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    Stage I of Pip’s Expectations: Ch. I to IX Chapter I 1. How does Dickens use setting to convey the mood right at the opening? Charles Dickens uses the imagery of a bleak‚ unforgiving Nature in his exposition of "Great Expectations" to convey the mood of fear in Chapter 1.  The weather is described as "raw" and the graveyard a "bleak" place.  The "small bundle of shivers" is Pip himself‚ who is terrified by a "fearful man‚ all in coarse grey‚ with a great iron on his leg."  He is a desperate

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    “To assail with contemptuous‚ coarse‚ or insulting words or wrongly hurt by maltreatment”‚ the definition of abuse. Charles Dickens uses the dominant idea of abusiveness in his novel Great Expectations. He applies abusive behaviors in the personalities of his characters. Both the protagonist and antagonist are often treated poorly or routinely abused. The author uses negative aspects of their lives to highlight the emptiness and abusive environment of unhealthy relationships. In the

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    Great Expectations Essay The story Great Expectations is best viewed through the class studies critical lens with a contrast between rich and poor. Miss Havisham’s estate and Uncle Pumblechook are comparable to the life of Pip and the family he lives with because they are upper class and lower class. In just the first 30 minutes of the story‚ the recurring motif of rich versus poor is expressed three times. First‚ when Pip is forced by Uncle Pumblechook to go to Miss Havisham so that his family

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    Details: Supplier: Park Pipe Ltd‚ Seoul. Contractor: Chic Koon Industries‚ China. Site: New Shanghai Docklands (under construction) Project: Supply of pipe and fittings Project value: W 4‚000‚000‚000 Interest rate on loans: 5% pa Negotiation Expectations: Park Pipe: To have the retention monies reduced to nil. Chic Koon: To get the full 20% retention money. Information required from all Students: Your agenda for the planned negotiation. Your ‘Best alternative’ Your ‘Worst alternative’

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    The expectations of my role as a social care worker are defined by the codes of practice released by the General Social Care Council in 2001. These are described below: In my role as care assistant I need to promote and protect the rights and interests of my residents by treating everyone as individuals. I need to uphold my residents’ needs‚ views and wishes where appropriate. I must maintain respect‚ dignity and privacy of my residents at all times and encourages equal opportunities to everyone

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    Julie Vaughn Russell August 4‚ 2013 My Unrealistic Expectations of College Since graduating in 1998 I have dreamed of going to college. We lived in a small town called Corunna‚ Michigan with a population of around 15‚000 people. This town had no college so the only choice for higher education was at least an hour away. I lived with my grandmother and grandfather and they couldn’t afford to send me away to college. After graduating I decided to move to Florida to go to college and give myself

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    Great Expectation By: Charles Dickens Date of Publication 1861 ( In book form ) Pip - The protagonist and narrator of Great Expectations‚ Pip begins the story as a young orphan boy being raised by his sister and brother-in-law in the marsh country of Kent‚ in the southeast of England. Pip is passionate‚ romantic‚ and somewhat unrealistic at heart‚ and he tends to expect more for himself than is reasonable. Pip also has a powerful conscience‚ and he deeply wants to improve himself‚ both morally

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    Hence‚ one of the key ways in which queer relationships have challenged heteronormative expectations is by the act of having and raising children. Seeing as though a traditional family consisted of a husband‚ wife‚ and children‚ this queer family structure combats the definition of what constitutes a ‘‘legitimate’’ family. When thinking of modern

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    Great Expectations by Charles Dickens tells a story of a young boy named Pip who grew up in a lower class but slowly finds himself transforming into society’s view of a ’gentleman’ in order to gain the approval of Estella. Throughout the Novel many characters‚ such as Joe‚ Estella‚ and Magwitch provide Pip with a very important lesson; Your true friends will love and care for you no matter what happens or how much wrong you do to them. This life lesson Pip learns is one of the most important themes

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    Future Expectations Joel Marte The novel The Time Machine written by H.G Wells is a allegorical story within story about a Time Traveller who travels into the future and returns to tell a group of men about his adventures. The story told by the Time Traveler is recorded by an editor‚ who writes all of The Time Travelers adventures‚ encounters‚ and attitudes. The future to the time traveller initially means optimism‚ hope and an advancement of humanity‚ but he soon realizes that it is quite

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