Excuse Me Miss

“She is beauty and she is grace, she is the queen of 50 states, she is elegance and taste, she is Miss United States (Lawrence).” This song, from the soundtrack of the movie Miss Congeniality, describes amazing women who have been crowned Miss United States. While outside of this movie, in the real world, we do not have Miss United States; we do have other titles similar. Beauty pageants encourage their participants to be the best versions of themselves they can be through building the…

Many women who married around the 60s, most of their husbands would expect their wives to have a stereotypical model body: Twiggy, Donyale Luna, Patti Boyd and Linda Morand were some of the top 1960s models according to Supermodels of the 1960s by Lauren Valenti. These were some of the most famous models in the 60s in which men would expect their wives to maintain their bodies as these models. From a curvy waist to a flat stomach and a well size butt to please men of an ideal “perfect” body. Not…

expectations” that dissolve and change throughout the story, allowing for Pip to also change as a person. The reader follows Pip as he goes through life, learning how to be a gentleman, (which is part of his expectations of life), loving Estella, Miss Havisham’s adopted daughter, who will not love him back, and keeping a secret about helping an escaped convict when he was younger. As Pip continues to grow up, he keeps this secret, and once Pip and Magwitch, the ex-convict, meet again, he still…

Chapter 1: Lockwood is the story’s frame narrator who is introduced to Heathcliff in the first scene. Lockwood is the tenant of Thrushcross Grange, and Heathcliff is his landlord. Heathcliff is not very friendly, and the second man he meets, Joseph, is not either. As Lockwood enters Heathcliff’s residence, Wuthering Heights, he describes the rooms and furniture. Soon after, he is attacked by Heathcliff’s dogs, but they are called off. Chapter 2: Lockwood has a difficult time accessing the…

after he returns that he realizes that Agnes Wickfield has been his true love all along, and their happy marriage takes place at last. “@O Agnes, O my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing…

lacks in having any sort of manners as a human being. "THE FLOWER GIRL. I want to be a lady in a flower shop stead of selling at the corner of Tottenham Court Road. But they won't take me unless I can talk more genteel. He said he could teach me. Well, here I am ready to pay him—not asking any favor—and he treats me as if I was dirt. (2.34)".In this society to be a lady is not just about how you are as a person but how well you were educated and how much money you have to have received this…

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens focuses on an orphan child, Oliver who is very poor and in an orphanage that didn't actually care for any of the kids there. Then when Oliver asked the cook for more food and fled to the streets of London when he wasn't given the food he asked for. Later on Oliver met Artful Dodger who leads him to Fagin and his “gang” of pickpockets. The orphanage hears about Oliver's escape and go into the streets of London to retrieve Oliver and bring him back to the orphanage…

married and embraces her mother’s advice on how to find a man and start family. When in fact all she ever wanted to do was become a writer, but the closest she could come to a writer was with th Jackson Journal writing housekeeping advice column called “Miss Myrna.” Since Skeeter knows almost nothing about housekeeping she turned to her friend’s maid Aibileen, for…

Great expectations; written during Economic Prosperity and Religious Controversy. Unlike other novels where the theme is revolved around love, romance and fairy-tale with grand mythical creatures. Dickens was writing about the social experience of the first generation of the Victorian age he outlines social injustice, child poverty and lack of education. Great Expectation is a bildungsroman where Dickens writes about the life of pip from an infant age to adulthood. when the readers first meet…

Pip runs into a man on the road that seems to know him. The man starts to stir his drink with a file and the man is either the convict from his past or a man who knows exactly what Pip did to assist the convict. Chapter 45 This chapter tells Miss Havishem's story on why her house is so haunting and sad. Her second marriage turned out to be a huge plot against her, when he left her on her wedding day. Everything in her house was in the exactly the same as the day he left her. This is why…