Emma College Essays Samples For Students

Gustave Flaubert’s debut novel Madame Bovary is a work of literary realism in which Flaubert brings out the provincial life of the protagonists in a little french village. In the novel, Flaubert moves away from the romantic literary traditions of his time and writes a tale that is rooted in reality. In the novel, Emma’s romantic nature and actions become a stark contrast to the very normal existence of her husband Charles. Although the novel centers around Emma or Madame Bovary, the role her husband charles plays in her life cannot be underestimated. Emma grows up reading ...

Self-concept

Self-concept can be defined as the way in which we perceive our selves, or identities. Adam's father, Alvin is obsessed with the idea that he is still a young, virile man, as he constantly dates younger women and embraces attention for the long-past television show that made him a minor celebrity. He also works out constantly in order to maintain this perception of youth. He does all of these things to further his self-concept, which is that of the kind of popular, womanizing star he presumably was in his youth. He is the recipient of conditioning surrounded by his environment (Hollywood) ...

Before I watched the adaptation of the eponymous novel by Jane Austen, I had the opportunity to know directly the product. I love syllable of Austin, her brushwork, irony and subtle English humor, behind which lies the limitless depth: the philosophical view of things, the principles of steel and tender feelings, capable of sacrifice. Her works are distinguished by a certain purity and innocence. It is touching for me, the representative of pampering generation and frankness in the relationship between men and women, invisible thread between Emma and her chosen one held in the exciting voltage.
Jane Austen is ...

Over the past few decades, social inequalities such as class, gender and race have been the leading cause in our world's societal problems. What leads one to believing that an individual is inferior to him based on his or her possessions or appearance? Emma by Jane Austen reflects upon the norms of nineteenth century’s England. Austen has always tried to address the social issues in her works such as Pride & Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma. In order to have a clearer understanding of the social conflicts criticized in Emma, one has to look closely at the social structure ...

Abstract

This paper will compare and contrast the three named novels: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Emma by Jane Austen, My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok as bildungromans – that is, novels about growing up. Each of the central characters – Emma, Huck and Asher – grow to maturity by the end of each novel, having struggled through various difficulties. The three novels were written at very different times and are set in very different societies, but they are linked by the growth and development of the central characters. This growth is moral, not merely physical and involves a ...

Summary of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The story of Madame Bovary is an undeniable piece of classical literature, which narrates the story of an infidel woman – Emma – whose behavior led to irreversible processes (Bart 14).
Young doctor Charles Bovary first saw Emma when he was called to the farm of his father, who had broken his leg. Charles had already been married to an ugly and grumpy widow. Soon, however, the wife of Charles suddenly died. And after some time he married Emma. Charles was devoted to her, kind and hard-working, but Emma was missing something in him: she wanted her man to be strong ...

Upon its publication in 1815, Emma Woodhouse by Emma Austen has had its fair share of adversaries and obstacles. What fascinated early readers was not that it did not contain style and energy, but that its plot was uneventful and dull. Even Emma’s famous publisher John Murray claimed it lacked romance and incident. According to Ellis, Maria Edgeworth, a contemporary writer so highly esteemed by Austen that she gave her one of the twelve copies used for presentation allotted by her publisher, could not interpret past the initial volume and lamented “there was no plot in it .”Ironically, what ...

Chapter 1

Right from Mr. Knightley’s visit to the Woodhouse family at the beginning of the novel, the author clearly creates the image of Mr. Knightley as a honest individual who never shies away from the truth. In fact, the assertion that he was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma, is proven true repeatedly during the course of the novel. Further, Mr. Knightley is introduced to the audience as quite forthright, as seen when the author claims that he was the only one who ever told Emma of her shortcomings. Mr. Knightley right from the beginning ...

Comparative Essay

There is not much to distinguish between Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’ and Amy Heckerling’s, ‘Clueless.’ Emma was twenty-one and she had all the good things anyone her age would have desired. Cher (Alicia Silverstone) on the other hand, was just sixteen, and she too had all the goodies contemporary America could offer. After all, she was the only daughter of a very successful lawyer in California, who charged $500 an hour “to fight with people,” as Cher says. In many ways, Heckerling’s Clueless can be mistaken to be the modern version of Austen’s Emma. However, there are ...

The Core Problems

Emma, 19 year old, has requested me to talk to her parent about her progress in life, whereby, she claims that she is old enough to make her own decisions, but she wants their continued support-Emma is planning to leave college and move to Australia to live with her soul mate who she met on the internet. I will, therefore, have Emma respond to a couple of questions before meeting her parents- to discuss Emma’s position. I will also discuss with her, Emma, the core problems that she could end up facing as a result of her act- to make ...

Jane Austen's novel, Emma, is all about a female protagonist of high social standing who is often described as handsome and intelligent, although a bit spoiled young woman. She thinks of herself as someone who does not meddle in other people's affairs and plays matchmaker for her friends, but does not believe that she, herself, will marry some day. Then appear Mr. George Knightley, a highly respectable man who is about 17 years older than Emma is. He does not hesitate to point out Emma's mistakes and he seems actually enjoying this role in her life as he keeps on pushing the ...

In Zora Neale Hurston’s “Color Struck,” Emmaline and John, a couple, encounter significant conflict due to Emma’s colorism. Her jealousy and suspicion that John likes lighter-skinned blacks better than her prevents her from having a good time (and eventually, a life) with John. Throughout the events of the play, Emma is perpetually beset by bad decisions and poor choices stemming from that distrust of different hues of black. Psychoanalytical perspective involves bringing the subconscious desires and prejudices of a person or persons into the light, in order to examine why they do the things they do. Psychoanalyzing Emma throughout the course ...

Key Terms, Meanings, & Example from “Once upon a Time”

Feral children
Neglected children
Anti-social behavior
Receives brought up in an imaginary world
Example: Henry from Once upon a time is a perfect example as he was adopted by Evil Queen Regina Mills
Looking glass self
The way someone see oneself from the perception of others
Example: Henry got to realize that he is the only one who is not a character of Storybrooke.
Play stage
Pretend to be another person
Example: After realization Henry keep behaving as a character of Storybrooke to make others feel that he is from them.
Game stage
Organized game
Example: Henry plays his ...

The rise of the internet and the globalized city has made it seem as if there are really only two cultural values in the world - the traditional values of the rural lifestyle and the urban values of commerce that dominate the modern cities. Generally speaking, people tend to consider these as a one-way trend as older, more traditional people stay in the rural areas and die off and younger, more modern people move to the cities and push progress and change. By comparing two short stories such as "Souvenirs" by Leila Aboulela and "An Internet Baby" by Xiaolu Guo, ...

Media climate change reporting and environmental disclosure patterns in the low-cost airline industry in the twenty-first century

Question/Answers:
Q 1) Do you think that Emma is right to restrict her project to only low-cost airlines, rather than the whole industry or a comparison with another sector? Give reasons for your answer.
Someone who is not experienced cannot simply start with megaprojects. It is neither easy, not recommended. In addition to it, there is a lot of uncertainty. Anything can happen. Emma is quite right to restrict her project to low-cost airlines because carrying out research of the whole industry is a very top-level work and it will definitely burden Emma. In addition, the progress in this part ...

Madam Bovary is a novel written by Gustave Flaubert in 1856. It takes us through the journey and the life of an extremely complex character Emma Bovary, who was a doctor’s wife. Emma had adulterous relationships and lived ahead of her means in order to get away from the ordinariness and emptiness of her life. Madam Bovary was later turned into a romance and drama film in 1949. It was written by Robert Ardrey and directed by Vincente Minnelli. In the film, the figure of Emma Bovary as a character in the novel causes cheers of approval and howls of outrage as ...

In E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime, the American Melting Pot is represented by a variety of characters, all of whom experience and communicate with each other in numerous important ways. One of the more fascinating and closely-connected characters in the novel is Evelyn Nesbit, who is told by Emma Goldman early in the novel, “But there are correspondences, you see, our lives correspond, our spirits touch each other like notes in harmony, and in the total human fate we are sisters” (60-61). This sentence sums up the spirit of the book – everyone is connected, and everyone corresponds with each other in ...

Social and romantic relationships are often characterized by happy moments as well as sad ones. The novel Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen is an example of a novel that contains social constructions that go through the highs and lows of social relationships and interactions between members of society and there is no different. The social and romantic relationships the reader encounters are subjected to many perturbations that are created by temperaments exhibited by the characters. The social standing of the members of this society greatly contributes to how they treat each other, and this leads to the happy ...

The different perceptions of who was to blame for the aftermath of the Homestead Steel Mill Strike of 1892 are evident in Emma Goldman and Henry Clay Frick’s accounts on the case. On one hand, political activist Goldman informs her readers that the incident involved protests that ended with the “slaughter of steel-workers by Pinkertons” after the latter group, to control the former, “opened fire, without warning” (Doc A par.5). In his book, “Give Me Liberty!” Eric Foner explains that the mentioned Pinkertons were “300 private policemen” that the Homestead Steel Mill officials hired from the “Pinkerton Detective ...

There are a number of lessons that one must learn as one goes through life. But the lesson of attempting to survive through the racial discrimination in the south is one lesson that is most valuable to those who lived in that era. Many blacks can now relate to the racial challenge that Jefferson face in Louisiana in 1948. Like many other blacks during the 1940’s, Jefferson faces death for a murder. Of course the laws during the period did not require much proof to convict a black man as much of the stories of the past reveal ...

Observation

A few years ago I spent several months working as a volunteer in an animal rescue centre. There were around ten animal carers working there full time. Most were basic level carers but two were supervisors. Supervisors were deemed to have more experience and, as the position carried more responsibility, they earned a higher wage than the people below them. Additionally, in the office there was the centre manager and the administrator. The manager was rarely seen out among the animals and the staff – she tended to stay in her office most of the time.
When I had been working ...

Eugenics is defined by Coutts and McCarrick (1995, p.163) as the methods used in perfecting the human race thorough genetic technologies or the traditional genetic selection (Sparrow, 2010, p.288). But this definition was twisted to defend the enhancement of human beings by sterilizing those who are considered to be inadequate (Coutts and McCarrick, p.1995, p.163). The definition of an inadequate genetic heredity was defined by the 1924 Virginia Eugenical Sterilization Act to include feeblemindedness and sexual promiscuity, which is believed to be be passed on to the next generation (Claude, 2004). The first test subject for the sterilization law ...

The novel, House Rules, by Jodi Picoult, brings out the issues faced by children with Asperger’s syndrome; a form of autism that affects an individual’s relations with the world. It triggers their inability to communicate, interact and imagination their world. The main character, Jacob Hunt, has a special gift in deducing most of the cases in a crime scene. In all situations, his views about what the cops should do to close the case are right. However, a terrible murder rocks the town, and cops point towards Jacob for questioning. They pin him for being a key ...

The Asian American Art Center was started in the year 1974 as the Asian American dance theater in Chinatown New York. Formed as a community of art organization which was non-profitable in nature. Its sole mission was to promote creative vitality and preservation of cultural development Asian American by use of art. It is achieved through interpretation and presentation of the current Asian and American art forms, exhibitions, utilizing performances and communal education. This center has over their ears prolonged to comprise the following core areas. Exhibitions and catalog publication, folk art investigation and certification, performance and presentation (Samson 116).
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The years of James Joyce's life mark major transitions in world history, as well as in world culture. When he was born, in 1882, the worldwide transition from an agrarian way of life to the industrial paradigm was still in fits and starts. Wars were still fought hand-to-hand and on horseback. Literature was still primarily a mostly straightforward affair, as were the visual arts. Matters of perspective, the bailiwick of the modernist artists, were still yet to be the matter of much experimentation. However, the arrival of the Impressionist painters began to erode a unified perspective by considering how subjects might ...

A Passionate Revival of Movie Musical Styles

Film Review: La La Land – A Passionate Revival of Movie Musical Styles
La La Land was released by Lionsgate and Black Label Media on December 25, 2016. It is considered a comedy/drama/musical production. Damien Chazelle is the director and writer of the film. Major stars in the movie are Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and Rosemarie DeWitt (Platt & Gilbert, 2016). It has received 14 Oscar nominations and numerous Golden Globe awards. The plot involves the evolving and troubled love affair between an aspiring actress and a disillusioned jazz pianist. This is a musical production that includes drama, romance and comedy ...

Emma Williams’s Case

Arbitration is a formal process for determining a grievance between parties in a conflict. A labor arbitration process involves an employment-related dispute between an employer and employee. The authority of an arbitral award comes from the binding arbitral clause in a contract of employment or the authority given by the parties through the appointment (Walras, 2013). An arbitrator has quasi-judicial powers to investigate, listen to the grievances of the parties and provide a decision, which is binding on all parties involved in dispute. However, arbitration must be launched on time to have a force of law. The dispute in ...

TerraCop Case

Communication is one of the key tools in business and planning. If communication lacks between employees, departments, and partners business transactions will face a significant amount of challenges that can limit if not diminish the success of an organization. TerraCog has been in operation and business since 1977. From the time the organization, begin to the present there has been an immense amount of success in the fish and gaming industry because of the unique and usable products TerraCog has been an innovative and strong competitor that slowly introduces new products to underserved markets. One of the products that ...

The loss of motivation and one’s bearing in life also often leads to a loss of confidence and direction. This proves more significantly relevant to people who are older which is the case seen in Fusi Bergman and Miss Hancock. Both characters believed and were proud of their particular set of skills and abilities. The two short stories God is not a Fish Inspector and The Metaphor both tackles the theme of conformity and betrayal. Whereas one emphasized a way of life guided through religion, the other showed one that focuses on strict compliance to order and discipline.
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Question 1

Stevens G.A. et.al (2012) in the article National, regional, and global trends in adult overweight and obesity prevalence identify the overwhelming rates of obesity all over the globe. The writers aim to present comparable and contrasting trends in obesity and overweight levels in various regions. They provide estimates of 1980 to 2008 amongst the adult population of over 20 years old. A Bayesian Hierarchical Paradigm is utilized to measure the body mass index of the sample to evaluate the variables in the study such as gender, year, country, and age of the adults (Stevens G.A et.al, 2012). The findings ...

Interpretation of Emma Lazarus's Poem The New Colossus

The poem The New Colossus, written by Emma Lazarus, talks about the Statue of Liberty and how it gives hope to the hopeless. The statue welcomes immigrants from all over the world, and it offers high hopes and expectations to anyone coming to America. It id for that reason that the lines “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to break free" can be interpreted as America reaching out to all the people of the United States and the rest of the world; giving them surety that it will give them a home. Going by the mood ...

Neocolonialism is a major them in Emma Larkin’s travel chronicles in Burma. Larkin’s observations reveal similarities between the current military control and the former imperial control. The first similarity is that just like the British colonialists, the military have a virtual monopoly of power. The opposition has been suppressed by all means including criminalization of parties and protracted imprisonment of the leaders such as Aung San Syu Kyi. Secondly, there are gross human rights violations because there are no institutions to check the government. The military regime has been ruthless in suppressing and eliminating perceived enemies of the state. ...

The 1998 Mike Nichols film Primary Colors that was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay is a movie that indirectly portrays the 1992 presidential campaign of Bill Clinton. The main roles of the movie were played by the infamous John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates and Adrian Lester. The movie is based on the same-named novel written in 1996 by an Anonymous, who turned out to be Joe Klein, a columnist for Newsweek magazine, who also covered Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign. The movie depicts the presidential campaign of a Southern Governor Jack Stanton in all ...

The American Dream is the widespread assumption of a better life in the United States of America. It has long been believed that America is the epitome of a land that brings almost ultimately only prosperity and success to everyone who dares to dream the American dream—regardless of his or her origin. No wonder many people from the poorest countries of Asia dare themselves to fly thousands of miles away from the comforts of their homes to challenge the unknown and find out what is in store for them in the land that promises so much to people who are ...

The media has a great impact on some of the issues that face the society. Although there are different approaches that are used by the media to develop the issues, the development of the issues shows the reflection of what is taking place in society. This paper looks at the issues that can be identified in the media by analyzing the film Clueless directed by Amy Heckling. The movie was produced in the year 1995. The movie is an updated version of the novel Emma which was written by Jane Austen. The movie focuses on gender issues and stereotyping which ...

Keneth Branagh's Much Ado about Nothing from 1993 has both similarities and differences with Joss Whedon's film from 2012. Branagh's film was done in the old-fashioned way. It is a color version and actors are wear period dresses. Beatrice, played by Emma Thompson, has expressive eyes and way of acting. She is against marriage. Benedick shows the audience acting that is worth enough for theater stage. He is very expressive. Leonato is a noble, rich man. Claudio is a reasonable man, not very emotional. Hero is sensitive, feminine and seems like a fair lady in need of male protection. She is virtuous. Don ...

Psychology

Sexuality in the Movies: No Strings Attached (2011)

Introduction

Sexual behavior raises several questions about a person’s personality. Every person may express similarities or variation of sexual behaviors depending on their personal preferences and that of their partner. Sexuality encompasses a particular behavior. However, sexual behaviors are nevertheless highly influenced by factors such as the mainstream media. In this regard, sexuality in the media will be discussed to explore the portrayal of sexuality and analyze the actions depicted by the characters in the movie. For this discussion, the 2011 movie entitled “ No Strings Attached” will be the subject of analysis determining ...

Friends are like streetlights, they may not shorten your path but they make the journey worthwhile. This quote is clearly justified by the famous television series ‘Friends’. The show became a huge success because of the humor, portrayal of its characters and nonetheless the pragmatic essence of amity in the episodes. The magic of ‘friends’ is that it explores the diversity of human relationships and yet touches the chords common to everyone. Undoubtedly, this factor increases the inclination of viewers and of course I include myself in those viewers. In fact the mere mention of it brings a smile on my ...

Summery Notes for Immigrants in American Society

The statue of Liberty was unveiled on October 28, 1886, a time where immigration to the United States was on the increase. During this ceremony, it did not occur to those in attendance that the statue of liberty would indeed act as a symbol of hope for those immigrants coming to America. The immigrants and foreigners coming to America were nostalgic about the hopes and dreams that awaited them in the new land and were anxious to start experiencing the new life.
Of those in attendance during the ceremony, to unveil the statue of Liberty. It was only a single individual ...

Psychology

Essay on Dr. Heilman’s revealing

Just recently a Canadian psychologist Dr. James Heilman have published the trade secrets of one of the widely used psychoanalytic test called the Rorschach test or popularly the inkblot test developed by Hermann Rorschach in 1921 (Reilly, Peter Psy.D. January 8, 2007). The use of the inkblot test is to test the subject’s perception of what they see the inkblots to be and in return the responses are to be evaluated by means of complex algorithm and psychological interpretation. These responses have to be obtained impromptu and the subjects should not have prompt ...