CLUELESS VS. EMMA Adaptations of Jane Austen’s‚ Emma‚ are usually period pieces diligent in capturing and replicating the manners‚ dress‚ language and values of the original text. Clueless‚ written and directed by Amy Heckerling‚ deviates drastically from the norm‚ as the film is not a period piece. While Emma is set in the early nineteenth century in the country village of Highbury‚ sixteen miles out of London‚ England‚ Clueless is set in Bronson Alcott High School almost two hundred years later
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Mr. Knightley and Emma are opposites for most of the book in many ways. Emma is fake happy and thinks she does nothing wrong. “The real evils indeed of Emma’s situation were the power of having rather too much her own way‚ and a disposition to think a little too well of herself; these were the disadvantages which threatened alloy to her many enjoyments.” (Austen 2). Emma thinks she can be truly happy by doing whatever she pleases. She also has no awareness of where social bounds are and often crosses
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The various circumstances involving different composers‚ whether they are social‚ cultural or historical‚ influences vastly on the thematic concerns of every text. The author‚ Jane Austen’s context‚ the Regency Era‚ profoundly shapes the canonical text‚ Emma. In her novel‚ Austen continually explores aspects of the patriarchal society of her time‚ its rigid social structure‚ the value of birthright and wealth‚ as well as the great worth of marriage to women. From the beginning‚ the concept of
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Jane Austen was an English novelist who wrote about British land owners and the obsession of women to marry well for social standing and economic security. She is primarily known for her six major novels which were published anonymously due to the fact that women could not be authors in the 18th century. Her second novel‚ Pride and Prejudice was the first novel to be produced into a movie in 1940’s. Jane Austen’s uses of irony‚ realism and social commentary in all her novels attracted a wide
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Pop Art · Introduction This essay will discuss paintings by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. The pieces it will discuss are: name and date the pieces‚ list any key theories or research.... · Pop Art – background Who‚ where‚ when‚ what before and after‚ what happening at the time (context)‚ Pop Art started in the 1950s when the Independent Group started to reference popular culture in their artwork. The term Pop Art didn’t appear until 1958 in an article by Lawrence Alloway. It moved
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Sociology of Medicine (Health and Illness) Words are inadequate… “Medical sociology centers on the social construction of health and illness –that is‚ a construction shaped by many elements of the social order and often independent from biomedical phenomena. In this perspective‚ medical sociology links together and makes sense of the varied manifestations of health and illness: biomedical data‚ professional practice‚ institutional structures‚ social policy‚ economics and financing
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The Social Evolution of Emma Woodhouse As the saying goes‚ one cannot judge a book by its cover. This is especially true in the novel Emma by Jane Austen. The novel pertains to this saying‚ but beyond that the characters do as well. Emma Woodhouse‚ the shallow heroine cannot see behind looks and what the reasoning is through people’s actions. She is so aloof to what is happening outside of her perspective that many people’s actions in the novel‚ which are predictable many times to the reader‚ end
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Heckerling’s Clueless sustains interest in the values represented in Jane Austen’s Emma by the modernization of the initial text through the medium of novel to film. Additionally‚ Heckerling transforms the ideas of marriage‚ social class and gender roles from Austen’s early Nineteenth century context‚ to a late twentieth century context through an examination of relationships‚ high school cliques and the changing notion of gender roles. Emma embodies the value of social class by the determination of individuals
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In the short story‚ ‘Emma’ written by Carolyn Cole‚ we are introduced to a scenario phrased by an innocent little girl who views the adult’s life as a game. We see the character Emma struggling to please both her daughter and husband and the character Mrs. Robinson who is a single mother and has her eyes set on a man with money. Mrs. Robinson is just a deceitful woman waiting for Emma to back down from the game so she can rightfully claim the ‘trophy’. The characters Emma and Mrs. Robinson can both
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Questions 1. Research recent developments involving this case. Summarize these developments in a bullet format. 2. Suppose that a large investment firm had approximately 10 percent of its total assets invested in funds managed by Madoff Securities. What audit procedures should the investment firm’s independent auditors have applied to those assets? 3. Describe the nature and purpose of a “peer review.” Would peer reviews of Friehling & Horowitz have likely resulted in the discovery of the
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