|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 71 - 80 of 920 matching essays
- 71: Escaping the Fog of Pride and Prejudice
- ... Charlotte Lucas who only seeks a marriage in which she will advance her social position. Elizabeth doesn't believe Miss Lucas' idea of marriage until she sees an application of it. Miss Lucas accepts a proposal from Collins. The friendship weakens after this because Elizabeth cannot respect her friend's action. Elizabeth later declines a proposal from Darcy. He proposed, while his pride and love for Elizabeth were still conflicting. His proposal was like Collins', he felt he was giving Elizabeth a great honor. He told her of his struggle to overcome his dislike of Elizabeth's family. The proposal is so unromantic that Elizabeth returns ...
- 72: The Women Of Jane Austen
- ... her future children s survival. It does seem a little underhanded both to the Benets and to the reader that Charlotte is engaged to Mr. Collins less than a week after Elizabeth rejects his marriage proposal, but such was life at the time. Charlotte does pay a price for her prudent choice. She moves away from her family and becomes her husband s servant and Lady Catherine de Bourgh s stoop ... Mrs. Benet is furious that Elizabeth rejects Mr. Benet s arrogant heir because society recommends that all women accept the marriage proposals they receive. She reminds her daughter that there is no guarantee that another proposal will ever follow. Ironically, another proposal shortly follows, and Elizabeth rejects that one also. Elizabeth already knows what Charlotte and her mother and the rest of society cannot see. Yes, if she married Mr. Collins she would be provided for, ...
- 73: Medical Uses Of Marijuana
- ... on the medical marijuana question, inhibiting any attempts at further research of its medical utility, and limiting research to marijuana's negative effects. In 1994 Dr. Donald Abrams, a California AIDS specialist, submitted a research proposal to compare smokable marijuana and Marinol because, he said, "we have 1,100 AIDS patients in the Bay Area using marijuana on their own." Abrams's draft proposal did not pass peer review, but the FDA helped Abrams develop a revised proposal, which was approved by several California research committees and submitted in August 1994. After a delay of nine months, Abrams received a letter from Dr. Alan Leshner, director of the NIDA, turning down the ...
- 74: The Works of Clive Staples Lewis
- ... 7). As Lewis grew up, he and his brother were raised in a bookish home without the influences of technology of the 20th century to bother them (“Dr. Bruce L Edwards,” C.S. Lewis: A Modest Literary Biography and Bibliography. Online.). Boxen was a land of dressed up animals in different time periods. Lewis' brother, Warnie, wanted the animals to be a little more up to date compared to Lewis' fixing ... The Pilgrim's Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism published in 1933. This is the story of Lewis's journey from disbelief to faith (“Dr. Bruce L Edwards,” C.S. Lewis: A Modest Literary Biography and Bibliography. Online.). In 1940 came his next theology, The Problem of Pain. It was his first nonfiction written for the general reader explaining how God's ways make many suffer but it ... with "the poisoning of western thought and civilization regarding human nature and the moral law by the notion that our moral and aesthetic judgments are necessarily subjective" (“Dr. Bruce L Edwards,” C.S. Lewis: A Modest Literary Biography and Bibliography. Online.). His next theology came two years later with The Great Divorce in 1945. In this work Lewis tells the difference between Heaven and Hell, not by their physical appearances ...
- 75: Eastern Airlines Facing Bankruptcy
- ... fix it. It is obvious to me that the responsibility for forcing the board to sell the company is clearly yours!" After this there was a brief adjournment, Charlie Byran finally came back with a proposal to cut the IAM's salary wages to 15 percent since the IAM had contributed 5 percent through productivity gains. An attached condition was also proposed that a new chief executive officer to be appointed ... came out to persuade Frank to resign. He told the lawyer, "like I said, if the IAM takes a 20 percent wage deduction I will gladly resign." After this comment Frank walked away. A counter proposal was made by the directors to the appointment of a vice chairmen to be selected by the board committee if the IAM takes the 20 percent pay decrease. Charlie went off on a huddle with his lawyers and returned to reject the proposal. At 3 a.m. Eastern Airlines sold the company to Texas Air with a vote to sell was 15 to 4. All four union directors, Byran included were against the merger. The major management ...
- 76: Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest
- ... views of marriage practices. Earlier in the scene, when Ernest(Jack) announces his intention of proposing to Gwendolyn, Algernon does not congratulate him, rather he denounces the entire institution. At Ernest's announcement of the proposal, Algy exclaims, "I thought you had come up for pleasure?- I call that business". Later, Algy's comments support the idea of adultery once one is married. When Ernest finally does propose to Gwendolyn, he first must proceed through established flirting rituals followed by a formal proposal. These rituals, such as Gwendolyn's demand for a formal proposal, demonstrate Wilde's conception of outward appearances being more important than true love. In fact, Ernest's love for Gwendolyn seems rather arbitrary while Gwendolyn indirectly admits that she loves Ernest only for his ...
- 77: Portrait Of A Lady
- ... early on that she is not looking to be tied down at all. She wants to be free to experience all that life has to offer for her. Because of that, she turns down the proposal of Lord Warburton, although he had much to offer. James says, "The idea of a diminished liberty was particularly disagreeable to her at present, since she had just given a sort of personal accent to ... anew. Throughout the novel, her morality grew, changed, and became more stable. Where at the beginning she refused two proposals of marriage, without giving any indication to wanting a third, she ends up accepting a proposal from Osmond. Goodwood's offer to Isabel came at an early stage of her moral growth, when she was not really sure of what she wanted, so she could accept. She was beginning to enjoy ... She wanted the freedom to judge, and to act on those judgments. By marrying Goodwood, she would be giving up some of that freedom. Another reason to refuse Goodwood's offer was because accepting his proposal of marriage would mean returning to America. To Isabel, America was not a very fulfilling place. Her father had just died, and she was living in a house by herself. There was very little ...
- 78: Bill Bradley
- ... we know it; to accomplish fundamental campaign finance reform; and to reduce gun violence through commonsense gun control. There are 44 million Americans who do not have health insurance. Bill Bradley has offered a bold proposal that emphasizes access, choice, affordability, and quality of health care for all Americans. The proposal gives all Americans access to affordable health care and guarantees insurance to all children. The proposal will also preserves Medicare and expands it with an optional prescription drug benefit for all seniors, and creates a Medicare option for home and community-based coordinated care systems. Bill Bradley understands that education ...
- 79: Pride and Prejudice: Summary
- ... already involved with someone, moves to the next eligible Bennet daughter, Elizabeth. Ironically, it is she who dislikes him most in the Bennet family, and her dislike is obvious when she later refuses his marriage proposal wholeheartedly. Mr. Collins mentions his patron, a Lady Catherine deBourgh, several times, and even Mr. Bennet becomes frustrated with his continual adulation of her. During a visit to town, the Bennet daughters and Mr. Collins ... her refusal. Mr. Bennet finally convinces Collins to abandon any hopes of marrying Elizabeth, and he shifts his affections towards Elizabeth's dear friend, Charlotte Lucas. Charlotte, to the disappointment of Elizabeth, accepts his marriage proposal for material reasons. Volume one ends with a notice from the Bingley sister that the party would be departing Netherfield for London and would probably not return for the entirety of the winter. This severely ... his home and the the genorosity of Lady deBourgh. Elizabeth, however, finds Lady Catherine to be excessively rude and difficult to get along with, and does not once regret her refusal to Mr. Collins's proposal. Additionally, Elizabeth learns of Lady Catherine's plans to marry Mr. Darcy to her daughter, and Elizabeth is not upset by this news in the least. Mr. Darcy arrives for Easter, accompanied by his ...
- 80: Pride And Prejudice: Marriage
- ... and I am sure I do not know who is to maintain you when your father is dead." The sentence above is the quoting of Mrs. Bennet to Elizabeth after the refusal of Mr. Collins proposal. The statement reflects the situation for women in the novel and during this period. No professions (politics, university-related etc.) were open for women of the genteel classes, so independence on the woman's hand ... Therefore women had to marry their life into money, happiness and a secured future (if they did not by chance happened to inherit a large sum of money.) As Charlotte Lucas thoughts before accepting the proposal of Mr. Collins are pictured in the novel: "Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of ... goal for them. Though this is the general atmosphere in the novel, I would like to end my essay with the words of Mr. Bennet to his daughter Elizabeth on her accepting Mr. Darcy's proposal, which stand like an anti-thesis of the otherwise general view of the perfect marriage: "He is rich, to be sure, and you may have more fine clothes and fine carriages than Jane. But ...
Search results 71 - 80 of 920 matching essays
|
