As much as I hate eavesdropping, I could not help but overhear the gentleman respond "you should tell that Mexican, Jose, that he needs to come and mow my lawn." ... However, I wondered if the remark made by this gentleman was indeed a racial slur or merely a stereotypical depiction of a culture. ... I define culture to be a group of people with similar habits or ideology. ... The gentleman made the assumption that all Mexicans mow lawns. ...

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The concept of the gentleman is not merely a social or class designation. There is also a moral component inherent in the concept that made it a difficult and an ambiguous thing for the Victorians themselves to attempt to define. ... But according to the values of a true gentleman, only the lowborn Joe is a man of honor, a true gentleman. ... Throughout the story, Joe remained the one and only true gentleman. ... The novel therefore uses Joe to define true gentlemanliness; it is not dependent on one's social class, status, or wealth; it is dependent on one's inherent quality and char...

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These three settings define the persona of Pip. ... Pip was bereft of the necessities of a real gentleman. ... Years passed and Pip was a gentleman. ... Urbane and everything a perfect gentleman should be. ... Pip's home, the Satis House, and London were all settings that defines Pip's persona. ...

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He has completly dedicated his life to being a gentleman's gentleman, therefore devoting no time to himself, but instead to the comfort and convienence of others. ... The initial response that Stevens has about the offer is quite interesting, he dismisses the notion at first as, "...just another instance of an American gentleman's unfamiliarity with what was not commonly done in England."4. it is interesting because the reader gets to view the perceptions Stevens has about Americans. ... The term greatness is not only used to define a man, but also the land in particular from which ...

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On the other hand, when gentleman becomes a sage, it is because they were able to do and act with benevolence all the time. ... Like the philosopher kings, Confucius's gentleman would ideally rule their city. However since "the asking of questions is in itself the correct rite" (3:15) and the gentleman is suppose to follow the rites, a gentleman would question where a philosopher might not. ... Therefore, Confucius's gentleman, are better at being rulers than the Socratic philosophers. As Socrates defines them, philosophers are "those who come to love the spectacle of truth" (bo...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His youthful love may be pure but he quickly understands that only a true gentleman can be successful and marry a beautiful woman, like Estella. ... In fact, his fight for upward mobility and his desire to improve his place in life, is a concept that now largely defines the American dream. ... In Victorian England it was expected that those born in the lower classes would stay there and learn their place: "... no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner... no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put ...

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Human relationships involved a set of defined roles and mutual obligations. ... The basic relationship a person had in society determined or defined moral action. ... These men he called gentleman or junzi. ... A gentleman should be inspirational and eager. ... The gentleman represented a good and promising government. ...

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Good morning ladies and gentleman, my name is Nick C. and today my partners, Chris, Scott, John and I will argue that women in the Armed Forces should not be allowed to serve in combat. ... In order to argue our point effectively we must define what combat is. The secretary of Defense defines direct ground combat as, (quote) "engaging an enemy on the ground with individual or crew served weapons, while being exposed to hostile fire and to a high probability of direct physical contact with the hostile force's personnel." ...

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Ladies and gentleman, what actually is euthanasia? World Health Organization defines euthanasia as the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering. ... Ladies and gentleman, we are not from Venus, we are not from mars, we are from planet earth and we are humans. ... Ladies and gentleman what we the members of the proposition basically believe that voluntary death, killing a person suffering from a terminal illness, i.e. a disease which does not have a cure and is certain to result in slow pain full death, and in serious non-relievable pain and suffering is n...

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The scene starts out when a gentleman, who we later find out is one of Mitch's friends, starts hitting on Slim to the point where she becomes flustered. Unknown to Slim (Lopez) another gentleman, Mitch, stands up to defend her in her efforts to make the gentleman leave her alone. This can be seen as Falsification because it was a set up by Mitch (Campbell) to meet Slim (Lopez) while she had no idea that Mitch (Campbell) and the other gentleman were friends. This creates the fiction that Mitch (Campbell) and the other gentleman did not know each other and generates the notion that Mitch...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mrs Joe's failure as mother creates an environment of abuse from which Pip sees becoming a gentleman would be his escape. ... Joe appears as strong and dominant, enhancing these characteristics is that she is never called by her first name, which would have defined her as a woman, but is always referred to by way of a masculine name; Mrs. ... Joe inspires feelings of fear and guilt which explains the fact that Pip seeks to escape and become a gentleman. ... He supports Pip through his desire of becoming a gentleman but also stands by him when Pip experiences disappoint of his failings...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Weston Davis - An athlete is defined as, "a person who has a natural ability in sports, games, or other activities requiring strength, skill and endurance." ... Cliff Csizmar - A gentleman in all respects, Cliff Csizmar consistently displays courtesy, respect, patience, attentiveness, determination and integrity. If for one moment you think that being a gentleman is something soft and weak, you do not know Cliff well enough. ...

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Her sexuality was not only defined by her looks, and, as an actress, she did much more than sit there and look pretty. ... Here, I will examine the evolution of the image of sexuality and women in film by comparing and contrasting Marilyn Monroe's character in Gentleman Prefer Blondes (1953) and, present-day sex symbol, Angelina Jolie's character in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001). The same year that Monroe shocked society and posed nude for Playboy magazine, and at the peak of her career, she starred in the film Gentleman Prefer Blondes (1953) as a "dumb blonde" choru...

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Although she treats him coldly and contemptuously he falls in love with her and wants to become a gentleman in the hopes he might be worthy of Estella. ... When he gets to London he starts his education to be a gentleman. ... Although he is striving to become a gentleman, Herbert and Pip lead an undisciplined life. ... He figures out that Estella is Magwitch's daughter, and his intentions were to make him into a gentleman so he could marry his daughter, Estella. ... Grazing and washing surfaces may be used in this play to define a surface, or make a surface look smooth. ...

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James' novel is a "study" of the character Daisy Miller, as seen through the perspective of the character Winterbourne, an American European gentleman. ... When Daisy is going to meet an Italian gentleman, Mr. ... Costello as the character that initially begins defining class boundaries through the behavior analysis of Daisy. ... While James' aim in Daisy Miller was to portray behavior as the defining factor in European class boundary distinction, other equally pertinent issues are presented as a result of this portrayal. ... While the function of Daisy is clearly to def...

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Pips desire to become a gentleman clouds his thoughts and he, like Estella, became a snob. ... It is through these influences that Pip and Estella learn lessons, which define the characters we see in the final paragraphs of the revised ending. ... Her life has been defined by one tragic event, being jilted by her fiancé on her wedding day. ... It is Magwitch's desire to turn him from what he was, an ordinary country boy, to a young gentleman. ... Magwitch wanted to prove that a gentleman' could be made of a common boy, if only he had money to be educated. ...

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He uses characters such as Mrs Joe Gargery and Magwitch to define people's common views about crime and punishment and how it is explored through the character Magwitch. ... He is no gentleman, he's shabby looking. ... The reader does not see Magwitch again until chapter 39, when it is many years later and Pip is living as a gentleman in London, as a result of funds from a mystery benefactor. ...

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Joe, the way social boundaries are defined to set limitations of many characters while some were able to dismiss them, and finally how Miss. ... Havisham he was exposed to the upper class, thus wanting to become a gentleman. Through mysterious means Pip does eventually become a gentleman, overcoming his lack of social standing. ...

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I am glad on't, I vow, for he's a curious fine gentleman, and I love him already, too- (III.ii, 1068). ... In the end of The Country Wife, the reader naturally acknowledges Mister Sparkish as the predominant male; however, it is difficult to define him as a "ladies man- because he is not completely sex oriented. ...

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Laura had dropped out of Rubicam Business College and she can not find any gentleman caller. ... The stem of the rose can define as the support that Amanda and Tom gave her. ... She hopes that the gentleman caller is not handsome because Mr. ... Jim O' Connor is a gentleman caller that Tom brought home. ...

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The OED defines 'homosocial' as being of or relating to social interaction between members of the same sex, typically men and for our purposes we shall consider this term in relation to it's manifestation in friendship to which we will return later. The OED also defines 'homoerotic' as that concerning or arousing sexual desire centred on a person of the same sex or that which we in the 21st century would call a homosexual desire. ... If follows then that if there exists a confusion of what is homoerotic behaviour then any boundaries that it has with homosocial behav...

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Great thinkers try to understand and define it, and artists try to portray it through mixtures of paint using various brush strokes. ... Contrary to popular belief of death being a cold, heartless killer Dickinson personifies Death as a civil gentleman. ... The kind gentleman, Death is here to escort Dickinson into the afterlife. ... She couldn't define or answer the mysteries of death but her imagination thrust her into portraying death and it's obscurities through poetry....

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"Taming" can be defined as "being brought from wildness into a domesticated or tractable state." ... Deception can be defined as "to give a false impression and to cause to believe what is not true." ... Disguise is defined as being "to modify the manner and/or appearance of, in order to prevent recognition." ... Lucentio, a young gentleman from Verona arrives accompanied by his suitor when he notices Baptista Minola and his two young daughters Bianca and her older sister Kate. ... Not only do these young gentleman have to act as if they were someone else, but now Tranio/Lucentio must find ano...

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• Grade Level: High School