Great Expectations. "Great Expectations" was written by Charles Dickens in 1861. "Great Expectations" is a coming of age story that revolves around the life of one man Pip. ... "Great Expectations" discusses various themes on crime, law and the criminal justice system. ... Crime and Punishment is an important theme in Great Expectations and Dicken's uses the character of Magwitch to highlight his concerns with the criminal Justice system. ...

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A big life filled with big books, full of great characters, an extensive amounts of plots, with bursts of great language." ... His more popular works included Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities and A Christmas Carol. ... He wrote Great Expectations while he was getting a divorce. ... But others think his characters are great and his plots and themes are very well written. ... People's expectations(Great Expectations) are talked about and Dickens ever touches on finding ourselves as people. ...

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Great Expectations Plot Development Exposition: The setting of the begginning this story takes place in a small village located on some marshes in England. ... (Great Expectations, Chapter 1, page 1 and 2) This quote tells us some of the land features as well as the tone of dark and sad. ... Characterization Character Description: Pip: At the begginning of the story Pip is a young boy boy with fat cheeks and he is small and weak for his age. ... He could be described as a gentle giant because of his great strength and his blue personality color. ... (Chapter 21, P...

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Issues: problems that affect large numbers of people and have their origins in the institutional arrangements and history of a society 14. applied sociology: any use of sociological perspective and/or its tools in the understanding of, intervention in, and/or enhancement of human social life 15. diversity: the variety of group experiences that result from the social structure of society 16. sociological perspective: 17. symbolic interaction theory: a theoretical perspective claiming that people act toward things because of the meaning things have for them 18. social work: a profession that p...

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That year, the global predominance of British industry had emerged incontestably at the original "world's fair" in London, the "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations," which Prince Albert helped organize. ... As an emblem of Britain's greatness, Queen Victoria gave her subjects the public identity and purpose that privately they "and she, in her diaries "recognized as an unfulfilled ideal. ... In matters of character Victorians prized respectability, earnestness, a sense of duty and public service; most would have regarded an industrious, pious conventio...

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81 But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, 82 Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, 83 I am no prophet -- and here's no great matter; 84 I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, 85 And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, 86 And in short, I was afraid. 87 And would it have been worth it, after all, 88 After the cups, the marmalade, the tea, 89 Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me, 90 Would it have been worth while, 91 To have bitten off the matter with a smile, 92...

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As it is the 10th anniversary of Strictly ballroom, we have decided to bring in the great director and producer of Strictly ballroom, "Baz Luhrmann", to come and talk to us about his academy award wining film. ... With out colour the characters would not have become alive as they did in the film. ... But all our impressions of the characters are of a very high style. ... If you thought that there was any elegance to ballroom dancing, these characters really change your expectations. ... Fake" show us the terms of gender expectations being insignificant. ...

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Guided reading is next during the reading workshop, and during guided reading, I will select a text to introduce to the students while working on one of the comprehension strategies or concepts that they need to know in the first grade, such as character traits. ... Encouraging students to read to each other and to bring books from home is a great way to keep students interested and help them to develop good reading skills. ... Manipulatives are a great way to do so. ... K-W-L charts are great to get the students brainstorming, especially when non-fiction texts are being used. ...

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The eight great leadership virtues are as follows. ... The logic is that with a good education, the person will have a great job and a great job will result in a great income, which will determine the quality of life he or she will come to enjoy. ... Virtue Two: Build An Impeccable Character What does it mean to build a character? What does character mean? ... Conforming to the expectations of society is important to the success of a leader. ...

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There were certain stylistic and different strategically thought out devices that Elizabethan playwrights including Shakespeare learned and used from Seneca's great tragedies. ... It should not be assumed that revenge plays parallel the moral expectations of the Elizabethan audience. ... With this play, Elizabethan theater received its first great revenge tragedy, and because of the success of this play, the dramatic form had to be imitated. ... The final point that Thomas Kyd made about his play was that minor characters are left to deal with the situation at the end of the...

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He has great expectations of his daughter. ... At first he emphasises the fact that she is not yet fourteen and has not matured enough for marriage: 'She hath not seen the change of fourteen years;' Juliet is Capulet's only child, he does not want her to grow up and leave his household but at the same time because she is his only daughter he wants great things for her and her marrying Paris is a great opportunity for Capulet to improve his family name and have his daughter well thought of for marrying such a noble gentleman. ... The audience see a difference in Juliet's...

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While some readers interpreted the collection's final story, "Swimming Lessons," as a forerunner to future fiction about the immigrant experience, their expectations fell short when Mistry's first novel, Such a Long Journey, appeared in 1991. ... Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the ...

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While some readers interpreted the collection's final story, "Swimming Lessons," as a forerunner to future fiction about the immigrant experience, their expectations fell short when Mistry's first novel, Such a Long Journey, appeared in 1991. ... Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the ...

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Stories serve as a cultural medium to transfer values, ideas, and expectations of a society to a younger generation, and the Grimm Brothers stories such The Frog Prince, The Ungrateful Son, and, Cinderella all perform this function. ... In a great rage she picked up the frog and threw him at the wall and as the frog fell he transformed into a prince with beautiful kind eyes. ... There is a great amount of irony in the sons punishment, as he is forced to feed a creature that is a parasite off of him just as he effectively became a parasite for his father after the many years of his upbringing,...

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Women personally thought and feelings were neglected and were not paid great attention. ... The first phase was the Great Awakening of 1740-44. ... The second phase was the female evangelism of the Second Great Awakening of 1797-1840. ... The activities chosen appeared not only the nature of the community but also the character of the leader. ... One of the great woman was Francis Williard -- the international president of the WCTU. ...

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While Simmel did in fact have great influence on the field of sociology, he also produced major works that may be classified as philosophy of history, ethics, general philosophy, philosophy of art, philosophy of contemporary civilization and metaphysics.# Even within the field of sociology, he cannot really be placed into any particular school of thought; however, he was very interested in the relativism of all items in many of these fields of study. ... He had a great reputation as a speaker and thinker. ... "The proportion of nearness and remoteness which gives the stranger the character o...

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The marriage between Hafsa and the Prophet exposes much in regards to the purpose and function of marriage in Islam, revealing certain personality traits of the Prophet, and lastly, helping to shape certain gender roles within Islam and expectations placed on Muslim women. ... This is a very problematic narrative as it deals with the Prophet's character; the underlining issue here is the fact that by Hafsa "breaking the secret- it would inevitably expose Muhammad's wrongdoing and create an opportunity for him to be criticized, a situation that seemed to be avoided at all cost. ......

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But there is nothing comic about Joyce's vision, for each of the three principal characters are trapped in a web of social expectations and constraints from which it proves impossible to escape. ... All three of Joyce's principal characters in this story are motivated by the basest instincts for survival. ... There were three main characters involved in this story-Mrs. ... Doran had been employed for thirteen years in a great Catholic wine-merchant's office and publicity would mean for him, perhaps, the loss of his job (James Joyce 40). ... She allowed the relationship to go...

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He sets the scene for the social background for the play, describes his role in it, and introduces the other characters by name. One character in particular, the gentleman caller, Tom singles out as a symbol of unrealized hope. The fifth and final character, the father, does not appear in the play: he skipped town long ago and hasn't been heard from except for a terse postcard farewell from Mexico. ... In The Glass Menagerie, roses appear as the nickname and symbol for the Rose character in her happiest (though most painful in their ultimate outcome) moments: those in which the one boy ...

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Macbeth Discuss the character and relationship of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, up to the time when Duncan's death's discovered. ... He addresses her as his "dearest partner in greatness". ... This suggests that she thinks Macbeth is to good and respecting in his character to murder Duncan and become King. ...

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These three stages are integral to our protagonist's notions of self conception, which both characters exhibit and demonstrate within the novels. Regaining one's loss of identity is important for the characters within both novels to undergo. ... The protagonist claims that nothing is the same after this attack and he has lost track of time itself; which begins the process of identify loss for this character. ... As soon as the protagonist reads this letter, he is shocked that all the accusations against his wife are true, resulting in his identity deteriorating as his expectations f...

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Be happy, be a great wife and mother, graduate from an accredited University, start a small business. ... Character: (What character traits, qualities are deemed essential for one entering the career you've chosen?) ... Character: (Indicate your character traits. ...

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The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad, composed in the 8th century BC. ... He is an omniscient narrator (he has access to every character's mind), he frequently gives insight into the thoughts and feelings of even minor characters, gods and mortals alike. ... The many dreams and prophecies of various characters reveal a veiled future to mortals and are the epic's strongest form of foreshadowing. ...

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He seems to show that it is possible to achieve great success from nothing through the examples of his possessions; "I watched the guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the water. ... Whilst striving to attain the dream the central characters of the texts exhibit different emotions; exhaustion and energy. ... Another character that oozes with energy is Myrtle; who seems alive and vibrant. ... He continues to praise his son's supposed success, not admitting to the truth, and not accepting that Biff has not li...

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He was so loved that believers in his cult of character founded a religion upon his life. ... He was allowed to sleep in the Emperor's great bed. ... It is important to first note all the lavishness and extravagancy of Selassie's character because it cues examiners into the inner quality of Selassie's psyche, which in turn was the literal heart of government in Ethiopia. ... Selassie placed great importance on image, which fueled his greed for lavish surroundings (41). ... Yet, he did not fulfill Selassie's expectations because he made decisions on his own and did not ...

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