The Heiress

works hard, for example. Despite these uncertainties, disagreements, and variabilities, role models can be found anywhere: in life, in fiction, or even in William Shakespeare’s most comedic play, The Merchant of Venice. Portia, the rich and desired heiress who must rely on her father’s ingenious contest for love, is a paragon of virtue. In The Merchant of Venice, Portia is an exceptional inspiration to all because of her heroism, wisdom, and mercy. The first quality of Portia that makes her a…

Susan Choi’s American Woman, is an intense novel, written after The Foreign Student, and drawn from the events of the 1974 kidnapping of a newspaper heiress, Patty Hearst. Susan Choi’s novel is suspenseful and sensational in many places, it’s serious in others, American Woman is an analysis of a person’s self, which has been shaped by the events of the past and pursued by the uncertainty of whether those specific actions were even actually necessary to begin with. The novel begins in upstate…

Jamie graduates. What happens next? If you want a happy ending, try A. A. Jamie goes to a moderately ranked private university and receives a good education. She then goes on to get a job that pays enough for her family to be able to make ends meet and have excess to spend. The family can afford to go on vacation twice a year. Her family is happy. Jamie's kids grow up and attend college and repeat the cycle. While they are doing this Jamie dwindles into old age and retires. She has accumulated…

had ever done, besides simply being born, to make a name for himself. Daisy was in the same boat as Tom. Her high social status was because of the household she was born to, and she never tried to be anything more, accepting her slate in life as an heiress who married well. The Buchanan’s had the American Dream in all of its material forms but they had the easy path to wealth: inheritance. They didn’t accomplish it with the same determination and hard work that now is thought to go hand in hand…

What do a cat and a headless horse man have in common? The world may never know. But, the world will know how the two stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Washington Irving are incredibly different but also very similar. “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving share many aspects of romanticism; these include the importance of nature, supernatural events, and a sense of individualism. Although these similarities are present the stories are very…

and Julius Caesar, as each rhetoric tries to convince characters in the play to do things, Shakespeare shows how words used in rhetorics can change a person or thing entirely. In As You Like It, the play is centered on the beautiful Portia, the heiress to a vast fortune, whom marries Bassanio.…

dainty fort. Jayden hushed Kara as a signal not awake any demons. Moments after, Kara and Jayden enter, and were greeted by two people. Aunt Barbara and this tall teenage boy with silky hair and azure eyes. He wore all black and sat tall like an heiress. There was only one person that would fit this description. Luke. Kara’s crush. “Kara is this your boyfriend!” exclaimed Jayden, then shrunk away from Kara’s flying hand.…

president of the Koch Industries, a corporation that is the 2nd biggest privately held company in the US. 8. Liliane Henriette Charlotte Schueller, married name Bettencourt was born 21, October 1922 and she is a businesswoman, philanthropist and French heiress,socialite. She is one of the primary shareholders of the L'Oréal and as of the February 2014, she was graded by the Hurun Report as the richest woman in the world with an predictable net worth of $ 34 billion. 9. Christy Ruth Walton was…

Time proceeded in a blur as the anonymous men fucked and taunted the teenager. One after another, never-ending, the theatre was consumed with husky masculine voices, slaps of hands against tender, young flesh, and cocks being stuffed in eager, wet holes. Adam Levine filmed it all, capturing the expression of pleasure pasted across the teen's face, the writhing and bucking of her tight form, and the uninhibited moans forced from her mouth as she orgasmed over and over. Her juices, and various…

Have you ever been held hostage by the Symbionese Liberation Army (S.L.A.)? Patty Hearst was. Have you ever robbed a bank, been in court, or been kidnapped? Patty Hearst has done all of those things. Patty was kidnapped, and she claimed that her kidnappers forced her to commit horrible crimes. The outcome of her trial said different however. When Patty Hearst was found guilty in court, she did indeed commit the crimes on her own free will, she pronounced herself a member of the Symbionese…