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within them. Miss Havisham, from Great Expectations, is not the classic, run of the mill, everyday monster. Although, she is manipulative, deceptive, and just plain mean at times she does have human qualities. True, she turned out not to be Pip’s benefactor, but she gave him access to Estella before she was burned alive. She truly did love Estella, even though she did not know how the express her love. I would even venture to say she loved Pip as well. And once upon a time, Miss Havisham,…

the first miss america to ever be crowned, in 1921. My greatest achievements are winning Miss Washington, D.C, Inter-City Beauty Amateur, The Most Beautiful Bathing Girl in America, and the coveted grand prize of the Golden Mermaid trophy. Because the Inter-City Beauty Amateur and The Most Beautiful Bathing Girl in America wins didn't roll off the tongue, the council renamed those wins to Miss America for me. So, I was the first Miss America, but they didn't start to call the win Miss America…

of nameless faces. I inch closer to the stage. “Coming to the stage, MO’NIQUE!” I exhale a final nervous breath, releasing all inhibitions and walking onto the stage becoming Mo’nique. Well, the awkward tween version of her, at least. In the Little Miss Continental Pageant, we were required to introduce ourselves as a well known African American woman, answer questions about current events and raise money for a scholarship foundation. The pageant taught many lessons that are the basic to…

Despite offering a different character’s point of view, several of the dramatic techniques resident in Miss Julie are exhibited. Even more importantly, Strindberg again insists on placing the family of the play in the context of a Darwinian battle of the strongest. It is natural for us to expect similarities between The Father and Miss Julie due to the close proximity of their writing, but the points made about Strindberg’s later work help provide an additional insight into the playwright’s…

are always winners and losers, and of course, everyone would want to be a winner. What about being a loser? Is it very bad to be a loser? If you think that being a loser is the worst thing in your life, the movie Little Miss Sunshine will change your thought. The movie Little Miss Sunshine directed by Jonathan Daytona and Valerie Faris is telling a story about a crazy family in New Mexico that “everyone pretends to be normal”. All the characters in this movie seem to be normal but actually they…

“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…

characters are plagued with tremendous loss and face horrible and unimaginable tragedies. One character in particular, Miss Havisham, is confronted by catastrophe and misery multiple times, but allows these moments define her as a person. Miss Havisham is broken, never finding the strength to recover, and she forces herself to endure a life of sadness after that fateful day. The single…

future. She just lets herself to be shaped into a cruel heartless women by Miss Havisham; which expectations are continued of a negative focus. To use Estella as her puppet to punish men for her heart break on her wedding day. At the end of the novel, Estella…

a struggle for Estella to love Pip, mainly because of how Miss Havisham raised her. Estella is one of many characters that prove to be important in this book. Estella, Joe, and Miss Havisham all impact pip in some way. Pip does mention how Joe is a good natured guy, Pip gives a well description of Joe and tells us how he feels about him (Dickens Charles, 2). Miss Havisham on the other hand is tied to estella’s emotions on the male sex. Miss Havisham has had previous issues with her relationships…

Katherine Mansfield short story, “Miss Brill,” deals with a woman who is living in an epiphany in order to hide behind her loneliness. Katherine Mansfield is recognized as one of the most proficient writers of the modern short story in English. The language portrayed in her writings is perpetually precise and clear. She acquires the audience’s attention by composing symbolism and characterism throughout the short story. Miss Brill represents an old woman’s pursuit to deny her loneliness, by…