Charles Dickens applies a variety of techniques in the opening of his novel "Great Expectations" which allow us to gain a deeper understanding of the novel. ... "Great Expectations" was published in thirty-six weekly installments in "All Year Round." ... Dickens uses a variety of narrative features that does this very successfully which is evident from a close reading from the opening scene of "Great Expectations.... "3 This is clear to Florian Schweizer who believes that "It is beyond question, however, that David Copperfield and Great expectations are two s...

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The poem "Cousin Kate" depicts a story of a young cottage maiden caught up in the brutal temptations of love and passion that is later cast aside by a great lord of a greater social superiority. ... Within ˜Cousin Kate' there is a sense of expectation within the female characters of the poem when it comes to men, but the narrator realizes that to become truly happy she must break away from typical social expectations. ... A great sense of sympathy is cast over the entire poem as the Rossetti continues to tell the tragic love story of the cottage maiden, and the way in which the lo...

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A more constructive way to consider school readiness is to remove the expectations from the child and place those expectations onto the schools and the families. ... "My Magic Story Car: Video-Based Play Intervention to Strengthen Emergent Literacy of At-Risk Preschoolers" by Harvey F. ... Singer goes in to great detail and does a good job of explaining the critical aspects and the importance of play in pre-kindergarten education. ... The Magic Story Car program interweaved make-believe play as a major part of the program. ... The narratives that the children were telling whilst in t...

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However, Eva rejects her ascribed subjectivity allowing her to grow beyond the constraints of society's expectations. ... This displays Eva's development from a position in society that restrained her from gaining power of any sort, to one that allowed her great flexibility of power. ... Huberto's inability to depart from society's expectations results in his rejection by Eva, thus denying him the happy ending normally expected of a macho male. ... Rolf grew up with great influence from his mother. ... It could be the soap opera that Eva Luna is writing; it could also b...

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Desai showed emphasis on the pressure that students from India face and how expectations rise every year. Desai's story may have been a replica of her very own young life because she focused on one's own belief in education and the freedom to choose for one's own future career. ... "(Desai 1417) This shows how a normal conversation between a parent and a child in India is mostly about their education and their expectations for their child. ... This shows how Chinese parents are very similar to Indian parents in terms of expectations from their child's academics. ... ...

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Many people saw the triumph of American independence as a divine sign that America and her people were destined for greatness. Greatness came with a strong nation and thousands of poems and stories that shaped our nation. ... "To my dear and loving husband") Bradstreet was a feminist ahead of her time, limited by the male-dominated Puritan traditions and expectations; for her it was merely common sense. ... (The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe) As a short-story writer, Poe was a fascinating man of imagination. ... He was the first author in American literature to make the neu...

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Cultural Narratives Sean and David's Long Drive tells the story of two friends who decide to travel around Australia in a Ford Falcon to escape their dull and boring lives in urban Australia. ... The varying settings used in the text are an integral part of Sean and David's story, furthermore the way in which Sean describes and interacts with his surroundings is equally important to the creation of the story as an anti-travel text. ... When travelling, meeting new people is valued by most travellers because it is a way of understanding different cultures or just hearing interestin...

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Due to this the tragic love story has been adapted and remade several times. ... The actors and actresses that starred in the film were cast to appeal to the modern day audience's expectations. ... The setting of the scenes has also been changed to update the entire story to the 20th Century. Music has been added to great effect, both to enhance the modernistic feel to it, to allow the audience to sink deeper into the film; hearing music familiar to the 20th Century also helps make the transition through time a lot smoother. ... The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a timeless, and romantic ...

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Therefore, a reader's first expectations are rather inexpressible because one is put a half-state, where the clear literal meaning of "heart" is set against the ambiguity of the "darkness". ... The reader's expectations about the novel are flooded with ideas of the unknown, a journey into "darkness" in search of mystery and adventure. However, these expectations are soon worn-out amongst the first lines of the novel, where a reader learns that the journey is taking place on the Thames, on a cruising yawl, "Nellie". ... This means that by paying close attention to the surface real...

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This topic has come to my concern due to my interest as a Chinese to my own nation's history and culture, as well as the significant experiences and stories I was told as a kid by my grandmother, who has spent her childhood in Shanghai during the period of China's Great Leap Forward. ... An example include China's Great Leap Forward (1958-1961), led by the Communist Party of China. ... As it turns out, China's Great Leap Forward has in simple words regarded as "The Great Leap Backwards". ... Marxism influenced China's Great Leap Forward to a great extent in ...

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These diverse types of women all fell into the category fitted because of how society prefers women to behave and how the woman feels about society's/family's expectations for them. ... Jayanthi, an American Indian woman from Bells interviews recalls "[getting] confused [and] freak[ing] out and feel[ing] [the need] to settle down" (33) when her actions opposed her parents and community's expectations of her. ... Personal history is a huge factor in Janyanthi's success as a person and while creating her own she discovers "there is also appeal in the drama and ...

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This equation, and answer, allows economists to good a good sense as to the present state of our economy, whether it is moving forward at expected or above-expected growth or perhaps if the economy fell a little stagnant and did not quite meet the expectations anticipated. ... You can see the sway of the confidence people exhibit with the daily ticker on NASDAQ, as it fluctuates up and down, increasing and decreasing with the every second news story or new line coming out of the current administration in the White House at the time. ... And that is, of course, what all economists want to fore...

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The quality of education also relies on teachers' expectations and teacher and student interaction. ... Furthermore, teachers' expectations directly influence the student's interaction with the school system. ... A study by Brophy and Good showed that teachers' expectations had a direct impact on their interactions with students. ... Worse still, race and class are often the components leading to biased expectations, putting these students at a great disadvantage in learning and progressing through the educational system. Difference in linguistics can also affect teac...

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Many writers from this time completely changed these expectations society had from romantic literature figures preceding them and took on entirely new perspective in their writing. ... Therefore, there are circumstances when a writer's personal experience can influence the story told in their novel, with changing the narrative and characters to transform a personal experiences into a realistic fictional story. Stephen Crane is a prime example of this approach in his short story "The Open Boat". ... The personal experience can create a significantly more realistic vibe to a s...

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Films rarely live up to the expectations set up by a great novel and this is due to the limitations of working with film as a medium. ... The past experiences of the characters in Beloved, which plays an integral part of the story, are left out in the film due to the difficulty of jumping time. ...

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Stories and games are a great way to implement new cultures into learning activities. ... Understanding child development can help early childhood educators set realistic goals for the child's learning and create acceptable expectations for growth and behavior. ... Quality education to a great extent lies on the quality of its teachers. ... The bottom line is great teachers create great students. ...

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Though the particular incident of the Indian man's suicide is not incessantly brought up during the duration of each short story, the issue of death is a recurring theme. ... The next day, as chronicled in the story Indian Camp, Nick is taken with his father to perform surgery on an Indian woman who has difficulty in delivering her baby. ... The story, Ten Indians, begins with an older Nick than the previous stories, along with a few of his friends coming home after enjoying a fabulous Fourth of July evening. ... Another story where one may realize that Hemingway attempts to show that ...

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Schema theory suggests that prior expectations, such as prejudices and stereotypes will affect what we believe we have seen and how we recall the information as a result. ... In Bartlett's highly regarded study (in 1932 as mentioned before), he also showed how the cultural expectations (or stereotypes) we possess consequently lead to inevitable adjustments in memory, as participant's recall distorted the content and style of the original story which was chosen to cause conflict between its contents and the reader's own knowledge of the world. ... However, how do we know that t...

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The theme of the story revolves around the strong attachment to tradition and rituals of the people in this town. ... The message of this short story is that violent traditions are way past time and shouldn't be considered morally correct. ... At first, this short story is very worrying especially when compared to today's world. ... The story shows the extent of the sacrifice of human race to attain success. ... It's very disturbing that there are great similarities of the reasoning of these townsfolk and the reasoning that people have today to practice violent traditions. ...

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He expresses, " For Asians feeling good about themselves is likely to be tied to the sense that they are in harmony with the wishes of the groups to which they belong and are meeting the group's expectations.... However, due to the individualistic environment in the story, the character finally kills the collectivist thoughts in his mind by using his own hands. ... At the end of the story, George's fantasy of independence from Lennie is finally realized since he shoots Lennie in the head and earns his freedom. ... " In the story, people in the farm rarely pay attention to...

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Roy O'Bannon was only given the positive character (brave, justifiable) according to the need and development of the story at the end. ... Thus, it can be seen that the role of the white is dependent on the Asian and they are merely a supportive role in making the whole story funny and interesting. ... This story was developed all around Jess and her family. ... In attempting to build a new sense of self, she often found herself torn between the expectations of her natal culture and the possibilities available in America. ... This can lead to great emotional stress as they attempt to jugg...

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When it comes to the dramatic structure, writers know that the main character has to evolve dramatically throughout the story. ... She took a huge risk within the first 30 minutes of the pilot, not having any expectations and open to everyone that crossed her path. ... This is a great example of showing that Felicity's college path is not only giving her an education, but most importantly, giving her relationships that will last a lifetime. ... Leaving her parents expectations at home when Felicity left for college, she knew she wanted to live her own life and discover what she's pas...

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Brokeback Mountain is a love story where the most raw, and richest desire cannot find its authentic wings because of the incredible fear if what their feelings truly mean about them, Their masculinity, and about being denied respect and equality. ... Internalized homophobia also applies to conscious or unconscious behaviors, which a person feels the need to promote or conform to cultural expectations of heterosexism, which refers to a system of negative attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of opposite –sex sexual orientation and relationships. ... The story covers a 20- year peri...

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" Another trait that is illuminated within the three short exerts is the continual questing that many of these stories are focalized on that varied between small hunts completed by request of a King, great battles , and hunting for a holy relic. ... The three stories allot themes of chivalry through their courageous and honorable actions, quests in honor of a King that often endangered the lives of each knight, and religion often seen through the mention of God. ... Sir Galahad furnished a great valor in battle through the seeming divinity of a pure heart unseen within other knights. .....

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Downfalls of the hero archetype typically involve some type of wounding ability or weakness this being the only thing that can stop this great hero and not even special armor, skilled training or years of psychiatry therapy can solve. ... This aspect is unhealthy due to a standard set of assumptions and expectations are preset to the story's unveiling. ...

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