In the year 2014‚ at the United Nations headquarters in New York City‚ United Nations Women’s Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson delivered an ardent speech addressing the dispute about gender inequality in the world. Her intention was to raise awareness of the struggles that women and men face throughout their life regarding this issue. During this speech‚ Watson uses numerous strategies to engage her audience’s absorption of the subject along with the three major elements of the speech; her introduction
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transformation Clueless (1995) is derived from Jane Austen’s classic novel Emma (1816) with both texts comparable as they use satire to address similar values. The shift in context enables the texts to reinforce the values of Regency England or 1990s Beverly Hills. Heckerling subverts and appropriates the original text to a cinematic context‚ through this she can comment on American society thus invoking new meaning to the ideas in Emma. Both composers approach the place of the social hierarchy‚ placing
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Jane Austen’s Emma is brilliantly constructed of a series of character’s misunderstandings and complex subtexts that weave together to tell many stories at once. Each character’s knowledge and ignorance in various situations offers insight into their personalities and affects the way they interact with other characters‚ often resulting in comedic exchanges. One of the best examples of this amusing writing style of Austen’s is Mr. Elton’s proposal to Emma Woodhouse. The proposal scene is the
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cards life deals him‚ but once they are in hand‚ he alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. In the short story “Emma” written by Carolyn Cole‚ Emma is one of the main characters who is friendly and caring towards her loved ones. If Emma would have only known how to play the game of life and be smarter‚ she would have won the game. Emma and Mrs. Robinson are two women with different personality traits‚ physical features and life experiences. Role models play a huge part in
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Oladapo Ebenezer Mr. Adrian DelMornte Eng 4U1 July 7‚ 2015 Emma Watson’s HeforShe Speech Analysis The purpose of Emma Watson’s speech at the UN headquarters in New York was to launch the HeforShe campaign and to outline what the true meaning of feminism is supposed to be. The campaign was to strive to build a world where men and women have equal rights also taking away the notion that gender inequality is a problem only faced by women. In the course of convincing the audience‚ and showing
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You can never imagine a world without Emma Goldman. Emma Goldman died on May 14‚ 1940. Emma dedicated her life to the creation of a radically social order. Also‚ she embraced anarchism for its vision; and it offered liberty‚ harmony‚ and social justice. She had a deep commitment to absolute freedom and that led her to espouse a range of controversial causes. Goldman was a radical thinker. Forty years on she is more than emblematic‚ she is iconic. Emma Goldman was born in the imperial city of Russia
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transformation can give the audience a better understanding of societal values and attitudes present in the texts. Jane Austen’s book Emma(1816)‚ relevant to society in Regency England‚ is relived in a modern day context relevant to the 20th century American society in Amy Heckerling’s “teen flick” Clueless(1995). Social status plays a crucial part in both texts. “Emma Woodhouse‚ handsome‚ clever‚ and rich‚ with a comfortable home and a happy disposition...”(pg.1‚chap.1) lived in nineteenth century
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society we determine that a persons below the age of 18 are lacking sufficient autonomy for a range of publically significant decisions unless proven otherwise. In the case of Emma Odgen‚ the decision is not as clear cut. The first step in evaluating this ethical problem involves identifying what exactly needs to be solved. Emma is an extremely intelligent 12 year old and has expressed her wishes in a comprehensive
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actions of those around her. Emma does not appear to have an especially caring father and years of marriage troubles have split her parents so they no longer work together effectively to help combat her emotional outbursts. Emma’s social circles include her school and her peers right now when she
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In the article “The Narrator and the Bourgeois Community in ‘Madame Bovary’‚” written by Leo Bersai‚ he discusses how “Flaubert maintains a dual position” in the novel Madame Bovary. Bersai states that Flaubert make Emma’s dreams seem important and gives it “dignity” but at the same time ridicules her fantasies. Bersani also writes that Flaubert detaches himself entirely from the community that he writes about. Although there are parts of the
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