Miss Amelia‚ who was the richest person in town. Lymon comes to find Miss Amelia so she can provide him with a place to live. He fooled her into thinking that they are cousins. Lymon went through his belongings and came across a very old photograph which he had used to prove that certainly he is her cousin even though the photograph was hard to differentiate the faces of the two women in the picture. Lymon is a poor person who searches Miss Amelia and uses her for her wealth. As Miss Amelia see`s
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the story Vanity Fair‚ it depicts a few decades time of a group of British people’s life in 19th century. The novel opens at Miss Pinkerton’s Academy‚ where we are introduced to Amelia Sedley and Rebecca Sharp (Becky)‚ the novel’s female protagonists. Amelia and Becky are friends‚ but they are completely the opposites. Amelia is kind and innocent and comes from a loaded family. Becky‚ in contrary‚ is cunning‚ clever‚ and scheming and emerges from a deprived condition. The story continues when Becky
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Warren G. Harding - Became president in 1921. Was a republican and is known for being ‘scandalous‚’ but really it was the people and events around him that tainted his presidency. He later died in 1923 due to sickness. Calvin Coolidge - Became president after Harding died in 1923. Was a republican. He was nicknamed ‘Silent Cal’ because he was soft spoken. He believed in big businesses being supported by government. Herbert Hoover - Was the republican president after Coolidge. He supported prohibition
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Question 1 Amelia is an engineer and wants to set up her own engineering business. There is a small bank that has just opened up in her area – No Red Tape Bank (‘NRT Bank’). On 31 August she sees the managing director of NRT Bank‚ Madison‚ and discusses with Madison the amount of borrowed funds Amelia thinks she will need for her business. They discuss different types of loans and Madison says that a simple loan of $200‚000 repayable in 3 years would be the best type of loan for what Amelia wants to
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William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair is a novel that revolves around the age old question‚ “Can money buy happiness?” Rebecca “Becky” Sharp‚ an orphan‚ raised alongside her foil‚ Amelia Sedley‚ is attracted by the rich lifestyle that Amelia has. Amelia‚ however‚ is gentle and humble‚ and dreams only for a happy life with her husband. Thackeray allows his characters to reveal themselves through their own words and actions‚ and sometimes even uses names to characterize‚ including Little Ricketts
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Vanity Fair‚ or also now for it’s subtitle “The Novel without a Hero”‚ is a satire to society‚ characterized by hypocrisy and opportunism. The novel follows the lives of two very different women‚ Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley. Vanity fair refers to a stop along the pilgrim’s progress: a never-ending fair held in a town called Vanity‚ which is meant to represent man’s sinful attachment to worldly things. Definitely‚ a quote that I think explains and drives much of the action and is one of the major
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of age’ in a country that has completely different standards than those who are looked upon in the Smolinsky household and by a majority of the Jewish community in the area in the early 1900’s in New York City. I will be focusing on the daughters Bessie and Sara in order to state out the gender differences and roles they carry in the novel. As well as‚ the relationship and the way their father treats them relate to the fact that they are females in a new country. In Sara’s eyes the hunger to adapt
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paragraph starts with the first line from the poem and introduces the charater of Miss Bessie. The line from the poem creates a literary allusion and shows how the poem by Browning is connected to this story. It is clear that Miss Bessie is a teacher in this story adressing a class of high school students. The nouns “Gorilla‚ Crip‚ Hippo” are used for other teachers. This name calling is comical but also shows how Miss Bessie is different from the other teachers as she has a comparitively more respectful
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surrounding this home is swarmed with rambunctious college students‚ being that this is a college town. Lillian and her six roommates (Todd‚ Amelia‚ Delilah‚ Jared‚ Christian‚ and Dalen) all attend the University down the street. Todd is a very outgoing and perky person. He spends a lot of time working on designs for bands and his infamous magazine “Abstract”. Amelia is an alcoholic‚ on the verge of dropping out of college‚ and goes to shows at the local bars. Delilah is a nurse and the only roommate
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