Ideas about the human condition can transcend time and expressed through different contexts while reflecting society’s changing values. Emma‚ written by Jane Austen reaffirms and challenges the conservative society of 19th century England‚ where moral growth is a result of strict social etiquettes and rigid class structure. However‚ Heckerling has taken similar ideas that speak powerfully about human nature to the different context of 20th century America‚ within the world of Clueless where a much
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Sarah Silverman angered conservative Christians with a controversial Christmas message on Twitter about Jesus. On Christmas Day‚ the comedian posted a message on both her Twitter and Facebook accounts calling Jesus “gender fluid.” Sarah Silverman also posted a vulgar joke about Santa Claus on the same day‚ according to Time. “MERRY CHRISTMAS! Jesus was gender fluid!” said Silverman. The term gender fluid refers to a person who does not permanently commit to being male‚ female‚ or neutral. A gender
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everyone is to someone evil? In this story there is a woman named Roxanne. Roxanne is a manipulative person. She shows her evil best with these two relations‚ she tries her best to get her way‚ and is tricky. In Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac‚ the story Roxanne is involved in‚ Edmond Rostand displays Roxanne as a manipulative person because she tricks people‚ she lies to people‚ and lastly she uses her looks to get her way. One of the characteristics of Roxanne is that she lies to people. To further
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The book Dreamland‚ by author Sarah Dessen‚ is not exactly what the title seems to be. The first thing I thought of when hearing the title was a girl lost in a dream finding people and magic and waking up into reality. You may or may not have had the same thoughts as I had but let me tell you one thing: that is not it at all. Instead it is a book about a girl‚ Caitlin‚ trying to escape her old self and find her new self with her new boyfriend‚ Rogerson. This perfect relationship soon goes wrong when
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PB: In brief Michael‚ Emma has preserved its appeal through Austen’s exploration of values and attitudes‚ attuned to modern audiences. These values and attitudes in turn parallel with that of readers in a modern context‚ providing the novel with a sense of universality. MC: Fascinating observation Paula‚ can you specify what values and attitudes still pervade in a contemporary context? PB: The values and attitudes that Austen has chosen to explore in Emma address the strict nature of social classes
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In any novel‚ the theme cannot be discussed without the Main character and therefore it follows that Edmond Dantes would be another character source of the portrayal of Wait and Hope. Like Mercedes‚ Dantes acts this way‚ because it is an inherent part of himself‚ demonstrated by multiple instances of him portraying wait and hope in his different personalities. For example‚ page 35‚ he declares to his fiance‚ "Good-bye my sweet Mercedes! We shall soon meet again!" In the scene‚ Dantes exclaims that
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The titular character of Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac is a deeply complicated man‚ a hero with many insecurities and many desires he hides behind a facade of bravado. However‚ there are no soliloquies to help understand these motivations and personality. Instead‚ the audience learns this information through his interactions with several minor characters‚ with each showcasing a part of Cyrano’s personality that remains unseen when the bombastic polymath is on stage‚ challenging the
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The central idea for the essay “ Ongoingness” is that when we are recording things with writing or with photography‚ we aren’t experiencing the moments. As stated by Sarah Manguso in the essay‚” The trouble was that I failed to record so much. I’d write about a few moments‚ but the surrounding time- there was so much of it! So much apparent nothing I ignored‚ that I treated as empty time between the memorable moments.” Manguso was explaining how she was only focused on the beginning and the end‚
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That Summer The book “That Summer” by Sarah Dessen is a book about the relationship between two sisters‚ who have their struggles but come together in the end more as friends than as a family member. Haven is just another teenage girl that doesn’t agree with what her body looks like and tries her hardest to either be noticed by the guy she likes or hide in the crowd from the girls she wants to avoid. Haven is six feet tall her freshman year and lives in the shadow of her twenty-one year old sister
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2018 Emma Gonzalez was a normal 18 year old bisexual cuban. When she went to school the next day‚ she became a new person. She became an activist. On February 14‚ Nikolas Cruz used an AR-15 to kill 17 of her teachers and friends. How would you feel‚ and what would you do? Emma decided to have make her voice heard and has come expressed herselfout on Social Media. She has also given numerous speeches about this horrific event and what we should do to make a change. INSPIRATION/BACKGROUND Emma was
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