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    Over 14.5% of Americans are in poverty and affected by what poverty causes. Throughout the novel‚ Great Expectations is about a boy named Pip coming of age and meeting people along his way of becoming a gentleman and learning life lessons. Charles Dickens looks at the effects of poverty negatively and during the novel it illustrates how many people of poverty struggled‚ but the rich got to live lavishly and didn’t care for the poor. Furthermore‚ poverty is a big issue of our modern day society and

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    of our DNA‚ our blood and our identity? What happens if we lose this part of our gene‚ what will become of us? Sometimes in life‚ we lose our morals and values without even knowing it in an attempt to examine our capability in society. In Great Expectations‚ Pip attempts to discover his potential to be a gentleman to be fit enough to be with Estella who he desires very much. This hungry desire is demonstrated through the use of negative connotation by Dicken to show Pip’s state of mind. “She said

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    of personalities and different types of people. Teens can completely forget who they actually are or who they are striving to be and begin to conform with societies hate. By completing the secret benefactor experiment‚ based off the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens’‚ we will try and replace the hate with love and generosity.

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    The Perspective employed in this paragraph is both the adult pips and child’s. This is because the language used shows that the adult pip is educated‚ which can be seen form the choice of words such as ‘conscience is a dreadful thing’ ‚ nevertheless the readers should see Pips experiences and this gives us his perspective as a child who encountered these events and continues to reflect upon them. An example of this can be seen from ‘in the case of a boy‚ that secret burden co-operates with another

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    Question: What is the relationship between public‚ Catholic or other private school attendance and college expectation? There is often much discrepancy that arises between students from public schools‚ Catholic schools‚ and private schools. There are many factors that go into whether or not a child will succeed and eventually get in and attend college. These include such things as the quality of the school‚ the economic status of the school districts that they are located in and the level of

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    revenge but holds his temper. "When they hurled their insults at him‚ he did not retaliate; when he suffered‚ he made no threats. Instead‚ he entrusted himself to him who judges justly."� (1Peter 2:23) Charles Dickens teaches us in his novel‚ Great Expectations‚ that people who seek revenge on others often end up hurting themselves as well. One person who finds herself getting hurt after she takes vengeance on others is Miss Havisham. After being left at the altar by a man named Compeyson‚ she vows to

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    This article summarizes that college debt keeps increasing every year because college tuition is getting more and more expensive. They also say that each university tries to see what money they can bring in to help students pay for tuition. When students get out of college they have to pay the debt back after a six month period grace. To cut some of the costs they are trying to combine some of the colleges together so the tuition rates are not as high‚ as if they were separate universities. Now that

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    and deciding to go to college. The problem is that college is not cheap and depending on where you go is where the price ranges. Another problem students face is that many not many know how to earn the money for college. Though there are many solutions out there‚ the main three people pick to help themselves out are 1. scholarships‚ 2. jobs/savings‚ and 3. community college. Of all three of those choices which one would better guarantee that you would reach a high level college? The first of the three

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    honors college program is about. I then furthered my research about SMBHC and coincidently ran into more people that are in it or have graduated. From my sources‚ I derived that SMBHC is one of the top honors college programs in the nation and that apparently it is a “real honors college” compared to other honor college programs around the nation. I decided it would be of my best interest to give myself a challenge in my courses by joining the honors college. I felt that the honors college would better

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    The text Great Expectations by Charles Dickens reflects many of the values and attitudes of nineteenth century England. The terms ’values’ and ’attitude’ are somewhat linked‚ and are both an integral part of the context of this novel. There was a great divide between the classes at the time of Great Expectations‚ with each class having its own stereotypical views. This difference led to crime in the city‚ which served the need for better punishment‚ as the justice system was quite arbitrary. Attitudes

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