Emma's Dilemma The Problem: Emma is playing with arrangements of the letters of her name. One arrangement is EMMA A different arrangement is MEAM Another arrangement is AEMM Experiment: ----------- For my investigation I have been asked to work out the number of different arrangements of the letters from the name Emma. ---------------------------------------------------------------- EMMA AMEM EMAM AMME --------- EAMM MEMA MMEA MMAE MAME MEAM MAEM AEMM I have found out that when the letter "E" is at the front of the name Emma, then there are three different combinations. The same rule applies when the letter "A" is at the front of the name Emma. There is an exception though, when the letter "M" is at the front of the name Emma then there are six different combinations. Overall there are 12 different combinations for the name Emma. For the second part of my investigation I have been asked to work out the number of different arrangements of letters from the name Lucy. LUCY UYCL YCLU LCUY UYLC YULC LCYU CULY YLCU LYCU CUYL YLUC LYUC CLYU LUYC CLUY ULCY CYLU UCLY CYUL UCYL YUCL ULYC YCUL From this second experiment I have found out that when the letter "L" is at the front of the name Lucy then there are six different combinations. The same rule applies to the letters "U", "C" and "Y" in the name Lucy. Overall there are 24 different combinations for the name Lucy From the first two experiments I have noticed that the name Emma has half the number of combinations when compared with the name Lucy. This maybe because of the repeated letter "M" in the name Emma. To find out whether or not this is true I will investigate a 5-letter word with a repeated letter in it and a 5-letter word with all different letters
Their name is sometimes shortened up and changed. The officials would change them so people can pronounce and spell them.
Emma is described as someone “of average height, five four,five five, but weighs nearly two hundred pounds.”(p.1). She is depicted as immovable in her faith in God and in the people in her life. This is shown by her blind faith in the justice system that fails Jefferson and herself and also by her faith that Grant will come through and teach Jefferson humanity. She used her connections to Mr. Pichot, her former employer, to get in contact with Sheriff Guidry, the brother-in-law of Mr. Pichot, who she hoped would do the right thing by her even though she had no way of guaranteeing it. Her strength and love was a catalyst for the only justice that happened to the black people in their Louisiana community during the novel, Jefferson walking to death like a man. His final words were in fact “ Tell Nannan I walked.” This final moment was the only justice she needed. She needed to know that she would see her godson again, that he knew his that he was a man, and that he knew she loved him, which she showed by bringing him her own homemade food, and giving him her unwavering faith throughout his
In the novel, “A Lesson Before Dying,” Jefferson is convicted of a murder that he did not commit. As his defense attorney pleads with the jury, “Gentlemen of the jury, be merciful. For God's sake, be merciful. He is innocent of all charges brought against him. What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this." (Gaines 6). Throughout the novel, Jefferson’s humanity is lost and he loses hope in himself as a human being. He associates his self-worth with a filthy animal, dehumanizing himself and taking the public defender's words to heart. He has little value for himself because he knows that society doesn't value him either. Miss Emma makes it her sole priority to
Novels: the first form of social media. Jane Austen’s works continue to suggest how society should function. In her most highly lauded novel, Emma, Jane Austen creates a blueprint for the foundation of a well-matched, highly-mannered, and cohesive community. Consequently, contemporary authors and journalists reference well known characters in Emma to provide readers with a more grounded foundation to fully grasp the whole concept of the passage or article. Although Emma is a two century-old novel about a woman’s encounters with love, people continue to incorporate its message and plot into everyday life. (add a stronger thesis here)
Emma's arrogance shines through when she brags that she is exceptionally skillful at matching couples. She believes that she is in control of fate and must play matchmaker in order for couples to discover their true love. Austen confirms, "The real evils indeed of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself" (Austen 1). Although Emma is so spoiled and overbearing, she truly doesn't realize this fact.
Miss Emma is Jefferson’s godmother. She loves her godson Jefferson, and shows this through all of...
When Emma Goldman is searched, there is usually one word associated with her. The word most commonly seen is Anarchism. Emma Goldman was an Anarchist, and that title along with other details about Goldman affected and followed her for the rest of her life and even afterwards. Goldman’s gave a speech titled “Address to the Jury” on July 9, 1917, and this address became one of her most remembered speeches. Goldman’s gave “Address to the Jury” because of her history and Anarchism, and she used the speech to share her point of views.
“You were accepted!” Emma looked at her mother as if she had two heads.”Accepted to…what?”
Emma, a novel by Jane Austen, is the story of a young woman, Emma, who is rich, stubborn, conniving, and occupies her time meddling into others' business. There are several recurring themes throughout the novel; the ideas of marriage, social class, women's confinement, and the power of imagination to blind the one from the truth, which all become delineated and reach a climax during the trip to Box Hill. The scene at Box Hill exposes many underlying emotions that have been built up throughout the novel, and sets the stage for the events that conclude it.
Emma also transforms into a proper woman through correcting her original neglect. Trollope states that “[i]n every passage of the book she is in fault for some folly, some vanity, some ignorance, or indeed for some meanness” (7)19. Because of her ignorance toward attitudes of her neighbors, Emma interferes through their lives in a way that makes them unhappy, for “she had often been negligent” (Austen 359)20. Mr. Knightley predicts the outcome of Emma’s plans in the beginning of the novel when he states that “[y]ou are more likely to have done harm to yourself, than good to them by interference” (Austen 8)21 and also that “[v]anity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief” (Austen 53)22. Not only is Emma stubborn toward her actions, but she is also negligent to herself when she convinces herself “I cannot really change for the better” (Austen 73)23. On other matters about her plans for others, Emma’s consideration falls short through her own selfishness and withholding of her pride, for “[t]he longer she considered it, the greater was her sense of its expediency” (Austen 27)24.
An individual may have several different characteristics, however it is Emmaline’s determination which helps her pursue the quest to save Tommy. While on the travel to London, the location of the master sweep containing her brother, Emmaline forces herself to take a few days worth of wagon rides alone through harsh conditions. Although she is able to receive sleep during the night, Emmaline is “awakened a number of times by harsh coughing and the shrill cries,” (pg 133”), leaving her tired. The fact Emmaline has enough for a coach, which would make her voyage more relaxing, but makes the choice to opt for a cheaper option to preserve enough money in hopes to buy her brother back shows her determination. Emmaline is willing to tackle any hurdle
Due to Emma’s wealth and being a masculine figure in her household these effects ruptures her understanding of the possibilities and limitations placed on women. Born in ...
The theme of social status and society is prevalent in the novel of Emma, through the characters Emma, Mr. Knightley, Mr. Churchill, and their situations and perspectives on life. Austen describes Emma as, “handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her” makes her outlook disparate from characters such as Harriet (Austen, Emma 3). Immediately through her description, Austen indicates Emma’s haughty perspective on society through her referencing her friends as “first set” and “second set.” Through Emma’s classification of her friends by their social status and importance, first set being the superior and second set being the inferior and locum, the reader is able to have a glimpse of Emma’s outlook on society and it’s classes. (Knowledge Notes). Emma once again portrays the theme of social status and society through her views of people in lower classes than she such as Harriet and Mr. Martin. After Emma meets Harriet for the first time, she immediately decides that Harriet’s “soft blue eyes, and all those natural graces, should not be wasted on the inferior society of Highbury, and its connections” (Austen, Emma 20). Because of the social class difference between her and Mr. Martin, Emma regards him as someone who is inferior and advises Harriet to refuse his proposal. She claims that though “his appearance was very neat, and he looked like a sensible young man, but his person had no other advantage; and when he came to be contrasted with a gentleman, she thought he must lose all the ground…” (Austen, Emma 27) and that Harriet deserves someone more advantageo...
To be a mentor is to hold influence over a person’s actions or education. Overall, “Emma” is a novel about the influence that people hold over each other, and how that influence can affect people. Conflict is built by different characters who view themselves as mentors struggling to assert their opinions over others and pupil characters who accept their mentor’s opinions without bothering to form their own.
In Jane Austen’s social class and coming of age novel, Emma, the relationships between irony, insight and education are based upon the premise of the character of Emma Woodhouse herself. The persona of Emma is portrayed through her ironic and naive tone as she is perceived as a character that seems to know everything, which brings out the comedic disparities of ironies within the narrative. Emma is seen as a little fish in a larger pond, a subject of manipulating people in order to reflect her own perceptions and judgments. Her education is her moral recognition to love outside her own sheltered fancies and her understandings of her society as a whole.