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=Starting Your Paper=

You need to start writing your paper today. You should have your sources already found and ready to write from. By the end of class today you will have to turn in your introduction and first body paragraph. Go to Paragraph Help to see what you should put in these two paragraphs.

//Excerpt from Ms. Garris's ENG 495 Research Paper//
 * Something to remember: if you use something from a source, you must quote it and then state who it is from. If you do not, then you are plagiarising your paper and you will receive a failing grade. There is an example below on how you should correctly cite your sources when you use them in the paper. For other examples, visit the Example Paper.**

Mr. Darcy is an independent person in that he owns his own estate and he does not have to answer to anyone unless he wants to. But at the same time while he is defined as being an individual, which Richard Handler and Daniel A. Segal state in “Hierarchies of Choice: The Social Construction of Rank in Jane Austen,” is that “to be independent is to be governed only by one’s will—in other words, to have the power as an individual to make choices and to be governed by those choices alone” (692), Mr. Darcy does have to worry about the Ton. The Ton can snub him if he marries Elizabeth, which he does not care about, but he does have to worry about how that snub could affect further generations. In many ways the London Ton represents the branch of Marxism known as consumerism, which is the ideology that “I am only as good as what I buy” (Tyson 56). This is very true with the marriage market during this time period and is exhibited in //Pride and Prejudice// when Lady Catherine tries to force Mr. Darcy to marry his cousin Anne because it would combine the two estates of Rosings and Pemberley. In general, a man was only as good as the woman he married and the dowry and connections the woman brought to the family fortune was more important than what the bride and grooms feelings were in the matter.