endure was not easy to shake off—it creates an emotional toll. The fact that Jefferson was able to overcome this emotional toll exemplifies that it is possible to regain self-confidence, even in times of turmoil, but it also displays how long it can take to regain...
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...Mary McLeod Bethune once declared, “I leave you a thirst for education. Knowledge is a prime need of the hour.” Most of Bethune’s most successful accomplishments were related to education. In this way, the quote relates perfectly to the crucial impact she had on the world. Bethune proved that black women could be respected and successful during a time when prejudice and racism dominated society. Mary McLeod Bethune was an extremely influential part in society and positively impacted the way African Americans and women are viewed today. Born on July 10, 1875, in Mayesville, South Carolina, Mary McLeod Bethune was the third youngest of seventeen children (“Mary McLeod Bethune 1875-1955”). Even as a child, Bethune was viewed as “different”...
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...Jefferson to be someone he (Grant) in the future would look up to because he is the only person who has the power now to stand up to the white people in the South. Also, Grant Wiggins is trying to expose and introduce Jefferson's greatness by calling him a hero. Grant begins to explain to Jefferson the "'A hero is someone who does something for other people. He does something that other men don’t and can't do. He is different from other men. He is above other men. No matter who those other men are, the hero, no matter who he is, is above them'" (Gaines 191). During this section of the novel Grant wants Jefferson "'to show [the white people] the difference between what you think you are and what you can be'" (Gaines 191). This is a very powerful quote that Grant has said to Jefferson and he wants him to understand it. Grant is continuously attempting to not only proving to Jefferson that he...
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...highlighting ways to provide meaningful support. For most bereaved parents, the consequences of the death of a child cannot adequately be expressed in words. Despite extreme efforts to empathize, those who have not experienced a child's death cannot fully know what it is like. However, I have found that knowledge surrounding bereavement can provide a helpful glimpse of understanding, as well as ideas for how to respond to parents and needs when their child dies. For most people, our family defines who we are. We do not identify ourselves simply as mothers, fathers, spouses, in-laws, or grandparents, but as family members. For example, "I am not a mother of 3 children. I am a mother of Haley, Emma and Brent." A child's death challenges our sense of identity. It is best summed up by a quote I read from a bereavement scholar who stated, "The process of mourning for one's child involves not only dealing with loss of the loved child, but with the loss of part of one's self." Parents who identify strongly with their roles as mothers or fathers often...
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...classmates just continued the cycle which their teacher didn’t even pretend to try to break them free from, but it obviously isn’t the make-or-break deciding factor. Grant does not have the ability to keep his personal life out of his classroom which hinders his ability to teach well. It’s not uncommon for him to take out his rage or frustration on his students, most notably when he “Looked at Irene Cole, [his] student teacher, to let her know not to warn him, and… [Grant] brought the Westcott ruler down on his skull, loud enough to send a sound throughout the church” (Gaines 38). After telling his assistant not to alert the child to his impending beating, he slaps him on the head as hard as he can. He lets out all of his resentment toward Miss Emma, who dragged him into this situation, through violence. That violence is often directed towards the very children he is supposed to be teaching. In this moment he has no intention of teaching the child a lesson for not doing what he was supposed to be doing in class. The student is denied a chance to get away without punishment. Grant does not allow his deputy to inform the child of his impending retribution. He looks only for an excuse to release more anger and the first grader distracted by an insect was a suitable outlet to do so. The schools in poorer areas will take what they can get. Grant is one of the only formally educated black people in the area, so there’s no reason for the school to not employ him. He certainly does a better...
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...Emma Breitenstein Miss Raub 9 Honors English 16 May 2014 The Utter Infatuation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Over time, writing has become exceedingly prominent, and throughout generations it has tremendously improved, leaving behind some of the best literature pieces in history. Since writing began, many great authors, playwrights, and poets have emerged, contributing to the literary society and producing countless works of literature, some that are still read today. A few notable composers that left behind numerous classics include Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, and William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time due to his many great plays and his vast contribution to the English language. Some of his works include Hamlet, Othello, and the infamous Romeo and Juliet. Wrote in 1597, the tragic comedy tells the story of young Romeo and Juliet, who find themselves “in love at first sight”. Unfortunately for them, their love story goes awry when they learn their parents are mortal conflict between their parents, which ultimately caused their demise. Woven throughout the plot, many examples become present that show that the star-crossed lovers are not in love. It becomes clear Romeo and Juliet are merely infatuated with each other. The ill-fated couple focus only on each other’s physical appearances and are severely impulsive throughout the tragic story. “The play then impresses upon us the intensity of youthful love, at...
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