Though Emma believes Mr. Martin to be below Harriet‚ Mr. Knightley argues that Harriet would be lucky to be with Mr. Martin on account of the latter’s virtue. Similarly‚ both Mr. Knightley and Emma come to agree that Frank is lucky to be accepted by Jane‚ even though she is considered of inferior social standing‚ because she surpasses him in virtue. he importance of social class in making a good marriage “match” is highlighted in Mr. Weston’s first marriage‚ which despite being a love match is unhappy
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The Iron Coast is a travel writing written by Jane Gardam. Jane Gardam is a British author. She was born in Coatham‚ North Yorkshire. The writing describes the North Yorkshire coast and its landmarks including Roseberry Topping and Cleveland hills. Roseberry Topping is the name of a distinctive hill which was mentioned in the writing. The travel writing is descriptive as it creates effects and atmospheres for the reader. To achieve these effects the author uses a variety of literary techniques such
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of biographies and autobiographies of British and Indian WWII veterans‚ there were important commonalities in the backgrounds of the soldiers and commonalities along with some differences for motivations to enlist. There were commonalities in their background in the selections because both British and Indians had many different classes in their society enlist. The commonalties in motivations to enlist stem from the less wealthy British and Indian soldiers mostly joining for a steady job and money
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Women Discrimination in the Military; GI Jane style Women have been as housekeepers and stay at home moms throughout time. Feminist groups during the 1920’s till now have been fighting for their equal rights that men have just been handed. It has been almost 100 years since that time and we have made great leaps as a society to achieve many of these accomplishment. Women over the years have branched out to many jobs that brought them astonishing opportunities in life. There are women that want
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In Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian‚ Mary is a quiet‚ high-school graduate recluse living on the Spokane Indian Reservation in the basement of her parents’ house. While Mary’s brother Junior has dreams and aspirations of leaving the reservation‚ he views Mary as someone destined to live and die on the rez. But‚ what Junior does not initially see is Mary’s internal need to break the vicious cycle of oppression towards Native Americans. Junior only seeing certain traits
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“Suzy and Leah” by Jane Yolen are diary entries between August to October 1944 from Suzy and Leah. The two girls perspective of each other changes as time passes‚ along with their relationship. At the beginning of the story they two girls didn’t exactly get along. Suzy is an American citizen that is helping the refugees. But she gets stuck with this a mean girl named Leah. So Suzy’s writes mean about her things like “she is creepy” or “she’s as prickly as a porcupine. Which shortly after‚ Leah got
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In the work of literature titled “For My Indian Daughter” by an inspiring author named Lewis (Johnson) Sawaquat‚ the idea of the reluctance towards acceptance is greatly expressed throughout the text. In a paragraph Sawaquat summarized a time when he joined the army‚ and expressed the reluctance
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The first part of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman consequently demonstrates an imitative nearness to the original slave narratives‚ narratives of runaway slaves. Oddly‚ such features make the writing into a “writerly” rather than a “readerly” text‚ to use Roland Barthes’s categories. The text is supposedly a transcription of interviews and the reproduction of a voice‚ the product of a dialogue‚ in the line of the written tradition of slave narratives where the authenticating documents themselves
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oppression the Natives have suffered over centuries. AIM started as a movement to transform policies into programs (Warrior & Smith‚ The American Indian Movement‚ p. 7). The movement stands for protection of treaty rights and culture and spirituality conservation. Over the years‚ the movement has successfully accomplished their vision of fighting for the Indian American rights (Wittstock & Salinas‚ p. 1).
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Comparing and contrasting Indian education and no face How could two very different people have the same struggles? Victor and no face both live in different countries and have different problems but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t the same in some ways. No face from No face by Junot Diaz has a medical problem‚ and victor from Indian education by Sherman Alexie has race problem. Victor is an Indian boy that struggles with unworthy schooling life and dealing with racism. No face is a dominican
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