job outside the home. Most mothers felt pressured into following the expectations that the community around them had set to be the norm. Attitudes towards mothers of the twentieth century seemed to be in constant turmoil‚ depending on if mothers were benefiting their children or trying to benefit themselves. Motherhood was a rewarding‚ but challenging job. Mothers felt the need to preserve and overcome the stereotypical expectations of what motherhood
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Great expectations Analysing my story board We are reading Great Expectations and our task was to storyboard the opening scene where Pip encounters he convict‚ Magwitch‚ for the first time. I am going to analyse 3 of the 8 frames. First of all‚ I am going to look at Frame number one‚ this is where Pip is at the cemetery mourning over his lot family. I decided to show Pip at the cemetery looking at his parents and his brother’s graves. I did this because it shows a clear and rich understanding
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Great Expectations: A Character-Driven Novel The novel‚ Great Expectations‚ by Charles Dickens is heavily a character-driven novel due to the fact that the sequence of events in the novel are causes and effects of the actions of the characters as well as the interactions between them. The novel mainly depicts the growth and development of an orphan named Pip‚ who is greatly influenced by the other characters and became a gentleman and a bachelor in the end of the novel through his encounters with
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In contrast‚ there are characters like Pip from Great Expectations that have that typified type of lifestyle. As a matter of fact‚ Pip is the epitome of a typified low-class child. In Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens makes a bold attempt at showing his feeling towards the bourgeois and beyond of London in the early 1600s. Pip is a "rags-to-riches" boy that has great expectation in life. But later on he finds out that his almighty expectations are nothing but a meek overshot of the life he once dearly
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Consider the function of the imagery in Great Expectations and explain how it conveys ideas about class or gender. Imagery is a crucial device employed in literary texts that affects how we interpret dominant ideologies of the society represented in the text. This is the case in Charles Dickens’ realist novel‚ Great Expectations (1860-61)‚ which enacts the stratified class structure and power relationships of Georgian and early Victorian England. The novel is a critique of a society where capital
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Havisham contradicts tradition. Miss Havisham influences the outcome of Pip’s life by exposing him to the idea of wealth and its relation to social status. In “Great Expectation” by Dickens Pip’s expectation of wanting to be a gentleman shows that reality is sometimes ignored when it doesn’t fit within the same premises of the desired expectation. Pip is introduced to Estella by Miss Havisham when he visits her home at “Satis house‚” but Estella’s attitude towards Pip’s social status causes Pip to envisage
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his entire life. His pursuit to become a hero was so strong that it motivated him to take on the evils of the world. Through his encounters with evil he was able to achieve individual fame and thus fulfill the expectations of an Anglo-Saxon hero. Beowulf was also able to meet the expectations that faced a king during the Anglo-Saxon period. During his rule as king‚ Beowulf treated his people‚ the Geats‚ with immense an fairness and was very good to all of them. A hero is a man of great courage and
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CRITICAL ANALYSIS ON THE EFFECTS OF TEACHERS BEHAVIOR AND EXPECTATIONS ON STUDENTS ..."You see‚ really and truly‚ apart from the things anyone can pick up (the dressing and the proper way of speaking‚ and so on)‚ the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves‚ but how she’s treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins‚ because he always treats me as a flower girl‚ and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you‚ because you always
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2.5.1 Level of Expectations Cook‚ S. (2011)‚ urges customer service providers must recognise that customers have different levels of expectations. The expectations are divided into two distinct categories namely: 1. Primary expectations – are the customers’ most basic requirements of an interaction. Example: When dining at the restaurant‚ our primary expectations are to satisfy our hunger‚ to let someone else do the cooking‚ and pay a reasonable price 2. Secondary expectations – are based on our
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Myranda Ramirez Prof. Matthew Antonio February 12‚ 2014 Comp 150 Annotated Bibliography Assignment Holland‚ Karen. "What We Can Learn from Sitcom Relationships." Marriage Counseling Denver. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2014. This conversational article written by Karen Holland is one that gives an opinion based piece that describes the relationships of a specific T.V. sitcom and how we can learn from that sitcom as well as others. The specific sitcom specified is titled Modern Family‚ I which the
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