In Great ExpectaƟons, Dickens has Pip eventually reject the Victorian concept of a gentleman and embrace the example of Joe. ... The plot of Great Expectations centres on how a boy of working-class origin becomes a "gentleman.... His progress represents the class mobility of the mid-Victorian age of "great expectations," in which even the poor working classes could dream of success and become wealthy enough to aspire to rank. ... In Great Expectations, while an inclusionary impulse can be found in Pip's incorporation into the category of gentleman, this exclusionary impuls...

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• Grade Level: High School

Dickens, in the novel Great Expectations, exploits the ambiguity of the term gentleman. ... Joe's quiet goodness makes him one of the few completely sympathetic characters in Great Expectations. ... Throughout the story, Joe remained the one and only true gentleman. ...

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Charles Dickens' literary masterpiece, "Great Expectations," was written as a brutal commentary on the social hierarchy system during the Victorian era. ... Pip's journey exposes him to all levels of the social spectrum and he pines for a higher class life than the one he is living in at the beginning of the story. ... Pip believes that his "selection " is a sign of his great personal worth and the people with which he's always associated with are now beneath them because they are too "common"." ... At this moment, Pip finally realizes that all of his great expectations "on beco...

• Word Count: 1549
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• Has Bibliography
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The two texts that we read, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Charles Dicken's Great Expectations, both represent different courtship and marriage rituals taken from their perspective time periods. ... The marriages in this story consisted of people from the upper classes. The marriages in Great Expectations, on the other hand were primarily from the middle class. ... Within the story there are smaller courtships: Mr. ... In Great Expectations, our first look at marriage is that of Mr. and Mrs. ...

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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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Deviance is a variation from a set of norms or shared social expectations. ... He also visits several Missions and experiences the great accomplishments being made by the Jesuits and is extremely impressed. ... Finally The Mission is also a great example of social inequality. ... There was also a great gap between the rich and the poor. ... It is a true story of the inequality that took place and is very sad yet important to know....

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Though she attempts to defy these expectations by cutting off her "great big nose" and "fat legs," in her death, the woman is displayed in her casket with cosmetics painted on and a beautiful turned-up putty nose. ... They went to great pains making themselves look perfect, hoping to attract a male. ... When Kingston reflects on the story, she realizes that her aunt's pregnancy was not her aunt's fault at all. ... Each story has its own separate histories, languages, customs, and mentality. ... Each character in each story is left to fill the void with high self-esteem, so they can ...

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• Grade Level: High School

TV has become perhaps the primary vehicle that society receives its information and presents its values and expectations. ... As a result, the print media has created an environment of great concern about gangs and gang crime in the inner-city. The gang problem becomes a constructed image with great power in public discourse. ... Print media also has great influence in class and gender. By selecting ways in which to present a story on a labor strike the print media can help influence the success of one class over another, and how these classes are perceived. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

TV has become perhaps the primary vehicle that society receives its information and presents its values and expectations. ... As a result, the print media has created an environment of great concern about gangs and gang crime in the inner-city. The gang problem becomes a constructed image with great power in public discourse. ... Print media also has great influence in class and gender. By selecting ways in which to present a story on a labor strike the print media can help influence the success of one class over another, and how these classes are perceived. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This story developed the notion that because of one's dharma and karma in past life, it is acceptable to be treated differently or have different sets of rules for different people; and has since been incorporated and regarded as central in India's societal beliefs. ... In addition to this, it can be inferred that the author has a great value for the concept as dharma as it is instrumental to how one's future advances. ... Where men were featured in texts presenting their virtue and ethical responsibilities, women were featured in minimal texts; only focussing on that of a woman...

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Gender roles are beginning to become more definite as societal pressures build and cultural expectations solidify. ... The short story Boys and Girls, by Alice Munro, demonstrates this point excellently. ... Television not only impacts our societal values; it also has a great impact on the relationships between fathers and daughters and mothers and sons. ...

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While discussing a possible housing project near Linden Hills, the unfavorable comments coming from everyone seem to represent a great deal of discrimination towards their own race. ... The story is built around the great great grandson of the original Luther and his wife Willa. ...

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Commonly regarded as a realist writer in her accurate portrayal of everyday, Regency era life, Austen was moreover "one of the great formative and founding influences on how we think about 'England' and 'Englishness,' as well as class, ideology and gender issues....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate