(Miss)understood

Dickens’ Whether we revere, denounce, or fear them, everyone wants to know what the elite, the upper class, the do to fit in. Though it seems like a question posed just for today’s teenagers, Charles Dickens was asking the same question during the Industrial Revolution, a time when elite status was, with a little bit of luck, just within the grasp of a commoner. In Dickens’ novel Great Expectations, we see Pip attempt to seem deserving of his newfound status through flimsy, sublunary means and…

clothing, and the stressed delegates giving it their all. The ultimate goal wasn’t just obtaining the crown; it was the trip to Dubai, the college scholarship, and all the other benefits that came along with being Miss Teen Latina Global. An early morning on September 20th, 2014, the day of the Miss Teen Latina Global Cultural Pageant produced by Virgelia Productions; I felt numb to all my emotions, everything appeared to be a dream. While I was getting my hair and makeup done at eight o’clock…

protagonist, Miss Brill as a judgmental, nosy, and fairly wealthy woman. Mansfield uses literary devices like imagery to show the reader what the fur she's wearing to convey her wealth without directly stating that she's wealthy. Mansfield uses third person limited omniscient to let the reader see what Miss Brill is thinking and in the process, showing us how judgmental and nosy she really is. Mansfield seemed to want to portray…

“Alright, we’re going to start this training session now.” Sabra said. “We’re going to start with Cardio, make sure to keep up. Don’t stop running until we make it to the glade. Now let’s go!” Without any hesitation Sabra starting running down the forest path. Isaac couldn’t believe she was running barefooted. He thought about her stepping on bugs, running right behind her. ran Malessica and Gerard followed right behind him. Isaac didn’t really pay much attention to his surroundings, keeping…

meets a girl named Estella at Miss. Havisham’s home. Miss. Havisham adopted Estella. Miss. Havisham's, past she had a negative view about men. This was because she was left at the altar making her heartbroken and lived thinking of that instance affecting her. Miss. Havisham she was born and raised in the upper class. Estella is near to Miss. Havisham as a daughter influenced many parts of Estella. Estella was born into a lower class, but raised in the upper class. Miss. Havisham's wanting her to…

While beauty pageants often reign in American without much debate, the same subject is a hot topic for debate in France. Legislators in the French Parliament have issued a move to ban such pageants that are radically supported in places like the United States. The source for formulating the controversial ban stems from the views that pageants, and similar contests, force the youth surrounding them into a state of hyper-sexualization (Healy). Vast citizens are worried that the girls are being…

“And the new Miss America 1995, Miss Alabama, Heather Whitestone!” Those are the words Regis Philbin said at the Miss America pageant in 1995 announcing the winner. But this winner had something more unique about her than a usual beauty contestant- she was deaf. In one instant, Heather Whitestone made history and became the first deaf Miss America. Not only that, she became the first woman to win Miss America with any type of disability. But there is so much more to her than the fact that she is…

Great Disappointments Has one of your parents ever told you that someone is a bad influence? In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens there are many characters that have an influence on others. The main character Pip supports Dickens theory that acquaintances affect how you act by misbehaving more and respecting less when he interacts with a bad influence he also shows this by becoming a gentleman when meeting good people in his life. Throughout Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Pip…

provides readers with so much insight, though fictional, into the personal relationships and reactions to many of the themes and event that took place in the middle of the 19th century. In this essay, I argued that through the use of her female heroine, Miss. Margaret Hale, Elizabeth Gaskell has written North and South as a political and social narrative that the layouts the main tensions of the mid-19th century; by addressing the prominent sexism and gender inequality of the time, the massive…

The Broken Auditory Mask In his novel Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens constructs the character of William Dorrit, father of Amy Dorrit and a debtor from the Marshalsea prison, who inherits a large sum of wealth. He is presented as a paranoid, insecure, and broken man when reminded of the Marshalsea prison. From his introduction in “The Father of the Marshalsea” where he witnesses Amy’s birth and receives testimonials from the collegians to his eventual demise after his hallucinogenic speech in…